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Baichuan-M3-Plus API Pricing

Baichuan-M3-Plus is Baichuan's lower-cost medical reasoning SKU. The official pricing page lists $0.70/M input and $1.27/M output, converted from 0.005/0.009 yuan per 1K tokens at 7.10 CNY/USD. Baichuan also notes an additional 0.03 yuan per-call medical-search charge for this model. Pulled directly from platform.baichuan-ai.com daily.

Input - per 1M tokens
$0.70/M
Source Baichuan flat
Output - per 1M tokens
$1.27/M
Medical tuned row flat
Cached input - no separate discount
$0.70/M
Cache not listed 0%
Effective - agentic blend
$0.75/M
92/8 split - no cache discount
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Run the numbers.

Live calculator pre-loaded with current Baichuan-M3-Plus token rates. Use it for baseline token math, then add Baichuan's per-call medical-search fee separately if your workflow triggers it.

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§ 02 / SCENARIOS

Real-world presets.

TRIAGE

Symptom intake

$0.008/case
9,000 in - 1,200 out~12,821 cases/$100
DISCHARGE

Discharge note draft

$0.012/note
12,000 in - 2,500 out~8,621 notes/$100
RESEARCH

Literature summary

$0.039/review
45,000 in - 6,000 out~2,545 reviews/$100
CARE PLAN

Care-plan draft

$0.017/plan
18,000 in - 3,000 out~6,061 plans/$100
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Price history.

Baichuan-M3-Plus has held at $0.70/M input and $1.27/M output across our verified live snapshots.

Input · $0.70/M
Output · $1.3/M
Cached · $0.70/M
MAY 18 First AI//COST verified snapshot stored $0.70/M input and $1.27/M outputMAY 23 Live verification kept $0.70/M input and $1.27/M output
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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
Baichuan-M3-Plus Current $0.70 cache $0.70 $1.27 $0.75 agentic 92/8 32K Medical copilots with lower hallucination risk
Baichuan-M3 $1.41 cache $1.41 $4.22 $1.63 pricier 32K Higher-depth medical reasoning
Baichuan4 Air $0.14 cache $0.14 $0.14 $0.14 cheaper 32K Lowest-cost Baichuan API traffic
Baichuan4 Turbo $2.11 cache $2.11 $2.11 $2.11 pricier 32K Balanced Baichuan production traffic
Baichuan4 $14.09 cache $14.09 $14.09 $14.09 pricier 32K Premium Baichuan 4-series quality
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 Baichuan-M3-Plus, especially around its medical-search billing wrinkle.

Q · 01 What is Baichuan-M3-Plus priced at? +
Baichuan's official pricing page lists Baichuan-M3-Plus at about $0.70/M input and $1.27/M output. Those USD figures come from 0.005/0.009 yuan per 1K tokens converted at 7.10 CNY/USD.
Q · 02 What is the medical-search surcharge? +
Baichuan notes that Baichuan-M3-Plus can automatically trigger a medical-search service billed separately at 0.03 yuan per call. At 7.10 CNY/USD, that is roughly $0.0042 per triggered call and sits outside the token quote board.
Q · 03 Does Baichuan-M3-Plus have prompt-cache pricing? +
No separate cache-hit discount is listed for Baichuan-M3-Plus on the public pricing page. AI//COST therefore treats cached input as the same rate as normal input instead of inventing another price tier.
Q · 04 How does it compare with Baichuan-M3? +
Baichuan-M3 is the pricier sibling at about $1.41/M input and $4.23/M output. On the standard 92/8 blend, Baichuan-M3-Plus comes out around $0.75/M versus roughly $1.63/M for Baichuan-M3.
Q · 05 Is this a good fit for non-medical workloads? +
Usually not as a first choice. If you do not need Baichuan's medical positioning, Baichuan4 Air and Baichuan4 Turbo are simpler general-purpose rows on the same pricing page.
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 May 23, 2026
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