In this paper, we consider the homogenization of stationary and evolutionary incompressible viscous non-Newtonian flows of Carreau–Yasuda type in domains perforated with a large number of periodically distributed small holes in \(\mathbb {R}^{3}\) , where the mutual distance between the holes is measured by a small parameter \(\varepsilon >0\) and the size of the holes is \(\varepsilon ^{\alpha }\) with \(\alpha \in (1, 3)\) . The Darcy’s law is recovered in the limit, thus generalizing the results from Bourgeat and Mikelić (Nonlinear Anal Theory Methods 26(7):1221–1253, 1996. https://doi.org/10.1016/0362-546X(94)00285-P) and Lu and Qian (J Differ Equ 411: 619–639, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jde.2024.08.021) for \(\alpha =1\) . Instead of using their restriction operator to derive the estimates of the pressure extension by duality, we use the Bogovskiĭ type operator in perforated domains [constructed in Diening et al. (ESAIM Control Optim Calc Var 23:851–868, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2016016)] to deduce the uniform estimates of the pressure directly. Moreover, quantitative convergence rates are given.