AI Model Atlas / Baidu
ERNIE-Light-DT-1.0
One million input tokens cost $1.13 and one million output tokens $3.94. Context window: 1M tokens, about 1,707 A4 pages.
What it costs in practice
Pricing per million tokens doesn't mean anything to anyone, so I convert it to three tasks that people actually give to models. The usage assumptions are listed for each row so you can verify them.
| Task | Input | Output | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1500-word articlebrief plus finished text in English | 1,500 tokens | 2,200 tokens | $0.01 |
| 100 chat queries700 tokens per question and 400 per answer | 70,000 tokens | 40,000 tokens | $0.24 |
| Hour of work with an agentagent reads repository and writes fixes | 250,000 tokens | 30,000 tokens | $0.40 |
Technical details
| Provider | Baidu |
| Modalities | text → text |
| Context window | 1M tokens (~1,707 A4 pages) |
| Maximum response | 131k tokens |
| Step-by-step reasoning | yes |
| Tool calling | yes |
| Forced JSON format | yes |
| Knowledge cutoff | not specified |
| Cache read | $0.11 per million |
| Content moderation | no extra filter |
How it compares to the rest
The database contains 469 models. In terms of input pricing ERNIE-Light-DT-1.0 is more expensive than 69 percent of paid models. A longer context window is available in 142 models.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| InklingThinkingmachines | $1.00 | $4.05 | $0.01 | 524k |
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| GPT-4.1 (batch)OpenAI | $1.00 | $4.00 | $0.01 | 1M |
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