Baidu is a Chinese internet search company based in Beijing, listed on Nasdaq and the Hong Kong exchange. Its AI work includes the ERNIE family of language and multimodal models, the PaddlePaddle framework and the Apollo autonomous driving program.
- Founded
- 2000
- Type
- Public company
- Founders
- Robin Li and Eric Xu
- AI lab
- Inference provider
- 14 hosted endpoints
Catalogue
All models by Baidu
22 models · 1–22
| Select models to compare | Model | Released | Context | Input /M | Output /M | Parameters | Type | I/O | Openness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 ERNIE-5.5-Flash-PreviewBaidu | November 10, 2026 | 1M | $0.00 | $0.00 | — | Text | text → text | Open weights | |
| ERNIE-Light-DT-1.0Baidu | November 10, 2026 | 1M | $1.13 | $3.94 | — | Text | text → text | Unknown | |
| ERNIE 5.1Baidu | May 8, 2026 | — | — | — | — | Text | text → text | Closed | |
| CoBuddyBaidu | May 6, 2026 | 131K | — | — | — | Text | text → text | Closed | |
| ERNIE-ImageBaidu | April 15, 2026 | — | — | — | 8B | Image | text → image | Open weights | |
| PaddleOCR-VL 1.5Baidu | January 29, 2026 | — | — | — | 959M | Text | text, image → text | Open weights | |
| ERNIE 5.0Baidu | January 22, 2026 | — | — | — | — | Text | text, image, audio, video → text | Closed | |
| ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B ThinkingBaidu | November 11, 2025 | — | — | — | 29.7B | Text | text, image → text | Open weights | |
| PaddleOCR-VLBaidu | October 16, 2025 | — | — | — | 959M | Text | text, image → text | Open weights | |
| ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B ThinkingBaidu | September 9, 2025 | — | — | — | 21.8B | Text | text → text | Open weights | |
| ERNIE X1.1Baidu | September 9, 2025 | — | — | — | — | Text | text → text | Closed | |
| ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47BBaidu | June 30, 2025 | 123K | $0.42 | $1.25 | 424B | Text | image, text → text | Open weights | |
| ERNIE 4.5 0.3BBaidu | June 30, 2025 | — | — | — | 361M | Text | text → text | Open weights | |
| ERNIE 4.5 21B A3BBaidu | June 30, 2025 | 131K | — | — | 21.9B | Text | text → text | Open weights | |
| ERNIE 4.5 300B A47BBaidu | June 30, 2025 | 131K | — | — | 300B | Text | text → text | Open weights | |
| ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3BBaidu | June 30, 2025 | — | — | — | 29.4B | Text | text, image → text | Open weights | |
| ERNIE 4.5 TurboBaidu | April 25, 2025 | — | — | — | — | Text | text, image → text | Closed | |
| ERNIE X1 TurboBaidu | April 25, 2025 | — | — | — | — | Text | text, image → text | Closed | |
| ERNIE 4.5Baidu | March 16, 2025 | — | — | — | — | Text | text, image → text | Closed | |
| ERNIE X1Baidu | March 16, 2025 | — | — | — | — | Text | text → text | Closed | |
| ERNIE 4.0 TurboBaidu | June 28, 2024 | — | — | — | — | Text | text → text | Closed | |
| ERNIE 4.0Baidu | October 17, 2023 | — | — | — | — | Text | text → text | Closed |