Your browser sign-in worked; the app's own setup call to Google failed. The reason after the colon shows whether to verify the account, fix the network or wait.
Check Image Generation on status.openai.com, then read the message: limits and refusals won't clear with retries, and a failed image may already be saved.
OpenAI gives no image count for ChatGPT Go or Plus. Plus users reported about 120 a day through September 2026; your limit banner shows the real reset time.
Use ChatGPT's image tools, select Sunburst or Flare in the correct API field, and check what a provider's model name actually tells you.
It's an Anthropic identity check, not a bug; retries won't clear it. Verify at portal.anthropic.com if you're in a supported country with a physical photo ID.
Claude Code outputs no pixels itself. Render diagrams as SVG, or call an image model from a skill script or an MCP server. Gemini images start at $0.0336 each.
A verified Claude account is an Ultra account Anthropic checked automatically: no Current session bar in Settings > Usage. KYC is separate: phone, ID, age.
DeepSeek's busy message is a refusal from its servers, not your device. Check status.deepseek.com; if nothing is posted, press Continue or use Instant mode.
Flow gives every account 50 credits a day: five Veo 3.1 Lite clips, ten on Ultra. The Gemini app now uses Omni and a 5-hour/weekly limit with no video count.
ChatGPT Images 2.5 and the API have no denoise setting. Find the first file with the grain, restart from the last clean one, and change one thing per retry.
Set model to gpt-image-2.6-flare or gpt-image-2.6-sunburst; bare gpt-image-2.6 doesn't exist. Both cost the same, and edits without model run on 2.5.
A 1024 GPT Image 2.6 image costs $0.025 at low, $0.043 at medium and $0.053 at high on OpenAI's token rates. Sunburst and Flare match, with no Batch discount.
Move 2.5 Flare finals to GPT Image 2.6 Flare: same $0.0527 at high, 12 s instead of 27. Keep 2.5 Sunburst for edits. At low and medium, 2.6 costs 3.3–4.2× more.
As of September 2026, creator plans run about $5–$35 a month and APIs charge $0.04–$0.25 per second at 720p. Sora is gone, and retries set the real cost.
Type "Make a looping GIF of…" and say what moves. Ask for fewer frames if it must look sharp; the speed menu retimes it, but any edit redraws the whole GIF.
Veo 3.1 costs $0.05 to $0.60 per second with audio, sold on Google Cloud since the Gemini API Veo models shut down. Flow gives every account 50 credits a day.
As of September 30, 2026, no major video model's API lists a free tier. Magic Hour and Tavus offer free trials; a 5-second Veo 3.1 Lite test costs $0.25.
As of October 10, 2026, Google Flow, PixVerse, Firefly and Canva still give free image-to-video that resets. Runway is a one-time trial; Pika is packs only.
Sora is shut down with no official successor. Make clips free in Google Vids or Flow; for API work, Google recommends Omni Flash at about $0.10 a second.
As of November 4, 2026, Google Flow's 50 free daily credits make five 8-second 720p clips with no visible watermark, except in India, South Korea and Vietnam.
Gemini 4 Argon and Claude Fable 5.1 tie on Artificial Analysis, yet Fable cost 8.6x Argon on everyday tasks in an October–November test, 4.3x from December 1.
Gemini 4 Argon opened to paid API users on October 13 at $2/$10, doubling December 1. At matched effort it costs more per task than Opus 5.5 and 6.5x GPT-6.1 Sol.
Gemini 4 Argon lists at 2.67x 3.8 Flash per token, but on five same-prompt calls it cost 1.57x as much through Nov 30, 2026, and 3.15x in December.
GPT-6 Astra outscores Gemini 4 Argon 55 to 50 at the same high setting. Argon is cheaper at its default, but its API price doubles on December 1, 2026.