Baidu LLM API Models & Pricing

Browse Baidu LLM API models with normalized prompt pricing, output pricing, context windows, release dates, and popularity signals.

6Models tracked
6Priced models
1Popular models
0Latest releases

Provider shortlist

Use Baidu as a model-level shortlist, not a single default choice.

Start from the cost, context, and popularity picks below, then open the model pages or head-to-head comparisons before choosing an API.

Cost pick ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking $0.21 sample workload
Context pick ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B 131.07K context window
Popular pick ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B #275 popularity signal
When to avoid Verify model fit Do not choose by provider name alone. Compare model-level input price, output price, context window, release timing, and current availability before production use.

Baidu comparisons

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ComparisonSample Cost WinnerLarger ContextNewest Release
CoBuddy (free) vs Qianfan-OCR-FastCoBuddy (free)CoBuddy (free)
Qianfan-OCR-Fast vs Free Models RouterFree Models RouterFree Models Router

Cross-Provider Alternatives

Open alternatives hub

Use this shortlist when Baidu is not a hard requirement and your first constraint is workload cost.

AlternativeProviderSample CostInput / 1MOutput / 1MContext
🔥Owl AlphaOpenRouter$0$0$01.05M
New🔥Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)NVIDIA$0$0$01M
🔥Laguna M.1 (free)Poolside$0$0$0262.14K
Nemotron 3 Super (free)NVIDIA$0$0$01M
gpt-oss-120b (free)OpenAI$0$0$0131.07K
Laguna XS.2 (free)Poolside$0$0$0262.14K

Baidu model catalog

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ModelPromptOutputContextPopularity
ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B$0.42$1.25131.07K#275
Qianfan-OCR-Fast$0.68$2.8165.54K
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking$0.07$0.28131.07K
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B$0.07$0.28131.07K
ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B$0.14$0.56131.07K
ERNIE 4.5 300B A47B$0.28$1.1131.07K