MiniMax vs ERNIE API pricing

Checked against the official price pages on 2026-10-14

In short

At 100M input and 20M output tokens a month, the cheapest model from each is MiniMax-M3 (about ¥378 a month) and ERNIE-4.5-Turbo (about ¥144 a month). ERNIE's entry model is cheaper; MiniMax's costs about 2.6 times as much.

The most expensive from each is MiniMax-M2.7 (about ¥378 a month) and ERNIE-5.1 (about ¥760 a month). Price says nothing about whether the models are equally capable; weigh it with benchmarks and context length.

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Prices are per million tokens: ¥ is CNY, $ is USD; time-of-day pricing is written peak / off-peak. Monthly cost is in CNY and assumes 100M input and 20M output tokens a month, no cache hits and half of calls at peak hours where that applies, cheapest first.

Model	Input	Cache hit	Output	Monthly (CNY)
BaiduERNIE-4.5-Turbo	¥0.8	¥0.2	¥3.2	144
MiniMaxMiniMax-M3	¥2.1	¥0.42	¥8.4	378
MiniMaxMiniMax-M2.7	¥2.1	¥0.42	¥8.4	378
BaiduERNIE-5.1	¥4	—	¥18	760

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