# Baidu

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/baidu/  
**Website:** https://www.baidu.com  
**APIs profiled:** 2

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.

## Kin Score — 19.6 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 19.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 45.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 13.2 |
| Access Clarity | 13.2 |

## Agent readiness — 12.6 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (2)

- **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)

- **Baidu MCP Server**

## Security (2)

- **Baidu Authentication** — apiKey/http · 3 schemes
- **Baidu Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine-Learning, LLM, Maps, Geolocation, Cloud, China

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/baidu/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.