Just delved in to API usage for Sora 2 but just keep getting errors, are they up ?

So I tried both laozhang and defapi and topped up with both, but they both give me errors. I was using Grok step by step, and Grok kept telling me the stable more expensive relay channels will work, so I paid out and neither the cheap channels or relay channels work on either site. OpenAI still provides API until to September, so what is likely happening ? Grok said at first it was likely because I didn't have enough funds topped up, so I paid $15, and got the same error, then Grok said it is because the cheaper channels don't work, so then it redid me a code for the 10cent per second channels, same errors. It says the code is fine.

So frustrating. Have I just wasted $20 ? $5 to defapi and $15 to laozhang.