
ChatGPT Dots vs Meta Muse vs Grok Bot vs Claude Duet: Entry Costs
Meta Muse starts free, Claude Duet comes with $20 Claude Pro by US waitlist, Grok Bot now starts at $30 for new customers, and ChatGPT dots need $100 Pro.

Meta Muse starts free, Claude Duet comes with $20 Claude Pro by US waitlist, Grok Bot now starts at $30 for new customers, and ChatGPT dots need $100 Pro.

Meta has no Muse Video API as of November 2, 2026. Your code can drive your own Muse account via useapi.net or pay $0.30 per 720p clip on a /v1/videos API.

Pro is $20/month; Max (formerly Max 5x) is $100 and Ultra (formerly Max 20x) $200. Upgrade once limits, Fable or API spend cost more than the $80 or $180 gap.

Since October 30, 2026, Max 20x is Ultra: 10x Pro's weekly usage and no five-hour limit once verified. Max, formerly 5x, is 5x Pro per session and per week.

“The extension could not start its user interface” on Codex 26.1021.22027? Go back to 26.1007.21434. On WSL with VS Code 1.141.1, update VS Code instead.

“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.

Edit limit reached in DeepSeek means one message used up its versions, usually 6, not a daily quota. Waiting won't reopen it; branch from the message above.

dsh-superagent is a DeepSeek Harness plugin, not an app. It needs its own GitHub account, tmux on macOS or Linux and a model key. Exit 3 on first run is normal.

Gemini high demand error? In the app, “another model was used” means a lighter model answered, not a usage limit. In the API, split 503 from 429 and 504 first.

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.

xAI publishes no message count for free Grok as of September 27, 2026. Free Chat and Voice have their own limit and reset; check Settings → Usage before paying.

A current answer to whether Grok AI makes videos, with the official workflow map and a safe app, API, or wrapper route for a first clip.

As of September 26, 2026, grok-4.7 costs $2 input and $6 output per million tokens; grok-4.3 costs $1.25 and $2.50. No free API allowance is listed.

ChatGPT's image editor is the panel behind the Edit button. Its tools, from Remove BG to Resize, send a prompt and redraw the whole image, not one spot.

Eligible U.S. college students get four free months of ChatGPT Plus, then $20 a month. It includes GPT-6 Astra in ChatGPT Work and Codex, but not ChatGPT Pro.

The Claude Batch API halves every token price for jobs that can wait up to 24 hours, but on a big shared prompt, cached standard calls can still cost less.

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 cache TTL is route-specific. Check the active route, TTL, cache creation tokens, cache read tokens, invalidators, and billing proof before blaming a bug.

Mark a stable prefix with cache_control and Claude reuses it for 5 minutes or 1 hour. Reads cost 0.05x input on Opus and Sonnet 5.5; prefixes need 512+ tokens.

Put a JSON schema in output_config.format and Claude returns matching JSON in the text block. Still check stop_reason and validate ranges and lengths yourself.

One Claude reply ran out of tool calls; it isn't your 5-hour or weekly limit. Click Continue, then check what actually ran before trusting the summary.

Browser on but Codex says it is disabled? Fully quit and reopen the ChatGPT app, continue in a new chat, then check Work preferences → Local browser use.

DeepSeek Search and Fetch: $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests, empty results free. Claude Code and Codex searches are billed from Oct 31, 2026, 16:00 UTC.

Gemini 4 Carbon beats Argon 59.4 to 50.4 on AA's index but ties on SaaS automation. It's twice as slow to start a reply, yet finishes coding-agent tasks faster.