NEWGPT-5 · Claude 4.5 · Gemini 2.5 · DeepSeek · Qwen all in one place

Every AI.One key.Priced for everyone.

Chat, build, translate, learn — with GPT-5, Claude, Gemini, Llama, DeepSeek, Qwen and 300+ more, side by side. Start free. Pay only for what you use, in Rand, Naira, KES, Cedi or any currency. No R360-a-month wall.

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312live
From OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, DeepSeek, Alibaba …
Average user spends
R25/ month
vs. R360 minimum elsewhere
Cities with fast access
9across Africa
Lagos · Nairobi · Cape Town · Cairo …
Answers given last 24h
1.2million
By students, founders, teachers, devs
CNDeepSeek-V3.2deepseekR2.50 / 1MCNQwen3-MaxalibabaR7.20 / 1MCNKimi K2moonshotR10.80 / 1MCNGLM-4.6zhipuR9.00 / 1MCNYi-Lightning01.aiR1.80 / 1MLlama 3.3 70BmetaR3.20 / 1MMistral Large 2mistralR36 / 1MGPT-5-miniopenaiR2.70 / 1MClaude HaikuanthropicR4.50 / 1MGemini 2.5 FlashgoogleR1.35 / 1MVeo 3googleR18 / 8sSuno v4sunoR8 / trackNano-BananagoogleR0.30 / imgFlux Pro 1.1black forestR0.70 / imgElevenLabs v3elevenlabsR0.20 / minGemma 3 27BgoogleR1.30 / 1MCNDeepSeek-V3.2deepseekR2.50 / 1MCNQwen3-MaxalibabaR7.20 / 1MCNKimi K2moonshotR10.80 / 1MCNGLM-4.6zhipuR9.00 / 1MCNYi-Lightning01.aiR1.80 / 1MLlama 3.3 70BmetaR3.20 / 1MMistral Large 2mistralR36 / 1MGPT-5-miniopenaiR2.70 / 1MClaude HaikuanthropicR4.50 / 1MGemini 2.5 FlashgoogleR1.35 / 1MVeo 3googleR18 / 8sSuno v4sunoR8 / trackNano-BananagoogleR0.30 / imgFlux Pro 1.1black forestR0.70 / imgElevenLabs v3elevenlabsR0.20 / minGemma 3 27BgoogleR1.30 / 1M
What you can make

Music, video, code, images, words — all from one key.

We don't just route text. Make a song, render a 4K clip, ship an app, retouch a photo or translate a contract — pick the model that fits the task.

Write code

Ship apps, from prompt to PR

# build a USSD payment menu
def menu(user):
  return ["send", "check bal",
    "airtime", "loan"]
# ✓ tested · 412ms

Cursor-grade autocomplete and full-repo refactors. From R0.03 per file edit.

Claude 4.5DeepSeek-V3GPT-5
Make music

From hum to finished track

Generate full songs with vocals — Afrobeats, Amapiano, Bongo Flava, you name it. R8 per 2-minute track.

Suno v4UdioStable Audio 2
Make video

Text becomes cinema

Generate 1080p clips with lipsync and sound. Great for ads, explainers, music videos. R18 per 8-second shot.

Veo 3Sora 2Kling 2.1
Edit images

Retouch, restyle, re-imagine

Product photos, headshots, posters — drag-and-drop. Inpaint, upscale, restyle. From R0.30 per image.

Nano-BananaFlux Pro 1.1Imagen 4
Speak & translate

47 African languages, spoken out loud

"Habari za asubuhi"
"Good morning"
"Bonjour"
"Bom dia"
🔊 read aloud

Translate between English, French, Arabic and every major African tongue — text or voice. From R0.02 per page.

Qwen3-MaxElevenLabsMiniMax Speech
How it works

You choose. We connect.

Browse every model on one screen. Sort by what matters to you — price, speed, language, modality. Pin a favorite, A/B-test two, or compare three side-by-side. You drive; we just route the bytes.

africarouter.ai / models
All 312CheapestFastestFor codeFor African langsImage · videoMusic · voice
DeepSeek-V3.2deepseek · 671B MoE · CN OSS
R2.50/1M in412ms
Claude Sonnet 4.5anthropic · all-rounder · US
R54/1M in680ms
Qwen3-Maxalibaba · 119 langs · CN OSS
R7.20/1M in340ms
GPT-5openai · flagship · US
R22.50/1M in820ms
Llama 3.3 70Bmeta · open weights · US OSS
R3.20/1M in290ms
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Browse every model in one place

312 models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, DeepSeek, Alibaba, Mistral and more. Filter by price, speed, language, or "good at code" — your call, not ours.

ii.

Pick the one you want. Pin it.

Lock to your favorite — Claude for writing, DeepSeek for code, Qwen for Swahili. Or pin three and A/B-test them on the same prompt. We never decide for you.

iii.

