As of October 10, 2026, GPT Image 2.5 leads Arena's image ranking, low-quality GPT Image 2 is cheapest at about $0.006, and Nano Banana Pro costs $0.134.
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.
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 October 10, 2026, ChatGPT Plus has no discount or free trial open to everyone. U.S. students can claim 4 free months by October 31; offers renew at $20.
ChatGPT Plus in Vietnam is the $20/month plan, reported at about 522,500 VND with VAT at checkout. 132,000 VND is ChatGPT Go, not Plus. As of October 10, 2026.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Claude Dashboards is in beta on Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise; Motion only on Team and Enterprise. On Enterprise, both stay off until an owner turns them on.
A route-first operator guide to Claude Design, repo-scoped project skills, community UI/UX skills, and design-system stop rules.
Claude extra usage bills at API rates: a 200K-token Claude Code turn costs $0.60 on Sonnet 5.5 and $3 on Fable 5.1. Over $80 a month on Pro, Max 5x usually wins.
Anthropic paused the free Claude Team year and $1,000 API credit on October 9, 2026, and is re-reviewing applications. What's left and what to do next.
Opus 5.5 outputs text, not video. It writes animation code that a headless browser captures frame by frame, which suits motion graphics and not live action.
As of October 10, 2026, Claude has no student price or promo code. Students use a school Claude for Education plan, Free, $200/year Pro, or a lab seat.
At OpenAI's 2,500 credits = $100 rate, Codex credit rates match API prices per token, so plan usage, cloud features, and models decide. As of Oct 10, 2026.
As of October 10, 2026, Gemini, ChatGPT, Firefly and Microsoft Designer edit an uploaded image into a realistic photo for free, each with its own limits.
As of October 10, 2026, Cloudflare Workers AI is the main recurring free image API: about 173 FLUX images a day. Hugging Face, Gemini and OpenAI give none.
As of October 10, 2026, Unsplash allows 1,000 requests an hour after approval, Pexels has paused new API keys, and Pixabay or keyless Openverse work today.
No major free video face swap tool offers 30 s without a watermark: Magic Hour's free tier is 10 s, 480p, watermarked. Longer free clips are site claims.
As of October 10, 2026, the Gemini agent is in private preview with no list price. Google plans no add-on fee, but agent usage is expected to be metered.
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, doubling on January 1, 2027.
As of October 10, 2026, US college students get Google AI Pro free for a year and students elsewhere mostly get AI Plus free; redeem by December 31, 2026.
As of October 10, 2026, paid Gemini API usage runs on Prepay credits. Postpay accounts must switch by their notice date; a $0 balance returns HTTP 402.