# Who lets you resell LLM API access? Provider rules in 2026

> Can you resell OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Grok or DeepSeek API access? Each provider's resale, crypto, ID-check and country rules, quoted and dated, October 2026.

- URL: https://llmwithcrypto.com/data/llm-api-resale-rules-2026/
- Last updated: 2026-10-23
- Publisher: LLMwithCrypto (https://llmwithcrypto.com)

Many sites sell “access to GPT and Claude” for crypto. Before you trust one, or build one, read what the model makers write about it. This dataset quotes the terms of 15 model makers and inference hosts, and the licences of the main open-weight models, with links and the date we read each page.

**Quick answer — Can you resell access to the OpenAI, Claude or Gemini APIs?**

Not without the provider's approval. In the terms read on 22–23 October 2026, OpenAI bans selling API keys and will require “prior review and approval” for model-access intermediaries from 20 November 2026; Anthropic allows resale only “as expressly approved”; Google, xAI and Cohere forbid it. Open-weight models under Apache 2.0 or MIT licences may be served as a paid API. **LLMwithCrypto** serves only those.

## What does each provider allow?

“Reselling raw access” means a gateway where customers send their own prompts to a named model, paid per token. “Building a product” means your own app or agent that calls the API for its users. Read on 22 October 2026 (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini) or 23 October 2026 (the others).

| Provider | Reselling raw API access | Building your own product | Crypto for its own billing | Identity checks |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OpenAI | Needs approval: API key trading banned; intermediaries need “prior review and approval” from 20 Nov 2026 | Allowed | None found | Organization verification (ID or business papers) for some models and features |
| Anthropic | Only “as expressly approved by Anthropic” | Allowed | Not checked | Must cooperate with identity checks on request |
| Google Gemini API | Forbidden: no client that works “substantially the same as the APIs” for third parties | Allowed, business use, available regions only | Not checked | Not found |
| Google Cloud (Vertex AI) | Forbidden outside Google's own reseller channel | Allowed | Not checked | Not found |
| xAI | Forbidden: end users only “as part of a Bundled Service” | Allowed as a bundled service | No (card, ACH, check, wire) | Not found |
| Mistral AI | Needs written authorization; API key trading banned | Allowed (customer offerings) | Not checked | Not found |
| DeepSeek | No resale ban in the platform terms read; no explicit permission either | Allowed for internal and external end users | Not checked | May ask for proof that funds are legal |
| Cohere | Forbidden | Allowed | No (card) | Not found |
| Groq | Unknown: services agreement could not be opened | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Together AI | Forbidden: no reselling or offering the services “on a standalone basis” | Allowed (not standalone) | No | Not found |
| Fireworks AI | Forbidden | Unclear: personal or internal business use | No (payment card) | Not found |
| DeepInfra | Only if a signed service order allows it | Not addressed | No (card or prepay) | Not found |
| Novita AI | Only with prior written consent | Not addressed | No (Stripe) | Not found |
| Hyperbolic | Forbidden | Not addressed | Unverified | Yes: may ask for ID documents |
| Cerebras | Forbidden | Personal or business use | No (card or ACH) | Not found |
| OpenRouter (as a buyer) | Forbidden: no “reselling API access to Models” | Allowed through your own products | Yes: USDC through Coinbase | Not found |

*Prices checked on October 23, 2026.*

“Not found” means absent from the pages read, not proof of absence. Quotes are under 25 words; the sources list links every page.

## Which open-weight licences allow a paid API?

Serving a model as a paid API is a form of distribution in most licences. These are the licences as read on 23 October 2026.

| Model family | Licence | Paid API allowed? | Conditions |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DeepSeek V3.1, R1-0528, V4 Pro, V4.1 Flash | MIT | Yes | Keep the copyright notice |
| Qwen3, Qwen3.5 | Apache 2.0 | Yes | Keep the licence and notice |
| gpt-oss-120b, gpt-oss-20b | Apache 2.0 + short usage policy | Yes | Comply with applicable law |
| Mistral Large 3, Mistral Small 4 | Apache 2.0 | Yes | None beyond the licence |
| Mistral Medium 3.5 | Modified MIT | Only below a revenue cap | Company revenue at or under $20 million a month |
| Gemma 4 | Apache 2.0 | Yes | None beyond the licence |
| Llama 3.3 | Llama 3.3 Community License | Yes, with conditions | “Built with Llama” notice, Meta's use policy, licence needed above 700 million monthly users |
| Llama 4 (Scout, Maverick) | Llama 4 Community License | Yes, except for EU-based companies | Multimodal models: no rights for a company with its principal place of business in the EU |

*Prices checked on October 23, 2026.*

## Where are the closed model APIs unavailable?

Each provider publishes the countries it serves. A gateway that resells their models must keep users from the others out, which a service without identity checks cannot do.

| Place | OpenAI API | Anthropic | Gemini API |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| China, Hong Kong, Macao | Not served | Not served | Not served |
| Russia, Belarus | Not served | Not served | Not served |
| Iran, North Korea, Syria, Cuba | Not served | Not served | Not served |
| Venezuela | Not served | Not served | Served |
| Afghanistan, Myanmar | Served | Not served | Not checked |
| Ukraine | “With certain exceptions” | Served | Served |

*Prices checked on October 22, 2026.*

Lists read on 22 October 2026. Anthropic's page carries the label “Effective Nov 12, 2026”.

