Baidu upgrades search AI API, minimum 4.9 yuan per thousand calls, lower than DeepSeek

At a product upgrade communication meeting, Baidu App announced an upgrade to its search AI API, with a minimum price of 4.9 yuan per thousand calls during the promotional period, lower than the DeepSeek search API. The upgraded Wenxin Assistant moves search from a single question-and-answer exchange toward delivering finished outputs, covering more than 170 scenarios; AI Lens supports simultaneous recognition of multiple targets and dynamic tracking, and enables real-time conversation in 9 dialects. GUI interactive scenarios on the search results page have increased 5-fold, with access to over 5 billion data resources from government affairs, livelihood, the central bank and others, while AI interactive dramas and interactive applications have launched simultaneously.