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#21B+Jun 5, 2026Evidence B

Pangu 5.5

Huawei · Undisclosed (Ascend)

An industry brain for manufacturing, energy and transport

Pangu 5.5’s value is not general leaderboards but closed loops in typhoon tracking, mine faults and industrial QA. General multimodal is merely adequate.

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Last updated Oct 18, 2026Editorial scoring

Bottom line

A project-shaped choice delivered with Huawei Cloud and industry ISVs; do not demand generalist excellence. Individuals and content teams can skip it.

Eight-dimension breakdown

editorial mapping · 0–100
Perception85Document87Chart QA84Video80Agent74Generation70Chinese86Ecosystem788D
  • Pangu 5.581.6
Visual perception & grounding20%
85
Document parsing & Chinese OCR18%
87
Chart & document reasoning14%
84
Video & long-horizon reasoning14%
80
GUI agents & tool use14%
74
Generation & editing6%
70
Chinese context & culture6%
86
Ecosystem, cost & availability8%
78

Weights: perception 20 / documents 18 / charts 14 / video 14 / agents 14 / generation 6 / Chinese 6 / ecosystem 8. Definitions and sources on the methodology page.

Public benchmarks

as reported, not converted
Benchmark / metricValueNote
台风路径误差-30%Official claim
故障预警72hMine equipment

Public scores come from different versions and prompts and are not interchangeable with our composite; they are one evidence input.

Scenario mapping

five stress tests, one scale
ScenarioScoreObservation
Chinese receipt OCR86 · Good on industry forms
Chart data extraction82 · Standard
30-min video QA78 · Usable on inspection video
Mobile GUI control72 · Not a focus
Chinese cultural context84 · General

Strengths and limitations

Strengths

  • Mature industry models for manufacturing, energy and transport.
  • Full Ascend and Huawei Cloud stack support.
  • Strong industry data loops and delivery.

Limitations

  • Average general multimodal ability.
  • High, non-standard pricing.
  • Very few public evaluations.

Price and real cost

List price

¥20/M tokens

Industry project pricing. For 1,000 images at 1,024px, ~1,100 image tokens each and 300 output tokens, the monthly cost is about ¥12.1 (assuming input at 25% of output price).

Use your volume

About Pangu 5.5

Is Pangu 5.5 open source?

Licence: Closed, industry license. No public weights; access is via vendor API or an on-prem licence.

How much does Pangu 5.5 cost?

Industry project pricing. It ranks #21 with a composite of 81.6. Real bills depend on resolution, tiling, caching and volume discounts.

What is Pangu 5.5 best for?

Industrial QA; Energy and grid inspection; Intelligent transport。

Why does Pangu 5.5 score 81.6?

The composite weights eight dimensions: perception 20%, documents 18%, charts 14%, video 14%, agents 14%, generation 6%, Chinese 6%, ecosystem 8%. Its strongest dimension is Document parsing & Chinese OCR; its weakest is Generation & editing.

Personal ranking · Not an official score

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