Kimi apologized to overseas users in English after being mistakenly banned, prompting domestic developers to condemn the double standard and permanently cease updates to the open-source plugin.

According to ME AI , Beating's monitoring, Kimi Code Plan, a model subscription service under Moon's Dark Side, recently sparked protests in the Chinese developer community due to account bans. The controversy began when open-source developer Leechael developed a Kimi adapter, pi-provider-kimi-code, for the Pi Coding Agent terminal agent tool. Since Pi initially did not officially support Kimi, Leechael wrote adaptation code to allow paid users to reuse their credits on the terminal. However, after the adapter was released, Kimi officially banned Leechael's account. Meanwhile, overseas developer Noemi also claimed that after running Kimi Code in a Docker container on Pi for two days, she was banned and posted screenshots of a 403 permission denied error, questioning Moon's Dark Side. Faced with the collective outcry from the developer community, the account ban incident was dramatically resolved on the afternoon of May 26th. Young, a member of the Kimi Code team, only replied to overseas developer Noemi on X, stating, "We immediately adjusted our strategy and restored normal access to the affected accounts." This quickly unblocked the affected paid accounts. However, the controversy didn't subside; instead, it quickly escalated into a second wave of public opinion crisis. The official apology and unblocking statement were only released in English, and only selectively responded to overseas developers on X, completely ignoring the protests and refund requests initiated by domestic developers through Chinese channels. This double standard thoroughly ignited the dissatisfaction of domestic paid users. Leechael publicly posted a screenshot of the pi-provider-kimi-code plugin's README, stating bluntly, "Unblocked. Requesting refunds. Only a public apology to foreign users; Chinese users don't deserve an explanation. ?" The discontinuation statement, in English, clearly listed three reasons for abandoning the platform: first, the official account was mistakenly banned; second, there was no explanation or apology after the account was unbanned; and finally, the platform exhibited a systemic tendency to discriminate against Chinese users, including stricter rule enforcement, opaque risk control, and a lack of appeal channels. The statement pointed out that developing on a platform that "bans accounts first and refuses to explain afterwards" has no long-term value, and the adapter is therefore indefinitely discontinued, with no merge requests or new version releases accepted. (Source: ME)