Access OpenAI API Anywhere
Supported Locations, Approved Networks随地访问 OpenAI API：仅使用受支持地点和获批网络

TL;DR

Accessing the OpenAI API anywhere requires location eligibility随地访问 OpenAI API 的前提是地点符合使用条件

OpenAI maintains a current list of supported countries and territories and warns that accessing or offering API access outside that list may lead to account blocking or suspension. Treat that list as dynamic policy data and check the official source at implementation and review time rather than copying a static country list into application code.

OpenAI 持续维护 API 支持的国家与地区清单，并明确说明：从清单之外访问或提供 API 访问可能导致账户被封禁或暂停。应把这份清单视为动态政策数据，在实施和复核时查询官方来源，而不是把一份静态国家列表永久写进应用代码。

“Anywhere” should mean that an approved user can reach an approved application from eligible locations while provider credentials remain on a controlled backend. It does not mean masking origin, sharing accounts or routing unsupported users through a supported region. A technically successful network request can still violate provider terms, internal policy or data-residency requirements.

这里的“随地访问”应理解为：获批用户可以在符合条件的地点访问获批应用，而供应商凭证始终保留在受控后端。它不意味着隐藏来源、共享账户，或把不受支持地区的用户流量转发到受支持区域。网络请求即使技术上成功，仍可能违反供应商条款、内部政策或数据驻留要求。

Business travel, remote work, corporate egress and regional backends can make location ambiguous. The user's physical location, account or billing eligibility, server region, payment method, corporate network exit and the destination of processed data are different signals. Legal, security and compliance owners should define which signals control each workload and how exceptions are reviewed.

商务出行、远程办公、企业网络出口和区域后端都会让位置判断变得复杂。用户实际所在地、账户或账单资格、服务器区域、支付方式、企业网络出口和数据处理目的地是不同信号。法务、安全与合规负责人应明确每类工作负载使用哪些信号做决策，以及例外如何审批。

Make eligibility review part of onboarding and change management. Recheck when a provider updates its supported-country policy, when the organization opens a new region, when employees travel or relocate, or when traffic begins to leave through a different egress. Store the policy source and review timestamp with the decision so operators know whether a denial is based on current information.

资格复核应纳入接入与变更管理流程。当供应商更新支持地区政策、企业启用新区域、员工出差或搬迁，或流量开始通过不同出口发送时，都应重新核验。决策记录中还应保留政策来源和复核时间，使运营人员能够判断拒绝结果是否基于最新信息。

Legitimate access patterns合规访问模式

Access-control checklist访问控制清单

Validate access without evasion在不规避限制的前提下验证访问

Validation should prove that the application follows policy when signals are clear, conflicting or unavailable. Use synthetic location attributes and test accounts in a controlled environment; do not test by disguising real traffic or creating accounts with false information. Record the expected decision and the policy version for each case.

验证工作需要证明：无论位置信号清晰、冲突还是不可用，应用都能按政策处理。应在受控环境中使用合成的位置属性和测试账户，不要通过伪装真实流量或使用虚假信息创建账户来测试。每个用例都应记录预期决策和对应的策略版本。

• Test supported, unsupported, unknown and rapidly changing location states.
• Verify browser, mobile and logs never expose the provider API key.
• Exercise travel, compromised account, proxy change and location-data failure.
• Confirm unsupported requests block or use an independently approved alternative.

• 测试受支持、不受支持、未知和快速变化的位置状态。
• 确认浏览器、移动端和日志绝不暴露供应商 API 密钥。
• 演练出行、账户泄露、网络出口变化和位置数据故障。
• 确认不符合条件的请求会被阻断，或使用经过独立批准的替代方案。

Also test the user experience. A controlled denial should explain that the route is unavailable under the applicable location policy without revealing internal detection logic or suggesting bypass steps. Provide a support or compliance review path for legitimate ambiguity, and preserve the request, decision inputs and policy reference for investigation.

