Become a Claude / Codex Channel Partner
Five wholesale tiers · one-time top-up from CNY 3,000 · no KYC · live in about 0.5–1 hour
Joining the partner program vs building it yourself
The usual question is: "why not negotiate upstream myself and run my own gateway?" The difference is the heavy lifting: maintaining and scheduling upstream account pools, per-token metering and deduction, cross-border networking, DNS validation and TLS issuance for your domain, and a self-service usage page for your customers. Joining the partner program means that stack is already in production and you own the brand, the pricing and the selling. We do not represent Anthropic, OpenAI or Google, and we do not sublicense any rights from them; your agreement is with QCode, and each provider's own terms still govern the underlying service.
Five tiers: a one-time top-up locks your wholesale discount
Your tier is set by a one-time top-up, not a monthly fee. The first top-up locks the discount and renewals keep it. The multiplier is the discount: at 0.75, $1 of upstream consumption only draws $0.75 from your quota. Each top-up also carries an 8% partnership fee.
Three Typical Partner Profiles
Community operators: KOLs, newsletter authors and Discord owners with a developer audience usually start at E or D and convert from their community. Solo SaaS founders: an existing product adding AI coding as a premium SKU usually starts at C or B, converting existing users. University labs and training providers: issuing learner accounts in bulk, picking a tier from expected term usage.
How to apply: no KYC, no approval queue
There is no KYC process — your email does not need company certificates or legal documents. The flow: ① use the calculator to work out what this top-up costs (amount + 8% partnership fee) → ② top up that amount on the QCode recharge page → ③ send one application email with your brand domain, target region, intended tier, settlement currency and your QCode account → ④ we configure the branded entry, DNS validation and TLS by hand, about 0.5–1 hour → ⑤ you receive your branded entry point and first API keys and can start selling.
The first 30 days after provisioning
Week 1: set up your brand details and the three-language branded homepage in the partner console, and create the second-level API keys your customers will use (each can carry its own daily cap, total cap, concurrency limit and allowed host list). Week 2: roll out to 5–10 core users and reconcile the deduction figures against the console's usage and billing pages. Weeks 3–4: go wide, and use the open API (/me, /balance, /usage, /keys) to sync usage into your own back office.
FAQ: 8 Most Common Partner Questions
(1) Who handles upstream account problems? QCode maintains the upstream pools; you only deal with QCode. (2) Can you see my customers' data? Partner customer data is stored separately. (3) Can I exit mid-term? Yes, with 30 days' written notice. (4) Can I set my own end-user prices? Yes — your retail price is yours; we only deduct quota at your tier multiplier. (5) Do I need engineering capacity? No — the branded entry, console and open API are ready to use. (6) Is there a concurrency cap? No. Billing follows consumed quota, with no limit on requests per second or parallel streams. (7) Does the balance expire? No, it accumulates; when it reaches zero, upstream requests are rejected. (8) Can you issue invoices? Please confirm with our business team based on your settlement currency and entity.
What joining the partner program saves you
Upstream account pools, metering and deduction, domain TLS, cross-border networking, a usage page your customers can check themselves, a branded homepage — all of it is already built. You top up, submit your domain, and about 0.5–1 hour later you have your branded entry point and your first API keys.
Apply to QCode.cc Partner Program
Five wholesale tiers · one-time top-up from CNY 3,000 · no KYC