## Why can a service without identity checks not resell GPT or Claude?

Because the makers forbid serving people in the countries they leave out, and a seller who never asks who you are cannot tell where you are.

- **OpenAI:** “Customer and End Users may not access or offer access to the Services outside of the Supported Countries and Territories.” (Services Agreement §16.12)
- **Anthropic:** its regions policy covers “use by persons while physically located in an unsupported region”, and its usage policy bans providing access “through unauthorized means”.
- **OpenRouter:** no access to restricted models “by using virtual private networks and proxies”.

Blocking by IP address is the least a reseller can do, and a VPN gets around it. Sanctions law applies on top of the providers' own lists.

## Is there a route the providers allow?

Four, from the pages read:

1. **Run open-weight models yourself** under a permissive licence and sell per-token access. The licences above allow it.
2. **Sell your own inference on OpenRouter** as a provider, through its application form.
3. **Build a real product** on any API, such as an agent or a writing tool, without exposing raw model access.
4. **Sign a reseller agreement** with the maker. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Mistral mention such channels; their terms were not read.

Only open-weight models whose licences allow serving them as an API: DeepSeek, Qwen, gpt-oss, Mistral, Llama, Gemma and others listed on the models page. We run them on GPUs we rent and operate. We do not sell access to GPT, Claude, Gemini or Grok: their makers forbid reselling API access without their approval, and we do not have it. Each model keeps its own licence and use policy (for example Meta’s Llama Acceptable Use Policy and the “Built with Llama” notice); using a model through us means accepting them.

## How was this dataset built?

- **Pages:** each provider's own terms, usage policy, supported-countries page and model licence, read in full on 22 October 2026 (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini) or 23 October 2026 (everything else).
- **Quotes:** copied from the page text, under 25 words. Spot-check them before relying on one: terms change.
- **Gaps:** Groq's services agreement could not be opened; the reseller programmes of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Mistral were not read; Anthropic's, Google's, Mistral's and DeepSeek's own payment methods were not checked.
- **Licence:** CC BY 4.0. Reuse it with a link to this page.

This is a reading of public documents, not legal advice.

## Sources

1. [Services Agreement](https://openai.com/policies/services-agreement/) — OpenAI (read 2026-10-22)
2. [Usage Policies (effective November 20, 2026)](https://openai.com/policies/usage-policies/) — OpenAI (read 2026-10-22)
3. [API organization verification](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10910291-api-organization-verification) — OpenAI (read 2026-10-22)
4. [Commercial Terms of Service](https://www.anthropic.com/legal/commercial-terms) — Anthropic (read 2026-10-22)
5. [Usage Policy](https://www.anthropic.com/legal/aup) — Anthropic (read 2026-10-22)
6. [Supported Regions Policy](https://www.anthropic.com/legal/supported-regions) — Anthropic (read 2026-10-22)
7. [Google APIs Terms of Service](https://developers.google.com/terms) — Google (read 2026-10-22)
8. [Gemini API Additional Terms](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms) — Google (read 2026-10-22)
9. [Google Cloud Terms of Service](https://cloud.google.com/terms) — Google (read 2026-10-23)
10. [Terms of Service – Enterprise](https://x.ai/legal/terms-of-service-enterprise) — xAI (read 2026-10-23)
11. [Commercial Terms of Service](https://legal.mistral.ai/terms/commercial-terms-of-service/) — Mistral AI (read 2026-10-23)
12. [Open Platform Terms of Service](https://cdn.deepseek.com/policies/en-US/deepseek-open-platform-terms-of-service.html) — DeepSeek (read 2026-10-23)
13. [SaaS Agreement](https://cohere.com/saas-agreement) — Cohere (read 2026-10-23)
14. [Terms of Service](https://www.together.ai/terms-of-service) — Together AI (read 2026-10-23)
15. [Terms of Service](https://fireworks.ai/terms-of-service) — Fireworks AI (read 2026-10-23)
16. [Terms](https://deepinfra.com/terms) — DeepInfra (read 2026-10-23)
17. [Acceptable Use Policy](https://novita.ai/legal/acceptable-use-policy) — Novita AI (read 2026-10-23)
18. [Terms of Service](https://www.hyperbolic.ai/terms) — Hyperbolic (read 2026-10-23)
19. [Terms of Use](https://www.cerebras.ai/terms-of-service) — Cerebras (read 2026-10-23)
20. [Terms of Service](https://openrouter.ai/terms) — OpenRouter (read 2026-10-23)
21. [Becoming a provider](https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/providers/integration) — OpenRouter (read 2026-10-23)
22. [OpenAI API supported countries and territories](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/5347006-openai-api-supported-countries-and-territories) — OpenAI (read 2026-10-22)
23. [Gemini API available regions](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/available-regions) — Google (read 2026-10-22)

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