Deepseek 401 Authentication Fails, Your api key: ****a205 is invalid

[hemangshah36]

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- OS:Windows Server 2025 
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Description

I am using Continue in VS Code in Windows Server 2025.

I want to use Deepseek AI models.

I have entered valid API key but it is always giving same error.

401 Authentication Fails, Your api key: ****634a is invalid

I have switched to different available models but it is giving same message.

Please note that I have generated api key a fresh and still it's giving same error. I have waited 1 hour to get API activated (if so) and still getting same error.

OpenAI models like GPT-4o mini etc are working

To reproduce

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Log output

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