SiliconFlow Alternatives

Direct alternatives to SiliconFlow

SiliconFlow serves 200+ open-source LLM and multimodal models, including the DeepSeek, Qwen and Kimi families, through one OpenAI-compatible API (per its site, September 2026). Developers compare it with other providers for three reasons: another host for the same open models, going straight to the lab that trains the model, or keeping requests inside the EU. The list follows those three.

Same open models, another host

• Together AI: serverless open-weight models behind an OpenAI-compatible API, with DeepSeek, Qwen and Kimi models in its catalogue as of September 2026. Adds fine-tuning, dedicated endpoints and GPU clusters for when serverless stops fitting.
• DeepInfra: per-token serverless endpoints for open-weight models on its own US infrastructure, covering text, embeddings, image generation and speech. Moving over from another OpenAI-compatible provider means changing the base URL and key.
• Novita AI: model APIs for LLMs, image, video and audio alongside hourly GPU instances. Close in shape to SiliconFlow's mix of serverless inference and reserved GPUs.

Going direct to the model lab

• DeepSeek: first-party OpenAI-compatible API for DeepSeek's own models. Fits when DeepSeek is the only model family in use.
• Alibaba Cloud Model Studio: Qwen models from Alibaba itself, plus DeepSeek, Kimi and GLM, with OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints across six regions.

Keeping requests in the EU

• Scaleway: OpenAI-compatible APIs for open-source models, hosted in European data centres, with per-token pricing and a free tier.