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ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Exp vs Qwen3.8 Max

Compare ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Exp from Baidu and Qwen3.8 Max from Qwen 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 Thinking Exp
Baidu · text → 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$0.8219 /M
Output$3.2877 /M
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Qwen3.8 Max
Qwen · text, image, video → text

Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen's next-generation flagship large language model, featuring a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 2.4 trillion parameters. It achieves another breakthrough in encoding depth, enabling it to handle more complex engineering-grade projects and long-term autonomous development; collaborative agent capabilities are significantly enhanced, performing more confidently in multi-tool orchestration and end-to-end delivery; visual understanding is comprehensively improved, with more sensitive and accurate chart reasoning, document parsing, and multimodal perception. Continuing the 1-million-context window, reasoning modes, and a complete tool ecosystem, it continues to evolve at a higher level of intelligence.

Input$1.69 /M
Output$5.07 /M
Cache read$0.169 /M

Pricing & Specifications

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

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Exp
Qwen3.8 Max
Input /M
$0.8219
$1.69
Output /M
$3.2877
$5.07
Cache read /M
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$0.169
Context length
119,000
1,000,000
Max output
65,536
131,072
Time to First Token
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12.5 s
Throughput
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28.4 tok/s
Modalities
text
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
thinking
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
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August 3, 2026

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-5.0-thinking-expqwen3.8-max
1400144014801520
Overall
14471482
Coding
14911491
Math
14381438
Hard prompts
14651465
Instruction following
14271427
Multi-turn
14411441
Creative writing
14231423
Longer query
14401440
Chinese
14961496
English
14511451

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 Thinking Exp
$98.63 /mo
Qwen3.8 Max
$177 /mo

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

FAQ

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

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Exp: $3.2877/M output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max: $5.07/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How large is each context window?

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Exp accepts 119,000 and Qwen3.8 Max accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 65,536 tokens on ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Exp and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

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

Can I call ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Exp and Qwen3.8 Max 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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