The 1.5x-ratio black market API tokens are not actually running Claude — they substitute a much cheaper model with fake Claude identity — while the 5x-ratio tokens appear to deliver legitimate Claude.

6:36I went and translated it, essentially they have three different groupings of of Claude that they're trying to sell you, right? There's Claude Max is of high quality, there's Claude fast, and then there's Claude offers great value for money. Um, and what I've broken this down into is that there is Claude Max, which seems to be we'll go into this in a second. Seems to be legitimate. Claude is not

7:05actually $100 uh worth of credit for $8. It's It's $100 worth of credit for for $40 because it's it's actually boosting it up at five times the ratio. then claude fast and the other ones they have slightly different rules around caching and whether they actually work if they're offline or not. Those ones are 1.5x. So there is no 1x. We're we're kind of we're kind of screwed there. But

7:32I went ahead and made tokens for all of them. And I went in, of course, I'm not going to run this on my computer. I'm running this on a sandbox environment where it can't actually get access to my entire computer. And I simply just went into my cloud settings and swapped out the tokens that are being used. I don't know. You can you can use the rest of my

7:52tokens if you want after this. And then the base URL that we're sending it to. Right there. They've set up a transfer station in between that will inject it. Now, if I just go ahead and run Claude in here. Of course, I trust this folder. Right. There we go. Opus 5. Um, let's just go ahead and try say hey. It's going to boogie and we'll see if it

8:16actually works. All of it comes back in Chinese, which is not what actually happened last time. Let's let's translate that quickly and see what that actually means. What content needs to be searched? What code or documentation needs to be created? Tell me exactly what you want to do and I will execute it immediately. Please speak English for me. Create a simple website that is an admin dashboard.

8:48We'll see if it will go ahead and create those things for me. There we go. We got it back to English. All right, it seemed to create it in 44 seconds, which is suspiciously fast. It wasn't doing it that fast earlier. So, that makes me think it maybe is not even using Claude at right now. Um let's say start a vit server with allowing IP address visiting. All right, seems like it

9:13finished up and visiting the website that also is suspiciously does not look like a claude. Opus 5 does not use emojis like this. It doesn't do this design. It is blue. This is this is very clearly not giving you Opus 5. I however I will tell you that in my testing in the past it was giving me actual cloud. Let's try change the model to sonnet. All right here it's telling me

9:39we want modern dark mode. It took 5 minutes to come up with the question of do you want modern dark mode? So obviously not very fast. While that's running let's talk about this for just a second. So what I did is I whipped up a script that would run a bunch of different calls to the different APIs out there, right? And I also used legitimate cloud tokens because I wanted