#why does it not allow me to use minimax via openrouter?

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rigid perch
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Model "openrouter/minimax" is not allowed. Use /models to list providers, or /models <provider> to list models.

frank sirenBOT
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fringe zealotBOT
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openrouter/minimax isn’t a valid OpenRouter model ref in OpenClaw, so it gets rejected.

Two common causes:

  1. Wrong model ID format for OpenRouter
    OpenRouter refs must be three parts:
    openrouter/<provider>/<model>
    So for MiniMax via OpenRouter it’ll be something like openrouter/minimax/<exact-model-name>.
    Use /models openrouter (or CLI: openclaw models list) to see the exact IDs OpenClaw knows about, then copy/paste one of the MiniMax ones.

Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/providers/openrouter

  1. You have a model allowlist enabled
    If your config sets agents.defaults.models, that becomes the allowlist. Any /model (or /models-driven) selection not in that list will throw “Model … is not allowed”. Fix: add the exact OpenRouter model ID into agents.defaults.models, or remove the allowlist.

FAQ section (“Model is not allowed”): https://docs.openclaw.ai/help/faq#why-do-i-see-model-is-not-allowed-and-then-no-reply