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ERNIE 4.0 vs MiniMax-01

How do these models stack up? Below is an expert side-by-side comparison of specifications, context window capacity, live pricing per million tokens, and standardized benchmark scores for ERNIE 4.0 and MiniMax-01.

Baidu

ERNIE 4.0

ERNIE 4.0 (文心一言 4.0) is Baidu's most advanced large language model, representing the culmination of Baidu's decades of search and NLP expertise. Built on Baidu's proprietary knowledge-enhanced pre-training architecture, ERNIE 4.0 integrates deep understanding of Chinese language, culture, and domain-specific knowledge. It achieves GPT-4-class performance on comprehensive Chinese-language benchmarks spanning language understanding, reasoning, mathematics, and code generation. ERNIE 4.0 powers Baidu's Wenxin Yiyan consumer chatbot and is available via Baidu AI Cloud API for enterprise integrations.

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MiniMax

MiniMax-01

MiniMax-01 is a combines MiniMax-Text-01 for text generation and MiniMax-VL-01 for image understanding. It has 456 billion parameters, with 45.9 billion parameters activated per inference, and can handle a context...

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Technical Specifications

SpecificationERNIE 4.0MiniMax-01
ProviderBaiduMiniMax
Context Window128,000 tokens1,000,192 tokens
Agent Suitability87/100N/A
Time to First Token (TTFT)380 msN/A
Deployment Modelmanaged apimanaged api
Production Stabilitystablebeta
API AvailableYesYes
Released Date2025-08-302025-01-15

API Pricing Comparison

Input Price per Million Tokens

ERNIE 4.0

$1.20

MiniMax-01

$0.20

Output Price per Million Tokens

ERNIE 4.0

$2.40

MiniMax-01

$1.10

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Benchmark Performance Metrics

Scores show the raw performance percentages verified across key evaluation suites. Higher bars indicate superior accuracy and capability in that domain.

MMLUGeneral knowledge & multi-task understanding
N/Avs8100.0%
ERNIE 4.0
MiniMax-01
HumanEvalPython coding & logic synthesis
N/Avs7820.0%
ERNIE 4.0
MiniMax-01
MATHComplex mathematical problem solving
N/Avs5050.0%
ERNIE 4.0
MiniMax-01
GPQAGraduate-level expert reasoning
N/Avs3700.0%
ERNIE 4.0
MiniMax-01
HellaSwagCommonsense reasoning and inference
N/Avs8300.0%
ERNIE 4.0
MiniMax-01
MT-BenchMulti-turn conversation flow quality
N/Avs855.0%
ERNIE 4.0
MiniMax-01

ERNIE 4.0 Quirks & Gotchas

  • β–ΈSuperior Chinese-language understanding β€” best-in-class for China-market applications
  • β–ΈAPI requires Baidu Cloud account with Chinese phone verification

MiniMax-01 Quirks & Gotchas

No developer gotchas reported.