Where the Claude API works — and what actually gates it

Is the Claude API available in your country?

The Claude API has no technical region lock — the gate is Anthropic's billing. If your country is not on Anthropic's supported list for direct billing, you cannot finish signup or attach a payment method, even though the models themselves are reachable over the network. apiToken.sale removes that gate: we issue your key and balance ourselves, so the Claude API is usable from regions Anthropic does not serve directly, with no Anthropic account at all.

Anthropic publishes the list of countries where it sells API access directly, and that list shifts over time. When yours is missing, direct signup typically fails at the payment step — not because the API refuses your traffic, but because there is no way to put money behind the account. Every request you would have made still works fine technically; only the billing relationship is blocked.

Because the account, key and balance all live on apiToken.sale, nothing in the flow asks where you are. You sign up, top up and call the API from wherever your laptop or servers happen to be, and the same applies to teammates in other regions sharing one balance through their own keys.

See also: Using the Claude API from Russia

Paying and calling from a region Anthropic does not serve

Checkout adapts to your region instead of rejecting it. Pay by bank card where cards work; where they are declined or unavailable, choose cryptocurrency — USDT and other stablecoins, BTC and major coins — through a secure payment provider, and the balance credits once the network confirms the transaction. You top up any whole-dollar amount, the balance is prepaid and never expires, and every request is metered at official Anthropic rates with a flat 50% B2C discount applied.

1. 01Create an account on apiToken.sale — no approval step and no billing-country form.
2. 02Top up any whole-dollar amount by bank card, or pick crypto and send the exact amount shown; the balance credits after on-chain confirmation.
3. 03Generate an API key (it looks like sk-pool-…). One key covers supported Claude, GPT, Gemini and Kimi models on a single balance.
4. 04Point your client at https://router.apitoken.sale using the Anthropic Messages protocol with the x-api-key header, then send a request.

curl https://router.apitoken.sale/v1/messages \
  -H "x-api-key: sk-pool-•••" \
  -H "anthropic-version: 2023-06-01" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"claude-sonnet-5","max_tokens":256,"messages":[{"role":"user","content":"ping"}]}'

Nothing about the protocol changes with your geography. What you get is the same Anthropic Messages API — streaming, tool use and system prompts included — across the full supported Claude line: Opus 4.8 and 4.7, Sonnet 5 and 4.6, Haiku 4.5.

• Works in Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, Continue, Zed and the official Anthropic SDKs — set the base URL and the rest of your code stays untouched.
• Every request appears in the dashboard with its model, provider and token breakdown, so spend is auditable from anywhere.
• Refunds are processed through the original payment provider; contact support with your account email if you need one.

One honest caveat: network reachability depends on your own connection — buying balance and generating a key carry no geographic gate, but no service can route around a local network block. Support answers in English and Russian over Telegram, or by email at apitokensale@gmail.com.

Browse every supported model with per-token pricing on the models page. →

Estimate a workload before you top up with the Claude API cost calculator. →

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