diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/playground/components/systemOneUI/CurlPreview.tsx b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/playground/components/systemOneUI/CurlPreview.tsx
index 4ceaa26652d..2e01ebb0ea8 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/playground/components/systemOneUI/CurlPreview.tsx
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/playground/components/systemOneUI/CurlPreview.tsx
@@ -1,15 +1,28 @@
 import CopyButton from "@/components/shared/CopyButton";
 import { buildCurlCommand, type CurlCommandInput } from "./lib/curlCommand";
 
-export default function CurlPreview(input: CurlCommandInput) {
+interface CurlPreviewProps extends CurlCommandInput {
+  errorCount?: number;
+}
+
+export default function CurlPreview({ errorCount = 0, ...input }: CurlPreviewProps) {
   const command = buildCurlCommand(input);
+  const invalid = errorCount > 0;
   return (
     <div className="flex min-h-0 flex-1 flex-col rounded-md border">
       <div className="flex items-center justify-between gap-2 border-b px-3 py-2 text-sm">
         <span className="font-medium">cURL request</span>
         <div className="flex items-center gap-2 text-xs text-muted-foreground">
-          <span>Replace $LITELLM_API_KEY with a virtual key</span>
-          <CopyButton value={command} label="Copy cURL" variant="action" />
+          {invalid ? (
+            <span role="alert" className="text-destructive">
+              Fix {errorCount} {errorCount === 1 ? "issue" : "issues"} on the Form tab before copying
+            </span>
+          ) : (
+            <>
+              <span>Replace $LITELLM_API_KEY with a virtual key</span>
+              <CopyButton value={command} label="Copy cURL" variant="action" />
+            </>
+          )}
         </div>
       </div>
       <pre
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/playground/components/systemOneUI/SystemOneUI.tsx b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/playground/components/systemOneUI/SystemOneUI.tsx
index fad7eb1380d..f16b1e53661 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/playground/components/systemOneUI/SystemOneUI.tsx
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/playground/components/systemOneUI/SystemOneUI.tsx
@@ -281,6 +281,7 @@ export default function SystemOneUI({ accessToken, disabledPersonalKeyCreation =
                 endpoint={endpoint}
                 payload={validation.payload === undefined ? rawPayload : JSON.stringify(validation.payload)}
                 authHeaderName={getGlobalLitellmHeaderName()}
+                errorCount={validation.issues.filter((issue) => issue.severity === "error").length}
               />
             </TabsContent>
           </Tabs>
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/playground/components/systemOneUI/lib/curlCommand.ts b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/playground/components/systemOneUI/lib/curlCommand.ts
index 27d44bb0b04..22ede5ab6f3 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/playground/components/systemOneUI/lib/curlCommand.ts
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/playground/components/systemOneUI/lib/curlCommand.ts
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ const prettyPayload = (payload: string): string => {
 
 export const buildCurlCommand = ({ baseUrl, endpoint, payload, authHeaderName }: CurlCommandInput): string =>
   [
-    `curl -X POST ${shellSingleQuote(`${baseUrl.replace(/\/+$/, "")}${endpoint}`)}`,
+    `curl -X POST ${shellSingleQuote(`${baseUrl.endsWith("/") ? baseUrl.slice(0, -1) : baseUrl}${endpoint}`)}`,
     `  -H "${shellDoubleQuoteLiteral(authHeaderName)}: Bearer ${CURL_KEY_PLACEHOLDER}"`,
     `  -H "Content-Type: application/json"`,
     `  -d ${shellSingleQuote(prettyPayload(payload))}`,