ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview

Preview version of ERNIE 5.0 with deep thinking enabled by default. Scheduled to be retired on 2026-10-29 (official retirement notice).

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Specs

Context: 131.1K
Max output: 65.5K
Input price: ¥6/ 1M tokens
Output price: ¥24/ 1M tokens
Released: 2025-11-13

Context

Context window: 131.1K
Max input: 121.9K
Max output: 65.5K

Pricing · CNY / 1M tokens

Input: ¥6
Output: ¥24
Cache read: —
Cache write: —

Modalities

Input: TextImage
Output: Text

API

API types: chatmessages

Reasoning

Reasoning: Yes
Levels: —

Info

Status: Deprecated
Released: 2025-11-13
Knowledge cutoff: —

Features

Confirmed: streaming

How to call

baidumodel = ernie-5.0-thinking-previewreasoning = enable_thinking

chat

POSThttps://qianfan.baidubce.com/v2/chat/completions

messages

POSThttps://qianfan.baidubce.com/anthropic/v1/messages

JSON

ernie-5.0-thinking-preview.json

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  "owned_by": "baidu",
  "name": "ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview",
  "api": {
    "types": [
      "chat",
      "messages"
    ]
  },
  "limits": {
    "context": 131072,
    "input": 121856,
    "output": 65536
  },
  "modalities": {
    "input": [
      "text",
      "image"
    ],
    "output": [
      "text"
    ]
  },
  "reasoning": {
    "supported": true,
    "efforts": []
  },
  "pricing": {
    "currency": "CNY",
    "unit": "1M_tokens",
    "input": 6,
    "output": 24,
    "cache_read": null,
    "cache_write": null
  },
  "features": [
    "streaming"
  ],
  "info": {
    "status": "deprecated",
    "release_date": "2025-11-13",
    "knowledge_cutoff": null,
    "description": "Preview version of ERNIE 5.0 with deep thinking enabled by default. Scheduled to be retired on 2026-10-29 (official retirement notice).",
    "docs": "https://cloud.baidu.com/doc/qianfan/s/rmh4stp0j",
    "verified_at": "2026-10-11"
  }
}

Official sources