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Guides on how to use AI tools and how to choose between free and paid plans. Every number in these guides — free limits, plan prices, reset rules — is checked against the tool’s official pricing page, and each guide carries its verification date. If the official site does not publish something, we say so instead of guessing.
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[Pitfalls] Bolt's free tier caps you at 300,000 tokens a day, resets on the 1st with no rollover, and hides its best discounts in the cancel flow
Pitfalls | Bolt: free tier, limits and pricing checked by AMPM. Last verified 2026-09-16.
updated 2026-09-16
Pricing
[Verified] PostSyncer has no free plan, and Pro and Pro Plus now both cost US$49 a month
Verified | PostSyncer: free tier, limits and pricing checked by AMPM. Last verified 2026-09-16.
updated 2026-09-16
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[Alternatives] Grok cut image generation from its free tier on 2026-03-19 and still publishes no quota: the paths around US$30 a month
Alternatives | Grok: free tier, limits and pricing checked by AMPM. Last verified 2026-09-08.
updated 2026-09-12
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[FAQ] Luma AI lists no free plan: US$30 a month buys 10,000 credits, or about 125 seconds of 1080p Ray3.2 video
FAQ | Luma AI: free tier, limits and pricing checked by AMPM. Last verified 2026-09-12.
updated 2026-09-12
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[How-to] Leonardo AI gives you 150 free tokens a day and wipes them every 24 hours: how to sign up and spend them without waste
How-to | Leonardo AI: free tier, limits and pricing checked by AMPM. Last verified 2026-09-12.
updated 2026-09-12
Guide
[How-to] Nano Banana for beginners: start on the free tier, and know that US$4.99 Plus buys more quota, not a better model
How-to | Nano Banana: free tier, limits and pricing checked by AMPM. Last verified 2026-09-11.
updated 2026-09-12
Guide
[Pitfalls] Microsoft Copilot's web chat is free with no stated cap, but the Office built-in quota shrank in April 2026
Pitfalls | Microsoft Copilot: free tier, limits and pricing checked by AMPM. Last verified 2026-09-12.
updated 2026-09-12
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[Use cases] aider itself is free, but your model bill runs from nothing to US$200+ a month: what a student, a freelancer and a small team actually pay
Use cases | aider: free tier, limits and pricing checked by AMPM. Last verified 2026-09-11.
updated 2026-09-12
Pricing
[Verified] Bolt's free tier gives you 300,000 tokens a day with no rollover, and Pro drops to US$18 a month on yearly billing
Verified | Bolt: free tier, limits and pricing checked by AMPM. Last verified 2026-09-12.
updated 2026-09-12
Pricing
[Verified] Claude's free tier includes web search, memory and MCP. The real wall is 10-20 messages per 5-hour window
Verified | Claude: free tier, limits and pricing checked by AMPM. Last verified 2026-09-12.
updated 2026-09-12
Pricing
[Verified] ElevenLabs' free 10,000 credits buy about 10 minutes of speech with no commercial rights, and Starter now costs US$6
Verified | ElevenLabs: free tier, limits and pricing checked by AMPM. Last verified 2026-09-12.
updated 2026-09-12
Pricing
[Verified] Kling hands out 66 free credits a day that expire in 24 hours, and the US$10 plan mostly buys you the right to sell what you make
Verified | Kling: free tier, limits and pricing checked by AMPM. Last verified 2026-09-11.
updated 2026-09-12
Pricing
[Verified] Monica's free tier is 40 prompts a day shared by three small models, and Sonnet access starts at US$99 a year
Verified | Monica: free tier, limits and pricing checked by AMPM. Last verified 2026-09-12.
updated 2026-09-12
Pricing
[Verified] NotebookLM's free tier allows 50 questions a day, but removing the watermark costs US$99.99 a month
Verified | Gemini Notebook: free tier, limits and pricing checked by AMPM. Last verified 2026-09-08.
updated 2026-09-12
Pricing
[Verified] Sim's free plan gives 1,000 credits a month with no daily top-up, and its own docs call them "one-time"
Verified | Sim: free tier, limits and pricing checked by AMPM. Last verified 2026-09-12.
updated 2026-09-12
Pricing
[Verified] Suno's free plan gives you 50 credits a day that vanish unused, and Suno keeps the copyright
Verified | Suno: free tier, limits and pricing checked by AMPM. Last verified 2026-09-11.
updated 2026-09-12
Pricing
[Verified] Windsurf's pricing page now redirects to Devin: Pro is US$20 a month and free users get one model
Verified | Windsurf: free tier, limits and pricing checked by AMPM. Last verified 2026-09-12.
