openai.AuthenticationError: Error code: 401 - {'statusCode': 401, 'message': 'Unauthorized. Access token is missing, invalid, audience is incorrect (https://cognitiveservices.azure.com), or have expired.'}

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I am trying to run the following code. I have obtained the key and endpoint from my free azure subscription after creating openai resource (see image). I downloaded the code from microsoft page to access api and test it with code below. I checked that the key and endpoint are pulled correctly by printing them and they are. I keep getting the error "openai.AuthenticationError: Error code: 401 - {'statusCode': 401, 'message': 'Unauthorized. Access token is missing, invalid, audience is incorrect (https://cognitiveservices.azure.com), or have expired.'}". I cant figure what is going wrong...

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import os
from openai import AzureOpenAI
    
client = AzureOpenAI(
    api_key=os.getenv("AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY"),  
    api_version="2024-12-01-preview",
    azure_endpoint = os.getenv("AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT")
    )
    
deployment_name='gpt-35-turbo' #This will correspond to the custom name you chose for your deployment when you deployed a model. Use a gpt-35-turbo-instruct deployment. 
    
# Send a completion call to generate an answer
print('Sending a test completion job')
start_phrase = 'Write a tagline for an ice cream shop. '
response = client.completions.create(model=deployment_name, prompt=start_phrase, max_tokens=10)
print(start_phrase+response.choices[0].text)

Answer

Hi Chris

Your code looks correct. i tested it with my endpoint it works. And if I edit my apikey slightly, it gave same error as yours! So my only guess is that the key is wrong in your case. My suggestion is to put the key directly into the AzureOpenAI line to be 100% sure as as test, make sure no spaces.

client = AzureOpenAI(
    api_key="put key here",  
    api_version="2024-12-01-preview",
    azure_endpoint = os.getenv("AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT")
    )

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