SiliconFlow
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China's fastest open-source inference. 14M tokens free.
LLMest. 2023 · Beijing, China
87
/ 100 APIVault Score
// At a glance
Free Tier
14M tokens free · no card
Category
LLM
Credit Card
Not required
Last Verified
2m ago
// Free tier details
Available Models
Qwen2.5 72BDeepSeek-V3GLM-4Llama 3.3 70B
Monthly Tokens
14M tokens on signup
No credit card needed
Phone verification required
// Quick start
300">"text-purple-400">from openai 300">"text-purple-400">import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=300">"YOUR_SILICONFLOW_KEY",
base_url=300">"https://api.siliconflow.cn/v1",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model=300">"Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct",
messages=[{300">"role": 300">"user", 300">"content": 300">"Hello."}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)// Overview
SiliconFlow (硅基流动) is the leading Chinese inference platform serving Qwen, DeepSeek, and international models. New accounts receive 14M free tokens — one of the most generous free tiers in China.
// Pros
- 14M free tokens is very generous
- Access to top Chinese + international models
- OpenAI-compatible
// Cons
- Phone verification required
- Chinese-language docs primarily
- May require VPN outside China
// Score breakdown
Reliability (35%) (from 2m ago health check)100/100
Free Tier Generosity (30%) (computed from quota, no-CC, no-phone fields)75/100
Documentation (20%) (human rating)82/100
Popularity (15%) (GitHub stars (log-normalised), or manual baseline)84/100
Methodology: apivault.dev/methodology
// Best for
Chinese language AIQwen model accessCost-effective inference in Asia
// Recent changes
May 1, 2026Increased free signup tokens to 14Mfree tier changed