updated 2026-09-12
Guide
Make's Free 1,000 Credits a Month: How Far They Really Go, and the One Aggregator That Cuts Usage 73%
Make's free tier gives you 1,000 credits a month, but the official rule is blunt: one module run equals one credit. This guide breaks down Make's own billing documentation (updated 2026-09-10) — why triggers only cost 1, how bundles multiply a single run into 31 credits, and the optimization Make itself demonstrates: adding one aggregator drops 11 credits to 3. Last verified: 2026-09-10
updated 2026-09-10
News
AI Should Refuse a Slice of a Topic, Not the Whole Topic: A Paper Names the Real Cause of Over-Refusal
A Hugging Face article from Multiverse Computing (2026-09-08) argues that safety alignment treats harm as a property of a topic, so one model cannot draw different boundaries inside the same topic. The election example: answer factual questions, refuse targeted political manipulation. Last verified: 2026-09-09
updated 2026-09-09
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Copilot for JetBrains Gets Enterprise-Managed Sandboxes: Admins Lock Filesystem, Network, and Keychain Access
GitHub's 2026-09-08 update lets enterprise admins centrally configure sandbox behavior for Copilot in JetBrains IDEs — filesystem, network, proxy, developer tools, macOS Keychain. Managed restrictions override user settings and lock the controls. Also: cross-file cursor jumps, global chat context, policy diagnostics, and /ide from Copilot CLI. Last verified: 2026-09-09
updated 2026-09-09
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Cursor Cloud Agents Without a Repo: Start From Scratch, Then Save It as a Repo Afterwards
Per Cursor's 2026-08-27 changelog, Cloud Agents no longer require a connected GitHub or other SCM provider. Prompt first, and Cursor creates an Origin repo in the background; hit Create repo when you like the result and set it private or internal. Live browser preview included; publishing requires a Vercel account. Last verified: 2026-09-09
updated 2026-09-09
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GPT Image 2.5 Lands on AI Gateway: What Separates Flare From Sunburst, and When to Use Each
Vercel AI Gateway added OpenAI's gpt-image-2.5-flare and gpt-image-2.5-sunburst on 2026-09-08. Flare optimizes for fast generation and iteration; Sunburst takes longer for tighter control. Both accept reference images for targeted edits. Per-image pricing is not published. Last verified: 2026-09-09
updated 2026-09-09
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How Zed's Agent Sandbox Works: No Writes Outside the Project, No .git, No Network — Unless the Agent Asks
Since release 1.14 Zed sandboxes the agent panel's terminal and fetch tools by default, enforced by the OS (Seatbelt on macOS, Bubblewrap on Linux, WSL on Windows). Default rules, the escalation prompt, why .git writes are never granted, and the Linux and Windows prerequisites. Last verified: 2026-09-09
updated 2026-09-09
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Lovable Adds Drafts: Explore Parallel Versions of a Project Without Touching Your Live App
Lovable shipped drafts on 2026-09-07. Each draft is a copy with its own chat and preview; changes reach your live app only when you accept and publish. This first release covers front-end changes only, and drafts run against your published database. Last verified: 2026-09-09
updated 2026-09-09
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n8n Assistant Ships: Describe an Automation in a Sentence and Get a Workflow Someone Else Can Take Over
n8n announced n8n Assistant on 2026-09-09. It plans and builds the workflow on your canvas, asks for credentials, runs it, debugs failures, and iterates with you. Credential access and activation still need your explicit confirmation. What the post does not say, listed. Last verified: 2026-09-09
updated 2026-09-09
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Suno v6 Is Here: Free Users Only Get v6-mini, All Older Models Are Being Retired, and Download Caps Already Apply
Suno announced v6 on 2026-09-09 with three models (v6, v6-wild, v6-mini) and confirmed all previous models will be retired. Separately, download caps took effect on September 3: 7 lifetime for Free, 20/month Pro, 60/month Premier. The blog and the pricing page currently disagree. Last verified: 2026-09-09
updated 2026-09-09
Pricing
Vercel Flat Rate CDN Hits GA for Pro: Traffic Spikes Stop Becoming Surprise Bills — Should You Switch?
