OpenAI AuthenticationError: Incorrect API key provided

TL;DR

Check your version of AutoGPT first , maintainers often fix the underlying bug in a later release, and the thread may predate it.

Steps

1. If AutoGPT throws 'Incorrect API key provided' even though your key is right, check the .env around the USEAZURE section. In this reporter's case the config had Azure OpenAI lines left uncommented, which confused the key lookup. Fix: make sure OPENAIAPIKEY is set on its own line and comment out the whole USEAZURE section unless you're actually using Azure. A stray Azure config block can make a valid key look invalid.
2. This comes from one real issue thread (https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT/issues/1422); it is the verified fix or approach from that thread, not a general manual. Check your version of AutoGPT first , maintainers often fix the underlying bug in a later release, and the thread may predate it.

When to use

You are seeing this: Issue Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT#1422 (closed, 38 comments): ### Duplicates - [X] I have searched the existing issues ### Steps to reproduce 🕹 When running Auto-GPT using the command python3 -m autogpt --debug, I am getting an AuthenticationError with... Use this skill when you run into "OpenAI AuthenticationError: Incorrect API key provided".

When not to use

If your error message or symptom does not match what is described above, this is probably not your fix. Search for your exact error text instead of forcing this one to fit.

Versions

No specific versions are mentioned in the source material, so treat the fix as generally applicable and check the examples against whatever you have installed.

Why this happens

Issue Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT#1422 (closed, 38 comments): ### Duplicates - [X] I have searched the existing issues ### Steps to reproduce 🕹 When running Auto-GPT using the command python3 -m autogpt --debug, I am getting an AuthenticationError with the message "Incorrect API key provided".

Sources

• https://github.com/Torantulino/Auto-GPT
• https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT/issues/1422

Issue gh:Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT#1422 asked: Issue Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT#1422 (closed, 38 comments): ### Duplicates - [X] I have searched the existing issues ### Steps to reproduce 🕹 When running Auto-GPT using the command python3 -m autogpt --debug, I am getting an AuthenticationError with the message "Incorrect API key provided". I am sure that the API key is correct, as I have double-checked it. Clone the Auto-GPT repository from https://github.com/Torantulino/Auto-GPT Install the required packages using pip3 install -r requirements.txt Run the command python3 -m autogpt --debug in the terminal. ### Current behavior 😯 When running the above command, I get the following error... The verified answer from the thread: If AutoGPT throws 'Incorrect API key provided' even though your key is right, check the .env around the USEAZURE section. In this reporter's case the config had Azure OpenAI lines left uncommented, which confused the key lookup. Fix: make sure OPENAIAPIKEY is set on its own line and comment out the whole USEAZURE section unless you're actually using Azure. A stray Azure config block can make a valid key look invalid. Source: https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT/issues/1422