aid: baidu
name: Baidu
description: >-
  Baidu is a leading Chinese internet and artificial-intelligence company whose developer
  surface spans three main product lines. Baidu AI Cloud "Qianfan" is a Model-as-a-Service
  platform hosting the ERNIE model family behind an OpenAI-compatible REST API for chat,
  embeddings, and agent building (AppBuilder). The Baidu AI Open Platform exposes OCR, NLP,
  speech, face, image, and knowledge-graph APIs. The Baidu Maps Open Platform (LBS) provides
  geocoding, place search, route planning, weather, and real-time traffic to millions of
  registered developers, and ships an official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server with a
  hosted remote endpoint. This profile was surfaced as a portfolio company and enriched with
  real, first-party developer artifacts.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/baidu/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- hillhouse
- idg-capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
image: https://www.baidu.com/favicon.ico
tags:
- Company
- Technology
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- LLM
- Maps
- Geolocation
- Cloud
- China
apis:
- name: Baidu AI Cloud Qianfan
  description: >-
    OpenAI-compatible LLM / Model-as-a-Service API hosting the ERNIE family and select
    open models (DeepSeek, GLM, etc.) via chat completions and embeddings.
  humanURL: https://intl.cloud.baidu.com/product/qianfan.html
  baseURL: https://qianfan.baidubce.com/v2
  tags:
  - LLM
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - ERNIE
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://intl.cloud.baidu.com/doc/qianfan/index.html
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/baidu-authentication.yml
- name: Baidu Maps Open Platform
  description: >-
    LBS web-service API: geocoding, reverse geocoding, place/POI search, route planning,
    weather, IP location, and real-time traffic. Ships an official MCP server.
  humanURL: https://lbsyun.baidu.com/
  baseURL: https://api.map.baidu.com
  tags:
  - Maps
  - Geolocation
  - LBS
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://lbsyun.baidu.com/faq/api?title=webapi
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/baidu-mcp.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.baidu.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://ai.baidu.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://intl.cloud.baidu.com/doc/qianfan/index.html
- type: APIReference
  url: https://lbsyun.baidu.com/faq/api?title=webapi
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/baidubce
- type: SignUp
  url: https://console.bce.baidu.com/
- type: Packages
  url: packages/baidu-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/baidu-packages.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/baidu-mcp.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/baidu-authentication.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/baidu-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/baidu-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence