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.
Creating a Claude API key is free; calls spend prepaid credits. New users get a small test credit, Max, Ultra, 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/Ultra/Team API credits fund the API.
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 LSP is a code intelligence plugin plus a language server binary you install yourself. No flag. Install both, then check for the diagnostics line.
A ban after paying for Claude Max usually existed before the charge. Appeal at claude.ai/restricted while logged in and request any refund separately.
Claude Code Projects runs parallel cloud threads for Pro, Max, and Ultra in claude.ai/code, desktop and mobile, not the CLI. Repos need the Claude GitHub App.
Claude Pro gives more usage per session than Free, but as of October 8, 2026, Anthropic states no multiple. Test three real tasks before paying $20.
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.
As of September 23, 2026, Claude Pro has no open free trial. Free costs $0; promotions, Guest Passes, and verified programs depend on your account and role.
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.