Baidu website screenshot

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.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Source on GitHub
22.6/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 21/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
AccessSelf serve
2 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyTechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningLLMMapsGeolocationCloudChina

Kin Score

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 22.6/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 10.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 2.6 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 21/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
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
Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. This rating is computed from github.com/api-evangelist/baidu: open an issue to ask a question, or submit a pull request to add artifacts. Want it done for you? Prioritized profiling — $2,500 →

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.yml

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)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
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
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