Which AI tools accept crypto? 40 tools checked (2026)

How does the App Store or Google Play route work?

Many AI apps sell their subscription inside their iPhone and Android apps, billed by Apple or Google. Apple says an Apple Account balance from Apple Gift Cards pays for “apps, subscriptions, and more”; Google says Play balance and gift cards can “Pay for subscriptions on Google Play”, with methods that vary by country.

So the indirect route is: buy an Apple or Google Play gift card from a gift card seller that accepts crypto, redeem it on your own account, then subscribe in the tool’s app. On 22 October 2026 this worked on paper for ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity Pro, Runway, Kling AI, Suno, HeyGen, Character.ai, Poe, Mistral Le Chat Pro. Buy a card for the same country as your Apple or Google account, and expect the in-app price to be set separately from the web price.

What about cheap accounts and API keys sold for crypto?

Marketplaces and Telegram bots sell ChatGPT, Claude or Cursor access for crypto, often well below the official price. Almost every tool in the table forbids sharing, transferring or reselling accounts or keys, so these offers rely on shared accounts or on someone else’s payment. The account can be closed without refund, and anyone else on a shared account can see your conversations. Our guide to cheap AI accounts and keys goes through the warning signs.

Where does LLMwithCrypto fit?

LLMwithCrypto is not a way to pay these tools. It is an OpenAI-compatible API for open-weight models — DeepSeek, Qwen, gpt-oss, Mistral and others — paid per token from a crypto balance, with no KYC. 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. If what you need is a language model API rather than a specific app, the models page lists what is available and the pricing page what each model costs.

How was the dataset built?

• Sources: official vendor pages only — pricing pages, payment and billing help articles, gift card pages and terms — read between 2026-10-22 and early 2026-10-23 UTC; every fact is dated 2026-10-22.
• Official crypto: “No” means an official payment-method list or FAQ was read and it names no crypto; “Not stated” means no payment-method list was found.
• Gift card or app-store route: “Official gift card” means the vendor sells its own card or prepaid code; “App Store / Google Play billing” means the vendor bills through Apple or Google; “None found” means neither appeared on the pages read.
• Prices: USD as shown; some pages showed a local currency because of our location, which the tool pages note.
• Licence: CC BY 4.0 — reuse it with a link to this page.

What could not be checked?

• Venice.ai: its domain did not resolve from our network on the check date, so it has no data.
• Terms not readable: Character.ai (bot check), Udio (login wall) and Notion (page did not render).
• No payment-method list found: Windsurf, Pika, Luma, Leonardo, Udio, Synthesia, the Mistral web checkout and API, Copy.ai, Replicate and the xAI API.
• Prices not shown: the Character.ai c.ai+ price, the monthly-billing price of Perplexity Pro and of Canva Pro.