Baidu Qianfan AppBuilder (千帆 AppBuilder)
Canonical page on the main site: sinoaihub.com/agents/baidu-appbuilder
Type
agent
Key facts
- Company: Baidu
- Type: platform
- Capabilities: tool calling, MCP, memory, planning
- Open source: no (proprietary)
- Pricing: Not publicly documented (billing page + Qianfan Token Plan).
Company
Description
Baidu's agent development platform (百度千帆·Agent开发平台 / AppBuilder): an enterprise-grade large-model application development and management platform built on Baidu's ERNIE (文心) foundation models. Ships an out-of-the-box toolchain of RAG, Agent, workflow and UI Builder, pre-built Baidu AI Search and iRAG components, plus document/image understanding and speech recognition; supports zero-code, low-code and full-code development, with OpenAPI and SDK.
Agent Type
platform
Tool Calling
Yes
Mcp
Yes
Memory
Yes
Planning
Yes
Api
Yes
Pricing
Not publicly documented (billing published via a 计费说明 page; a 'Qianfan Token Plan' personal edition launched with first-purchase discounts; model usage billed through Baidu AI Cloud).
Deployment
cloud
Open Source
No
License
proprietary
Documentation
https://cloud.baidu.com/doc/AppBuilder/index.html
Use Cases
- Enterprise AI-native application development
- RAG document and table Q&A applications
- Agent applications with reasoning and tool use
- Zero-code application prototyping and low-code delivery
- AI search and image-generation components
Limitations
- Underlying ERNIE model version behind agents is not stated on the platform overview
- Pricing is split across a billing page and the Qianfan console rather than a single public price list
- Cloud-only platform; no self-hosted edition of the platform itself
- Zero-code / low-code focus means full-code developers must use the OpenAPI/SDK layer
Verification Status
verified
Last Verified
2026-09-30
Source history
No documented source-change events located as of 2026-09-30.
Sources
| evidence_id | source_name | source_url | source_type | published | verified | confidence | conflict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| src-agents-baidu-appbuilder-1 | Baidu Qianfan AppBuilder documentation | https://cloud.baidu.com/doc/AppBuilder/index.html | Official documentation | — | 2026-09-30 | high | — |
| src-agents-baidu-appbuilder-2 | Baidu Qianfan model service and agent development platform | https://cloud.baidu.com/doc/WENXINWORKSHOP/s/7ltgucw50 | Official documentation | — | 2026-09-30 | high | — |
| src-agents-baidu-appbuilder-3 | Baidu ERNIE (文心) model product page | https://cloud.baidu.com/product/model.html | Official | — | 2026-09-30 | high | — |
| src-agents-baidu-appbuilder-4 | Baidu Qianfan AI application developer center pricing | https://cloud.baidu.com/doc/qianfan-docs/s/Jm8r1826a | Official documentation | — | 2026-09-30 | high | — |