还要测试拒绝时的用户体验。受控拒绝应说明该路由因适用的位置政策而不可用，但不能泄露内部检测逻辑，也不能暗示绕过步骤。对确有歧义的合法情况，应提供支持或合规复核路径，并保留请求、决策输入和政策依据以供调查。

Put supported-country policy before the provider call在供应商调用前执行支持地区策略

The user authenticates to an approved application. An identity-aware backend evaluates purpose, device, user and server location, data policy and the current supported-country rule. Only eligible requests receive a server-side OpenAI call through approved egress; all decisions are logged.

用户先向获批应用完成认证。身份感知后端评估用途、设备、用户与服务器位置、数据政策和当前支持地区规则。只有符合条件的请求才会通过获批网络出口在服务端调用 OpenAI，所有决策均被记录。

Keep the OpenAI API key in a server-side secret store and issue application sessions or internal tokens to clients. Browser and mobile code should never receive the provider key. Apply authentication, location and data policy before allocating provider budget, then attach the decision ID to the downstream request so a provider call can be traced back to the exact eligibility decision.

OpenAI API 密钥应保存在服务端密钥库中，客户端只获得应用会话或内部 Token。浏览器与移动端代码绝不能接触供应商密钥。系统应先执行身份、位置和数据政策，再分配供应商预算，并把决策 ID 附加到下游请求，以便将每次供应商调用追溯到准确的资格判断。

Policy-data failure needs an explicit default. If the supported-country source or internal location service is unavailable, high-risk workloads should normally fail closed or use a recently verified signed snapshot for a short interval. Do not silently assume eligibility. Cache entries need a source URL, retrieval time, version or hash and expiry.

政策数据不可用时必须有明确默认行为。如果支持地区来源或内部位置服务不可用，高风险工作负载通常应拒绝请求，或在短时间内使用最近核验过的签名快照，不能悄悄假设请求符合条件。缓存条目应记录来源 URL、获取时间、版本或哈希以及到期时间。

Route only to independently eligible capabilities只路由到独立符合条件的能力

If the OpenAI route is not eligible, QVeris can help discover external APIs, tools, services and live data only where those capabilities are independently authorized for the user, location and policy. It is not a geography-bypass layer.

如果 OpenAI 路由不符合使用条件，QVeris 只能在相关能力对该用户、位置和政策独立获得授权时，帮助发现外部 API、工具、服务与实时数据；它不是地理限制绕过层。

Eligibility must be evaluated per provider and capability. A different service may have its own supported-region list, licensing terms, data residency, sanctions controls and account requirements. Do not treat an alternative route as automatically permitted merely because it is technically reachable or appears in a capability catalog.

资格必须按供应商和具体能力分别判断。不同服务可能拥有独立的支持地区清单、许可条款、数据驻留要求、制裁控制和账户条件。某条替代路由即使技术上可达，或出现在能力目录中，也不能被自动视为允许使用。

Use Discover to identify candidates, Inspect to review schema, provider, permissions, cost and coverage, and Call only after the application policy approves the route. Record the provider and policy evidence with the execution result. If no independently eligible option exists, return a controlled unavailability response instead of attempting to conceal origin.

先通过“发现”寻找候选能力，再通过“检查”核对结构、供应商、权限、成本和覆盖范围，只有在应用政策批准后才能执行“调用”。执行结果应同时记录供应商与政策证据。如果不存在独立符合条件的方案，应返回受控的不可用响应，而不是尝试隐藏来源。

Decide eligibility from a complete location record基于完整的位置记录判断资格

A country lookup is necessary, but it is not a complete access decision. Record the signals that explain who is requesting access, where the user and workload operate, which account will be charged, where traffic exits, and which data rules apply. The policy owner—not a single IP database—decides how those signals combine.

国家查询是必要条件，但不能单独构成完整的访问决策。系统应记录谁在请求访问、用户和工作负载在哪里运行、由哪个账户计费、流量从哪里出口以及适用哪些数据规则。各类信号如何组合，应由策略负责人定义，而不是交给单一 IP 数据库决定。

Store confidence and provenance with every signal. If a signal is missing, stale, contradictory, or derived from an untrusted header, mark it as unknown instead of forcing a country value. High-risk requests should fail closed or enter a documented manual review path.

