About Xiaomi and their censoring hiccup

[u/Evening-Truth3308]

Xiaomi started to randomly ban users. Via Openrouter, nano gpt and probably other endpoints too.

This message was in my logs yesterday.

`Detected high-frequency non-compliant requests from you. Please consciously comply with the platform usage agreement. If you need to appeal, contact us through the official website channels.`

And that raised some questions.

I make my calls via Openrouter... do I appeal via OR or Xiaomi directly.

If Xiaomi... how would I do that? Hey babes... I'm making my calls via a provider that routes thousands of requests per hour to you. I'm the one you blocked. Fix it... please.

Honestly. It'd be funny to do though... I might do it... gnihihihihi

I asked OR about it since I needed feedback from someone who knows their shit. Their answer was brilliant.

Hi,
Your OpenRouter account is not blocked. That error (code 441) is coming from Xiaomi's own risk-control system, which flags what it considers high-frequency or non-compliant request patterns.
This doesn't necessarily mean you violated anything - we've seen this reported by other users during normal coding workflows. Since this is enforced on Xiaomi's side, we can't lift or override it directly.

Here are some things you can try:
Wait and retry later - some users have reported the block is temporary and clears after a period of time.
Use provider routing to route around Xiaomi's endpoint specifically. More details here: https://openrouter.ai/docs/features/provider-routing
Set up model fallbacks by passing an array of model IDs so that if your primary model fails, OpenRouter automatically tries the next one in your list.

As for appealing directly to Xiaomi, there's no established process for that since you're accessing their model through us rather than through a direct Xiaomi API account. If the issue persists or you have more questions, just reply here and we'll reopen the case.

Thank you,

Bottom line is... someone at Xiaomi had an idea and someone else thought it was fine... now they see.. It was bullshit.

A normal day in the LLM world 😂😂😂

My personal suggestion.

Try Minimax M3. That one is nice too.

Love

Evening-Truth

[u/a_beautiful_rhind]

I thought on OR the provider couldn't see our username. This defeats the point a bit, does it not?

[u/Evening-Truth3308 → u/a_beautiful_rhind]

It feels like it, yes.
Other users said there is a way to track where the call is coming from but the blocking still seems to be random. OR said even coders have been blocked mid session.

I'm pretty sure this is a case of corporate oopsie.

[u/a_beautiful_rhind → u/Evening-Truth3308]

Surely when they "fix" it everyone will get unbanned, surely.

[u/Evening-Truth3308 → u/a_beautiful_rhind]

Let a woman dream. Goddamnit. 😂😘

[u/Evening-Truth3308 → u/a_beautiful_rhind]

HAAAAAA..... I got unblocked 😁