Hi, I followed the instructions exactly to set up my Claude API with my Pickaxe. I’ve got the paid version of Claude so by all accounts I shouldn’t need to pay $5 credit or do I? I keep getting this error message: This API key is not able to connect. Please check with Anthropic to make sure it’s correct and available for use.
I’ve doubled checked the key was entered correctly, and no spaces. Please assist me with a solution. Many thanks
I believe the account for an API key is different than the account for using the web-app at claude.ai. If it’s a brand new API key, they often require a small pre-payment. Model providers do this to make sure API key holders are legitimate. There are malicious actors who might spin up thousands of new keys and spend on credit.
In any event, I recommend going into the Anthropic billing portal and pre-paying $10 by clicking “add funds”.
I suspect this will fix the issue. If not, I have a few other ideas. Here’s a writeup about common Anthropic API key errors with Claude.
Thank you Mike, sounds like that should be a fix.
Hi. Just followed your directions above re: Anthropic Console and putting $10 in my account.
The prompt in Pickaxe says “Past OpenAI API Key”
I’m pasting in my Anthropic API Key. I’ve tried with two different API keys.
I’m getting this error: This API key is incorrect. Please check with OpenAI to make sure it’s correct and available for use.
It’s like it doesn’t even know about Anthropic?!
Thank you,
Barry
Ah… fixed my own issue. Maybe this will help another TOTAL NEWBIE at some point 
I had the LLM set for GPT-40. Once I changed it to Claude 3.5 it took my API just fine.
Thank you… so excited to be Pickaxing!