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ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview vs Qwen3.8 Max Preview

Output tokens cost $3.29 per million on ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview and $1.01 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Input tokens cost $0.82 per million on ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview and $0.34 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.82 per million on ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview and $0.03 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Context lengths are 183,000 tokens on ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview and 983,616 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 6.5s on ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview and 2.4s on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Measured output throughput is 72.1 tok/s on ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview and 48.1 tok/s on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. On the LMArena coding leaderboard ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview scores 1491 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview scores 1520.

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ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview
Baidu · text → text

The new generation Wenxin model, Wenxin 5.0, is a native full-modal large model that adopts native full-modal unified modeling technology, jointly modeling text, images, audio, and video, possessing comprehensive full-modal capabilities. Wenxin 5.0's basic abilities are comprehensively upgraded, performing excellently on benchmark test sets, especially in multimodal understanding, instruction compliance, creative writing, factual accuracy, intelligent agent planning, and tool application.

Input$0.82 /M
Output$3.29 /M
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Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Qwen · text, image → text

Qwen 3.8 Max Preview(Qwen3.8-Max-Preview) is the latest-generation foundation model in the Qwen family, packing 2.4T parameters and still evolving. Compared with the previous flagship Qwen 3.7 Max, it delivers major gains in core capabilities like Coding and Cowork (professional productivity), with world-leading performance on complex, long-horizon tasks such as full-stack development, data analysis, and Office workflows. Launch offer: Credits are consumed at just 20% of the standard rate, effectively 5× your usage. Limited time only.

Input$0.34 /M
Output$1.01 /M
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Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Input /M
$0.82
$0.34
Output /M
$3.29
$1.01
Cache read /M
$0.82
$0.03
Context length
183,000
983,616
Max output
64,000
131,072
Time to First Token
6.5 s
2.4 s
Throughput
72.1 tok/s
48.1 tok/s
Modalities
text
textimage
Supported Parameters
thinkingstructured outputsfunction calling
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
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Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
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1400146015201580
Overall
14471481
Coding
14911520
Math
14381504
Hard prompts
14651506
Instruction following
14271478
Multi-turn
14411496
Creative writing
14231469
Longer query
14401497
Chinese
14961545
English
14511486

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Qwen3.8 Max Preview
$35.49 /mo
ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview
$98.64 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview, Qwen3.8 Max Preview?

Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.01/M output tokens; ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview: $3.29/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 1520; ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview: 1491 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 2.4s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview accepts 183,000 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 64,000 tokens on ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.

Which one generates tokens faster?

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview at 72.1 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max Preview at 48.1 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview accepts text input and supports thinking, structured outputs and function calling; Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.

Can I call ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview and Qwen3.8 Max Preview with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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