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Free DeepSeek API, Black Friday 2026: 10M Tokens a Day for 7 Days

What 10M tokens a day is worth, what it can run, and who qualifies

Nov 10, 2026 4 min read

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Ten million tokens is enough to summarize about 238 fifty-page PDFs. For HiAPI's Black Friday, Nov 24 to Nov 30 (Pacific Time), any account that has topped up at least once gets that much DeepSeek V4.1 Flash for free, every day. Any top-up amount counts. No promo code, no waitlist.


Model	DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (`deepseek-v4.1-flash`)
Free allowance	10M tokens per account, per day (resets 00:00 PT)
Who qualifies	Accounts with at least one successful top-up, any amount
Rate limit	10 requests a minute, 2 at a time
Dates	Nov 24, 00:00 – Nov 30, 23:59 PT (7 days)
Endpoint	OpenAI-compatible, `https://api.hiapi.ai/v1`
Normal price	$0.44 / 1M input, $1.32 / 1M output

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Worth $4.40 to $13.20 a day at list price

At list price, a day's allowance is worth $4.40 if it's all input and $13.20 if it's all output. Over seven days, that's 70M tokens and between $30.80 and $92.40 of usage.

238 PDFs or 48 agent turns, every day

Token counts below are typical sizes we assumed for each job, so treat the counts as estimates. The arithmetic is exact.

Job	Tokens per run (in / out)	Runs per day in 10M	Cost at list price
Summarize a 50-page PDF	40K / 2K	about 238	$0.02 each
One coding-agent turn on a mid-size repo	200K / 8K	about 48	$0.10 each
Write one product description	300 / 200	about 20,000	$0.0004 each

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has a 1M-token context window, so a single request can hold a large codebase or a long report. A day's allowance is ten full context windows.

Unused tokens don't carry over to the next day. If you have a backfill, an eval set or a doc-processing queue waiting, line it up so it runs across the seven days rather than on day one.

Day one counts: unused tokens don't roll over

Get a key now, and top up once if you never have. Create a HiAPI API key. The free tokens only go to accounts with at least one successful top-up; any amount counts. New accounts also get 200 free credits to test image and video models before the event.
Point your code at HiAPI. Base URL https://api.hiapi.ai/v1, model deepseek-v4.1-flash. Anything that speaks the OpenAI API works: the OpenAI SDKs, LangChain, Codex CLI, curl. The V4.1 Flash API guide has working examples.
Switch on the free tokens on Nov 24. The event page publishes the exact setup (which request header to add) when the event opens. Requests that don't follow it are billed at the normal price, so check this step before you start a large job.

Step-by-step setup for Claude Code, Python and curl, which you can configure and test now: Free DeepSeek for coding.

Making images or video too? Two more offers

The free tokens run alongside two credit offers:

Top-up bonus: +5% / +8% / +10% on single top-ups of $50 / $100 / $300 or more, up to $50 per account.
Spend-back: 5% to 20% back on image, video and audio spend, up to $100, paid Dec 3.

Free DeepSeek tokens cost $0, so they don't count toward spend-back. Full breakdown: HiAPI Black Friday 2026.

FAQ

Is the DeepSeek API free outside this week? No. DeepSeek's own API and HiAPI both bill per token. The 10M-a-day allowance is a Black Friday offer for Nov 24–30.

Do I need to pay anything to use the free tokens? The tokens are free, but your account needs at least one successful top-up first. Any amount counts, and a top-up you made before the event counts too. Creating the account and API key is free.

Is it unlimited? No. It's capped at 10M tokens per account per day, at up to 10 requests a minute and 2 at a time. The allowance resets at 00:00 PT (16:00 Beijing).

Which DeepSeek models are included? Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Other models, including DeepSeek V4 Pro, are billed normally.

What happens when I hit 10M in a day? The event page will state this when the setup is published. Until then, assume requests beyond 10M are billed normally, and cap your job size.

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