Switch any time, one line of code

OpenAI-compatible. Change model="gpt-5" to model="deepseek-v3" — done. Same key, same SDK, every model.

iv.

One bill, in Rand

Pay with M-Pesa, MTN MoMo, Flutterwave, card, or USDC. Top up from R18. No subscription, no $20 floor, no surprise charge at month-end.

Every model. Every maker. One key.

From ChatGPT to DeepSeek — all in one place.

We don't pick sides. Use whichever model works best for the job — the latest from US labs, Europe's open-weights, or the new wave out of China. Same low rates, same simple key.

Browse all 312 models →

GPT-5

openai · flagship
US · LAB

The model your customers ask for by name. Top of the leaderboard for reasoning and tool-use this quarter.

R22.50 /1M in · R180 /1M out
400K ctx

Claude Sonnet 4.5

anthropic · all-rounder
US · LAB

Best writer on the board. Excellent at long-context analysis, careful reasoning, and code review.

R54 /1M in · R270 /1M out
200K ctx

Gemini 2.5 Pro

google · multimodal
US · LAB

2M token context. Best in class for video, images and giant PDFs. Brilliant for whole-codebase questions.

R22.50 /1M in · R90 /1M out
2M ctx

DeepSeek-V3.2

deepseek · 671B MoE
CN · OSS

GPT-class quality at a fraction of the price. The reason most of our customers cut their AI bill in half.

R2.50 /1M in · R5 /1M out
128K ctx

Llama 3.3 70B

meta · open weights
US · OSS

Strong reasoning. Truly open weights — you can self-host on your own GPU box if you ever need to.

R3.20 /1M in · R10.60 /1M out
128K ctx

Qwen3-Max

alibaba · 119 languages
CN · OSS

Best multilingual model on the board. Handles Swahili, Hausa, Amharic, Yoruba better than the frontier US labs.

R7.20 /1M in · R21.60 /1M out
256K ctx

Mistral Large 2

mistral · paris
EU · LAB

Strong European alternative. GDPR-friendly, EU-hosted option available for sensitive data.

R36 /1M in · R108 /1M out
128K ctx

Kimi K2-Instruct

moonshot · 1T sparse
CN · OSS

Agentic workhorse. Long-doc reasoning, autonomous browsing, tool-use — at a fraction of Sonnet.

R10.80 /1M in · R45 /1M out
200K ctx

Gemma 3 27B

google · open weights
US · OSS

Tiny, fast, multilingual. Our cheapest tier — perfect for high-volume tasks like classification.

R1.30 /1M in · R3.80 /1M out
128K ctx
The price you actually pay

$20/month doesn't work where median rent is R630.

So we did the math differently. Pay per request, not per month. Subsidized for students, NGOs and African startups. No subscription, no floor, no surprise. All prices below in Rand (ZAR).

1 million tokens, same prompt, ranked

ZAR · this week
DeepSeek-V3.2 via AfricaRouterR7.50
Qwen3-Max via AfricaRouterR29
Kimi K2 via AfricaRouterR56
Llama 3.3 70B via AfricaRouterR10.60
GPT-4o direct OpenAIR200
Claude Sonnet 4 direct AnthropicR162
ChatGPT Plus
R360/mo
Fixed. Card-only. Not available in 11 African countries.
AfricaRouter
R360~R25/mo
Median actual spend across our 4,200 active developers.
pythontypescriptcurl
# pip install openai
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.africarouter.ai/v1",
    api_key="ar-sk-...",
)

reply = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="auto",   # let the router pick the cheapest fit
    messages=[{"role":"user",
               "content":"Habari za asubuhi? Andika shairi fupi."}],
)

print(reply.choices[0].message.content)
# → routed to qwen3-max · 412ms · $0.00021 ✓
Built for the continent

Latency, currency, payment, language — finally local.

Lagos · 38ms
Cairo · 52ms
Nairobi · 41ms
Accra · 47ms
Cape Town · 44ms
Kinshasa · 61ms

9 edge POPs, sub-80ms across the continent

Cached weights and request routing from Lagos, Nairobi, Cape Town, Cairo, Accra, Kinshasa, Casablanca, Addis Ababa & Dar es Salaam.

Pay how Africa actually pays

M-Pesa, MTN MoMo, Airtel Money, Flutterwave, Paystack, USDC on Base or Tron, or just a card. Top up R18 if that's what you have.

Built for 47 African languages

We route Swahili, Hausa, Amharic, Yoruba, Igbo, Zulu, Wolof, Oromo & more to whichever model handles them best — frontier or open-weights, US or otherwise.

Free tier for students, NGOs & local startups

1M free tokens / month for any .edu.ng, .ac.ke, .ac.za, .edu.gh address. Doubled if your team ships an open-source project.

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Free · forever
  • 1M tokens / month, any model
  • OpenAI-compatible API
  • Community Discord
  • Pay-as-you-go after — from R18
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  • Mobile money + USDC top-up
  • Email support, 24h SLA
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