ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview

Baidu · Released Nov 13, 2025
Intelligence #589 / 743
23.9 our score
AA Index #167 / 433
22.3 Artificial Analysis
Input Price
Not priced
Output Price
Not priced
Context
Not reported

Analysis Summary

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview from Baidu has a mixed but technically capable profile. Mathematics, coding, instruction following, and the supplied tool-oriented result are strong relative to its general intelligence measure. Long-context performance is weak, however, which limits its suitability for large documents, extended briefs, and codebase-level reasoning.

The model is worth testing for reviewed software tasks, mathematical analysis, and structured technical outputs. Its preview designation also argues for controlled rollout rather than immediate dependence in a critical client workflow. No pricing, context-window, modality, or function-calling details are supplied, so its operating economics and integration fit cannot be established. Design for Online would evaluate it as a coding specialist while retaining a more fully documented model for broad production use.

Assessed August 9, 2026

Editorial notes

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview shows strong mathematics and coding results, plus useful instruction following and tool-oriented performance. Its preview status and weak long-context result make production adoption better suited to controlled technical evaluation.

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DFO Verdict

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview shows strong mathematics and coding results, plus useful instruction following and tool-oriented performance. Its preview status and weak long-context result make production adoption better suited to controlled technical evaluation.

#589 of 743 overall Down 24 this week

Benchmark scores

GPQA Diamond 77.7%
HLE 12.7%
MMLU Pro 83%
AIME 2025 85%
SciCode 37.5%
LiveCodeBench 81.2%
TerminalBench Hard 25%
τ²-Bench 83.9%
IFBench 41.4%
LCR 6.7%

Magenta = intelligence · Ink = technical/agentic · Cyan = content & long-context · Grey = community benchmarks. Data: Artificial Analysis, Hugging Face.

22.3 Intelligence Index·85 Math Index

How ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview compares

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview ranks #167 of 433 AI models we track for overall intelligence. ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview is currently free to use via OpenRouter.

Position in the field
Intelligence: smarter than 21% of models #589
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview $0.00 in $0.00 out
Claude Opus 5 $5.00 in $25.00 out
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol $2.00 in $10.00 out
SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 $2.00 in $6.00 out

Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.

Context window vs peers · tokens
ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview 0

1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.

Intelligence4.1Technical0Value0Content5.8
Performance profile

Strongest on content. The pulled-in value corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.

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Frequently asked questions about ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview

How much does ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview cost?

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview is currently available for free via OpenRouter.

Who created ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview?

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview is developed by Baidu and was released on November 13, 2025.

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