AI subscriptions, paid for with crypto

There is no such thing as an AI subscription code

Worth being blunt about, because it protects you far beyond this site. Anthropic, OpenAI, Perplexity, Midjourney and Cursor issue no transferable gift codes for their consumer plans. So when something is advertised as a "Claude Pro code" or a "ChatGPT Plus voucher", it is one of two things: a login to an account shared with strangers, or nothing at all.

A shared subscription is cheap because it is resold many times over. Everyone on it shares the same rate limits, the same conversation history and the same memory, and when the provider closes it — which is when, not if — everybody loses access mid-month with no recourse. For a coding tool wired into your repositories, that trade is worse still.

Which tier you actually need

Almost every provider here sells a standard tier and a premium tier at roughly ten times the price, and the premium tiers buy usage headroom rather than extra features. If you are not regularly hitting limits in a way that interrupts your work, the standard tier is the right purchase and we would rather say so than sell you the larger number.

The exception is Midjourney, where the tiers differ on something concrete: fast GPU hours, and whether your generations stay out of the public feed. If you are producing commercial work, that is a real decision to make before you order rather than halfway through a month.

Why paying in crypto solves this at all

The obstacle is almost never money. It is a card issued in a country the billing system does not like, a bank that declines recurring foreign charges, or no card at all. Providers bill in dollars through payment processors that make their own risk decisions, and a decline arrives with no explanation and no appeal — which is how people end up watching the same renewal fail three months running while the money sits in their account.

A crypto payment routes around the part that is failing. You hold the funds, we hold a card that works, and the provider sees an ordinary domestic payment. Nothing about it is a workaround of the provider's rules — the plan is bought at full price on your own account, which is exactly what they want to happen.

What we need, and what we will never ask for

The email address on your account. That is the entire requirement. We will never ask for your password, your access tokens, your editor or your repositories, and anyone selling an AI subscription who asks for more than an email address is selling you something other than a subscription.

Buying it for somebody else

This works, and it is one of the more useful things you can do here — paying for a student's or a colleague's subscription in a country where card payments to these providers routinely fail. What we need is the email address on their account, not yours, and their agreement, since the plan appears on an account they control and they will see it renew or lapse.

What we cannot do is create an account for someone. The account has to exist first, because the entire model here is paying a bill on an account that already belongs to a person. If they have not signed up yet, have them do that first — it takes two minutes and it is free.

Timing, and what can go wrong

These are activated by hand, so expect a few hours rather than minutes — a person is logging in and paying a bill, not releasing a code from stock. Each order buys a single month; nothing renews, and no payment method of yours is stored anywhere, so there is nothing to cancel later.

Two honest limits. Some regions refuse third-party payment on an account outright, and where that happens you get a full refund in the coin you paid with rather than an order that quietly stalls. And if you already have an active subscription, tell us your renewal date — mid-cycle plan changes prorate in ways we do not control, and you can end up paying for an overlap.