NovaAbout NovaAPI
NovaAPI sells access to DeepSeek's official API to developers who cannot pay DeepSeek directly. We are a small team operating from China, and that fact is not a footnote to this business — it is the reason it can exist.
Why we exist, stated plainly
DeepSeek's official platform is built for people inside China. Signing up asks for a Chinese phone number; topping up asks for a Chinese payment method. From Jakarta, Lagos, Karachi or São Paulo, those two requirements close the door — not because the models are unavailable (they are open-weight) but because the payment rails are.
We are on the other side of that wall. We can pay, we have been able to pay since we started, and we buy at the official rate on a paid account of our own. What we sell is the ability to reach the same API through a rail you actually have — USDT (TRC20) or PayPal.
Who we are
- Operator. NovaAPI is a product of L-Base, a company operating from China. Our company site is lbase.com.
- What we are not. We are not DeepSeek, and we are not an authorised partner or reseller. We hold no partnership agreement with DeepSeek. We buy from their public API at the published price and resell it at a published markup. That is the entire relationship, and we would rather write it down than let you assume otherwise.
- Who we serve. Developers in Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and Africa — the places where the card gets declined, PayPal is restricted, or the local wallet cannot reach a foreign API.
- How to reach us. hello@lbase.com. There is a real person on the other end; we do not run a ticket robot.
What we do not claim
This category is full of claims nobody can check. Ours are deliberately shorter than our competitors' — because a claim we cannot demonstrate does not go on the site.
- We are not the cheapest. Our rate is DeepSeek's own off-peak rate × 2.5, published on our pricing page. The cheap end of this market runs on harvested credits and pooled accounts; their price and their impermanence are the same fact seen from two sides.
- We do not promise uptime. Our service is best-effort, not an SLA. We publish no availability percentage because we have not measured one. Keep a fallback configured for anything production-grade — including a fallback for us.
- We do not control DeepSeek. Our supply comes from one upstream vendor's official API. If that changes, we have a problem and so do you. We wrote a whole page about this rather than leave it for you to discover.
- We do not hide what we know about your data. Requests are screened for prohibited content and that screening sends your request text to a third party. It is in our privacy policy, in the section you would normally have to hunt for.
- We do not seize balances. If we stop operating, unused balances are refundable on request, with no deadline — and that is written into our Terms of Service, not just promised here.
How to judge us
Do not take our word for any of the above. Two checks take about a minute each:
- Check the price against DeepSeek's own published rates. Multiply them by 2.5 and see whether our published price matches. If it does not, we are misrepresenting something.
- Try a small top-up before you commit. The minimum is $5. If we are going to be a problem for you, you should find that out for five dollars rather than five hundred.
If either check fails, tell us at hello@lbase.com. A reseller whose only durable asset is being straight with people cannot afford to argue with that.