中国开发者通过灰色市场API中转站以官方价格5%-10%购买Claude token。中转站利用免费额度、折扣账户、共享订阅、海外支付绕过、虚假验证及盗刷信用卡汇集多个账户,通过微信/支付宝收款。低价源于账户农场、免费额度滥用、未使用配额转售、订阅拆分及可能盗刷信用卡,并可能将用户提示词和输出用作训练数据创收。风险包括:中转站可能替换为更弱模型、虚报token用量、存储用户私有数据并出售或用于模型训练。这破坏了KYC、账户封禁和滥用监控的有效性——Anthropic只能封禁中转站,无法触及真实用户。
A crazy blog.
Chinese developers are buying Claude access through gray-market API transfer stations that can sell tokens at 5% to 10% of official prices while hiding the real user from Anthropic.
A transfer station is a middle server that takes a user's prompt, sends it to Claude through overseas accounts, returns the answer, and collects payment through WeChat or Alipay.
The transfer station collects many Claude accounts through free credits, discounted accounts, shared subscriptions, overseas payment workarounds, fake verification, or sometimes stolen-card accounts.