AIJWS Review: The Terms, Privacy and Cost Risks for Hong Kong Developers Using a Third-Party AI API Relay

AIJWS is a third-party AI API relay at api.aijws.com. Users register, top up a prepaid balance, create a key and set the base URL of any OpenAI-compatible tool to https://api.aijws.com/v1. The service is not operated by OpenAI, Anthropic or Google, and the models available depend on the accounts the operator connects behind it.

The website sits behind a Cloudflare check, and its open pages show no company name, address, terms, privacy policy or price list. Before payment only the registration form is visible; prices, models and top-up methods can be seen in the console after registration.

OpenAI's list of supported countries and territories includes neither Hong Kong nor mainland China, and states that using or providing access to its services from places not on the list may result in an account being blocked or suspended. Anthropic's list of supported regions likewise omits Hong Kong and mainland China; it bars entities majority-owned or controlled by persons or entities in unsupported regions, as well as individuals physically located in an unsupported region.

Relays find a market in Hong Kong precisely because the official routes are closed. Using one, however, means a user in Hong Kong reaching the models through someone else's account elsewhere, which the providers' terms do not permit; once an upstream account is banned, the service stops.

AIJWS's API returns exactly the same error messages as Sub2API, which shows that it runs Sub2API. The open-source project, with about 44,700 stars on GitHub, describes itself as an AI API gateway for subscription quota distribution: it pools upstream subscriptions or API keys for Claude, OpenAI and Codex, Gemini and Grok, issues its own keys, meters usage by token and deducts the cost from each user's balance.

The operator divides accounts and keys into groups, each with a rate multiplier on the model price, and may route a requested model name to any upstream it chooses. Payment runs through built-in EasyPay, Alipay, WeChat Pay or Stripe integrations; which of these AIJWS actually offers becomes clear only at top-up.

Sub2API's README states that use of the project may violate the terms of service of Anthropic and other upstream providers, that it is intended only for technical learning and research, and that its authors have never authorised any commercial operation. Reselling pooled subscription quota to the public is exactly such a use.

The risk falls first on the upstream accounts: once a provider bans them, the relay can no longer supply those models, and whether a user's remaining balance can be recovered rests entirely with the operator. AIJWS publishes no refund terms, so a top-up should be treated as spent immediately.

Our link opens AIJWS's registration page with the invite code A8RXXLZYJ3EL already entered. AIJWS publishes no sign-up reward for invited users, and prices are the same whether or not the code is used. Sub2API allows an operator to give every new account a starting balance; if AIJWS has set one, it appears in the console however the account was registered.

Disclosure: A8RXXLZYJ3EL is our invite code. On Sub2API sites the inviter receives, as usage balance, a percentage of each top-up made by an invited user, at a rate set by the operator and not published by AIJWS; we therefore receive AIJWS credit when you top up.

Sub2API sites charge the model's listed price multiplied by the group rate against a prepaid balance, with usage counted by token. AIJWS lists models, prices and multipliers only within the console, and these should be reviewed before topping up, together with the group to which the key belongs.

For reference, at Anthropic's official prices Claude Opus 4.8 costs US$5 per million input tokens, US$25 per million output tokens and US$0.50 per million cache hits. A day using 2 million input and 200,000 output tokens costs US$15 at the official price (about HK$117 at HK$7.8 to the US dollar); if 1.5 million of the input tokens are cache hits, it costs US$8.25 (about HK$64). If the relay's saving is not substantial, it does not offset the terms, privacy and reliability risks.

Every prompt, file and reply passes first through AIJWS's servers and then through someone else's upstream account. Because the operator names no company, users have no one with whom to conclude a data processing contract.

Client or employer code, login credentials, trade secrets and anyone's personal data should therefore never be sent through this service. Work involving such material should use a named provider with whom a contract can be signed.

Sub2API allows the operator to route a model name to any upstream, so users cannot verify externally which model actually responds. Reliability also depends on the upstream accounts, and bans or rate limits cause interruptions.

AIJWS has no app and no page on the main review platforms. User feedback appears mainly on relay-monitoring sites in mainland China; as of 24 October 2026 the common complaints were 503 and 429 errors at busy times, doubts that the model matches its label and interruptions caused by upstream account bans, while the positive comments centred on low prices.

After registering through our link, top up the minimum amount the console allows and create a separate key for each tool (Sub2API keys begin with sk-) so that each can be revoked individually. Set the tool's base URL to https://api.aijws.com/v1.

Test first with a short request and check the token count and cost on the usage page before running longer work. Set a spending limit within the tool and keep an alternative available so that work does not stop if the service is interrupted.

It suits developers working mainly on small personal projects or throwaway experiments, for whom cost matters more than continuity, and who commit only a small balance.

It does not suit work for clients or employers, anything involving personal data or trade secrets, production systems, or users unwilling to bear the risk of breaching a provider's terms through a third party.