{"rid":"compute/siliconflow","card":{"rid":"compute/siliconflow","eid":"siliconflow","topic":"compute","slug":"siliconflow","provider":"SiliconFlow","url":"https://docs.siliconflow.com/en/faqs/billing-rules","domain":"siliconflow.com","category":"inference API","tier":null,"verdict":"fails-identity","vorder":4,"grp":"rejected","confidence":"documented","binding":"volume-quota","identity_kind":"country-phone","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":1,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":"CN","crypto":null,"interfaces":null,"egress_metered":null,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-22","stale_on":"2026-11-21","n_evidence":3,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"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 Token...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":10},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"siliconflow","provider":"SiliconFlow","url":"https://docs.siliconflow.com/en/faqs/billing-rules","category":"inference API","free_tier":{"stated":"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 CNY 16 voucher is issued after real-name verification and lasts 180 days, 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":"country-phone","detail":null,"country":"CN"},"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"}],"verdict":"fails-identity","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"CNY 14 / CNY 0.7 per million tokens = 20 million tokens on Qwen1.5-14B, which matches the vendor's own equivalence and confirms the arithmetic. The gate is the mainland phone number: registration on the Chinese site is by mobile number, and the real-name step that unlocks the second voucher is an identity check. Whether the CNY 14 lands on an international email account at cloud.siliconflow.com is not stated on the page read here, so the identity is recorded as a Chinese number and flagged. What would settle it: one signup on the international console without a mainland number, reading the balance.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"regional-credit","free_tier_kind":"one-time-credit","shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":null,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.identity_cost.detail","process"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}