AI Black Friday 2026: $650 API Credit for $500 + Free DeepSeek

Top up $500 at HiAPI between Nov 24 and Nov 30 (PT), spend it on images or video that week, and you end up with $650. Every clip and every image costs about 23% less. On top of that, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is free up to 10M tokens a day. Nothing to claim, no code to enter:

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Why $500 turns into $650

Top up $500 in one payment and you get $50 bonus credit on the spot. Spend that $500 on image, video or audio models before Nov 30 and you get $100 back on December 3. That's $650 of generation for $500 — the "up to 30%" on the banner.

It works out to every image and video costing about 23% less than list price. A few examples at that rate:

We made a 5-second Seedance 2.5 clip at 720p for this event (see it here). At $0.204 a second it's $1.02 at list price, or about $0.78 at the Black Friday rate.

Smaller budgets earn less, because both offers are tiered:

The "back" column assumes you spend the amount you topped up on image, video or audio during the event. Text model spend doesn't count toward spend-back. Budget-by-budget breakdowns: How much should you top up?

Free DeepSeek for 7 days: up to $92 of tokens

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash lists at $0.44 per million input tokens and $1.32 per million output tokens. For seven days, any account that has topped up at least once (any amount) gets 10M of those tokens free every day, reset at 00:00 PT.

What a day's allowance is worth at list price: $4.40 if it's all input, $13.20 if it's all output. Over the full week that's $30.80 to $92.40 of tokens.

The model has a 1M-token context window, so a day's allowance is ten full context windows: room for a coding agent, a long-document Q&A tool, or a backlog of summarize-and-extract jobs. Unused tokens don't roll over, so plan the jobs you want to run before the 24th. Details: Free DeepSeek API for Black Friday.

How to switch it on (endpoint and request header) is posted on the event page on Nov 24.

Two rules that decide how much extra you get

Top-up bonus is decided per payment. One $300 payment gets $30; three $100 payments get $8 each, $24 in all. A single top-up of $500 already reaches the $50 cap, so there's no extra bonus for topping up more than that. The bonus is added instantly.

Spend-back is decided by your total image, video and audio spend across the whole week, and the tier applies to the full amount. $260 of spend gets 10%, $26. $310 gets 15%, $46.50. It's paid on December 3, capped at $100.

Two things that don't stack: a new account's first-top-up reward and the Black Friday bonus (you get whichever is higher), and enterprise accounts are excluded.

Three things to do before Nov 24

1. Create an API key now. New accounts get 200 free credits to test models before spending anything. Free DeepSeek needs at least one successful top-up on the account; if you've never topped up, any amount unlocks it.
2. Pick the jobs you'll run in that week. Spend-back only counts what's spent inside the window.
3. Decide your top-up amount and make it one payment.

FAQ

Is there a promo code? No. Everything is applied automatically during the window.

Does Cyber Monday have a separate deal? No, it's the same event. Cyber Monday, Nov 30, is the last day.

Can I spend the bonus and spend-back credit on text models? Yes. Once it's in your balance, it works on every model on HiAPI.

When exactly does it end? Nov 30, 23:59 PT, which is Dec 1, 15:59 in Beijing.

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