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API key permissions not working correctly

OpenAI Developer Community February 13, 2026
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wow…yes that worked. I would never have guessed the problem was a UI design issue at https://platform.openai.com/settings/organization/api-keys

In other words for anyone who encounters this issue and finds this post, if you do this:

set all model capabilities to ‘request’ by hitting here:

and then turn off the ones you don’t want (e.g. like this I’ve turned off moderations:

then it works.

Given the initial error response mentioned an option which isn’t under the heading ‘model capabilities’, I suspect this works because initially setting model capabilitites to ‘request’ sets that hidden item to ‘request’, so that when you turn off the ones you don’t want and model capabilities goes back to ‘mixed’, you have changed the problematic item even though the UI looks exactly the same after the change as it did in my initial screenshot of the broken config.

Specifically, I think model.request is the hidden item given that’s what the error message said this key didn’t have permissions for until I changed ‘model capabilities’ to request, then turned off the ones I don’t want.

For the avoidance of doubt, the UI looks exactly the same now as it did when the config was broken. It’s just the hidden item that has changed.

Wow.

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