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

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Baidu held a product upgrade briefing on October 30, announcing a fully upgraded search AI API, with a minimum price of 4.9 yuan per thousand calls during the promotional period, lower than the price of the DeepSeek search API. According to The Beijing News, Baidu said the capability now covers more than 170 tool scenarios, with GUI scenario coverage on the search page increased fivefold, connected to over 5 billion resource data points from government affairs, livelihood services, the central bank and others, covering more than 20 industries and opening up the ecosystem. TMTPost reported that the API's content layer covers more than 80 languages and a high-quality index in the hundreds of billions, with the data credibility rate increased by more than 50%, and the Ernie assistant saw a 20% improvement in results after integration. Baidu said its cost-effectiveness comes from an AI-native four-layer architecture; the engine layer self-evolves through multi-agent collaboration, raising overall iteration efficiency by more than 80%, while the application layer supports full-solution access via API, MCP and Skill. There are currently no further developments.

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Baidu Search upgrades its AI API, with a minimum of 4.9 yuan per thousand calls, lower than DeepSeek

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  1. The Beijing News

    Baidu Search upgrades its AI API, with a minimum of 4.9 yuan per thousand calls, lower than DeepSeek

    At its product upgrade briefing on October 30, Baidu announced a fully upgraded Search AI API, with a promotional minimum price of 4.9 yuan per thousand calls, lower than the price of the DeepSeek search API. Baidu says the capability now covers more than 170 tool scenarios, with GUI scenario coverage on the search page increased 5-fold; it connects to over 5 billion resources and data from government affairs, livelihood services, the central bank and others, covers more than 20 industries and opens up its ecosystem. Its cost-effectiveness comes from an AI-native four-layer architecture: the engine layer self-evolves through multi-Agent collaboration, raising overall iteration efficiency by more than 80%, while the application layer supports full access via API, MCP and Skill.

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  3. TMTPost · AGI

    Baidu Search Achieves Recursive Self-Evolution, Baidu App Upgrades Four Major AI Features

    Baidu Search has achieved multi-Agent collaborative self-evolution through an online feedback loop of "retrieval—feedback—retraining," improving overall iteration efficiency by more than 80%. At the Baidu App product upgrade briefing on October 30, Baidu also upgraded its search AI API, priced as low as 4.9 yuan per thousand calls during the promotional period, lower than the DeepSeek search API; the API's content layer covers more than 80 languages and a high-quality index of hundreds of billions of entries, with data credibility improved by over 50%, and the Ernie Assistant saw a 20% performance improvement after integration.

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  5. QbitAI

    Baidu APP Releases Four Major AI Upgrades, Search AI API as Low as 4.9 Yuan per Thousand Calls

    At its product upgrade briefing on October 30, Baidu APP released four upgrades covering search, AI camera, GUI visualization, and AI interactive applications, and upgraded the Search AI API, with a minimum price of 4.9 yuan per thousand calls during the promotional period. Its search capabilities now cover more than 170 tool scenarios and can perform multi-step lookup and organization and deliver results. Baidu says its AI-native four-layer architecture drives recursive self-evolution of the model through a "retrieval—feedback—retraining" closed loop, improving overall iteration efficiency by more than 80%, and the application layer supports full-solution access via API, MCP, and Skill.

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  8. Sina Tech

    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.

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