403 Forbidden - AI Gateway playground works, but no API requests go through.

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1

I am using the Vercel AI Gateway on the hobby plan (with the $5 free credits). I have my debit card connected to billing and the AI Gateway playground (AI Playground | Compare top AI models side-by-side) works on my team, but the AI SDK / OpenAI endpoints return 403 Forbidden.

A day ago, this worked on my account, but now it is broken.

import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
    api_key='vck_mykey',
    base_url='https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1',
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model='deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash',
    messages=[{'role': 'user', 'content': 'Tell me a joke about Python developers.'}],
    stream=True,
)
for chunk in response:
    content = chunk.choices[0].delta.content
    if content:
        print(content, end='', flush=True)

Output of above:

openai.PermissionDeniedError: Error code: 403 - {'error': {'message': 'Forbidden.', 'type': 'access_denied'}}
2

Thanks for reporting! Let me pass it onto the AI Gateway team.

4

Okay, apparently it fixed itself the next day, weird.