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$25 of API credit
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- Same API as the largest pack
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LLM API · crypto only · from $25
Top up a balance in USDT, USDC, Bitcoin or another coin, buy credit, and call open-weight models through the OpenAI chat completions format. Each call spends its tokens at the model's price. No card, no ID, no selfie, no documents.
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Can I pay for an LLM API with crypto?
Yes. LLMwithCrypto takes BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC for an OpenAI-compatible API serving 12 open-weight models, with no KYC. You top up at least $25, buy credit from $25, and each call is charged per token. As of 23 October 2026, gpt-oss-120b costs $0.142 per million input tokens and DeepSeek V4 Pro $1.254.
Credit is sold at face value and spent on any model. A small pack is enough to test every model; larger packs only save you top-ups.
$25 of API credit
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$50 of API credit
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$100 of API credit
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$250 of API credit
$250
$1,000 of API credit
$1,000
In every plan: Every model on one key · Streaming and tool calling · Failed calls not charged · Credit never expires
Prices in USD, set on 2026-10-23. Credit never expires.
In two steps that never mix. First your crypto top-up becomes a dollar balance once the blockchain confirms it. Then you buy a credit pack from that balance, and the API spends the credit call by call.
You pay per token from your balance: input and output tokens are counted by the model’s own tokenizer and charged at that model’s price per 1M tokens. A call that ends in an error costs nothing. Nothing is billed per month, and Credit has no expiry date: what you do not spend this month is still there next year.
Because the money is in place before any call runs, there is no card to charge back and no invoice to chase. That is why the account needs no identity document: Sign in with an account number; an email address is optional.
Token counts are examples; your own counts appear in the dashboard after each call. Prices as of 23 October 2026.
| Job | Model | Price per 1M tokens (in / out) |
|---|---|---|
| Chatbot replies, high volume | gpt-oss-120b | $0.142 / $0.57 |
| Cheap summaries and classification | gpt-oss-20b | $0.033 / $0.161 |
| Long documents, 1M-token context | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | $0.285 / $1.14 |
| Coding and agent work | GLM-4.7 | $0.57 / $2.09 |
| Hard reasoning | DeepSeek V4 Pro | $1.254 / $3.762 |
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Every price is 5% below the median of the public hosts listed in the price index.
What each seller states on its own pages, read on 22 and 23 October 2026. The full comparison adds fees, minimums and refund rules.
| Service | Crypto accepted | Account and KYC | Models |
|---|---|---|---|
| LLMwithCrypto (ours) | BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC | Account number, email optional, no KYC | 12 open-weight models only |
| OpenRouter | USDC through Coinbase, 5% fee; crypto never refunded | Account required; no KYC clause found | Closed and open models |
| NanoGPT | 29 coins including XMR, BTC and USDT | No email or account needed; no KYC | Closed and open models |
| PayPerQ | Lightning, on-chain BTC, LTC, XMR | No registration | Closed and open models |
| Venice.ai | USDC by x402 on Base and Solana | Account for most features | Closed and open models |
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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.
This keeps one promise simple: the model you call is the one named on the models page, served under a licence that allows it, on hardware we control. 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.
We do not store your prompts or the model’s answers: once a response is sent, its text is gone. Each call leaves one log line with the time, the account, the model and the token counts, deleted after 30 days. We never train or fine-tune any model on your prompts or outputs.
The privacy policy lists everything an account keeps, and the acceptable use policy what no account may do.
BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC. USDT goes over Tron (TRC-20) or Ethereum (ERC-20) and USDC over Ethereum. The crypto payments page walks through a top-up.
No. You pay for tokens only, from credit that never expires.
Once your crypto top-up is confirmed and a credit pack is bought, your API key is waiting in the dashboard.
A credit pack bought in the last 72 hours goes back to your balance if less than 20% of it was spent. If the API does not work for you and support cannot fix it within 24 hours, the unspent credit goes back to your balance. Top-ups stay on the balance and are not paid out unless the law requires it; whatever you added only to reach the minimum top-up comes back on request within 30 days, in USDT or USDC, as long as it is unspent.
DeepSeek V4 Pro from $1.254 per 1M input tokens · no KYC
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