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by atemerev 52 days ago
Why use China model API from China if there are many independent providers available via Openrouter?
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smashed 52 days ago
Openrouter will route to china hosted models when there are US hosted providers of the same model. Is there a setting to set your preference or to blacklist providers like alibaba cloud for example?

I use OpenCode and the openrouter provider. From opencode I only select the model like kimi-2.6 and have no way of selecting which cloud hosting will receive my request.

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subscribed 52 days ago
Settings > Guardrails > [your workspace] > Providers + Block provider
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uneekname 52 days ago
Yes, you can blacklist providers in OpenRouter account settings.
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NitpickLawyer 52 days ago
Yes, you can globally ban providers in your openrouter settings.
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pheggs 52 days ago
to support the companies that open source their models
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