Ernie Bot 文心一言 (Baidu) vs iFlytek Spark 讯飞星火
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Ernie Bot 文心一言 (Baidu)
Baidu's ERNIE-powered assistant for chat, writing, painting and search...
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iFlytek Spark 讯飞星火
iFlytek's flagship LLM — strong voice + Chinese capability
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.8 / 10 | 6.2 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | — |
| Paid from | — | Free tier available; paid/enterprise plans and API via iFlytek Open Platform (xinghuo.xfyun.cn) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | ~200 million monthly active users (2026) | Not publicly disclosed as a single figure; iFlytek reports its medical assistant has logged over 1 |
| Founded | — | 2023 |
| Maker | — | — |
| Verdict | As Baidu's flagship assistant, Ernie Bot benefits from deep integration with Baidu Search and the wider Baidu ecosystem, and it's genuinely competitive: ERNIE 5.1 landed #1 among Chinese models and top-5 globally on LMAr... |
Spark is the speech company's LLM, and it shows: Mandarin understanding, voice interaction and multimodal speech tasks are where iFlytek's two decades of speech-recognition heritage pay off. The 2026 X2 generation (a 293... |
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