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ERNIE 5.0 vs Kimi K3

Compare ERNIE 5.0 from Baidu and Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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ERNIE 5.0
Baidu · text, image, audio, video → text

ERNIE 5.0 is the next-generation natively multimodal foundation model in the ERNIE family. Built on a unified multimodal architecture, it jointly learns from text, images, audio, and video to deliver broad multimodal capabilities. ERNIE 5.0 features significantly upgraded core capabilities and shows strong performance across benchmarks, with notable gains in multimodal understanding, instruction following, creative writing, factual accuracy, and agent planning with tool use.

Input$0.82 /M
Output$3.29 /M
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Kimi K3
Moonshot AI · text, image, video → text

Kimi K3 is Kimi’s flagship model for long-horizon coding and end-to-end knowledge work, with a 1M-token context window and industry-leading intelligence.

Input$3.00 /M
Output$15.00 /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
Kimi K3
Input /M
$0.82
$3.00
Output /M
$3.29
$15.00
Cache read /M
$0.82
$0.30
Context length
119,000
1,048,576
Max output
64,000
1,048,576
Time to First Token
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0.9 s
Throughput
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73.1 tok/s
Modalities
textimageaudiovideo
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
thinking
thinkingfunction callingstructured outputs
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
ernie-5.0kimi-k3
14001440148015201560
Overall
14471486
Coding
14901531
Math
14361436
Hard prompts
14651505
Instruction following
14271479
Multi-turn
14421499
Creative writing
14231470
Longer query
14411502
Chinese
14951527
English
14521491

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.

ERNIE 5.0
$98.63 /mo
Kimi K3
$405 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: ERNIE 5.0, Kimi K3?

ERNIE 5.0: $3.29/M output tokens; Kimi K3: $15.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Kimi K3: 1531; ERNIE 5.0: 1490 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

How large is each context window?

ERNIE 5.0 accepts 119,000 and Kimi K3 accepts 1,048,576 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 64,000 tokens on ERNIE 5.0 and 1,048,576 tokens on Kimi K3.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

ERNIE 5.0 accepts text, image, audio and video input and supports thinking; Kimi K3 accepts text, image and video input and supports thinking, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call ERNIE 5.0 and Kimi K3 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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