I am organisation owner/admin. In https://platform.openai.com/settings/organization/api-keys I created a new key, gave it permissions I require, but the permissions do not work. Requests from the new key I created with the correct permissions fail every time with an insufficient permissions error …

Hi and welcome back! Have you seen this topic where a related issue has been discussed? I believe this problem could also be caused by the UI/UX. [image] Missing scopes: model.request on restricted API key Bugs This turned out to be poor UX design. If you f…

API key permissions not working correctly

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vb February 13, 2026, 11:20am 2

Hi and welcome back!

Have you seen this topic where a related issue has been discussed?
I believe this problem could also be caused by the UI/UX.

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API key permissions not working correctly

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