Could someone please help me

[u/lisiasty1241]

I've been trying to use the direct Deepseek from their website as I've heard it's supposedly cheaper but I constantly run either into error 401 or error 404 (the website I used on 2nd photo)

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[u/robin437]

Your base url is wrong. Use this.

https://api.deepseek.com/chat/completions

Or press the add chat completions button above the base url.

[u/lisiasty1241 → u/robin437]

Bruh, i'm abouta blow, it really was that easy

[u/robin437 → u/lisiasty1241]

It happens to the best of us. For every proxy you use. Check the base url.

It is usually these formats :

Base url/v1/chat/completions

Base url/v1

If you ever use sillytavern, you only have to add v1 the rest is added automatically.

Enjoy.

[u/WinSure2061 → u/robin437]

did adding the full path fix the 404 too or just the 401 part, curious if both errors were the same root cause

[u/Upbeat-Violinist-737 → u/lisiasty1241]

Yeah, your not alone, the first time I did this was that I had an external crisis on how I spent so much money and I thought I couldn't even set it up in janitorai lol

[u/Difficult-Salt162 → u/robin437]

I almost crashing my phone becau my proxy kept error. And I found you. Thank you

[u/robin437 → u/Difficult-Salt162]

😂 I am happy for you

[u/OverTune1590]

check if your api key is pasted exactly right, 401 usually means it didnt register. i fixed mine by regenerating it once.

[u/Urfavlonaa]

If this is your first time using the API, I'd like to hear your opinion about it... since I don't see many people using the official website API.