How to use the Claude & DeepSeek APIs from Indonesia — pay in Rupiah via QRIS (no credit card)

Disclosure: This is the Nexotao team — I'm describing our own gateway below. I've kept it to facts you can verify yourself: every model name, context window, and price here is on our live pricing page, and I link it. If you're an Indonesian developer, you've probably hit this wall: the OpenAI and Anthropic APIs want a foreign credit card . No card, no API. A lot of us get stuck right there. The fix that works today: a local gateway that takes QRIS / Rupiah . Here's the honest version of how it works, what it costs, and what it doesn't do. Two live models, one compatible API Through Nexotao you call two text models: Claude Opus 4.8 ( claude-opus-4-8 ) — context window 350,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro — context window 131,072 tokens Those are the real, published context windows — no silent truncation. The endpoint is OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible , so you usually just change the base URL and key. OpenAI format: from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI ( base_url = " https://api.nexotao.com/v1 " , api_key = " sk-nexo-... " ) resp = client . chat . completions . create ( model = " claude-opus-4-8 " , messages = [{ " role " : " user " , " content " : " Hello " }], ) print ( resp . choices [ 0 ]. message . content ) Anthropic format: curl https://api.nexotao.com/v1/messages \ -H "x-api-key: sk-nexo-..." \ -H "anthropic-version: 2023-06-01" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"model":"claude-opus-4-8","max_tokens":256, "messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}' How you pay Top up your Rupiah balance via QRIS , from Rp10,000 . No foreign card. Pay-as-you-go — deducted per token. No subscription , and the balance never expires. Every response carries an X-Cost-Rp header, so you see the exact rupiah cost of each request. What it costs At the time of writing, Claude Opus 4.8 runs roughly 70% below official retail input pricing through the gateway — but don't take my word for it. The comparison page shows live per-token rates and computes "vs official" automati