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.
Yes, you can blacklist providers in OpenRouter account settings.
Yes, you can globally ban providers in your openrouter settings.
Settings > Guardrails > [your workspace] > Providers + Block provider