Polza.ai alternative — Claude about 18% cheaper, pay in USDT
RuAPI is an LLM gateway priced in US dollars: Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5 cost about 18% less here than on Polza.ai. Pay in USDT / USDC from $5 — no foreign card needed — and get unused balance refunded within 7 days. Native Anthropic API for Claude Code, no VPN.
$ curl https://www.ruapi.ai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer sk-..." \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "claude-sonnet-5-5",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
}'Only BASE_URL and KEY — zero business code changes.
Why developers choose RuAPI
Claude at about 18% less.
Claude Sonnet 5.5: $2.40 / $12.00 per 1M input / output tokens on RuAPI vs 236.18 ₽ / 1,180.88 ₽ (≈ $2.91 / $14.56) on Polza.ai. Cache reads: $0.12 vs 11.81 ₽ (≈ $0.15) — and in Claude Code most of the context is read from the cache. At the Bank of Russia rate of 23 Oct 2026.
Refunds within 7 days.
Polza.ai refunds unused funds within 24 hours of payment. RuAPI refunds unused balance within 7 days of the top-up, USDT / USDC top-ups included, in the same coin.
DeepSeek via the official API.
RuAPI's main DeepSeek channel is DeepSeek's official API. In Polza.ai's catalog, DeepSeek models are also served by third-party providers, many of them in quantized FP8 / FP4 builds.
Key parameters
base_url
OpenAI-compatible: https://www.ruapi.ai/v1
Native Anthropic: https://www.ruapi.ai (no /v1)
Providers
OpenAI — GPT
Anthropic — Claude
Google — Gemini
DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM, Kimi, MiniMax and more
Payment
USDT / USDC — TRC20 / BEP20 / Polygon
Visa / Mastercard issued by foreign banks
$5 minimum
RuAPI vs Polza.ai: the difference
| RuAPI | Polza.ai | |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Sonnet 5.5, per 1M tokens (input / output) | $2.40 / $12.00 | 236.18 ₽ / 1,180.88 ₽ (≈ $2.91 / $14.56) |
| Claude Opus 5.5, per 1M tokens | $4.80 / $24.00 | 472.35 ₽ / 2,361.76 ₽ (≈ $5.82 / $29.11) |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5, cache reads per 1M tokens | $0.12 | 11.81 ₽ (≈ $0.15) |
| Payment | USDT / USDC or a Visa / Mastercard issued by a foreign bank | In rubles: Russian bank card, SBP, company invoice |
| Refund of unused balance | Within 7 days, USDT / USDC included | Within 24 hours of payment |
| DeepSeek | Main channel: DeepSeek's official API | Many providers, including FP8 / FP4 |
| Price currency | US dollars | Rubles |
| Native Anthropic API (Claude Code) | Yes | Yes |
| From Russia without a VPN | Yes | Yes |
Polza.ai prices are from the polza.ai/models catalog and polza.ai/api/v1/models; payment methods from polza.ai/llms.txt, refund terms from the FAQ in the polza.ai/docs documentation (checked 23 Oct 2026). Converted at the Bank of Russia rate of 81.1255 ₽/$ on 23 Oct 2026; RuAPI prices are the standard rate. Prices may change.