An amazing service. I use its 20+ free LLM options to allow completely free usage of LibreOffice AI extension with no signup https://librethinker.com .
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I'm banned from using the free options. At some point they flagged my account as having engaged in model training against their ToS. This despite my account using around £15 worth of tokens over several months, nearly entirely through BYOK providers.
The handful of times I did try a free model is when I used their chat interface to quickly compare a few open weight models with a single prompt. That's the only usage I can think which could have triggered the block on my account. Even still, what's the point in have the simultaneous chat feature if using it veers so quickly into a ToS violation.
Their support is beyond useless in helping understand the situation. I don't think I managed to speak to anyone other than Tony Bot (or whatever it was named).
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Total usage over 1 year:
Claude Sonnet 4.6 $8.80
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview $6.71
Claude Opus 4 $6.19
Claude Opus 4.1 $7.49
Gemini 2.5 Pro $10.06
Claude Sonnet 4.5 $12.74
GPT-5 Codex $2.56
Grok 4 $4.39
Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview (Nano Banana) $1.88
GPT-5 $7.30
Others $7.99
Since you're BYOK, have you tried self-hosting LiteLLM? It's what I use for the BYOK option on my service.
Good shout, that's what I use.
My usage of OpenRouter was limited to casual throwaway experiments with coding agents and quick, surface-level exploration of new and unfamiliar models in the chat interface.
My comment is just an expression of a festering grudge over the unannounced, unexplained sanction on my account and the lack of transparency and feedback from the non-existent support team. There's no OpenRouter shaped hole in my personal workflow, fortunately.
If you want to avoid bans, Venice is another good option since their focus is uncensored and privacy. They run models themselves alongside offering OpenRouter-style routing for frontier and niche models - but at least they fully anonymize the user and never ban.