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Qianfan Provider Guide

Qianfan is Baidu’s MaaS platform, provides a unified API that routes requests to many models behind a single endpoint and API key. It is OpenAI-compatible, so most OpenAI SDKs work by switching the base URL.

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Prerequisites

  1. A Baidu Cloud account with Qianfan API access
  2. An API key from the Qianfan console
  3. Fased installed on your system

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Getting Your API Key

  1. Visit the Qianfan Console
  2. Create a new application or select an existing one
  3. Generate an API key (format: bce-v3/ALTAK-...)
  4. Copy the API key for use with Fased

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CLI setup

fased onboard --auth-choice qianfan-api-key
The normal setup surfaces now use the same Qianfan auth method:
  • Onboarding: Qianfan -> Qianfan API key
  • CLI: fased onboard --auth-choice qianfan-api-key
  • UI: Agent > Models -> Qianfan -> Qianfan API key
The first-run model list is curated from Qianfan’s current model table:
  • qianfan/ernie-5.1 default flagship
  • qianfan/ernie-5.0
  • qianfan/ernie-5.0-thinking-latest
  • qianfan/ernie-5.0-thinking-preview
  • qianfan/ernie-x1.1
  • qianfan/ernie-x1-turbo-32k
  • qianfan/deepseek-v4-pro
  • qianfan/deepseek-v4-flash
  • qianfan/deepseek-v3.2