I am setting up a local model with OpenAI-compitable API. I was able to get “OpenAI API Key” verified successfully. However, when I select the local model in the “Chat”, it shows the following error message Unable to reach 127.0.0.1 We encountered an issue when using your 127.0.0.1 API key. Please …

Hey, as @deanrie said, this isn’t something support by Cursor right now, as it’s not your client that makes the final request to the LLM, but our backend servers. Therefore, our backend cannot execute any request where the LLM is locally hosted! While you may be able to publicly expose a locally ho…

"OpenAI API Key" verified, but shows "Unable to reach 127.0.0.1"

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deanrie December 23, 2024, 7:33am 2

Hey, local models don’t work in Cursor because all requests go through our servers.

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"OpenAI API Key" verified, but shows "Unable to reach 127.0.0.1"

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