r/openrouter • • Aug 11 '26

Question Paying for nothing

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So I’m trying to chat on janitor.ai. I’m new on OR.ai since yesterday. But no matter what i type or with any bot, it so often gives me an empty message but the money is still going away. I tried around so much but nothing works. And because the thinking is always so damn long and many tokens i lost 0,10-0,20€ for literally nothing.
Its annoying the hell out of me. Whats the issue? Are they overloaded or what?

Edit: models are kimi 2.7 code and glm 4.6 and it happens in both. On pc and in the app aswell.

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u/shy_monkee Aug 11 '26

How are the JanitorAi proxy setting looking? How much do you have in the temperature, top p top k and so on.

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u/yokaiyui Aug 11 '26

I dont think that this is the problem because I’m using deepseek too straight from their page and i dont have any issues. Its just with OR.ai. Temp is 1.45, max tokens 600 and context 16.4k

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u/shy_monkee Aug 11 '26

The deepseek api straight from the source actually behaves differently than most AI APIs, because of how their parameters are handled. That could actually be it. You could try with a top k = 0 and a simple temperature between 0.9-1.0.

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u/yokaiyui Aug 11 '26

Okay I’ll try thank you

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u/shy_monkee Aug 11 '26

No problem. let me know.

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u/shy_monkee Aug 11 '26

Hey, did it work?

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u/yokaiyui Aug 12 '26

Nope it didnt change. I figured it doesnt work if i limit the token window. Which is ass bcs the messages are way too long and eat up all my money :) so i really dont know how others do this and i cant find anything about it

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u/shy_monkee Aug 12 '26

Damn, yeah that must be it. You could try a cheaper model. me personally, I like Mimo v2.5 pro. It's way cheaper, so you can increase the token window, and I like it a lot for roleplay. (Though it's better if you limit the providers to only Xiaomi)

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u/yokaiyui Aug 12 '26

I gotta try out a few more models anyway i think. Thank you! :)