# Baidu

> Baidu is a leading Chinese internet and AI company. Its developer surface spans three
> main product lines: Baidu AI Cloud "Qianfan" (an LLM / Model-as-a-Service platform hosting
> the ERNIE model family with an OpenAI-compatible REST API), the Baidu AI Open Platform
> (OCR, NLP, speech, face, image, and knowledge-graph APIs), and the Baidu Maps Open Platform
> (LBS: geocoding, place search, routing, weather, and traffic). Baidu Maps also ships an
> official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server.

## APIs
- [Baidu AI Cloud Qianfan (ERNIE LLM)](https://intl.cloud.baidu.com/product/qianfan.html): OpenAI-compatible chat completions at https://qianfan.baidubce.com/v2
- [Baidu AI Open Platform](https://ai.baidu.com/): OCR, NLP, speech, face, image, knowledge graph
- [Baidu Maps Open Platform (LBS)](https://lbsyun.baidu.com/): geocoding, places, routing, weather, traffic

## Agent access
- [Baidu Maps MCP Server](https://github.com/baidu-maps/mcp): official MCP server; hosted at https://mcp.map.baidu.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP) and https://mcp.map.baidu.com/sse (SSE)

## SDKs
- [qianfan (PyPI)](https://pypi.org/project/qianfan/): Baidu AI Cloud Qianfan SDK — pip install qianfan
- [baidu-aip (PyPI)](https://pypi.org/project/baidu-aip/): Baidu AI Open Platform SDK — pip install baidu-aip
- [appbuilder-sdk (PyPI)](https://pypi.org/project/appbuilder-sdk/): Baidu AppBuilder agent SDK
- [mcp-server-baidu-maps (PyPI)](https://pypi.org/project/mcp-server-baidu-maps/) / [@baidumap/mcp-server-baidu-map (npm)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@baidumap/mcp-server-baidu-map)

## Source
- [baidubce on GitHub](https://github.com/baidubce): Baidu Cloud SDKs (Qianfan, AppBuilder, BCE)
- [baidu-maps on GitHub](https://github.com/baidu-maps): Baidu Maps SDKs and MCP server
- [Baidu-AIP on GitHub](https://github.com/Baidu-AIP): Baidu AI Open Platform SDKs

## Docs
- [Qianfan documentation](https://intl.cloud.baidu.com/doc/qianfan/index.html)
- [Baidu Maps Web Service API](https://lbsyun.baidu.com/faq/api?title=webapi)
- [Baidu AI Cloud console](https://console.bce.baidu.com/)

## Enrichment artifacts
- packages/baidu-packages.yml
- mcp/baidu-mcp.yml
- authentication/baidu-authentication.yml
- security/baidu-domain-security.yml