# A no-KYC LLM API: no ID, no card, no work email > An LLM API with no KYC: no ID, no selfie, no card, no work email. 12 open-weight models on an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, paid per token in crypto. - URL: https://llmwithcrypto.com/no-kyc-llm-api/ - Last updated: 2026-10-23 - Publisher: LLMwithCrypto (https://llmwithcrypto.com) Many model APIs now ask for a card, an organization check or a photo ID before the models you want. Here you get an account number, top up in crypto and call open-weight models straight away. The rules of use are the same for every account. **Quick answer — Is there an LLM API with no KYC?** Yes. **LLMwithCrypto** asks for no ID, no selfie, no card and no work email: you get an account number, top up at least $25 in crypto and buy credit from $25. As of 23 October 2026 it serves 12 open-weight models, such as DeepSeek V4 Pro and gpt-oss-120b, through the OpenAI chat completions format, billed per token. ## What you need, and what you do not | Attribute | Value | | --- | --- | | Identity document or selfie | Not needed | | Credit card or bank account | Not needed | | Company papers or work email | Not needed | | Email address | Optional, only to recover your account number | | Login | Sign in with an account number; an email address is optional | | Payment | BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, minimum top-up $25 | | Rules | The [acceptable use policy](https://llmwithcrypto.com/acceptable-use/), the same for every account | ## Why can the account skip identity checks? Because every token is paid before it is generated. Credit comes from a crypto balance that is already confirmed on the blockchain, so there is no card that could be disputed and no unpaid invoice. The usual commercial reasons to collect an identity do not arise. No KYC does not mean no record. Each call leaves one log line: the time, the account, the model and the input and output token counts. Lines are deleted after 30 days. Prompts and answers are not kept. Account number, orders, top-ups and balance stay while the account exists, then only as long as accounting law asks. Authorities receive records only when a law compels us. ## What do other LLM APIs ask for before you can use them? Requirements stated on each provider's own pages, read on 22 October 2026. A blank requirement means we found no statement either way. | Provider | Payment accepted | Identity or business checks | | --- | --- | --- | | LLMwithCrypto (ours) | BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC | None: account number, email optional | | OpenAI API | Credit or debit card, no prepaid cards | Business or identity verification, with a government photo ID, before certain products and models | | Anthropic API | Card for prepaid Console credits | Identity and business verification being rolled out for a few use cases | | Gemini API | Card (no prepaid cards), and local methods in some countries | None mentioned in the billing docs; users must be 18 or older | | DeepSeek API | PayPal, bank card, Alipay, WeChat Pay | Real-name verification entries in its FAQ; not said to be mandatory | | OpenRouter | Card, AliPay, USDC | No KYC clause found; account required | | NanoGPT | 29 coins, card | "does not require KYC or an ID check" | *Prices checked on October 22, 2026.* ## What does the acceptable use policy still forbid? Skipping an identity check does not change what the models may be used for. Child sexual abuse material, malware and attacks on systems, weapons capable of mass casualties, spam and fraud, harassment and threats, deceiving people that they talk to a human, and anything a model’s own licence or use policy forbids or that is illegal where you or we operate. Every abuse report is read by a person; accounts that misuse the service are suspended. 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. ## Can anyone in any country use it? No. Not available to people or companies in Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Syria, Russia, Belarus or the occupied regions of Ukraine, because of sanctions. Using the service from those places, or for people or companies there, breaks the [terms of service](https://llmwithcrypto.com/terms/). ## Is a no-KYC account limited? No. It calls the same models, at the same prices, through the same endpoint as any other account. Every account has a per-minute request and token limit, shown in the dashboard; ask support and it can be raised. Make one API key per app, agent or teammate and revoke any of them from the dashboard without touching the others. The one difference is recovery. Your account number is how you sign in, so store it carefully. With an optional email on file you can recover it; with no email, a lost number is gone for good. ## What does the no-KYC LLM API cost? The same credit packs as every account; tokens are charged at each model's price, listed on the [pricing page](https://llmwithcrypto.com/pricing/). | Plan | Quantity | Price | Price per unit | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Start | $25 of API credit | $25 | — | | Builder | $50 of API credit | $50 | — | | Production | $100 of API credit | $100 | — | In every plan: Every model on one key · Streaming and tool calling · Failed calls not charged · Credit never expires **Before you pay** - Minimum top-up $25. Top up once in crypto, then buy any plan from your balance. - Credit on your balance does not expire and pays for tokens on any model, whenever you call the API. When a pack costs less than the minimum top-up, the part you paid only to reach that minimum comes back on request within 30 days of payment, in USDT or USDC, provided it is still unspent. The rest of a balance is not paid out unless the law requires it. - Credited once your payment is checked on the blockchain. Typical network confirmation time: BTC ≈ 20 min · USDT TRC-20 ≈ 1 min · USDT ERC-20 ≈ 5 min · USDC ERC-20 ≈ 5 min · ETH ≈ 5 min · SOL ≈ 1 min · LTC ≈ 15 min ## Sources 1. [Why was my credit card declined? (prepaid cards)](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7232916-why-was-my-credit-card-declined) — OpenAI (read 2026-10-22) 2. [How do I pay for my API usage?](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/8977456-how-do-i-pay-for-my-api-usage) — Anthropic (read 2026-10-22) 3. [Gemini API billing](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/billing) — Google (read 2026-10-22) 4. [DeepSeek FAQ: top-up](https://static.deepseek.com/faq/index.html?lang=en#/question/top-up) — DeepSeek (read 2026-10-22) 5. [OpenRouter FAQ](https://openrouter.ai/docs/faq) — OpenRouter (read 2026-10-22) 6. [NanoGPT FAQ](https://nano-gpt.com/faq) — NanoGPT (read 2026-10-22) ## No-KYC questions ### Do I need an email address? No. An email is optional and only helps you recover your account number. ### Will you ever ask for ID later? Not as a condition of using the service. Records go to authorities only when a law compels us, as the [privacy policy](https://llmwithcrypto.com/privacy/) says. ### Does no KYC mean nothing can be traced? No. A payment on a public blockchain can be traced, and each call leaves a log line with token counts for 30 days. What we do not collect is identity documents. ### Can a company use it? Yes. Make one API key per app or teammate; the dashboard keeps a receipt for every top-up and credit pack. --- LLMwithCrypto: LLMwithCrypto is an OpenAI-compatible LLM API for open-weight models — DeepSeek V4 Pro, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, DeepSeek R1, Qwen3.5 397B A17B, Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct, gpt-oss-120b, gpt-oss-20b, GLM-4.7, Llama 3.3 70B Instruct, Gemma 4 31B, Mistral Large 3, Mistral Small 4 — paid per token from a prepaid crypto balance, at 5% below the median price of the public hosts. No KYC: no ID, no selfie, no documents. Prompts and outputs are not stored.