A VPN for AI tools: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and the rest

AI products do not launch everywhere at once. They ship to a supported-region list, then widen it; new models and features arrive in one market months before another; and plenty of office, campus and hotel networks simply block the domains at the gateway. The result is the most common modern connectivity complaint: the tool works for a colleague and not for you.

Black Cat's exits are in Czechia, Germany, Switzerland, Finland, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Poland and the United States (California), on two protocols built to survive filtered networks, with no account, no email and no card. Pay on-chain and the subscription link is your access.

$3/month, 5 devices, both protocols, all locations, unlimited traffic.

Why AI tools are unavailable, and which of those a VPN fixes

Three different things get called "blocked", and only some of them are a network problem:

• Regional rollout. A provider serves a published list of supported countries and turns the rest away at the edge. This is the usual case for people outside the big markets, and it is a network-location decision.
• Staged features. A new model, voice mode, agent feature or app often reaches one region first while regulatory review or capacity planning delays the others, which is why EU and UK users frequently wait months for something that shipped in the US.
• Local network policy. Companies, schools, universities and public Wi-Fi block AI domains at the firewall or DNS. This has nothing to do with the provider and everything to do with the network you are sitting on.

A VPN moves your traffic's exit point and hides its content from the local network, so it addresses the location and local-policy cases. It cannot give you an entitlement you do not have: a paid tier, an account you are eligible for, or permission under a provider's terms. We would rather say that plainly than sell you a fantasy.

Picking the right exit

Latency matters more for AI than for browsing, because you feel every round trip while the answer streams. Two rules of thumb:

• Go where the service lives. Most large models are served from US infrastructure, so the California exit is usually the fastest as well as the most feature-complete. For services or tiers hosted or gated in Europe, use Germany or the Netherlands, both very well connected, or Czechia and Poland if you are further east.
• Test, don't guess. All locations are in every subscription, so switch in your client and compare. A location two hops closer often feels dramatically better on long, streamed answers.

Import the subscription link into Hiddify, sing-box or Clash Meta on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS or Linux, and both protocols plus all locations appear as selectable servers.

Privacy: what a VPN does and does not do for AI use

Between your device and our exit, the traffic is encrypted, so the network operator sees an encrypted connection rather than which AI services you use. Our nodes keep no connection or traffic logs, and there is no account, no email and no card record to link a session to a person, because we never asked for any of it.

What a VPN does not do is change your relationship with the AI provider. Your prompts still go to them, under their policy, tied to whatever account you are signed into. Anyone telling you a VPN makes your AI use anonymous is selling you something. Our claim is narrower and true: the network path between you and the service reveals nothing, and we hold no identity to reveal later.

For developers and autonomous agents

This is where Black Cat is genuinely unusual. Because there is no signup flow, there is nothing for an agent to get stuck on, no email confirmation link, no captcha, no KYC upload. The whole purchase is four HTTP steps: GET /api/plans, POST /api/invoices, pay the exact amount on-chain from a wallet the agent controls, then poll GET /api/invoices/{id} until it returns a subscription URL. There is an OpenAPI spec and an llms.txt for machine readers.

That makes it practical to give a scraper, a research agent or a CI job its own egress in a specific country, provisioned and paid for programmatically, for $3. Full documentation is on the developers & AI agents page.

FAQ

Why can't I open ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini where I am?

Usually one of three reasons: the provider has not launched in your country yet, a specific feature or model is staged and arrives in your region later, or the network you are on (company, campus, school, hotel Wi-Fi) blocks AI domains at the gateway. A VPN only helps with the network-path part, it does not create an entitlement you do not have.

Which location should I pick for AI tools?

US (California) for the earliest feature rollouts and lowest latency to US-hosted inference; Germany, the Netherlands, Czechia or Poland for EU-hosted or EU-gated services; the United Kingdom for UK-specific behaviour. All six are included and you can switch any time.

Will a VPN make AI responses slower?

A little, because of the extra hop. Streamed output suffers from packet loss more than from low bandwidth, which is why Hysteria2 helps: QUIC/UDP with congestion control built for lossy links. Choose the exit closest to the provider.

Do AI providers allow VPN use?

That is between you and their terms, which you should read. Some services challenge connections from datacentre addresses, and a VPN does not override regional licensing or account rules. Our terms forbid unlawful use.

Can an AI agent buy this subscription on its own?

Yes. No signup, no email confirmation and no KYC to automate around: create an invoice, pay on-chain, poll until paid, read the subscription URL. See the agents page for the API and OpenAPI spec.

Do you keep logs of what I ask an AI tool?

No. The nodes keep no connection or traffic logs and there is no account tying traffic to a person. The AI provider still sees your prompts under its own policy, a VPN changes the network path, not what you type into someone else's service.

How much does it cost?

$3/month for 5 devices, both protocols, every location, unlimited traffic. Up to 25% off yearly. Pay in Bitcoin, Monero, Zcash, Solana or USDC on Solana; activation is automatic.