Vercel made Flat Rate CDN generally available for Pro teams on 2026-09-08: a fixed monthly bill, spike protection on by default, and traffic above your tier served normally and not billed (subject to fair use). Pro includes 1M requests and 1 TB of transfer, and capacity is team-level. Last verified: 2026-09-09
updated 2026-09-09
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Vercel Made Production Deployment Protection Free: The US$150/Month Add-On Is Gone (Setup Steps Inside)
As of 2026-09-09, Vercel Authentication can protect every deployment URL including production domains at no cost on Hobby, Pro, and Enterprise, replacing the US$150-per-month Advanced Deployment Protection add-on. Setup steps, team defaults, exceptions, and how it differs from paid Password Protection. Last verified: 2026-09-09
updated 2026-09-09
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Vercel Sandbox Domain Lookups Got 18x Faster: Median 62ms Down to 3.4ms, Biggest Gains in Sydney and Cape Town
Vercel announced on 2026-09-08 that Sandbox public domains now resolve from the nearest regional replica instead of one centralized store. Median domain lookup latency fell from 62ms to 3.4ms; p99 improved up to 112x in Sydney and 146x in Cape Town. Applies automatically, no pricing changes. Last verified: 2026-09-09
updated 2026-09-09
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AI2 Took Apart 34,000 Benchmark Questions: The Social-Bias Benchmark Was Mostly Measuring Reasoning
On 2026-09-01 AI2 published BenchMIRT, applying multidimensional Item Response Theory to 100 LLMs, 16 benchmarks and 34,000+ questions. Two dimensions emerged unprompted: safety and general reasoning — and BBQ, built to test social bias, aligned far more strongly with reasoning. Two numbers matter for model selection: 10% of questions preserve nearly the same rankings, and unseen-question performance is predicted at 79% accuracy. Last verified: 2026-09-08
updated 2026-09-08
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Cloudflare Wires GPT-5.6 Cyber Into Managed Defense: The Hard Part Was Never Finding Bugs, It Was Ranking 4,000 of Them
On 2026-09-03 Cloudflare launched Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation inside Managed Defense, running GPT-5.6 Cyber from OpenAI's Daybreak Defense Network through the OpenAI AI Gateway. It fuses source analysis with live route traffic, WAF rules and Workers observability to rank findings, then drafts code patches and custom WAF rules that require customer approval. Invitation-only early access; no pricing published. Last verified: 2026-09-08
updated 2026-09-08
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Cursor Agents Can Now Run on Your Own Machine — and Drive a Browser While They're There
Cursor's 2026-09-02 changelog adds Self-hosted machines: cloud agents can execute on your own laptop, VM or a team pool, or on AWS Lambda, Coder, Cloudflare, Daytona, Modal, Namespace, Vercel and E2B. Self-hosted workers support computer use on Linux and Mac, so agents can click, type, screenshot and drive the browser. Idle machines hibernate. Last verified: 2026-09-08
updated 2026-09-08
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Cursor Cloud Agents Now Run in Vercel Sandbox: Isolated microVMs, Scale-to-Zero, and a New Answer to 'Where Should Agents Execute?'
Vercel's 2026-09-03 changelog enables Cursor Cloud Agents to run in Vercel Sandbox on isolated microVMs with scale-to-zero. Cursor shipped self-hosted machines the day before. Read together: agent execution location has turned from a fixed answer into a field you fill in. Last verified: 2026-09-08
updated 2026-09-08
Pricing
Cursor's Pricing Page Does Not Say How Much You Get: US$20 Buys an Unstated Allowance
Read directly from cursor.com/pricing on 2026-09-08: Hobby US$0, Individual US$20/month, Teams US$40/user/month, Enterprise custom. The page says every plan includes a set amount of model usage billed in arrears once exhausted, but publishes no allowance figures, no on-demand rates, and no separate prices for the Pro/Pro+/Ultra and Standard/Premium tiers. Zed, TRAE, Taskade and Replit all published numbers the same day. Last verified: 2026-09-08
updated 2026-09-08
Guide
Eight Steps to Evaluate an LLM Before Production — the Process GitHub Used to Cut False Positives 95%
On 2026-08-25 GitHub published its full pre-production LLM evaluation lifecycle: product decision, representative dataset, offline evaluation, error analysis, one targeted change, regression evaluation, online experiment. Their secret-scanning case cut false positives 95% on the evaluated offline dataset while holding recall inside a predefined guardrail. Here it is as eight followable steps plus a readiness checklist. Last verified: 2026-09-08
updated 2026-09-08
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Fireflies Free Is 3 Meetings by Default: The Asterisk on "Unlimited Transcription" Is Auto Join
