Anthropic's service sends it, not your login. Check status.claude.com: during an incident stay signed in and retry slowly; fix locally only if none is posted.
Both Gemini 3.8 TTS models are GA with a free tier. Flash-Lite replaces 3.1 preview at about $0.54 per audio hour; Flash is $0.81 for studio-grade acting.
A 403, 503, or 529 in Claude Code can come from your proxy, your Anthropic account, Anthropic's capacity, or a gateway in between. Run /status first.
Sonnet 5.5 beats GPT-6 Astra only at max effort, at a higher cost per task. Astra leads from low to high, ties at xhigh; Sonnet's low rates win on long inputs.
Sonnet 5.5 costs half as much per token and suits well-scoped work at low or medium effort. Push it to max effort and it can cost more per task than Opus 5.5.
Nano Banana is Gemini's image model family, called through the Gemini API with an AI Studio key. Start with gemini-3.1-flash-image on the Interactions API.
Claude Code shows a 529 overload only after retrying up to 10 times, and it never counts against your quota. Switch models with /model or set a fallback chain.
No student-only Gemini API key exists; students get the same free tier as everyone. The Google AI Pro student year helps API work only after you enable billing.
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.
OpenRouter's free models cap at 50 requests a day until a one-time $10 top-up; Vercel, Requesty, Cloudflare, LiteLLM, or direct free tiers each fix one problem.
AI Studio is still free for adults in supported countries, but since April 20, 2026, Gemini Pro and Nano Banana need Google AI Pro/Ultra or a paid API key.
Plus is $20 a month and the API is billed separately. Short, occasional chats cost less on the API; long daily threads, reasoning and Codex favor Plus.
No provider wins for every model. As of September 26, 2026, DeepSeek direct off-peak costs half of hosts charging its peak rate; check versions and router fees.
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.
Same Claude models, different jobs: the API is per-token access for your own code; Claude Code is a coding agent that runs on Pro/Max or an API key.
As of September 26, 2026, GPT-6 Sol matches Sonnet 5 and Astra matches Fable 5.1 on list price. Prompts over 272K favor Claude; Luna costs a tenth of Haiku 4.5.
DeepSeek doubles API rates from 01:00–04:00 and 06:00–10:00 UTC on weekdays. Flash was cut on September 10, 2026, so waiting saves less per batch.
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.
As of September 2026, the free Gemini app runs Nano Banana 2 with no fixed image count, AI Mode allows 25 images a day, and every Gemini API image is billed.
As of September 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.
In the official Python and Node SDKs, base_url beats OPENAI_BASE_URL and endpoint paths are appended to it, so paste the base ending in /v1, not an endpoint.
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.
A Claude 400 on Amazon Bedrock can be a stripped beta header, old Claude Code, full context, a bad model ID or an account setting. Fix it by the exact message.
Claude Fable 5.1 costs $10 per million input and $50 per million output tokens. Only cache reads got cheaper, $1 to $0.25, so savings track your cache use.