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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 6.7209 CNY/USD, with the same price billed for input and output. No separate cache-hit discount is listed. Checked by hand against platform.baichuan-ai.com.

Input - per 1M tokens
$14.88/M
Source Baichuan flat
Output - per 1M tokens
$14.88/M
Unified same as input flat
Cached input - no separate discount
$14.88/M
Cache not listed 0%
Effective - agentic blend
$14.88/M
92/8 split - no cache discount
§ 01 / TERMINAL

Baichuan4 API cost calculator.

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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§ 02 / SCENARIOS

Baichuan4 cost on real workloads.

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 / TOKENIZER

Baichuan4 token counter and cost.

What's a token →
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 498
Words 78
Tokens (estimated) 95 tokens
Cost as input · uncached $0.00141 USD
Cost as output · uncached $0.00141 USD
§ 04 / SHELF

Baichuan4 vs similar models.

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Model Input /M Output /M Effective blended Context Best for
Baichuan4 Current $14.88 $14.88 $14.88 agentic 92/8 32K Premium Baichuan 4-series quality
Baichuan4 Turbo $2.23 $2.23 $2.23 −6.7× 32K Balanced Baichuan production traffic
Baichuan4 Air $0.146 $0.146 $0.146 −102× 32K Lowest-cost Baichuan API traffic
Baichuan-M3-Plus $0.744 $1.34 $0.792 −19× 32K Medical copilots with lower hallucination risk
Baichuan-M3 $1.49 $4.46 $1.73 −8.6× 32K Higher-depth medical reasoning
DeepSeek V4 Pro $1.32 cache $0.044 $3.96 $0.569 −26× 1M Frontier discount tier
Gemini 3.8 Flash $0.75 cache $0.075 $3.75 $0.481 −31× · promo 1M Global multimodal workloads

Baichuan4 API pricing FAQ.

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 6.7209 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 3.8 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 · Prices checked by hand against platform.baichuan-ai.com · Last verified Oct 29, 2026
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