每项信号都应携带可信度与来源。若信号缺失、过期、相互冲突，或来自不可信 Header，应标记为“未知”，而不是强行填写某个国家。高风险请求应默认拒绝，或进入有记录的人工复核流程。

Implement lawful OpenAI API access in eight steps用八个步骤实施合规的 OpenAI API 访问

The implementation order matters. Eligibility must be evaluated before secrets are used, provider budget is allocated, or prompt data leaves the application boundary.

实施顺序非常重要。系统必须先判断资格，再使用供应商凭证、分配调用预算或让 Prompt 数据离开应用边界。

1. Assign ownership. Name a product owner, security owner, and legal or compliance approver. Define which team can change the policy and who can approve exceptions.
2. Define the access contract. List supported user groups, workloads, data classes, server regions, egress addresses, and provider projects.
3. Reference the live country policy. Keep the official OpenAI supported-country URL, retrieval time, hash or version, review owner, and expiry. Do not embed an unmaintained country list in release code.
4. Authenticate the user to your application. Use SSO or another managed identity system, short application sessions, least privilege, and device or service identity where appropriate.
5. Evaluate policy server-side. Combine user location, account eligibility, server and egress location, purpose, and data rules. Return an explicit allow, deny, or review decision with reason codes.
6. Call OpenAI only after approval. Retrieve a scoped key from a secret manager and send the request through approved infrastructure. Never return the provider key to a browser, mobile app, extension, or customer.
7. Record evidence. Attach a decision ID to the provider request and log policy version, coarse signals, route, model or capability, result, latency, and cost without logging secrets or unnecessary sensitive prompt data.
8. Revalidate continuously. Retest after country-policy updates, employee travel or relocation, new regions, egress changes, identity changes, provider incidents, or material product changes.

1. 确定负责人。明确产品负责人、安全负责人和法务或合规审批人；定义谁能修改策略、谁能审批例外。
2. 定义访问契约。列出允许的用户组、工作负载、数据级别、服务器区域、出口地址和供应商 Project。
3. 引用实时国家策略。保存 OpenAI 官方支持国家页面、获取时间、哈希或版本、复核人和过期时间，不在发布代码中写入无人维护的国家列表。
4. 先向自有应用认证。使用 SSO 或其他受管身份系统、短期应用会话、最小权限，并按需验证设备或服务身份。
5. 在服务端执行策略。组合用户位置、账户资格、服务器与出口位置、用途和数据规则，返回带原因码的允许、拒绝或复核决定。
6. 批准后才调用 OpenAI。从密钥管理系统读取受限 Key，并通过获批基础设施发起请求。绝不把供应商 Key 返回给浏览器、移动 App、扩展或客户。
7. 记录证据。给供应商请求附加决策 ID，记录策略版本、粗粒度信号、路由、模型或能力、结果、延迟与成本，但不记录密钥或不必要的敏感 Prompt 数据。
8. 持续复核。国家策略更新、员工出行或搬迁、新区域上线、出口变化、身份变化、供应商事件或重大产品变更后，都要重新测试。

Make the policy decision explicit in code在代码中显式表达策略决策

Keep policy evaluation separate from the OpenAI client. The policy function should accept normalized evidence and return a decision object; the provider adapter should refuse to run unless the decision is allowed. This separation makes tests deterministic and prevents a network retry from bypassing policy.

应把策略判断与 OpenAI Client 分开。策略函数接收标准化证据并返回决策对象；供应商适配器只有在决策为允许时才可运行。这样的分层让测试可重复，也能防止网络重试绕过策略。

async function callOpenAI(request, context) {
  const evidence = await collectEligibilityEvidence(context);
  const decision = policyEngine.evaluate({
    userCountry: evidence.userCountry,
    accountEligible: evidence.accountEligible,
    serverCountry: DEPLOYMENT_COUNTRY,
    egressId: evidence.egressId,
    purpose: request.purpose,
    dataClass: request.dataClass,
    policyVersion: evidence.policyVersion
  });

  audit.write({ decisionId: decision.id, ...decision.safeLog });

