# Persistent 401 Unauthorized Error with All API Tokens **URL:** \ **Category:** Beginners\ **Created:** [October 17, 2025, 6:11am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/persistent-401-unauthorized-error-with-all-api-tokens/169233 "2025-10-17T06:11:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alhasan88](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/alhasan88/32/54840_2.png) [@alhasan88](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/alhasan88)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 6:11am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/persistent-401-unauthorized-error-with-all-api-tokens/169233/1 "2025-10-17T06:11:58Z")
also I made a write access token in my hugging face account it give me error 401 authentication error test code import os from huggingface\_hub import InferenceClient # Paste your Hugging Face token here hf\_token = “hf\_lZqRHmjNhKpkuCTHvUpeyCGWokUiPXzSEs” # Initialize the client with your token client = InferenceClient(token=hf\_token) completion = client.chat.completions.create( ``` model="deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324", messages=\[ ``` { “role”: “user”, “content”: “How many 'G’s in ‘huggingface’?” } ], ) # The expected answer is two 'G’s. print(completion.choices[0].message.content) output: ```auto --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ``` ```auto HTTPError Traceback (most recent call last) ``` ```auto /usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_http.py in hf_raise_for_status(response, endpoint_name) 406 try: --> 407 response.raise_for_status() 408 except HTTPError as e: ``` * * * 7 frames * * * ```auto HTTPError: 401 Client Error: Unauthorized for url: https://huggingface.co/api/models/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324?expand=inferenceProviderMapping ``` ```auto The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception: ``` ```auto HfHubHTTPError Traceback (most recent call last) ``` ```auto /usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_http.py in hf_raise_for_status(response, endpoint_name) 478 # Convert `HTTPError` into a `HfHubHTTPError` to display request information 479 # as well (request id and/or server error message) --> 480 raise _format(HfHubHTTPError, str(e), response) from e 481 482 ``` ```auto HfHubHTTPError: 401 Client Error: Unauthorized for url: https://huggingface.co/api/models/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324?expand=inferenceProviderMapping (Request ID: Root=1-68f1dae6-45587e2f70b800b13e53e74a;0b23f450-0491-4f8a-80b5-1c6d593c1b81) Invalid credentials in Authorization header ```