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 September 7, 2026, Qianfan offers pay-as-you-go model inference plus Token Plan packages. The current Token Plan enterprise page advertises monthly packages from RMB ¥149 for 25,000 promotional credits, ¥419 for 70,000, ¥989 for 175,000 and ¥1,398 for 250,000; displayed promotional amounts and list prices may change.
Current pay-as-you-go examples are quoted in yuan per thousand tokens. ERNIE 5.1 costs ¥0.004 input and ¥0.018 output up to 32K input, rising to ¥0.006 and ¥0.022 above 32K through 128K. ERNIE 4.5 Turbo costs ¥0.0008 input, ¥0.0002 cached input and ¥0.0032 output. The official documentation also publishes current rates for DeepSeek, embedding, reranking, image, OCR and search services.
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 and model-service pricing.