Hi, thanks for reporting an issue with Cursor. Before you report this, we’d appreciate if you can search this forum to see if this issue has already been reported. If you have done so, please check this box. on Describe the Bug After two successful prompts where the Composer successfully used my …

Hey, your API keys don’t work in Composer, they only function in Chat. As for the two successful requests, you might have used an existing session with a different model, and when you switched to the DeepSeek model, Composer continued using the previous model.

Thank you. I hear you, but that could not have been the case. Please see attached, I only used Deepseek-V3 with Cursor today. Nowhere else. It looks like 102,346 tokens successfully came through from Cursor. I also looked into my API keys in platform.deepseek.com and it shows today’s date as “Last u…

API keys don’t work in Composer because it’s configured to work with supported models, ensuring the process doesn’t disrupt the code of created applications. By the way, we’ve started testing the DeepSeek model, and if it performs well, we’ll add it to Cursor, so you won’t need to use an API key.

That’s great - thank you! In the meantime, I will use one of the premium models.

How long will it take to use it? I can’t wait.

@deanrie Hi, want to ask for any updates on this. I can’t wait to test it, I also face the issue above today. Is there any ETA? Or is there a nightly build or alpha test version of the cursor, that we also can help to test and give feedback?

We’re currently looking at DeepSeek support internally but can’t offer an ETA on this at this time. We’re always evaluating new models and we’ll add them to the editor as long as we see noticeable improvement above and beyond the existing models available!

Hi @danperks , I hope for DeepSeek integration soon :slight_smile:

I just used DeepSeek for 2 weeks using just chat functionality. I decided to jump up to the pro version and now it refuses to work. I have found it to be the best option. Why is Cursor choosing to do this?

All you need to do is set the base url to https://api.deepseek.com/

Error: The model deepseek-chat does not work with your current plan or api key

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Error: The model deepseek-chat does not work with your current plan or api key

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