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Paying and working from Russia

How to pay for AI models, code editors, hosting, domains and SEO services from Russia and what to do when a service does not open - one list by the tasks that come up while making a site AI-ready

How payment works

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The payment links lead to a Russian-language service. The account is topped up in rubles, and the subscription or balance of the foreign service is paid from it. Each service has its own page with the steps.

A subscription and an API are separate accounts. A ChatGPT subscription does not pay for an OpenAI API key, and the reverse: if a utility needs a key, pay for the API.

AI models

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They are needed to check what they answer about your site and to run the prompts. How to count mentions: How to measure AI visibility.

  • ChatGPT

    The most used chat and search: the first place to check what it says about a site

  • Claude

    A long context: handy for passing a whole llms-full.txt

  • Perplexity

    Answer search with a source list: shows whether it cited the site

  • Gemini

    The Google model, the same one behind AI Overviews in search

  • Grok

    The xAI model with access to fresh posts

  • Microsoft Copilot

    Answers built on the Bing index

  • DeepSeek

    A Chinese model strong at reasoning and code

  • Qwen

    The Alibaba model: one more surface to check answers on

  • Kimi

    The Moonshot model with a long context

  • Poe

    Several models in one subscription: a quick way to compare answers

  • Manus

    An agent that browses sites itself: a check through an agent's eyes

API keys

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A key is needed by utilities such as llmstxt-architect and by your own scripts. It is a separate account, not a chat subscription.

  • OpenAI API

    A key for utilities and scripts; a ChatGPT subscription does not replace it

  • Anthropic API

    A key for Claude models in your own tools

  • OpenRouter

    One key to models from different companies

  • Replicate

    Runs open models by API with no server of your own

Code editors and agents

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An editor with a model inside is a handy place to build and check llms.txt right in the site repository.

  • Cursor

    An editor with a model: build and check llms.txt right in the repository

  • Claude Code

    An agent in the terminal: edits the site and runs the checks itself

  • GitHub Copilot

    An assistant in a familiar editor

  • OpenAI Codex

    The OpenAI coding agent

  • Windsurf

    An editor with an agent, an alternative to Cursor

  • Replit

    An editor and runtime in the browser, nothing to install

Site builders

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For when there is no site yet. What a finished site should have: An AI-ready site.

  • Lovable

    Builds a site from a description

  • Bolt

    Builds a web app from a description in the browser

  • v0

    Generates interfaces and pages, by Vercel

  • Webflow

    A builder with clean markup and metadata fields

  • Framer

    A builder for landing pages

  • Shopify

    A store with product markup out of the box

Hosting and builds

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The file does not go stale when it is built together with the site. On Markdown for agents: Markdown versions of pages.

  • Cloudflare

    Serves Markdown to agents with no site changes and controls bot access

  • GitHub

    A repository and file builds in Actions

  • GitLab

    A repository and builds, an alternative to GitHub

  • Vercel

    Hosting: the file is rebuilt on every publish

  • Netlify

    Static site hosting with builds

  • Heroku

    App hosting with no server setup

  • DigitalOcean

    Your own server when full control over headers is needed

  • Supabase

    A database and sign-in for a site

  • Firebase

    Hosting and a database by Google

Clouds

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Storage, servers and models by API from the large providers.

Domains

Section titled “Domains”

llms.txt is read from the domain root, so your own domain matters more than an address on someone else’s platform.

SEO services

Section titled “SEO services”

They show rankings, links and mentions of a site. What in their numbers can be trusted: AI Search Optimization.

  • Ahrefs

    Links, rankings and site mentions in AI answers

  • Semrush

    Rankings, queries and visibility in search and in AI

Automation

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Rebuild the file on a schedule, check links, send a report - with no code of your own.

  • n8n Cloud

    Workflows with no server: rebuilding the file, checking links

  • Zapier

    Connects services to each other with no code

  • Make

    Automation scenarios with a visual diagram

Team

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Where tasks, designs and the knowledge base live.

Credentials

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API keys do not belong in a repository - a password manager is the place for them.

  • 1Password

    A password manager: API keys belong here, not in a repository

  • Bitwarden

    An open-source password manager

  • LastPass

    A password manager

Text and images

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Tools for site materials.

When a service does not open

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A paid subscription does not help when the service is closed to Russian addresses. Access is set up first, payment comes second.

What is available in Russia

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Alice answers can be checked with no payment and no network setup. A site on Webasyst has extensions for llms.txt and JSON-LD.

Yandex search in any browser

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Whether a site made it into Alice’s answers and Yandex results is easiest to check straight from the address bar. Yandex is not built in everywhere, though: Firefox does not list it among its search engines on desktop or on phones. There are two ways to bring it back.

With an add-on. Firefox on desktop and on Android has the Yandex Search add-on. It makes Yandex the default search in the address bar and adds the @ya keyword for a query from any tab.

By hand. This works in any browser, including those that take no add-ons, such as Firefox on iPhone:

  1. Open the browser settings and the Search section.

  2. Choose “Add search engine”.

  3. Type “Yandex” as the name and paste the search address into the URL field:

    https://ya.ru/search/?clid=15437607&text=%s

  4. Save and pick Yandex as the default search engine.

The same steps in Firefox on iPhone:

The "Add search engine" screen in Firefox on iPhone: the name field says Yandex and the URL field holds the search address
Name and search address
The Search settings screen in Firefox on iPhone: Yandex is the default search engine, with "Add search engine" below
Yandex set as default

In Chrome and browsers built on it the same settings section is called “Search engine”, and a new entry is added under “Manage search engines”.