Parfait TOKE
Co-founder & Business Lead
EIT at MEST AFRICA
About RodiumAi
Built in Africa, for Africa
We started RodiumAi because we kept running into the same wall: great ideas, talented developers, and no way to pay for AI access. We're fixing that.
Vision
A continent where every developer can build with AI
Africa has 700 million people under 30. Many are developers, entrepreneurs, and problem-solvers. We believe AI should be their tool as much as anyone else's, and we're removing the barriers that say otherwise.
Mission
Democratize AI access through local payment infrastructure
No bank card. No international wire. No waiting three weeks for a Stripe account. You have a phone. You have Mobile Money. That's enough to access provider models like openai/gpt-4o, anthropic/claude-3-5-sonnet, meta/llama-3-3-70b, and deepseek/deepseek-v3 through RodiumAi.
Why Africa-first?
Every AI provider bills in USD. Most of Africa can't pay that way.
52%
of adults in Africa remain unbanked. Yet every AI provider requires an international card.
6.9M
builders locked out of the tools the rest of the world builds with.
$1.43T
in Mobile Money processed across Africa in 2025. Accepted by zero AI providers.
The result: AI stays out of African products, and a generation of builders is left behind.
SOURCE: BCG · GSMA · WORLD BANK, 2025
Our Values
How we work
Africa-First
Every decision starts with the question: 'Does this serve African developers?' Payment methods, latency, documentation, all built with the continent in mind.
Radical Simplicity
AI infrastructure doesn't need to be complicated. We remove every barrier between a developer's idea and their first working API call.
Community-Driven
We are builders helping builders. Our developer community across 28 African countries shapes the roadmap.
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Community
Build with us
Join developers across Africa on Discord, follow our journey on LinkedIn, and explore our open-source work on GitHub.
Everything you need to know
From your first API call to topping up with Mobile Money, here is how RodiumAi works.