What Is ERNIE 5.0?
ERNIE 5.0 is a large-scale foundation model with trillions of parameters designed for high‑accuracy language and multimodal understanding. It is developed by Baidu and positions itself among the strongest global models in reasoning, instruction following, and creative tasks.
ERNIE 5.0 API & Pricing
Key Features
Enhanced Multimodal Capabilities
Seamlessly process and integrate text, images, video, and audio for unified AI understanding.
Advanced Natural Language Understanding
Accurately comprehend context, intent, and complex language structures for nuanced responses.
Optimized Performance
High-efficiency algorithms deliver faster and more reliable outputs across tasks.
Multilingual Support
Supports global applications with improved translation, localization, and cross-language reasoning.
Improved Reasoning
Enhanced problem-solving and logical inference for complex analytical challenges.
Enterprise And Developer Use Cases
AI Agents And Workflows
ERNIE 5.0 can power advanced AI agents capable of multi‑step planning, tool calling, and cross‑modal reasoning.
Content, Marketing, And Media
With strong creative and multimodal skills, ERNIE 5.0 is well suited for content pipelines.
ERNIE 5.0 is documented as suited to multimodal understanding and generation across text, images, audio, and video. It is also described as useful for instruction following and agentic tool-use tasks. The model is further documented for creative writing. It is also cited for factual reasoning and document understanding, including image-based QA and chart/document analysis.
import requests r = requests.post( "https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions", headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + AIMLAPI_KEY}, json={ "model": "baidu/ernie-5.0", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" } ] }, ) print(r.json())
const r = await fetch("https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions", { method: "POST", headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.AIMLAPI_KEY}`, "Content-Type": "application/json", }, body: JSON.stringify({ "model": "baidu/ernie-5.0", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" } ] }), }); console.log(await r.json());
curl -X POST https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIMLAPI_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"model":"baidu/ernie-5.0","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'
OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and it works with your existing SDK.
| Type | Price |
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| Input | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Context | Best for |
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ERNIE 5.0 This page | Reasoning + agents | |||
| Reasoning + agents | ||||
| Balanced coding + agents | ||||
| Long-context, multimodal & agentic workflows | ||||
| Reasoning + agents |
ERNIE 5.0 has a 128,000 tokens context window and can return up to 65,536 tokens.
ERNIE 5.0 takes image, text as input and returns text.
Use baidu/ernie-5.0 as the model id. Requests go to https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions.
ERNIE 5.0 is priced at input $1.82 / 1M tokens, output $7.28 / 1M tokens.
Yes, ERNIE 5.0 can stream responses as they are generated.
Yes, ERNIE 5.0 accepts image input alongside text.
ERNIE 5.0 was built by Baidu.