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The ERNIE family splits across two platforms. Qianfan serves ERNIE 5.0 text and multimodal from China. fal serves ERNIE-Image globally. Here is the exact routing call.
Flux 2 Pro and GPT Image 2 are frontier general purpose models. ERNIE-Image is a specialist. On dense Chinese signage, bilingual menus, and Japanese posters, the specialist wins by a visible margin.
English glyphs on ERNIE-Image posters have a kerning problem. Here is why the model behaves that way, what prompt patterns fix it, and when to switch to GPT Image 2 instead.
One endpoint charges $0.03 per megapixel and runs 50 diffusion steps. The other charges $0.01 and runs 8. Here is where the 3x price delta earns its money and where it quietly burns your budget.
Train a brand-specific LoRA on ERNIE-Image, plug it into the standard and turbo LoRA endpoints, and run the cost math end to end. Real training submit code, real inference code, real dollar figures per asset.
ERNIE-Image posts 0.9733 on LongTextBench and 0.8728 on GenEval with enhancer. Decode what both numbers measure and what they predict for your real generations.