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I work on the APIGOTO team. Disclosure up front: this is our product. APIGOTO is an independent OpenAI-compatible LLM API gateway. It is not affiliated with OpenAI, Anthropic or Google.

If you build apps that call several model families, you usually juggle different keys, SDKs and billing pages. We put one gateway in front so your app keeps using the OpenAI SDK and a single base URL:

https://api.china-aiapi.com/v1

That same endpoint can reach Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen and other models (exact IDs on the pricing page). Short Python example:

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.china-aiapi.com/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["APIGOTO_API_KEY"],
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="MODEL_ID",  # see current model IDs on the pricing page
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello from Lagos"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

How we handle failures: failover is capped at 3 attempts per request, and 4xx responses are not retried (so a bad request does not burn extra attempts). Each request is logged with model, tokens, cache, latency and errors. BYOK is supported with no platform fee on those calls. Billing is pay-as-you-go — see the pricing page for current rates. There is also a RouterCode desktop client for Windows and macOS.

Company: Juyuan Innovation (Shenzhen) Technology Co., Ltd., Shenzhen. Launched 2026-08-10. Website: www.china-aiapi.com. Email: postmaster@apigoto.com

Nigerian developers — if you already proxy LLM traffic or call providers direct from NG/abroad, what hurts more day to day: outages, rate limits, or juggling SDKs? Honest feedback welcome.