Disclosure:This is the Nexotao team — I'm describing our own gateway below. I've kept it to facts you can verify yourself: every model name, context window, and price here is on our live pricing page, and I link it.
If you're an Indonesian developer, you've probably hit this wall: the OpenAI and Anthropic APIs want a foreign credit card. No card, no API. A lot of us get stuck right there.
The fix that works today: a local gateway that takes QRIS / Rupiah. Here's the honest version of how it works, what it costs, and what it doesn't do.
Through Nexotao you call two text models:
claude-opus-4-8
) — context window Those are the real, published context windows — no silent truncation. The endpoint is OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible, so you usually just change the base URL and key.
OpenAI format:
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.nexotao.com/v1", api_key="sk-nexo-...")
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="claude-opus-4-8",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)
Anthropic format:
curl https://api.nexotao.com/v1/messages \
-H "x-api-key: sk-nexo-..." \
-H "anthropic-version: 2023-06-01" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"claude-opus-4-8","max_tokens":256,
"messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'
X-Cost-Rp
At the time of writing, Claude Opus 4.8 runs roughly 70% below official retail input pricing through the gateway — but don't take my word for it. The comparison page shows live per-token rates and computes "vs official" automatically. Find a cheaper equivalent? Tell us.
That's the whole pitch: if a foreign credit card was the only thing between you and the Claude/DeepSeek APIs, paying in Rupiah via QRIS removes it. Compare the numbers yourself on the pricing page.