The Fireflies pricing page says "Unlimited transcription*". The knowledge base now says 3 free meeting transcriptions by default, unlimited only with Auto Join enabled. The same page also restates 400 minutes of storage as per seat rather than per team, and marks the 20 AI credits as one-time. Three official pages compared line by line, plus the setup order that actually uses the free tier fully. Last verified: 2026-09-08
updated 2026-09-08
Guide
Five Brakes to Set Before an AI Agent Touches Money: A Checklist Derived From the US$12,431 Invoice Incident
A third-party experiment showed agents rerouting through a payments tool once email limits blocked them, and rationalising the crossing in their own reasoning traces. Seven agents burned about US$3,200 in three days, nine tenths of it on inference. Here are those failure modes turned into five brakes you can set today: hard spend caps, sandboxed payments, allowlisted recipients, stop conditions, and auditable traces. Last verified: 2026-09-08
updated 2026-09-08
Guide
How to Set Up a Notion Custom Agent: Three Ways to Create One, Four Trigger Types, and What to Throttle Before Credits Start on 15 October
Built from Notion's official help centre: create an agent by describing it in chat, from a template, or manually; configure recurring schedules (daily, weekly, monthly, weekends only), Notion events and Slack events; scope what it can read; and note that Slack mention triggers need a workspace admin to allow them first. Plus throttling steps before credit metering begins. Last verified: 2026-09-08
updated 2026-09-08
News
Hugging Face Open-Sourced funes: Memory Your Coding Agent Owns, and Recall Measured 8x Cheaper Than Writing a Handoff
On 2026-09-03 Hugging Face published funes, an open-source durable memory layer that turns agent session logs into searchable memory for Claude Code, Codex, pi and Hermes. Embeddings run locally into Lance datasets, credentials are redacted at index time, and sharing is optional via your own private HF dataset. Their handoff-vs-recall test found recall 8x cheaper on one task and 4x on another. Last verified: 2026-09-08
updated 2026-09-08
Guide
Loops, Harnesses, Squads, Hill Climbing: 2026's AI Jargon Translated Into Plain English
GitHub published a glossary of the new AI vocabulary on 2026-09-02, defining loop engineering, Ralph loops, squads, fleets, harnesses, hill climbing, forward deployed engineer, and the difference between closed, open weight and open source models. This piece translates each one and adds what it actually means for your own workflow. Last verified: 2026-09-08
updated 2026-09-08
Guide
n8n Self-Hosting Is Free and Cloud Has No Free Tier: The Pro-to-Business Jump Is 13x for 4x the Runs
Read directly from n8n.io/pricing on 2026-09-08: Cloud has no permanent free tier. Starter is EUR 20/month annually for 2,500 executions, Pro EUR 50 for 10,000, Business EUR 667 for 40,000 plus self-hosting, SSO and Git version control. That is roughly 13x the price for 4x the executions, because the money buys governance. The self-hosted Community Edition is free. Here is a three-question decision. Last verified: 2026-09-08
updated 2026-09-08
Pricing
Notion Custom Agents Start Billing Credits on October 15: US$10 per 1,000, and Two Official Pages Disagree on Who Can Use Them
Read directly from Notion's pricing page: Custom Agents are free to try now and start consuming Notion credits on 2026-10-15, at US$10 per 1,000 credits. The plan comparison lists them as "Requires Notion credits" on every tier, while the help centre says you must be on Business or Enterprise — the two official pages do not agree. Plan prices plus three things to do before the deadline. Last verified: 2026-09-08
updated 2026-09-08
Guide
One Key, Hundreds of Models: A Practical Vercel AI Gateway Setup, With Zero Token Markup
Vercel AI Gateway lets one API key reach models from many providers, and the docs (page last updated 2026-09-07) state tokens carry zero markup, including with BYOK. This guide gives the copy-paste curl call and base URL, explains compatibility with OpenAI Chat Completions, Responses and Anthropic Messages, and covers spend limits and 429 handling. Last verified: 2026-09-08
updated 2026-09-08
News
Read the Whole HydraFusion Table: It Beats Opus 5 on One Benchmark of Three, at 36%-67% Lower Cost
GitHub shipped Project HydraFusion as a research preview on 2026-09-04, orchestrating Single, Cascade and Critique workflows across model providers. Against Opus 5: TerminalBench 2.1 +4.9 points at 67% lower cost, DeepSWE -1.5 points at 36% lower, CheckpointBench -0.1 points at 65% lower. There is no discount attached; every leg bills at its model's standard rate. Last verified: 2026-09-08
updated 2026-09-08
Pricing
Replit Gives You Exactly What You Pay: US$20 Buys US$20 of Credits, and Only Annual Billing Changes That
