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Expect you don't have the right to do what you want with the API Key (see waves of ban lately, many SaaS services have closed because of it).

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Unless you provide some more details, at least outline what "do what you want" was in your case, this seems like just straight up FUD.

[himata4113]

openrouter accepts crypto so might have been some money laundering involved for reselling dirty crypto for llm api.

if that wasn't the reason, hey that's actually a great way to launder money (not financial advice).

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So you pay OpenRouter with cryptocurrencies, which they accept as a payment method, and then what, they block your account because the cryptocurrencies you paid with came from some account on the blockchain associated with other stuff?

Or what are you really saying here? I don't understand how that's related to "you don't have the right to do what you want with the API Key", which is the FUD part.

[himata4113]

You pay openrouter with dirty crypto, then you have a business which simply resells openrouter giving you clean fiat. I think openrouter specifically only banned those kind of accounts since that's what I have observed from other comments / research. numlocked in this thread has explicitely said that they don't ban accounts for any of the reasons specified above which narrows down the scope to some form of broken ToS specifically around fraud and money laundering.

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And then you go on HN and post "you don't have the right to do what you want"? Yeah, FUD and good riddance if so.

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You are not allowed to resell Openrouter as an API yourself, so for example if you make a service that charge per token, you can't use Openrouter API for that, this is specified in their ToS, so no, you can't do what you want, what FUD?

Quote from their own TOS: access the Site or Service for purposes of reselling API access to AI Models or otherwise developing a competing service;

[Vinnl]

That was a different user who wrote that.