ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview
Nov 2025
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ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview measured on 9 of 104 Chat & Knowledge benchmarks9
BenchmarkByScoreRank
Overall1
Knowledge4
Science2
Legacy · saturated or no longer reported2
No benchmark matches
—per task?
API price not publicprice
—output speed?
128Kcontext
Alternatives?
ModelScoreCostPer taskWhat changes
BetterGPT-6 Lunalow+53%—$0.005Function calling only with none · Chat Completions+3
OpenMiMo v2.6 Prothinking×3.7—$0.13Pass back reasoning_content+3BetterGPT-5.6 Lunalow+50%—$0.01BetterMiMo v2.5thinkingOpen×2.1—$0.019
BetterClaude Haiku 5.5low×2—$0.024Remove sampling parameters+5ModelScoreCostPer taskWhat changes
Nothing here yet.
ModelScoreCostPer taskWhat changes
GPT-6 Lunalow+53%—$0.005Function calling only with none · Chat Completions+3GPT-5.6 Lunalow+50%—$0.01MiMo v2.5thinkingOpen×2.1—$0.019Claude Haiku 5.5low×2—$0.024Remove sampling parameters+5
Mercury 2high+29%—$0.039No image inputModelScoreCostPer taskWhat changes
MiMo v2.6 ProthinkingOpen×3.7—$0.13Pass back reasoning_content+3
Kimi K3maxOpen×3.5—$2.00Sampling parameters are fixed+3
Step 5 PreviewthinkingOpen×3.5—$1.03web_search not available · Chat Completions+2
Muse Spark OpenxhighOpen×3.3—$0.84Reasoning off leaves output unchanged · Self-hosted / llama.cpp+1
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017maxOpen×3.3—$0.26Pass back reasoning_content · Chat Completions+4Benchmarks
in Chat & KnowledgeAA Intelligence Index 4.3.2≈14.3#152
AA Omniscience Index-45.6#191
AA Omniscience · Accuracy22.1#135
Humanity's Last Exam13.3#154
GPQA Diamond77.7#130
IFBench (instructions)41.4#153
CritPt (physics)1.4#113
FAQ
How much does ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview cost?›
There is no per-unit API price: API price not public.
Is ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview free to use?›
There is no free API.
How good is ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview, and what is it best at?›
#153 of 334 in Chat & Knowledge, #73 of 239 in Coding, #66 of 242 in Agents & Tool Use, #152 of 245 in Writing & Language, #82 of 124 in Vision & Documents.
Is ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview better than MiniMax M2?›
On Humanity's Last Exam, ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview scores 13.3 vs 13.7 — about the same.
What is the context window of ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview?›
128K tokens.
When was ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview released? Is there a newer version?›
Released 2025-11-13. It is the current version in its line.
Is ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview open source?›
No, ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview is a closed model available through an API. The closest open-weights option here is MiMo v2.6 Pro.
Can ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview read images?›
It accepts text and images as input.
What is ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview?›
ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview is a closed language model from Baidu, released Nov 2025.
What are the best alternatives to ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview?›
GPT-6 Luna (better), MiMo v2.6 Pro (open weights).