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.
Claude Opus 5.5 costs $4/$20 per million tokens; Opus 5 through 4.6 stay at $5/$25. Limit resets are free, can't be bought and don't add API credits.
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.
“Current device environment error” on DeepSeek is a failed sign-in check, not a ban. Turn off VPN first, then change your browser or app one at a time.
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.
No text extracted means DeepSeek found no readable text in your file. Instant and Expert only extract text, so switch to the image mode or OCR the file first.
Pexels still pauses new API keys as of November 2, 2026. Unsplash allows 1,000 requests an hour after approval; Pixabay and keyless Openverse work today.
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.
As of November 2, 2026, Flow caps Nano Banana 2.1 and 2 Lite at 400 images a day, 1,000 on a plan; the Gemini app has 5-hour and weekly limits, no image count.
No single Nano Banana Pro daily limit: Flow caps Pro at 20–500 images a day by plan, the Gemini app refreshes every 5 hours, AI Mode and Workspace reset daily.
Qwen Chat is free, but its daily, per-model and per-feature caps are unpublished. The limit message names the cap you hit; paid plans live as of Oct. 31, 2026.
Turn a scene idea into a usable Seedance prompt: give each reference a job, write shots for your version, place the sound, and fix one problem at a time.
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.