Qianfan Models Cookbook

Example code and guides for basic tasks with LLMs Hosted by Qianfan Platform (https://console.bce.baidu.com/qianfan). You'll need a qianfan account and asscociated API key to accomplish all examples. We will provide example files, prompts within a cookbook. You can run all examples by setting the QIANFAN_TOKEN environment variable.

Note that this is a python code only repository.

News

2026.03.12: Qianfan-OCR: A Unified End-to-End Model for Document Intelligence is released! Qianfan-OCR (4B+300M parameters) is now available on Baidu AI Cloud Open source weights coming soon!

Qianfan-OCR is a unified end-to-end document intelligence model, designed to help enterprises achieve digital transformation and move towards intelligent automation. Key highlights:

• Top Performance End-to-End OCR Model on OmniDocBench v1.5 and OlmOCRBench.
• General OCR: Top model performance on OCRBench and OCRBench v2.
• Document Understanding: Strong performance in document QA and information extraction.
• Layout-as-Thought: For documents with complex layouts and non-standard reading orders, Qianfan-OCR can perform layout-analysis-level reasoning via a novel Layout-as-Thought mechanism, achieving superior recognition results.
• Multilingual OCR: Supports up to 192 languages with top performance on CC-OCR.

2025.09.22: The Qianfan-VL Vision-Language model series from Baidu AI Cloud is now open source!

• Multimodal Large Language Models:
  • Qianfan-VL-3B, Qianfan-VL-8B, Qianfan-VL-70B

Designed for enterprise applications, these multimodal models combine excellent general capabilities with advanced performance in OCR and education. For more information, please refer to github repo: https://github.com/baidubce/Qianfan-VL

2025.06.06: QianfanHuijin and QianfanHuijin-Reason series financial augmented models have been added to ModelBuilder (Link to apply for a trial​):

• Financial Knowledge Augmented Models:
  • QianfanHuijin-70B-32K, QianfanHuijin-8B-32K
• Financial Reasoning Augmented Models:
  • QianfanHuijin-Reason-70B-32K, QianfanHuijin-Reason-8B-32K

2025.04.25: Five new Qianfan series models have been added to ModelBuilder:

• Text Models:
  • Qianfan-8B，Qianfan-70B
• Distilled Reasoning Models:
  • DeepSeek-Distill-Qianfan-8B, DeepSeek-Distill-Qianfan-70B

All models feature a 32K context length. Please note that only model access is provided; open sourced model weights coming soon!