  if (decision.action !== "allow") {
    throw new AccessPolicyError(decision.reasonCode);
  }

  const apiKey = await secretManager.read("openai/project-key");
  return openai.responses.create({
    model: APPROVED_MODEL,
    input: request.input
  }, { headers: { "X-Decision-ID": decision.id }, apiKey });
}

async function callOpenAI(request, context) {
  const evidence = await collectEligibilityEvidence(context);
  const decision = policyEngine.evaluate({
    userCountry: evidence.userCountry,
    accountEligible: evidence.accountEligible,
    serverCountry: DEPLOYMENT_COUNTRY,
    egressId: evidence.egressId,
    purpose: request.purpose,
    dataClass: request.dataClass,
    policyVersion: evidence.policyVersion
  });

  audit.write({ decisionId: decision.id, ...decision.safeLog });

  if (decision.action !== "allow") {
    throw new AccessPolicyError(decision.reasonCode);
  }

  const apiKey = await secretManager.read("openai/project-key");
  return openai.responses.create({
    model: APPROVED_MODEL,
    input: request.input
  }, { headers: { "X-Decision-ID": decision.id }, apiKey });
}

This is an architectural example, not a drop-in SDK sample. The supported-country rule, data policy, approved model, logging fields, and enforcement behavior must come from your current environment. Never trust a client-supplied country or purpose without server-side verification.

这是架构示例，不是可直接复制的 SDK 示例。支持国家规则、数据策略、获批模型、日志字段与执行行为必须来自你的当前环境。不得未经服务端验证就信任客户端提交的国家或用途。

Protect keys, projects, and network egress together同时保护 Key、Project 与网络出口

OpenAI's key-safety guidance says not to deploy API keys in browsers or mobile applications and recommends routing requests through your own backend. Production protection should extend beyond “put the key in an environment variable”: use scoped credentials, controlled egress, usage monitoring, and a tested rotation procedure.

OpenAI 的 Key 安全指南明确要求不要在浏览器或移动应用中部署 API Key，并建议通过自有后端转发请求。生产保护不能止于“把 Key 放进环境变量”，还应包含受限凭证、受控出口、用量监控以及经过演练的轮换流程。

Avoid the failure modes that make “anywhere” unsafe避免让“随地访问”变得不安全的失败模式

Test the policy with a decision matrix用决策矩阵测试策略

Use synthetic evidence in unit and integration tests. Do not disguise real traffic or create false account information. Each test must name the policy version, expected action, expected reason code, and whether an OpenAI request is allowed to leave the backend.

单元测试与集成测试应使用合成证据，不要伪装真实流量或创建虚假账户信息。每个用例都要写明策略版本、预期动作、预期原因码，以及是否允许 OpenAI 请求离开后端。

Operate the control with evidence, alerts, and review用证据、告警与复核持续运营控制

A one-time launch review is not enough because country support, employee locations, infrastructure, and application behavior change. Run the access policy as an owned operational control with a review calendar and measurable signals.

一次上线评审远远不够，因为支持国家、员工位置、基础设施和应用行为都会变化。应把访问策略作为有明确责任人的运营控制，配套复核日历和可量化信号。

Troubleshoot denials without weakening the policy在不削弱策略的前提下排查拒绝

Start with the application decision record, not with attempts to change origin. An HTTP error alone does not prove that a country rule caused the failure. Separate your own policy result, network controls, credential state, account or project limits, and the provider response.

排查应从应用决策记录开始，而不是尝试改变来源。仅凭 HTTP 错误无法证明失败由国家规则导致。必须区分自有策略结果、网络控制、凭证状态、账户或 Project 限制以及供应商响应。

FAQ

Official sources and further reading官方资料与延伸阅读

Verify policy-sensitive facts against the current official pages during implementation and every scheduled review. The linked supported-country page is the source of truth for current availability; this guide intentionally does not reproduce a country list that can become stale.

实施与每次定期复核时，都应根据最新官方页面核验策略敏感事实。下方支持国家页面是当前可用性的权威来源；本指南有意不复制可能过期的国家清单。