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Claude is amazing. The foreign credit card is what's keeping you out.

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While developers elsewhere just write code, developers in Brazil still hit a wall called "international credit card". Claude shouldn't be out of reach because of billing.

Claude has become a favorite among developers for coding, long context and reasoning — but for developers outside the US/EU, the billing wall is real: Anthropic requires an international credit card, and local payment methods like PIX aren't accepted.

The practical path: an API gateway. You keep using the official Anthropic SDK and models — you just point the client at a compatible provider that accepts local payments:

from anthropic import Anthropic

client = Anthropic(base_url="https://api.example.com", api_key="your-key")

resp = client.messages.create(
    model="claude-sonnet-4-5",
    max_tokens=1024,
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain Python functions"}],
)
print(resp.content[0].text)
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Checklist for choosing a provider:

  1. Is per-million-token pricing aligned with the official rate?
  2. Is long context (200k) supported?
  3. Local payment with instant credit?
  4. Support in your language?

Don't let billing block you from using the best models.

Want to try these models in your project? **ModelKiwi* gives you access to GPT, Claude and Gemini with PIX payment (no international credit card needed) and free credits to start: https://www.modelkiwi.com. WhatsApp: +5521999500402 — and join our channel: https://t.me/ModelkiwiOfficial.*

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