pray How should I go about using openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-chat:free?

[silgon]

This is kind of a twofold question. Firstly, should I need to configure .authinfo in the following way?

machine api.openrouter.ai.com login apikey password sk-secret-openrouter-api-key-goes-here

And then in my .emacs:

;; OPTIONAL configuration
(setq gptel-model   'deepseek/deepseek-chat:free
      gptel-backend
      (gptel-make-openai "OpenRouter"               ;Any name you want
        :host "openrouter.ai"
        :endpoint "/api/v1/chat/completions"
        :stream t
        :key "your-api-key"                   ;can be a function that returns the key
        :models '(deepseek/deepseek-chat:free
                   openai/gpt-3.5-turbo
                  mistralai/mixtral-8x7b-instruct
                  meta-llama/codellama-34b-instruct
                  codellama/codellama-70b-instruct
                  google/palm-2-codechat-bison-32k
                  google/gemini-pro)))

??
Sorry if this is a silly question, but I don't know exactly how to get around it.
Furthermore, for the reasoning model openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-r1:free, not sure if I need something extra since there are more parameters with the reasoning tokens....
Thanks! 🙏

[karthink]

Firstly, should I need to configure .authinfo in the following way?

You don't need to use authinfo, you can just provide your key in the configuration where it says "your-api-key".

but I don't know exactly how to get around it.

Your configuration looks fine. Add your key there and try using it.

not sure if I need something extra since there are more parameters with the reasoning tokens

You don't need anything, it should just work. You can control what happens to the reasoning tokens via gptel-include-reasoning, or from gptel's transient menu.

[silgon]

Thank you for the answer (and the really cool package you created). I tested your answer, it works, I figure I did not put the key parameter. That was my problem, it works nicely with both models. However, is there a way to put the key in .authinfo (because of security issues)?
I tried:

machine api.openrouter.ai login apikey password sk-secret-openrouter-api-key-goes-here

And

machine openrouter.ai login apikey password sk-secret-openrouter-api-key-goes-here

But none of them worked.
Thanks a lot! =D

[karthink]

I tried:

machine openrouter.ai login apikey password sk-secret-openrouter-api-key-goes-here

This should be fine. You need to set the :key in the openrouter backend definition to gptel-api-key:

(gptel-make-openai "OpenRouter"         ;Any name you want
  :host "openrouter.ai"
  :endpoint "/api/v1/chat/completions"
  :stream t
  :key gptel-api-key                    ; <=== here
  :models '(...))

This is assuming you haven't changed the value of gptel-api-key from its default, which is a function that fetches the key using auth-source.

[silgon]

You rock @karthink , thanks! =D