OpenAI API / GPT-3 is not available in your country? Do this instead!

Harish Garg

Introduction

You have heard all about GPT-3, you are looking forward to using it. You try to create an account at OpenAI website and you get an error message saying that you are not allowed to use GPT-3.

You find out your country of residence is not supported by OpenAI for GPT-3 API access.

Some notable countries and territories where GPT-3 is not available are:

China
Russia
Ukraine
Afghanistan
Belarus
Venezuela
Iran

What can you do in this case? let’s look at some legal ways for you to use GPT-3 indirectly and some alternatives

Countries where GPT-3 is currently available

Below countries are where GPT-3 is currently supported and available for you to use.

Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Bahamas
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Cabo Verde
Canada
Colombia
Comoros
Congo (Congo-Brazzaville)
Costa Rica
Côte d’Ivoire
Croatia
Cyprus
Czechia (Czech Republic)
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Estonia
Fiji
Finland
France
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Holy See (Vatican City)
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
North Macedonia
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Palestine
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sri Lanka
Suriname
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Tanzania
Thailand
Timor-Leste (East Timor)
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Tuvalu
Uganda
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States of America
Uruguay
Vanuatu
Zambia

If you are not a resident of one of the above countries, you cannot sign-up for or use GPT-3 currently.

However, there are some alternatives you can try.

What are your alternatives?

It depends upon what’s your usage need.

Do you want to use GPT-3 for text generation as a content creator yourself?, read on then.

Use 3rd party AI content application

You can a third party service like Copy.ai. They use OpenAI GPT-3 API to generate text
You can create all kinds of content using copy.ai tools, including full blog posts.

There are lot of other alternatives too depending upon your need and your budget.

However, if you need is to develop apps where you need direct access to the OpenAI API, then keep reading to understand the alternatives.

Alternatives to OpenAI GPT-3 API

Since OpenAI released GPT-3 API, there has been other AI companies and teams who have released their own GPT-3 like models. Some of them are available as open source and some are available as paid services.

Some paid GPT-3 like API services

Conclusion

There are certain users who are not able to use OpenAI GPT-3 API due to various reaosns one of which is being a residence of some countries that is not supported by OpenAI. However, there are some alternatives to OpenAI GPT-3 API that are available for those users. Hope some of the alternatives in this post will help you to get started with a GPT-3 like AI API.

Some of my other GPT-3 posts:

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