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AI aggregators in Russia: how to choose one in 2026

There are plenty of services now, and comparing them by model count is pointless. Eight criteria that decide what you'll run into a month later.

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ChatGPT API: How to Get a Key from Russia and Pricing

How to get a ChatGPT API key from Russia, what GPT-5.x models cost per million tokens, and a working Python example.

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Claude API: How to Get a Key and Pricing

How to get a Claude API key, what Opus, Sonnet and Haiku cost, and which model to use for a specific task.

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Claude Code in Russia: when an aggregator key works

The key is accepted, auth passes, and the very first request fails - if the gateway has no /v1/messages. altrouter has had it since October 27, 2026.

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Gemini API: Key, Pricing and 1M Context

How to get a Gemini API key, what flash and pro cost, and what a 1M-token context is actually good for.

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Grok API: Prices by Version and How to Choose

You open the xAI docs to budget content generation and immediately hit two different billing units: tokens in one section, pieces in another. Here is what that means on a real pool of 10,000 tasks.

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How to Get an AI API Key: 5 Vendors, 5 Different Processes

Google is retiring old Gemini keys in September, Anthropic issues keys with an expiry date, and Sber hands you three secrets instead of a key. We walk through all five procedures.

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AI for Coding: 15 Models Priced from $0.22 per 1M

Which models actually write code, what they cost, and how to connect an AI for coding to your own project through an API.

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AI Video Generator API: Which Model to Pick in 2026

Picking a video model comes down not to picture quality but to four parameters: duration, sound, resolution and how you define the scene. We go through all seven.

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OpenRouter 403 in Russia: access denied by security policy

What 403, access denied by security policy and "you have been blocked" actually mean - and what to do when your balance is heading to zero.

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Error 429: What a Rate Limit Is and How to Retry Properly

Retrying immediately is the worst thing you can do with a 429. We cover limits, Retry-After, exponential backoff and queues.

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AI Video Generation Cost: $2.25 to $19.13 per Minute

The per-second price is a base rate, not the total. We work out the real cost of a minute on seven models, plus three budgets for real tasks.

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