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Baichuan4 API Pricing

Baichuan4 is the premium base 4-series row on Baichuan's official API pricing page. The live table lists $14.09/M unified, converted from 0.1 yuan per 1K tokens at 7.10 CNY/USD, with the same price billed for input and output. No separate cache-hit discount is listed. Pulled directly from platform.baichuan-ai.com daily.

Input - per 1M tokens
$14.09/M
Source Baichuan flat
Output - per 1M tokens
$14.09/M
Unified same as input flat
Cached input - no separate discount
$14.09/M
Cache not listed 0%
Effective - agentic blend
$14.09/M
92/8 split - no cache discount
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Run the numbers.

Live calculator pre-loaded with current Baichuan4 rates. Tweak spend or token volume, then share the URL to share the estimate.

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Real-world presets.

RESEARCH AGENT

Deep web research

$0.592/task
42,000 total tokens~169 tasks/$100
LONG DOC

Long report analysis

$2.54/doc
180,000 total tokens~39 docs/$100
EXECUTIVE

Board deck summary

$0.366/report
26,000 total tokens~273 reports/$100
CHATBOT

High-touch assistant

$0.052/turn
3,700 total tokens~1,920 turns/$100
§ 03 / TAPE

Price history.

Baichuan4 remains the expensive Baichuan flagship at $14.09/M unified across our verified live snapshots.

Input · $14/M
Output · $14/M
Cached · $14/M
MAY 18 First AI//COST verified snapshot stored the $14.09/M unified rateMAY 23 Live verification kept the same $14.09/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
Baichuan4 Current $14.09 cache $14.09 $14.09 $14.09 agentic 92/8 32K Premium Baichuan 4-series quality
Baichuan4 Turbo $2.11 cache $2.11 $2.11 $2.11 cheaper 32K Balanced Baichuan production traffic
Baichuan4 Air $0.14 cache $0.14 $0.14 $0.14 cheaper 32K Lowest-cost Baichuan API traffic
Baichuan-M3-Plus $0.70 cache $0.70 $1.27 $0.75 cheaper 32K Medical copilots with lower hallucination risk
Baichuan-M3 $1.41 cache $1.41 $4.22 $1.63 cheaper 32K Higher-depth medical reasoning
DeepSeek V4 Pro $0.43 cache $0.00 $0.87 $0.14 cheaper 1M Frontier discount tier
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 Baichuan4, especially where the flagship row is much more expensive than surrounding options.

Q · 01 What is Baichuan4 priced at? +
Baichuan's official pricing page lists Baichuan4 at about $14.09/M on a unified basis. That USD number comes from 0.1 yuan per 1K tokens converted at 7.10 CNY/USD.
Q · 02 Is Baichuan4 much more expensive than Baichuan4 Turbo? +
Yes. Baichuan4 Turbo is roughly $2.11/M unified while Baichuan4 is about $14.09/M. On raw token price alone, the flagship row is about 6.7x more expensive.
Q · 03 Does Baichuan4 have cache pricing? +
No separate cache-hit discount is listed for Baichuan4 on the official pricing page. AI//COST therefore sets cached input equal to the normal token rate rather than inventing another billing mode.
Q · 04 When does Baichuan4 make sense? +
Only when you want Baichuan's premium 4-series tier and are willing to pay flagship pricing. For routine production traffic, Baichuan4 Turbo, Baichuan4 Air, GLM-5, DeepSeek V4 Pro, or Gemini 2.5 Flash are dramatically cheaper.
Q · 05 Is there a public batch-discount table? +
No separate batch-discount table appears on Baichuan's public pricing page for Baichuan4. Until Baichuan publishes one, the quote board should be read as list pricing only.
Q · 06 How accurate is the tokenizer estimate? +
The browser widget uses a baichuan-tokenizer-estimate chars-per-token approximation for English. Actual billing comes from Baichuan's API token accounting and can differ for Chinese 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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