MEDICAL REASONING32K CONTEXTTEXT ONLYSPLIT IO PRICINGOPEN SOURCE MODEL
Baichuan-M3 API Pricing
Baichuan-M3 is Baichuan's higher-depth medical reasoning row on the public pricing page. The live table lists $1.41/M input and $4.23/M output, converted from 0.01/0.03 yuan per 1K tokens at 7.10 CNY/USD. No separate cache-hit discount is listed. Pulled directly from platform.baichuan-ai.com daily.
Input - per 1M tokens
$1.41/M
Source Baichuan flat
Output - per 1M tokens
$4.23/M
Medical tuned row flat
Cached input - no separate discount
$1.41/M
Cache not listed 0%
Effective - agentic blend
$1.63/M
92/8 split - no cache discount
§ 01 / TERMINAL
Run the numbers.
Live calculator pre-loaded with current Baichuan-M3 token rates. Tweak spend or workload shape, then share the URL to share the estimate.
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§ 02 / SCENARIOS
Real-world presets.
SECOND OPINION
Clinical review
$0.019/case
CASE SYNTHESIS
Case synthesis
$0.050/case
CARE PATHWAY
Treatment reasoning
$0.080/plan
GUIDELINES
Guideline comparison
$0.035/review
§ 03 / TAPE
Price history.
Input · $1.4/M
Output · $4.2/M
Cached · $1.4/M
MAY 18 First AI//COST verified snapshot stored $1.41/M input and $4.23/M outputMAY 23 Live verification kept $1.41/M input and $4.23/M output
§ 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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| Model | Input /M | Output /M | Effective blended | Context | Best for |
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| Baichuan-M3 Current | $1.41 cache $1.41 | $4.22 | $1.63 agentic 92/8 | 32K | Higher-depth medical reasoning |
| Baichuan-M3-Plus | $0.70 cache $0.70 | $1.27 | $0.75 cheaper | 32K | Medical copilots with lower hallucination risk |
| 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, separated from calculator assumptions and model-quality claims.
Q · 01 What is Baichuan-M3 priced at? +
Baichuan's official pricing page lists Baichuan-M3 at about
$1.41/M input and $4.23/M output. Those USD figures come from 0.01/0.03 yuan per 1K tokens converted at 7.10 CNY/USD.Q · 02 Does Baichuan-M3 have prompt-cache pricing? +
No separate cache-hit discount is listed for Baichuan-M3 on the public pricing page. AI//COST therefore treats cached input as the same rate as normal input instead of inventing another discount.
Q · 03 How does Baichuan-M3 compare with Baichuan-M3-Plus? +
Baichuan-M3-Plus is the cheaper sibling at about
$0.70/M input and $1.27/M output. On the standard 92/8 blend, Baichuan-M3 lands around $1.63/M versus $0.75/M for Baichuan-M3-Plus.Q · 04 Is Baichuan-M3 cheaper than Baichuan4? +
Yes by a wide margin. Baichuan4 is about
$14.09/M unified on the same public pricing page, while Baichuan-M3 is about $1.41/M input and $4.23/M output.Q · 05 Is there a separate batch-discount row? +
Baichuan's public pricing page does not list a separate batch-discount table for Baichuan-M3. Until the vendor documents 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 planning. Real billing comes from Baichuan's API usage counters and can differ for Chinese, code, or mixed-language prompts.