APICheap (apicheap.net) Review (2026)
A Hong Kong-registered storefront ('LOOM AGNECY') whose refund policy heading is literally 'ABSOLUTE NO REFUND', and whose SLA carves upstream provider outages out of compensation.
At a glance
| Domain | apicheap.net |
|---|---|
| Registered | 2026-03-21 — Registrar: Namecheap. Registrant: 'Withheld for Privacy ehf' (Iceland privacy proxy). Checked 2026-08-07. |
| Legal entity | LOOM AGNECY (spelling as published on its own refund-policy page), Hong Kong. The only one of the seven that names its company on-site — though the name appears to contain a typo. Its pages publish 'Business Registration No: 79102431' (captured 2026-09-23; we have not independently verified this number against the Hong Kong Companies Registry). |
| Target market | Global storefront; sitemap still gives /vi (Vietnamese) priority 1.0, but /vi now redirects (HTTP 307) to /en/ — the Vietnamese page has been withdrawn rather than remaining an English shell (captured 2026-09-23) |
| Payment | Stripe, Airwallex (per its refund-policy compliance line); its cookie policy separately lists QR, PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, and wire transfer among its payment processors (captured 2026-09-23); pay-per-use credits, no subscription |
| Pricing claims | Pay-per-use API credits; homepage advertises '99.9% SLA uptime' on the Enterprise tier. |
| Refund grade | F — Section title is literally 'ABSOLUTE NO REFUND'; all sales final once a key is used. |
Refund policy, in their own words
“ALL SALES ARE FINAL. NO REFUNDS WILL BE ISSUED UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES ONCE AN API KEY HAS BEEN UTILIZED” Source: https://www.apicheap.net/en/legal/refund-policy — captured 2026-09-22
Section 2 of its refund policy is titled 'API KEYS AND DIGITAL CREDITS — ABSOLUTE NO REFUND'. If the company terminates your account without cause, unused prepaid credits are refunded in full with 30 days notice 'where practicable'. Duplicate charges: full refund.
Notable findings from published pages
- Refund policy section 2 heading reads 'ABSOLUTE NO REFUND'; body: 'ALL SALES ARE FINAL. NO REFUNDS WILL BE ISSUED UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES ONCE AN API KEY HAS BEEN UTILIZED' (captured 2026-08-07).
- Its SLA excludes 'Downtime caused by upstream AI model providers (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Google outages)' from any service credit — the most common failure mode for a reseller is carved out (captured 2026-08-07).
- Homepage advertises '99.9% SLA uptime', but the SLA page commits Basic tier to 99.0% (up to ~7.3 hours down/month) and marks the 99.9% Enterprise figure '(negotiable)' (captured 2026-08-07).
- Names its company on-site — 'LOOM AGNECY', Hong Kong, Business Registration No: 79102431 — the only one of the seven to publish a company name and registration number (captured 2026-09-23), though the name appears to contain a typo; we have not verified the number against the Companies Registry.
- Service credits are 'applied as API credit balance, not cash refunds', capped at 50% of the month's usage (captured 2026-08-07; not re-verified this pass).
- Its API endpoint api.apicheap.net failed to complete a TLS handshake from our network on 2026-09-23 (both a direct connection and via our local proxy; port 80 gave no response either) — the same failure recorded on 2026-08-07 and 2026-09-22. The marketing site (apicheap.net) itself responds normally; this tells us about our network path to that one endpoint, not necessarily whether the API works for other users.
Our verification result
We have not yet run our own verification test against this provider's API. If you hold a key, you can run the same checks we would — entirely in your browser — with the verifier.
Site reachability
Our monitor reached apicheap.net on 2026-09-23 UTC: HTTP
200 in 5008 ms.
Reachable on 3 of 3 daily checks since 2026-09-21.
API endpoint: Not responding to our monitor on 2026-09-23 — this can be regional or temporary.
An unauthenticated request only shows whether the endpoint answers; it is not a test of the API's models or quality — use the verifier for that.
Reachability only tells you the website responded to our monitor. It is not a test of the API or of model authenticity — for that, use the verifier.
FAQ
Is APICheap legit?
Here is what its own published pages show (captured 2026-09-23): it is the only one of the seven resellers we track that names its company and a registration number on-site ('LOOM AGNECY', Hong Kong, Business Registration No: 79102431; we have not verified this number ourselves). Its refund policy is titled 'ABSOLUTE NO REFUND' for used keys, and its SLA excludes upstream provider outages from compensation. We have not yet completed our own verification test against its API. Weigh these published facts yourself.
What is APICheap's refund policy?
According to their published terms (captured 2026-08-07): 'ALL SALES ARE FINAL. NO REFUNDS WILL BE ISSUED UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES ONCE AN API KEY HAS BEEN UTILIZED'. Exceptions: duplicate charges (full refund) and company-initiated termination without cause (unused credits refunded). Grade: F on our scale.
Everything above is either a verbatim quote from APICheap (apicheap.net)'s published pages (with capture date and source), public whois data, or the result of our own tests. We make no claims beyond these documented facts. See methodology.