Wenxin Assistant 文心助手 (formerly Ernie Bot) vs Tencent Hy Image (HunyuanImage 混元生图)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Wenxin Assistant 文心助手 (formerly Ernie Bot)
Baidu's free ERNIE-powered assistant, which absorbed the Ernie Bot sit...
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Tencent Hy Image (HunyuanImage 混元生图)
Tencent's 80B open-weight image model, plus an API-only Hy Image 3.5 p...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.8 / 10 | 6.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Wenxin Assistant is free for individuals; Baidu says all of its features are free, with no paid tier | HunyuanImage 3.0 weights free to self-host under Tencent's community licence (excludes EU, UK and South Korea); consumer use in Tencent's Yuanbao app |
| Paid from | ¥4 per million input tokens (ERNIE 5.1 on Qianfan, prompts up to 32K) | $0.024/image (Hy Image 3.5 preview API, up to 2K, Tencent Cloud International) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | ~200 million monthly active users (2026) | — |
| Founded | 2023 | 2024 |
| Maker | Baidu, Inc. | Tencent |
| Verdict | Wenxin Assistant gives individuals free access to Baidu's current ERNIE models with search built in, and Task Engine 2.0 makes it more of an agent than a chatbot. ERNIE 5.0 and 5.1 have ranked first among Chinese models... |
HunyuanImage 3.0 is one of the most capable image models you can download, with strong Chinese-language prompt handling and editing variants, and the per-image API for Hy Image 3.5 preview is inexpensive.It is not open s... |
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