Discount tokens from China
October 6, 2026
Heard about those supposedly mythical Chinese services reselling Claude and other American models for 10-20% of the usual price?
They are not that mythical. Here is one I tried myself. The pricing is impressively sneaky: you buy yuan, they land in your account as dollars, and usage is charged at the models' API rates, with another discount on top.
I gave it a go. Seems to work as advertised. Still more expensive than a subscription, but cheaper than paying for the API directly. I have kept it as a fallback for when I hit my limits.