Qwen 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 qwen3.7-plus (about ¥360 a month) and ERNIE-4.5-Turbo (about ¥144 a month). ERNIE's entry model is cheaper; Qwen's costs about 2.5 times as much.

The most expensive from each is qwen3.8-max (about ¥1,920 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
Qwenqwen3.7-plus	¥2	—	¥8	360
BaiduERNIE-5.1	¥4	—	¥18	760
Qwenqwen3.8-max	¥12	—	¥36	1,920

Qwen vs ERNIE API pricing

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