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3 SDK assumptions broke before gpt-oss-120b worked via Anthropic SDK
A developer hit three snags using Sakura AI Engine's free tier for gpt-oss-120b: a credit-card prompt that wasn't billing, a 401 error from Anthropic SDK expecting auth_token instead of api_key, and a ThinkingBlock error requiring content filtering. Each had a one-line fix. The free plan offers 3,000 chat completions monthly without overage charges.
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The article is a useful debugging walkthrough for developers, but the core insight—that API compatibility layers have subtle auth and response differences—is well-known to anyone who's used multiple LLM providers.
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