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Baichuan-M2 API Pricing

Baichuan-M2 is the cheaper split-pricing row in Baichuan's current M-series lineup. The official pricing page lists $0.282/M input and $2.817/M output, converted from 0.002/0.02 yuan per 1K tokens at 7.10 CNY/USD. No separate cache-hit discount is published. Pulled directly from platform.baichuan-ai.com daily.

Input - per 1M tokens
$0.28/M
Source Baichuan cheap input
Output - per 1M tokens
$2.82/M
Completion heavy output tier 10x input
Cached input - no separate discount
$0.28/M
Cache not listed 0%
Effective - agentic blend
$0.48/M
92/8 split - no cache discount
§ 01 / TERMINAL

Run the numbers.

Live calculator pre-loaded with current Baichuan-M2 rates. Tweak spend or workload shape, then share the URL to share the estimate.

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§ 02 / SCENARIOS

Real-world presets.

CHATBOT

Support turn

$0.006/turn
10,000 in - 1,000 out~17,740 turns/$100
CLASSIFICATION

Ticket tagging

$0.011/batch
20,000 in - 2,000 out~8,870 batches/$100
EXTRACTION

Document extraction

$0.022/doc
40,000 in - 4,000 out~4,434 docs/$100
FAQ

FAQ rewrite

$0.009/rewrite
15,000 in - 1,500 out~11,827 rewrites/$100
§ 03 / TOKENIZER

Paste text. See tokens. See cost.

Calibrated · measured on the vendor's tokenizer · 2026-06-10 Auto-counts as you type

Counts use a chars-per-token calibration measured on the vendor's own published tokenizer (baichuan-inc/Baichuan-M2-32B, 2026-06-10). English prose is typically within a few percent; code and non-Latin scripts tokenize heavier. For billing-exact counts use the vendor's count-tokens API.

Characters 471
Words 72
Tokens (estimated) 90 tokens
Cost as input · uncached $0.000025 USD
Cost as output · uncached $0.000254 USD
Cost as cached input $0.000025 USD
§ 04 / SHELF

Up against the shelf.

All models →
Model Input /M Output /M Effective blended Context Best for
Baichuan-M2 Current $0.28 cache $0.28 $2.82 $0.48 agentic 92/8 32K Budget Chinese text workloads
Baichuan-M2-Plus $1.41 cache $1.41 $4.22 $1.63 pricier 32K Legacy medical copilots
Baichuan3-Turbo $1.69 cache $1.69 $1.69 $1.69 pricier 32K Balanced legacy 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 slightly pricier 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
DeepSeek V4 Pro $0.43 cache $0.00 $0.87 $0.14 cheaper 1M Frontier discount tier

Frequently asked.

Practical pricing questions for Baichuan-M2, especially where its low input price can hide a much higher output side.

Q · 01 What is Baichuan-M2 priced at? +
Baichuan's official pricing page lists Baichuan-M2 at about $0.282/M input and $2.817/M output. Those USD figures come from 0.002/0.02 yuan per 1K tokens converted at 7.10 CNY/USD.
Q · 02 Why does the output side look so expensive? +
Baichuan-M2 uses a 10x spread between input and output on the public table. That keeps prompt-heavy workloads cheap, but any completion-heavy use case can end up much less economical than the headline input number suggests.
Q · 03 Does Baichuan-M2 have prompt-cache pricing? +
No separate cache-hit discount is listed for Baichuan-M2 on the public pricing page. AI//COST therefore treats cached input as the same rate as normal input instead of inventing an unpublished discount.
Q · 04 How does it compare with Baichuan-M2-Plus? +
Baichuan-M2-Plus is much pricier at about $1.41/M input and $4.23/M output. On the standard 92/8 blend, Baichuan-M2 lands around $0.48/M versus about $1.63/M for M2-Plus.
Q · 05 Is it cheaper than Gemini 2.5 Flash on effective cost? +
Not always. Baichuan-M2 is cheaper on input but more expensive on output, while Gemini 2.5 Flash carries $0.30/M input, $0.03/M cached input, and $2.50/M output. Under the standard 92/8 plus 82% cache assumption, Gemini 2.5 Flash still comes out lower on effective blended cost.
Q · 06 How accurate is the tokenizer estimate? +
The browser widget uses a baichuan-tokenizer-estimate chars-per-token approximation for English planning. 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 July 11, 2026
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