Will I need a VPN or a foreign card?
No. The service is reachable from Russia without a VPN, and a foreign card is not required: the balance is topped up with a code — buy it in the store, activate it in the dashboard, and the amount is credited immediately.
By what rule is the cost of a request charged?
Text models are billed by input and output tokens at the model price at the moment of the request. Media models carry a fixed price per generation. Every charge shows up in the transaction history and in the stats.
What does it take to connect through an OpenAI-compatible SDK?
Point the official SDK base_url at our service with the /v1 suffix and use your ev-… key. The rest of your code stays the same. Ready-made snippets for curl, Python and JavaScript are in the docs.
Are my prompts and the models' responses stored?
No. Neither the database, nor the logs, nor analytics keep request and response bodies. Only metadata remains in the stats: model, tokens, cost, time.
How do I put a ceiling on a key's spending?
On the key page, set a money limit for a day, a week or a month. As soon as the limit is reached, the gateway returns 429 and stops charging until the next window begins.