Analysis Summary
Qianfan-OCR-Fast is a specialised Baidu model for extracting text from images, with a 65K context window and text plus image input. Its narrow positioning is useful for scanned documents, screenshots, forms, receipts, and other visual assets that need to enter a digital content workflow.
For agency operations, it can support OCR preprocessing, archive conversion, image-based content audits, and document intake before another model performs analysis or drafting. It should not be treated as a general reasoning, coding, or client-copy model. No benchmark data is supplied for this variant, so extraction accuracy and robustness across difficult layouts require direct testing.
The listed pricing is reasonable for a specialist utility. Adopt it as a preprocessing component where visual text capture is the main requirement, rather than as a standalone assistant.
Assessed September 7, 2026
Editorial notes
Qianfan-OCR-Fast is a focused vision model with 65K context and text-image input, suited to document extraction, but it has no benchmark data for broader reasoning or workflow reliability.
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DFO Verdict
Qianfan-OCR-Fast is a focused vision model with 65K context and text-image input, suited to document extraction, but it has no benchmark data for broader reasoning or workflow reliability.
How Baidu: Qianfan-OCR-Fast compares
Its 66K-token context window is larger than 27% of the models we list. At $0.68 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 33% of comparable models.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Strongest on value. The pulled-in technical corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.
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| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.68 | $0.000680 |
| Output | $2.81 | $0.002810 |
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Talk to our teamAbout Baidu: Qianfan-OCR-Fast
Qianfan-OCR-Fast is a domain-specific multimodal large model purpose-built for OCR. By leveraging specialized OCR training data while preserving versatile multimodal intelligence, it provides a powerful performance upgrade over Qianfan-OCR.
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Frequently asked questions about Baidu: Qianfan-OCR-Fast
How much does Baidu: Qianfan-OCR-Fast cost?
Baidu: Qianfan-OCR-Fast costs $0.68 per million input tokens and $2.81 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Baidu: Qianfan-OCR-Fast?
Baidu: Qianfan-OCR-Fast has a context window of 65,536 tokens (66K).
What can Baidu: Qianfan-OCR-Fast do?
Baidu: Qianfan-OCR-Fast supports image/vision input.
Who created Baidu: Qianfan-OCR-Fast?
Baidu: Qianfan-OCR-Fast is developed by Baidu and was released on April 20, 2026.
Data sourced from the OpenRouter API, Artificial Analysis, the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard and our own internal testing. Scores are editorially curated by our team.
Last updated: September 18, 2026 8:38 pm