The gray market for access to Claude and other foreign neural networks in Russia has grown to 100-150 million rubles this month. 18+ At the end of 2025, individual entrepreneurs who sold access to foreign artificial intelligence models to Russian businesses through Chinese intermediaries rarely met. In August they were about 50, and their turnover increased to 100-150 million rubles a month. This assessment was given to Vdomosti by GPTunneL, a legal aggregator that competes with them. Its market segment, according to the company, is seven times larger: about 700 million rubles a month. Access to Claude, which is not officially available in Russia, is also requested by large companies. According to Tenderplan, which Vedomosti saw, such purchases were announced this year by NSPK (the operator of Mir), the operator of Hundest, the daughter of Sber Salyutdevaisy and Thander, the main company Magnit. The gray sellers offer prices up to 70% below the official ones. At the same time, brokers can save customer correspondence and sell them to train other people's models, and instead of Claude, sell cheaper Chinese models, market participants warn. In September, anthropotropes described such cases in a report. According to her, the Chinese SenseTime purchased correspondence with Claude from users, and MiniMAX through its own shell company developed a service that sold access to American models for collecting correspondence. Another group, whose operators spoke Russian and Ukrainian, sold "Jack Cup". In fact, the customer requests reached another model, and the group program stole their login data for anthropomorphic accounts. Anthropic writes that it may require proof of identity if the account is used from unsupported countries, including Russia, and blocks those who have not passed the verification. In October, Russian Claude users complained about the wave of blocking.

The gray market for access to Claude and other foreign neural networks in Russia has grown to 100-150 million rubles this month. 18+ At the end of 2025, individual entrepreneurs who sold access to foreign artificial intelligence models to Russian businesses through Chinese intermediaries rarely met. In August they were about 50, and their turnover increased to 100-150 million rubles a month. This assessment was given to Vdomosti by GPTunneL, a legal aggregator that competes with them. Its market segment, according to the company, is seven times larger: about 700 million rubles a month. Access to Claude, which is not officially available in Russia, is also requested by large companies. According to Tenderplan, which Vedomosti saw, such purchases were announced this year by NSPK (the operator of Mir), the operator of Hundest, the daughter of Sber Salyutdevaisy and Thander, the main company Magnit. The gray sellers offer prices up to 70% below the official ones. At the same time, brokers can save customer correspondence and sell them to train other people's models, and instead of Claude, sell cheaper Chinese models, market participants warn. In September, anthropotropes described such cases in a report. According to her, the Chinese SenseTime purchased correspondence with Claude from users, and MiniMAX through its own shell company developed a service that sold access to American models for collecting correspondence. Another group, whose operators spoke Russian and Ukrainian, sold "Jack Cup". In fact, the customer requests reached another model, and the group program stole their login data for anthropomorphic accounts. Anthropic writes that it may require proof of identity if the account is used from unsupported countries, including Russia, and blocks those who have not passed the verification. In October, Russian Claude users complained about the wave of blocking.