ERNIE-Image

Open weights Active Image gen Dense

Open-weight 8B single-stream DiT text-to-image model with strong text rendering; ships with an 8-step Turbo variant.

Released
Apr 14, 2026
Context window
Not disclosed
Max output
Not disclosed
Parameters
8B
Input price
Not disclosed
Output price
Not disclosed

Prices are first-party list prices in USD at the standard tier. Last verified Oct 30, 2026.

Pricing

No first-party API. This is an open-weights release you can run yourself.

Specifications

Developer
Baidu
Model type
Image gen
Architecture
Dense
Parameters
8B
Input
Text
Output
Image
Knowledge cutoff
Not disclosed
License
Apache License 2.0
API access
No first-party API