TL;DR


Blackbox AI (a VS Code extension with millions of installs) claims free access to premium LLMs like Minimax M2 and Kimi K2.6, but silently routes all free-tier requests to a single Azure OpenAI deployment serving gpt-5.4-nano. The UI presents 25+ model choices; the proxy allowlist admits exactly 3 model strings, all resolving to the same...