For developers in Algeria: getting an API key billed in dinars, moving existing OpenAI code over, choosing between your own GPU and the API, and charging your own customers.
You can write the code. What stops you is everything around it: the platform wants an international card, the tutorials assume one, and your customers cannot be charged automatically every month.
This topic gathers what a developer in Algeria needs to build on AI models: a key billed in dinars, the move of existing code, the choice between a GPU at home and an API, and a way to get paid by your own customers.
AI APIs speak a documented format, and your code can call them from anywhere. The wall is the bill, and later the bill you send your own customers.
OpenDunes speaks the OpenAI format: the official OpenAI libraries work after you change two values, the base URL and the key, and every request is paid in dinars.
The guide to using the OpenAI API from Algeria covers the whole path: where the wall really is, a first call, a price table of real models in dinars, and the next steps from there.
From there, each article answers one narrower question: what a GPU at home really costs against a price per message, how to change the base URL of existing code, and how to charge your customers in dinars without a monthly card payment.
Newest first.
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Your code already speaks the OpenAI format. Change two values, the base URL and the key, and the same code runs through OpenDunes, paid in dinars.
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