Our take
Baidu is a host for third-party models rather than a model maker, and the price table is the whole decision here. It states it does not train on your prompts, but nothing about its quality, compliance posture or data residency is verified in our data.
Use it when you want DeepSeek or Z.ai GLM models and are comparing what this host charges against other hosts of the same models, or when a stated no-training commitment is the thing you need. Skip it if you need a verified security attestation or a confirmed European endpoint, if you need measured quality data before committing, or if you want a single unambiguous rate for a model.
- It states it does not train on your prompts, which removes one common objection to sending proprietary text through a hosted offer.
- Its cheapest rows are competitive for the models it carries: DeepSeek V3.2 is the lowest rate among its own nine offers, well under the DeepSeek V4 Pro row on the same two measures.
- No benchmark result is recorded for any of its nine offers, so how well the models perform is something you would have to judge on your own work.
- Headquarters country, European endpoint, an independent security attestation and zero-retention handling are all unverified in our data, so a regulated workload cannot be cleared from this page.
- Z.ai GLM 5.2 appears twice at different rates, so which row you pick changes what you pay and the facts give no reason for the difference.
Point your tools here
We have not recorded what a router needs for Baidu yet — no base URL and no docs link on file. That is our gap, not a sign Baidu has no API; its own documentation is the place to look until we close it.
Privacy & data handling
These answers cover requests sent to Baidu through OpenRouter, as OpenRouter records them, last read 58 min ago. For Baidu's own API we hold no answer: check its terms. SOC 2 and the data processing agreement below are hand-checked, not part of that sync.