SiliconFlow free tier includes Pay-as-you-go model inference… Not verified — our last read, on 2026-09-16, found the page did not mention this offer, which is not evidence it ended. Compare with 25 alternatives in AI / ML.
Subtypes in AI / ML: llm_api — the vendor runs language or multimodal models on its own infrastructure and sells calls to them by model name; you send a prompt and receive a completion. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://siliconflow.cn, where it says: “硅基流动（SiliconFlow）专注于提供高效能、低成本的多品类 AI 模型服务” How we use this.
SiliconFlow's free tier offers Pay-as-you-go model inference… When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-16, we found the page did not mention this offer, which is not evidence it ended, so we cannot confirm these terms and are not rating this offer today.
Pay-as-you-go model inference. siliconflow.cn, run by a Beijing company, lists these models at no charge: the chat models Qwen3-8B, Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct (Free), Qwen3.5-4B, GLM-4-9B-0414, GLM-Z1-9B-0414, DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B (Free) and Xing4.0-29B; the translation model Hunyuan-MT-7B; the OCR models PaddleOCR-VL-1.5 and DeepSeek-OCR; the embedding models bge-m3, bge-large-zh-v1.5 and bge-large-en-v1.5; the reranker bge-reranker-v2-m3; Kolors image generation; and six speech recognition models. The Pro versions are paid: Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct (Pro), bge-m3 (Pro) and bge-reranker-v2-m3 (Pro). All other models are paid too, including DeepSeek-V4-Flash, DeepSeek-V4-Pro and GLM-5.3. Using all the free models requires real-name verification, and online personal verification accepts only Chinese-issued documents, such as a resident ID card or a Foreign Permanent Resident ID Card. The international site, siliconflow.com, is run by SiliconFlow Labs Pte. Ltd. under Singapore law, is not offered in mainland China, and gives $1 in free credits to start. Its paid rates per million input/output tokens: gpt-oss-120b $0.05/$0.45; DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash $0.15/$0.60.
No recorded pricing changes for SiliconFlow — but when we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-16, we found the page did not mention this offer, which is not evidence it ended, so we cannot tell you that nothing changed. Treat the empty history as a statement about our records, not about this vendor's pricing.
How SiliconFlow compares against every one of the 25 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.
| Service | Free Tier | Stability |
|---|---|---|
| SiliconFlow | Free | unrated |
| Hugging Face | Free | unrated |
| Keywords AI | Free | stable |
| Lumenfall.ai | Free | stable |
| Cohere | Free | stable |
| Mistral AI | Free | caution |
| Ollama Cloud | Free | caution |
| Cloudflare Workers AI | Free | caution |
| Google Gemini API | Free (Reduced) | stable |
| Portkey | Free | unrated |
| OpenRouter | Free | stable |
| Maxim AI | Free | stable |
| Zhipu AI | Free | source unconfirmed |
| NVIDIA NIM | Free | source unconfirmed |
| LLM7.io | Free | source unconfirmed |
| Groq | Free | caution |
| Cerebras | Trial | unrated |
| Baseten | Basic (Free Credits) | unrated |
| Fireworks AI | Free Credits | stable |
| MiniMax | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| DeepSeek API | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| xAI | Pay-as-you-go | source unconfirmed |
| Anthropic API | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| Together AI | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| GitHub Models | Retired | source unconfirmed |
| OpenAI | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
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