OpenAI-compatible API

No card?
No problem.

Pay with Bitcoin. Access AI models in 30 seconds.
Works from anywhere on earth.

I have live apps and my balance is now 0

OpenAI forums

claude declining every indian card I have

@imabhinavrai · X

Account disabled after payment. ZERO response from Anthropic support.

@kylizational · GitHub

Still waiting for @AnthropicAI to fix this. What's the holdup?

@jithinraj · X

How It Works

01

Pay with Bitcoin

No card. No account. Works from anywhere.

cashuAeyJ0b2tlbiI6W3sicH...
02

Get a token

Your token IS your API key. No account. No password.

base_url="https://api.routstr.com/v1"
03

Ship

OpenAI-compatible. Change one line of code. When your balance hits zero, you stop. No surprises.

model="deepseek/deepseek-r1"

Why developers switch

Works from anywhere

OpenAI declines 68% of international cards. Bitcoin doesn't care what country you're in.

Costs that can't spiral

Prepaid balance = hard cap. When your tokens are gone, you stop. No $8,000 overnight surprises.

Your prompts aren't logged

We don't store your prompts. Period. Not for 30 days. Not for "safety." Not at all.

Models

No models available at the moment. Please check back later.

API

Direct API Access

curl -X POST https://api.routstr.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer " \
  -d '{
    "model": "qwen/qwen3-14b",
    "messages": [
      {"role": "user", "content": "Hello Nostr"}
    ]
  }'

OpenAI Compatible

Drop-in replacement for OpenAI clients

Popular Models

DeepSeek, Llama, Mistral, Claude and more

Privacy First

No accounts, no tracking, just API tokens

Got a GPU?

Earn from every request

Run a proxy, join the network, get paid in Bitcoin.

terminal
$docker run -d -p 8080:8080 routstr/proxy
# Proxy running on :8080
# Publishing to Nostr relays...
# Ready to accept requests

Start building.

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