GoldBean wraps 67 Baidu AI endpoints into one REST API with pay-per-call pricing. No Baidu account or Chinese phone number needed. Includes: LLM Chat (ERNIE-4.5, DeepSeek-R1, Qwen3), OCR (19 endpoints), Image Recognition (7), Image Gen & Edit, Video Gen, NLP (9), Speech (ASR+TTS), Translation (10 pairs), Bio-compute (HelixFold). Pay via x402/USDC, PayPal, or Alipay. Free tier: 5 calls/day. Membership: $20/mo, $60/qtr, $200/yr.
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As a developer in China working with international clients, I noticed a recurring problem: developers worldwide wanted to use Baidu's AI models (ERNIE-4.5 is genuinely competitive with GPT-4), but the onboarding was brutal — Chinese phone verification, Chinese payment methods, Chinese-only documentation.
So I built GoldBean: a thin API layer that handles authentication, payment, and routing. Developers get a single API key, standard REST endpoints, and pay-per-call pricing via crypto (x402/USDC), PayPal, or Alipay.
The biggest challenge was building the payment infrastructure — supporting both crypto micropayments (x402 protocol) and traditional payments (PayPal/Alipay) while keeping the API simple enough that you can test it with a single curl command.
Started as a side project, now has 67 endpoints covering LLMs, OCR, image recognition, NLP, speech, translation, and even protein folding.
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UPDATE: GoldBean v10.0 is live! 🚀
What's new: - 7 Chinese LLMs via one OpenAI-compatible API (DeepSeek, Kimi, Doubao, Qwen, Hunyuan, ERNIE, GLM) - LLM Playground: compare all 7 models side-by-side with one prompt - 2000 free API calls/day per IP, no signup required - Pricing from $0.01 per call, no subscription - Quick Start: get your API key in 2 minutes
What's new: - 7 Chinese LLMs via one OpenAI-compatible API (DeepSeek, Kimi, Doubao, Qwen, Hunyuan, ERNIE, GLM) - LLM Playground: compare all 7 models side-by-side with one prompt - 2000 free API calls/day per IP, no signup required - Pricing from $0.01 per call, no subscription - Quick Start: get your API key in 2 minutes
UPDATE: GoldBean v10.0 is live! 🚀
What's new:
- 7 Chinese LLMs via one OpenAI-compatible API (DeepSeek, Kimi, Doubao, Qwen, Hunyuan, ERNIE, GLM)
- LLM Playground: compare all 7 models side-by-side with one prompt
- 2000 free API calls/day per IP, no signup required
- Pricing from $0.01 per call, no subscription
- Quick Start: get your API key in 2 minutes
Try it now: https://goldbean-api.xyz
UPDATE: GoldBean v10.0 is live! 🚀
What's new:
- 7 Chinese LLMs via one OpenAI-compatible API (DeepSeek, Kimi, Doubao, Qwen, Hunyuan, ERNIE, GLM)
- LLM Playground: compare all 7 models side-by-side with one prompt
- 2000 free API calls/day per IP, no signup required
- Pricing from $0.01 per call, no subscription
- Quick Start: get your API key in 2 minutes
Try it now: https://goldbean-api.xyz