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Baidu AI Cloud pricing: web search API

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$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Baidu AI Cloud through our web search API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 791 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.992 or less per 1,000 searches. See the best free web search API plan.SerpScraper.dev's $499 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033. Octen's top-up plan costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $5.00.Levirge's $29 monthly plan covers any number of searches. Levirge's $29 monthly plan costs less up front than SerpScraper.dev's $499 monthly plan.Clawifi, SerpScraper.dev and browserfoundry by keirolabs are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest Baidu AI Cloud plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free monthly calls one of Baidu AI Cloud's 13 plans
Call: POST /v2/ai_search/web_search Baidu AI Cloud's only call
API: Web search API Baidu AI Cloud's only API

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 3 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Date, Author, Text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,500 requests a month.
  • One call. You send messages[].content to POST /v2/ai_search/web_search. You set messages[].role to "user". The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: anyone with a Baidu AI Cloud account. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Baidu AI Cloud: web search API alternatives

Baidu AI Cloud alternatives: other web search API providers by price

The table starts with Baidu AI Cloud's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Baidu AI Cloud's.

Baidu AI Cloud, CNY 30,600 pack, 1,000,000 calls: Standard, domestic contentBocha, CNY 3,000 packStaan, pay as you go, Pay for what you use, POST /search/web, Web Search for AI APICyberWareX, top-up, Prepaid credits, POST /v1/searchSearch1API, $19 monthly, Basic, POST /search, Search, full
$ per 1,000 searches$4.577$4.487$4.501$4.545$4.56
Completeness50%33%33%17%33%
Billingpay firstpay firstpay as you gopay firstmonthly
PayCNY 30,600CNY 3,000monthlyany amount$19
Enough for1,000,000 calls100,000 callsas many as you pay foras many as you pay forabout 4,166 calls a month
Freshnessunknownunknownlivelivelive
Who can get itBaidu AI Cloud accounts with real-name verification (实名认证)individuals 18 or older (or with a parent's or guardian's consent) and organizations, able to enter a legally binding contractanyone who signs upanyoneanyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-09.

  1. cloud.baidu.com/doc/qianfan-api/s/Wmbq4z7e5
  2. cloud.baidu.com/doc/qianfan-docs/s/Jm8r1826a
  3. cloud.baidu.com/doc/qianfan/s/1mh4sv6c4
  4. cloud.baidu.com/doc/qianfan/s/2mh4su4uy
  5. cloud.baidu.com/doc/qianfan/s/Cmh4stmpy
  6. cloud.baidu.com/doc/qianfan/s/Gmi5wd4fm

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Date
  • Author
  • Text
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Answer, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Most per search95
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitch百度搜索满足多样的常规搜索需求，用户可获取所需的多模态高质量内容。
Data
Keep datano limit
Use data您承诺在使用AI原生应用服务、API调用服务时，不得也不允许或协助任何人利用本服务采取以下行为： [...] （3）干扰本服务正常运行以及损害我们合法权益，包括： [...] 利用本服务开发与本服务存在竞争关系其他产品和服务（除非该限制违法相关法律规范）。 以任何方式（包括但不限于通过任何机器人、蜘蛛、其他自动设置/程序/算法/方法、设置镜像或任何手动过程）来访问、抓取、复制、监控本服务及其所包含的任何内容。 [...] 以导致平台的计算机系统或设施承受不合理负载的方式获取输出，或进行可能导致此类情况出现的行为。 未经我们授权，非法转售或对外提供本服务，或以商业化目的使用本服务。 [...] 5.3 您不得自行或允许、协助任何人使用组件、外挂、系统或第三方工具干扰、破坏、修改本服务的正常运行或施加其他影响，包括但不限于使用任何自动化程序、软件或类似工具接入本服务，收集或处理其中信息、内容。
Plan
PayCNY 0
You get1,500 requests a month
Enough for1,500 calls a month
Rate limit
Per day100,000
Per second3
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendmessages[].role "user", messages[].content. Optional: query_policy.enable_rewrite, query_policy.query_plan_type, resource_type_filter[].type, resource_type_filter[].top_k, edition, compliance_scene, search_filter.match.site, search_filter.image.size, search_filter.image.ratio, search_filter.image.format, search_filter.image.simi_threshold, search_filter.range.page_time.gte, search_filter.range.page_time.gt, search_filter.range.page_time.lte, search_filter.range.page_time.lt, search_filter.geo.city, block_websites, search_recency_filter, safe_search, config_id, chunks_per_doc
MethodPOST
Path/v2/ai_search/web_search
About the plan
PlanFree monthly calls
Who can get itanyone with a Baidu AI Cloud account
The 28 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, position, URL, page title, published date, content excerpt, snippet, site icon URL, anchor text, result type, site name, images, author name, author signature, author verification type, rerank score, authority score, is Aladdin result, aladdin content, video URL, video width, video height, video size, video duration, video cover image URL, image URL, image width, image height

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