AI APIs for Africa.
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GPT-5, Claude, DALL-E, Nano Banana Pro — one API, one SDK. Wave, Orange Money, MTN. No credit card.
No credit card · API ready in 2 min · Wave · MTN · Orange Money
import Tchavi from '@tchavi/sdk';
const client = new Tchavi({
apiKey: 'sk-tch-...',
});
const image = await client.images.generate({
model: 'nano-banana-pro',
prompt: 'Dark fantasy cinematic portrait of a pale, ethereal woman with very long flowing white hair, kneeling beside a wounded unicorn in a snowy mystical forest...',
resolution: '4K', // optional
aspect_ratio: '16:9', // optional
});
console.log(image.data[0].url);
console.log(image.tchavi.credits_used);
// → Credits used: 220 | Remaining: 9,780
import Tchavi from '@tchavi/sdk';
const client = new Tchavi({
apiKey: 'sk-tch-...',
});
const res = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: 'gpt-5-mini',
messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Bonjour !' }],
});
console.log(res.choices[0].message.content);
console.log(res.tchavi.credits_used);
// → "Bonjour ! Comment puis-je vous aider ?"
// → Credits used: 7 | Remaining: 9,993How it works
Create an account
Free signup in 30 seconds. 500 credits included.
Get your API key
Copy your key and just change the base_url in your existing code.
Build with AI
GPT-5, Claude — all accessible via a single OpenAI-compatible API.
Why Tchavi?
Built for developers in Africa. Everything you need, nothing you don't.
Local payments
Pay with Wave, Orange Money, MTN and 30+ mobile money operators. No international card needed.
Need an international Visa card
Transparent pricing
Prices in local currency, displayed upfront. You know exactly what you pay before you pay it.
USD billing + hidden fees
Zero friction
No KYC, no credit card. Create an account and start calling the API in under 2 minutes.
Complex verification process
Reliable payments
100% payment success rate. Your credits are available instantly, every single time.
Payments that regularly fail
Human support
Real people who speak French, available on WhatsApp. Not a chatbot, not a ticket queue.
No local support
Developer-first
OpenAI-compatible API. Drop-in SDKs for Python, JavaScript & cURL. Switch in 5 minutes.
Rebuild your entire integration
What to build? 4 ideas that already work.
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WhatsApp bots for local SMEs
Build WhatsApp assistants that handle customer messages in French, Wolof or Yoruba. Perfect for jewelers, tailors, restaurants — your customers are already on WhatsApp, your bots are too.
AI Models available
50+ models available. New models added within 48h of release.
OpenAI
Anthropic
Anthropic
DeepSeek
OpenAI
ByteDance
OpenAI
Pricing simple and transparent
Start for free. Unlock everything with your first top-up.
Free
0 XOF
To explore the platform
- 500 free credits
- 50 requests/day
- Expires in 30 days
- Max 1 API keys
- 10 req/min
Builder
1 000 XOF
Starting from · no subscription
- Flexible top-ups, no expiry
- All models
- Streaming
- Max 3 API keys
- 30 req/min
Growth (120 RPM) and Pro (300 RPM) tiers unlock automatically with cumulative spend.
How far do your credits go?
* Estimated at ~1K input + ~1K output tokens per request
Testimonials
“Vydcut summarizes YouTube videos using AI. Before Tchavi, I couldn't even access the OpenAI API from Benin without a Visa card. Now I pay with MTN Mobile Money, my credits load instantly, and the API just works. I switched my entire backend in one afternoon.”
“I was paying $20/month on OpenAI and half the time my card got declined. With Tchavi I topped up 10,000 F via mobile money, swapped one line in my code — the base URL — and everything kept working. Same models, same SDK, zero downtime.”
Aminata D. 🇸🇳
Fullstack Engineer, Dakar
“As a CS student, I can test Nano banana, Claude, Gemini and more — all from one API. I just top up with mobile money and start experimenting. No Visa card, no dollar account, no hassle. Tchavi made AI models accessible to me in a way nothing else could.”
Yao M. 🇨🇮
CS Student & Freelancer, Abidjan
FAQ
Credits are consumed differently depending on the AI model. Budget models (GPT-5 Nano) use ~2 credits per request, Standard models (Claude Haiku) ~19, Pro models (Claude Sonnet) ~59, and Premium models (o1) ~246. You choose the model that fits your need.
Yes! The Tchavi API is 100% OpenAI-compatible. Just change the base_url and your API key — the rest of your code stays the same.
Tchavi is a transparent proxy: your request latency = the provider's native latency + ~50-150ms added by our authentication, credit, and rate-limiting middlewares.
Wave, Orange Money, MTN MoMo, Moov Money, Airtel Money, Vodacom M-Pesa, Free Money, Vodafone Cash and more — 30+ mobile money operators across 15 African countries. Instant payment, 100% mobile.
Your API keys stay active but requests return a 402 error. Recharge anytime to resume instantly.
Eco mode reduces your request costs by 40% using lower-priority servers. Perfect for development and testing. Coming soon.
Tchavi never stores your prompts or responses. Your API traffic is encrypted in transit (TLS 1.3). We are a transparent proxy.
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