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Baichuan3-Turbo API Pricing

Baichuan3-Turbo is still listed as an active 32K row on Baichuan's public pricing page. The live table lists $1.69/M unified, converted from 0.012 yuan per 1K tokens at 7.10 CNY/USD, with the same price billed for input and output. No separate cache-hit discount is published. Pulled directly from platform.baichuan-ai.com daily.

Input - per 1M tokens
$1.69/M
Source Baichuan flat
Output - per 1M tokens
$1.69/M
Unified same as input flat
Cached input - no separate discount
$1.69/M
Cache not listed 0%
Effective - agentic blend
$1.69/M
92/8 split - no cache discount
§ 01 / TERMINAL

Run the numbers.

Live calculator pre-loaded with current Baichuan3-Turbo rates. Tweak spend or workload shape, then share the URL to share the estimate.

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§ 02 / SCENARIOS

Real-world presets.

CODING AGENT

Repo implementation

$0.042/task
25,000 total tokens~2,367 tasks/$100
RAG

Knowledge-base answer

$0.017/query
10,000 total tokens~5,917 queries/$100
CHATBOT

Customer conversation

$0.006/turn
3,700 total tokens~15,992 turns/$100
SUMMARY

Long report summary

$0.152/report
90,000 total tokens~657 reports/$100
§ 03 / TAPE

Price history.

Baichuan3-Turbo has held at $1.69/M unified across our verified live snapshots.

Input · $1.7/M
Output · $1.7/M
Cached · $1.7/M
MAY 18 First AI//COST verified snapshot stored the $1.69/M unified rateMAY 23 Live verification kept the same $1.69/M unified rate
§ 04 / TOKENIZER

Paste text. See tokens. See cost.

Estimate · baichuan-tokenizer-estimate · ≈3.85 chars/token Auto-counts as you type

This is a chars-per-token approximation, not a real tokenizer. Actual tokens vary by language, code density, and tool-call overhead — counts are typically ±10–20% off for English prose, more for code or non-Latin scripts. For exact billing, use the vendor's official tokenizer.

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§ 05 / SHELF

Up against the shelf.

All models →
Model Input /M Output /M Effective blended Context Best for
Baichuan3-Turbo Current $1.69 cache $1.69 $1.69 $1.69 agentic 92/8 32K Balanced legacy production traffic
Baichuan3-Turbo (128K) $3.38 cache $3.38 $3.38 $3.38 pricier 128K Long-context legacy workloads
Baichuan-M2-Plus $1.41 cache $1.41 $4.22 $1.63 slightly cheaper 32K Legacy medical copilots
Baichuan4 Turbo $2.11 cache $2.11 $2.11 $2.11 pricier 32K Balanced Baichuan production traffic
Baichuan4 Air $0.14 cache $0.14 $0.14 $0.14 cheaper 32K Lowest-cost Baichuan API traffic
GLM-5 $1.00 cache $0.20 $3.20 $0.57 cheaper 200K Chinese coding and agent tasks
Gemini 2.5 Flash $0.30 cache $0.03 $2.50 $0.27 cheaper 1M Global multimodal budget workloads

Frequently asked.

Practical pricing questions for Baichuan3-Turbo, separated from workload assumptions and migration paths.

Q · 01 What is Baichuan3-Turbo priced at? +
Baichuan's official pricing page lists Baichuan3-Turbo at about $1.69/M on a unified basis. That USD figure comes from 0.012 yuan per 1K tokens converted at 7.10 CNY/USD, and the same rate applies to both input and output.
Q · 02 Does Baichuan3-Turbo have prompt-cache pricing? +
No separate cache-hit discount is listed for Baichuan3-Turbo on the public pricing page. AI//COST therefore sets cached input equal to the normal token rate instead of inventing an unpublished discount.
Q · 03 How does it compare with Baichuan3-Turbo-128K? +
The 128K variant doubles the unified rate to about $3.38/M in exchange for a 4x larger context window. If you do not need the longer context, the 32K row is materially cheaper.
Q · 04 Is Baichuan3-Turbo cheaper than Baichuan4 Turbo? +
Yes. Baichuan3-Turbo is about $1.69/M unified, while Baichuan4 Turbo is about $2.11/M unified on the same official table.
Q · 05 Is there a separate batch discount? +
Baichuan's public pricing page does not list a separate batch-discount table for Baichuan3-Turbo. Until Baichuan publishes one, the quote board should be treated as standard list pricing.
Q · 06 How accurate is the tokenizer estimate? +
The browser widget uses a baichuan-tokenizer-estimate chars-per-token approximation for English text. Real billing comes from Baichuan's API usage counters and can differ for Chinese, code, or mixed-language prompts.
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Reviewed by Yaroslav Vikhariev Founder - AI//COST - Pricing pulled daily from platform.baichuan-ai.com - Last verified May 23, 2026
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