Baidu

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.

Baidu publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and LLM.

Baidu’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, signup flow, authentication, and 8 more developer resources.

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18.8/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 6/100 agent aware Front door AI 3/6 light saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

2 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Company Technology Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning LLM Maps Geolocation Cloud China

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scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

Composite quality — 18.8/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 7.7 / 17

Access Clarity 2.2 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 6.4 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 6/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

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Standards implemented 1

Interfaces this provider implements that became standards by being copied rather than ratified. Each is profiled by the API Commons, and the evidence column says how the claim was established — not that it was made.

The OpenAI Interface

prose — states compatibility; nothing published to check it against

2 core of 338 operations graded · api-commons/models

APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Baidu AI Cloud Qianfan

OpenAI-compatible LLM / Model-as-a-Service API hosting the ERNIE family and select open models (DeepSeek, GLM, etc.) via chat completions and embeddings.

Baidu Maps Open Platform

LBS web-service API: geocoding, reverse geocoding, place/POI search, route planning, weather, IP location, and real-time traffic. Ships an official MCP server.

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Baidu MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Baidu Authentication

apiKey/http · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Baidu Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

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
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
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
tags_raw:
- Company
- Technology
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- LLM
- Maps
- Geolocation
- Cloud
- China
- Machine-Learning
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

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