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IT之家科技新闻· 2026-10-30 16:19 · Original publication time AI score53

Baidu announces promotional search AI API price and upgrades Wenxin Assistant and AI LensMachine translation

百度推出搜索 AI API 活动价，并升级文心助手与 AI 镜头

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Baidu announced a promotional minimum of 4.9 yuan per 1,000 calls for its search AI API, compared with DeepSeek's 5 yuan per 1,000 successful requests for its web search and fetch API. Wenxin Assistant can deliver results for complex tasks and track longer tasks with reminders, while AI Lens supports tracking multiple moving targets and real-time conversations in nine dialects. DeepSeek says Search / Fetch calls will be charged per use starting November 1, 2026.

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Thanks to IT Home reader 不一样的体验 for the tip!

IT Home reported on October 30 that Baidu held a product upgrade briefing in Beijing today, announcing upgrades in four areas: the search box, AI Lens, GUI visualization, and AI interactive applications. It also announced a promotional price for its Search AI API—as low as 4.9 yuan per 1,000 requests during the promotion, below the 5 yuan per 1,000 requests charged for DeepSeek's comparable product.

Baidu described the upgrade as “search achieving recursive self-evolution.” At the product level, Wenxin Assistant is shifting from “a single question and answer” to “a deliverable”: for complex questions and frequent tasks, it can directly produce finished work; for long-term tasks, it provides ongoing tracking and proactive reminders. It currently covers more than 170 scenarios.

Meanwhile, Baidu AI Lens has been upgraded from recognizing a “still frame” to tracking a “moving scene.” It supports simultaneous recognition and dynamic tracking of multiple targets and has added real-time conversation capabilities in 9 dialects, including Northeastern Chinese, Sichuanese, and Cantonese. The number of GUI interactive scenarios has increased 5-fold, with access to more than 5 billion data resources in areas including government services, public services, and the central bank. AI interactive dramas and interactive applications have also launched.

According to an earlier IT Home report, DeepSeek launched web search and fetch APIs on October 17. Billing is based on the number of requests, at a rate of 5 yuan per 1,000 successful requests.

DeepSeek said in an announcement that when users use the DeepSeek API in DeepSeek Harness / Claude Code / Codex, they already access the Search / Fetch interfaces through server-side tool calls. Calls to these Search / Fetch interfaces are currently free of charge, but will be charged per call starting at 00:00 Beijing time on November 1, 2026.