# Cant add Custom Key

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/cant-add-custom-key/124802>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [August 1, 2025, 1:35am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cant-add-custom-key/124802 "2025-08-01T01:35:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Naufaldi\_Rafif](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/naufaldi_rafif/32/73623_2.png) [@Naufaldi\_Rafif](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Naufaldi_Rafif)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 1:35am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cant-add-custom-key/124802/1 "2025-08-01T01:35:39Z")

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### Describe the Bug

I want to add a custom API key to try Kimi or other models, but there seems to be a bug—I can’t enable it even after verifying my custom key.  
If you’re asking why I want to use a custom API, it’s because Kimi in Cursor often throws errors, isn’t reliable, and is slow.

### Steps to Reproduce

add custom API key, click Verify. after that button for active cannot change into true / active

### Expected Behavior

switch into using custom api key

### Screenshots / Screen Recordings

### Operating System

MacOS

### Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.3.7  
VSCode Version: 1.99.3  
Commit: 5d56108ff2401c28f239aa2a527ef424ce7719a0  
Date: 2025-07-31T04:04:35.474Z  
Electron: 34.5.1  
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210  
Node.js: 20.19.0  
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0  
OS: Darwin arm64 24.3.0

### Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

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**Author:** ![deanrie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/deanrie/32/1263_2.png) [@deanrie](https://forum.cursor.com/u/deanrie)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 7:42am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cant-add-custom-key/124802/2 "2025-08-01T07:42:16Z")

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Hey, thanks for the report. Can you check the dev tools panel when you try to verify the API key? Additionally, try disabling all models except the one related to the OpenRouter model. Also, try updating Cursor to version 1.3.8.

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**Author:** ![Naufaldi\_Rafif](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/naufaldi_rafif/32/73623_2.png) [@Naufaldi\_Rafif](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Naufaldi_Rafif)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 3:24am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cant-add-custom-key/124802/3 "2025-08-05T03:24:00Z")

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Hi, thank you! TIL about this kind debugging. its seems problem when i got wrong model and try to add. already fix it. thank

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/system/32/99069_2.png) [@system](https://forum.cursor.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 3:24am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cant-add-custom-key/124802/4 "2025-08-27T03:24:32Z")

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Closed on August 27, 2025, 3:24am UTC

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