What is Baidu Qianfan
Baidu Qianfan is Baidu AI Cloud's platform for model APIs, agent development, fine-tuning, tools and enterprise AI services.
Plans and pricing
As of October 23, 2026, Qianfan offers pay-as-you-go model inference plus personal Token Plan subscriptions. Current monthly promotional prices are Mini at RMB ¥4.90 for 1,400 points, Lite at ¥19.90 for 6,600 points, Pro at ¥99.90 for 45,000 points and Max at ¥299.90 for 165,000 points. The page shows regular prices of ¥9.90, ¥40, ¥200 and ¥600 respectively; promotions can change.
Baidu's current international Qianfan campaign publishes USD token rates for ERNIE 5.0, DeepSeek V4 Pro, DeepSeek V4 Flash, DeepSeek V3.2, Kimi K2.6, GLM 5.2, GLM 5.1 and GLM 5. Those current model rates are maintained on the API Cost page. Other Qianfan services, including embeddings, reranking, image, OCR and search, follow their own regional rate cards.
Buying notes
Qianfan notes that documentation prices can lag the final order page. Buyers should confirm the selected region, billing mode, model version and any time-limited promotion in the console before purchase.
Official sources: Qianfan Token Plan, model-service pricing and international model pricing.