AI Daily Insights No. 71 · October 14, 2026
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ERNIE-5.1 API pricing

ERNIE · checked against the official price page on 2026-10-14

Current price

CNY per million tokens.

Input (cache miss)4
Input (cache hit)not listed separately
Output18

input ≤32K; 32K–128K is ¥6 input / ¥22 output

Official price page ↗

What it costs

At the prices above, with no cache hits.

10M input and 2M output tokens a month¥76
100M input and 20M output tokens a month¥760
1000M input and 200M output tokens a month¥7,600

A single call with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens costs about ¥0.017; ten thousand such calls cost about ¥170.

For your own usage: API cost calculator

Where it ranks

Ordered by the monthly cost of 100M input and 20M output tokens, cheapest first, ERNIE-5.1 is number 11 of 26 models. Models priced in USD are converted at 1 USD = 6.733 CNY (PBoC central parity, 2026-10-09).

1. OpenAI gpt-6-luna135 CNY / month
2. Anthropic Claude Haiku 5.5135 CNY / month
3. Zhipu GLM-5.3-Flash136 CNY / month
4. Baidu ERNIE-4.5-Turbo144 CNY / month
5. DeepSeek deepseek-flash270 CNY / month
6. Qwen qwen3.7-plus360 CNY / month
7. MiniMax MiniMax-M3378 CNY / month
8. MiniMax MiniMax-M2.7378 CNY / month
9. Google Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite539 CNY / month
10. Mistral AI Mistral Large539 CNY / month
11. Baidu ERNIE-5.1760 CNY / month
12. Google Gemini 3.8 Flash1,010 CNY / month
13. DeepSeek deepseek-v4-pro1,080 CNY / month
14. xAI grok-4.31,178 CNY / month
15. Kimi kimi-k2.7-code1,190 CNY / month
16. Kimi kimi-k2.61,190 CNY / month
17. Zhipu GLM-5.31,360 CNY / month
18. Qwen qwen3.8-max1,920 CNY / month
19. xAI grok-4.72,155 CNY / month
20. OpenAI gpt-6.1-sol2,693 CNY / month
21. Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.52,693 CNY / month
22. Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview2,963 CNY / month
23. Kimi kimi-k34,000 CNY / month
24. Anthropic Claude Opus 5.55,386 CNY / month
25. OpenAI gpt-6-astra13,466 CNY / month
26. Anthropic Claude Fable 5.113,466 CNY / month

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