“Payment was not approved.” and “Your card has been declined.” say a ChatGPT payment failed, not why. Check who bills you, the stage, and any charge first.
Antigravity's 2.0 app dropped the Planning/Fast picker on May 19, 2026. Use /plan in App v2.17.0+ or Shift+Tab in the CLI, and set plans to always need review.
No. Claude outputs text and code, not pixels, on every model and plan. It draws SVG diagrams and charts itself; photos need a connector or an image API.
As of September 26, 2026, GPT-6 Luna and DeepSeek Flash cost least per token. Among $2-input models, Grok 4.7 is cheapest; past 272K tokens, Sonnet 5 beats Sol.
Creating a Claude API key is free; calls spend prepaid credits. New users get a small test credit, Max and Team add monthly API credits, and Pro adds none.
Cloud session credit claims closed October 7, 2026; claimed balances still pay for cloud runs. Usage credits bill API rates; Max/Team API credits fund the API.
For direct Anthropic API access, set ANTHROPIC_API_KEY and approve it in the interactive CLI. Gateways need their own endpoint and credential; cloud providers and Desktop use separate configuration paths.
Once you approve ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, Claude Code bills that key instead of your Pro or Max plan, and claude -p always uses it. /status shows which one pays.
Claude Code renamed this error Connection lost mid-response in v2.1.227. Completed blocks are kept: check what ran, reply continue, then trace the cause.
As of October 10, 2026, no Claude Code coupon exists. Pro annual saves $40, bundles cut overflow credits up to 30%, and guest passes give 7 free days of Pro.
Claude Code installs with a single command on macOS, Windows, and Linux using the native installer — no Node.js required. To use it you need a paid Claude plan (Pro at $20/month or higher) or a Claude Console account billed per API use. This guide covers every installation method, platform-specific steps, security warnings about fake installers, and fixes for the most common problems.
Pro is $20/month, Max 5x $100 and Max 20x $200. Max pays off when interruptions, Fable use or API spend already cost you more than the $80 or $180 gap.
Your endpoint rejects the adaptive thinking type Claude Code sends. Set CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_THINKING=1; the adaptive switch won't help GLM or DeepSeek IDs.
As of October 21, 2026, neither BridgeBench nor LiveNerf shows a Claude Opus 5.5 drop beyond noise. Its medium default effort and safety fallback explain more.
Claude Opus 5.5 costs $4/$20 per million input/output tokens; Opus 5 through 4.6 stay at $5/$25. A limit reset restores subscription usage, not API credits.
“Error submitting message”, once “Error creating task”, is a Codex client banner: line 2 names the cause. On a new chat, Timeout often means a stuck MCP server.
Codex in the ChatGPT desktop app may require phone verification that email or an authenticator app can't replace. What each error means and the safe next step.
Start with Gemini's free tier unless your prompts are private or you're outside its regions; add Groq or OpenRouter for headroom. As of September 26, 2026.
The Gemini API key is free. As of October 8, 2026, Flash, Flash-Lite, 2.5 Pro and Gemma 4 are free; 3.1 Pro and image models aren't. Limits live in AI Studio.
A Gemini API key is free, but usage is free only within per-project limits. Gemini 3.8 Flash costs $0.75/$3.75 per 1M tokens; Gemini 4 Argon is paid-only at $2/$10 until Dec 1.
As of October 8, 2026, Google prints no image count for the free Gemini app: usage refreshes every 5 hours up to a weekly cap. AI Mode allows 25 images a day.
The Gemini API key from Google AI Studio is free. Flash, Flash-Lite and 2.5 Pro calls are free within project limits; image models and 3.1 Pro need billing.
Move gpt-6-sol traffic to GPT-6.1 Sol: same price, higher scores at every effort. Run it one level higher to match Astra for 3–5x less; Astra max has no equal.
ChatGPT image limits can't be bypassed safely. As of October 21, 2026, only Pro is listed as unlimited; on other plans, wait for the banner's reset time.