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China site (siliconflow.cn): CNY 14 of free platform credit for a new account, which the vendor equates to 20 million tokens on Qwen1.5-14B: '新用户注册即得 14 元免费额度 (相当于 2 千万 Qwen1.5-14B Tokens)' -- a new account receives CNY 14 of free allowance, equivalent to 20 million Qwen1.5-14B tokens. A second voucher follows real-name verification (amount and validity: unverified), and some small models carry a permanent free tag.","unit":"tokens","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://docs.siliconflow.com/en/faqs/billing-rules","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"one-time-credit"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://docs.siliconflow.com/en/faqs/billing-rules","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://docs.siliconflow.com/en/faqs/billing-rules","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"not stated","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://docs.siliconflow.com/en/faqs/billing-rules"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"the free-tagged models consume no credit, so the CNY 14 survives for paid models while a pipeline runs on the free tier; that composition is the only reason the grant stretches.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"the credit is small and leaves first: CNY 14 buys 20 million tokens on a 14B model, so one long-context job on a frontier model spends it, and the larger CNY 16 voucher sits behind a real-name identity check.","source":"https://docs.siliconflow.com/en/faqs/billing-rules"}],"limits_note":"the credit is small and leaves first: CNY 14 buys 20 million tokens on a 14B model, so one long-context job on a frontier model spends it, and the larger CNY 16 voucher sits behind a real-name identity check.","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"the credit is small and leaves first: CNY 14 buys 20 million tokens on a 14B model, so one long-context job on a frontier model spends it, and the larger CNY 16 voucher sits behind a real-name identity check.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"the international sign-in page (account.siliconflow.com) offers Continue with Google and Continue with GitHub, and an email login for accounts that previously used them; it shows no phone field, but its script carries a phone-binding form that is shown when the sign-in callback returns phone=none, and whether the international backend triggers it is unverified: behind a sign-up. The China site (siliconflow.cn) registers by mainland mobile number and its real-name step unlocks the second voucher","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://docs.siliconflow.com/en/faqs/billing-rules","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'新用户注册即得 14 元免费额度 (相当于 2 千万 Qwen1.5-14B Tokens)' and the rate row 'Qwen/Qwen1.5-14B-Chat | 32K | ¥0.7/1M tokens', quoted"},{"url":"https://siliconflow.cn/pricing","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the Chinese price list marks some inputs free: '输入 UTF-8 字节每千字符（UTF-8）免费' on the speech rows, quoted"},{"url":"https://www.siliconflowcn.com/faq.html","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'访问官网点击注册入口，输入手机号并填写邀请码...可获赠2000万Tokens（价值14元）' -- registration is by mobile number, reported"},{"url":"https://docs.siliconflow.com/en/faqs/billing-rules","date":"2026-11-03","proved":"the billing page states the CNY 14 allowance that the China site grants; the international credit is USD 1 on the sign-in page","capture":"sha256:62192f75bd8f80778a94a41d8504f5769a3b1d8e14fdd068ab7afbe65a23b0d4","quote":"新用户注册即得 14 元免费额度 (相当于 2 千万 Qwen1.5-14B Tokens)，[点此链接](https://cloud.siliconflow.com/models/text/chat)立即体验。"},{"url":"https://account.siliconflow.com/en/login","date":"2026-11-03","proved":"the international sign-in page offers Google and GitHub sign-in and an email login, and no phone field","capture":"sha256:3dd5fee6e4094151f4dc021064183ef07531c7f516dff696796df1be92705b0c","quote":"Previously used Google/GitHub? 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China site (siliconflow.cn): registration is by mainland mobile number, and the real-name step unlocks the second voucher. International site (siliconflow.com): sign-in is a Google or GitHub account with an email login for accounts that previously used them, and a new account is offered USD 1 of credit. New accounts start at tier L0, 1,000 RPM and 40,000 TPM; DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-V3 carry 30 requests per hour for all users and 100 requests per day for accounts without identity verification. 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