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ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview vs Qwen3.8 Max

Compare ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview 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 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$0.822 /M
Output$3.288 /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 Preview
Qwen3.8 Max
Input /M
$0.822
$1.69
Output /M
$3.288
$5.07
Cache read /M
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$0.169
Context length
183,000
1,000,000
Max output
64,000
131,072
Time to First Token
4.2 s
12.5 s
Throughput
7.0 tok/s
28.4 tok/s
Modalities
text
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
thinkingstructured outputsfunction calling
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
November 18, 2025
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-previewqwen3.8-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 Preview
$98.64 /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 Preview, Qwen3.8 Max?

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview: $3.288/M output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max: $5.07/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

Which responds faster?

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview: 4.2s 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 accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 64,000 tokens on ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Qwen3.8 Max at 28.4 tok/s and ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview at 7.0 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 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 Preview 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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