Baidu

ERNIE foundation models

Tier

Major

Headquarters

Beijing, China

Founded

2000

Flagship

ERNIE

Models tracked

2

Artificial Analysis

Top intelligence

29.1

Artificial Analysis Index

Cheapest model

$0.00

blended /1M

Fastest output

0

tokens / sec

Flagship

Baidu’s top-scoring model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

Most intelligent model

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview

Released 2025-11-13

Intelligence

29.1

Coding

29.2

Math

85.0

In $/1M

$0.00

Out $/1M

$0.00

Speed t/s

0

Benchmark breakdown

GPQA Diamond
78
Humanity’s Last Exam
13
SciCode
38
τ²-Bench (agentic)
84
Terminal-Bench Hard
25
IFBench
41

Models & benchmarks

Every Baidu model on file — intelligence, coding, price, and speed.

ModelReleasedIntelCodingMathIn $/1MOut $/1MSpeed t/sLatency s
ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview2025-11-1329.129.285.0$0.00$0.0000.00
ERNIE 4.5 300B A47B2025-06-3015.014.541.3$0.28$1.1000.00
Via Artificial Analysis

Trajectory

Baidu’s model releases over time, by intelligence.

Jun 2025 · 15.0▲ +14.1 indexNov 2025 · 29.1

House strengths

Where Baidu’s lineup over-indexes, averaged across its models.

Overview

China’s largest search company, whose ERNIE model family powers its AI products and is increasingly released as open weights.

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