Tired of DeepSeek's signup rejecting your phone or card? AiCreditsAPI lets international devs buy DeepSeek credits in 2 minutes. No SMS, no Chinese payments. Pay with card or PayPal, get your key instantly. Built by an indie dev, starting at $1.0.
š Hey Product Hunt!
I'm a solo dev based in Singapore, and I built AiCredits because I was tired of wrestling with AI API payment pages at 1 AM.
**The frustration that started it:**
DeepSeek's API is ridiculously cheap ($0.28/M tokens). But if you're in Southeast Asia, Africa, or South America, the payment experience can be a crapshoot. You might log in and see:
1. **"Credit/Debit Card" option** ā But it rejects your perfectly valid international card.
2. **"PayPal"** ā Suddenly the only fallback, but maybe it's unsupported in your country or demands extra verification.
3. **"Alipay / WeChat Pay"** ā Great if you have them, but these are often **region-locked** and don't even appear on the billing page for many international users.
I just wanted to spend **$0.99 to test a prompt**. I didn't want a $5 minimum, a monthly subscription, or a KYC marathon.
**So I duct-taped together a solution:**
A unified API gateway where you top up with **any credit card** (via Paddle) and get one key that works across multiple models.
**What's under the hood:**
- š³ **Pay with what you have** ā International credit cards just work.
- š **One key, multiple models** ā GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek.
- ā” **OpenAI-compatible** ā Change `base_url` and keep your existing code.
- š **Hosted in Singapore** ā Low latency for APAC devs.
- š° **Starts at $0.99** ā No subscription, no KYC, prepaid credits only.
**The honest trade-off:**
You pay a markup compared to using official APIs directly. This isn't a cost-saving hack for high-volume production. It's a **convenience layer** for testing, prototyping, and side projects when official payment is a brick wall.
**Why I'm posting here:**
I've been running this for a few weeks. Latency is stable. A handful of devs are using it daily. But I'm a team of one, and I'd love feedback from this community on what would make it actually useful for _your_ workflow.
If you've ever rage-quit an AI API signup because of payment friction, an upvote would make my week. And if you think this is a terrible idea, I'd genuinely love to hear why in the comments ā I can take it. ā
ā A tired dev who just wanted to test a prompt
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