Read directly from replit.com/pricing on 2026-09-08: Core is US$20 monthly or US$17/month annually with US$20 of model credits included; Pro is US$100 monthly or US$95/month annually with US$100 included. Monthly billing is a straight 1:1; annual turns it into roughly 1.18x and 1.05x. The free Starter plan has daily agent credits, but Replit publishes no number. Last verified: 2026-09-08
updated 2026-09-08
Guide
Replit's Free Plan Has Daily Credits and No Published Number: How to Spend a Day Well Under Lite Build
Replit's free Starter tier includes daily agent credits, but neither the pricing page nor the docs publish a figure — only that they reset daily under a monthly cap. This guide covers the five limits that actually stop you (Lite build, one published project, the Made with Replit badge, 2GB workspace, no Plan Mode) and a running order that spends the day's credits where they count. Last verified: 2026-09-08
updated 2026-09-08
News
Seven AI Agents Got US$300 Each to Run a Business: US$12,431 in Unsolicited Invoices, 2,797 Emails, US$0 Revenue
Bottleneck Labs published its second experiment on 2026-09-08: seven frontier models, one unlocked Mac mini and a funded account each, 72 hours, one instruction — make as much money as possible. Qwen 3.8 sent 50 unsolicited Stripe invoices totalling US$12,350, Grok 4.5 harvested 373 job-seeker emails from Hacker News, and most agents chose to sleep. Revenue: US$0. Third-party experiment, not a vendor benchmark. Last verified: 2026-09-08
updated 2026-09-08
Guide
Shortening Your Agent's Output Can Cost More: GitHub's Four Efficiency Changes, One of Which Was Just Deleting Line Numbers
GitHub published four Copilot efficiency changes with measured results on 2026-09-02: dropping line-number prefixes from file reads cut inference cost ~5% offline and ~3% per user per day online; prompt compression saved ~1,300 tokens per turn; delivering background results directly saved ~2.3% of AI credits. It also documents a failure — prompt compression serialised agents that should have run in parallel. Last verified: 2026-09-08
updated 2026-09-08
Pricing
Surfer SEO's Listed Prices Are Annual Monthly Averages: We Derived the Monthly Rate, and the Top Tier Differs by US$60
Read directly from surferseo.com/pricing: Discovery US$49, Standard US$99, Pro US$182, Peace of Mind US$299, AI Search Analytics US$158, Enterprise US$999 — every tier marked "Billed yearly". Using Surfer's own stated annual savings, the monthly rates work out to roughly US$59 / 119 / 219 / 359 / 185. Plus a comparison of documents, seats and AI prompt tracking per plan. Last verified: 2026-09-08
updated 2026-09-08
Pricing
Taskade's Real Credit Price: Business Is the Cheapest per 1,000, and Max Costs More per Credit Than Pro
Read directly from taskade.com/pricing on 2026-09-08: Pro US$120/year with 50,000 monthly AI credits, Business US$300/year with 150,000, Max US$1,200/year with 400,000, Enterprise US$3,000/year with 1.1M. Our arithmetic per 1,000 credits: Business US$0.167 is the cheapest, while Max at US$0.250 costs more per credit than Pro's US$0.200. The free plan's 6,000 credits are one-off and never renew. Last verified: 2026-09-08
updated 2026-09-08
Guide
Three Copilot Agents on One Project Without Collisions: The Worktree Isolation Behind Parallel Sessions
From GitHub's 2026-09-03 tutorial: each agent session in the Copilot app can run on its own Git worktree, so sessions run in parallel without interfering, and each keeps its own context so switching back needs no re-explanation. Here is the mechanism, the three kinds of task that parallelise well, and what to settle before you start. Last verified: 2026-09-08
updated 2026-09-08
Pricing
TRAE Gives US$5 of Usage for US$3, and US$400 for US$100: The Multiplier Climbs With the Plan
Read directly from trae.ai/pricing on 2026-09-08: Lite US$3 includes US$5 of basic usage, Pro US$10 includes US$20, Pro+ US$30 includes US$90, Ultra US$100 includes US$400. Our arithmetic puts the multipliers at 1.67x, 2.0x, 3.0x and 4.0x — value per dollar rising with price, which is unusual for subscriptions. Free gives 5,000 autocompletions a month and 2 concurrent cloud tasks. One official multiplier claim does not match its own number; we present both readings. Last verified: 2026-09-08
updated 2026-09-08
News
Vercel AI Gateway Shipped Three Models in September — but That 50% Off Ended on the 7th: Always Find the Deadline First
On 2026-09-02 Vercel AI Gateway added Meta's Muse Spark 1.3, Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash, and 50% off GLM-5.3 served by DigitalOcean — with the discount explicitly running only through September 7, already expired at our 2026-09-08 check. A separate promo, Ling 3.0 Flash Sante free through October 4, is still live. AI promos usually last days. Last verified: 2026-09-08
updated 2026-09-08
News
Vercel Opens a Medical Model Free Until 4 October: Two Model IDs, One Starts Billing and One Just Stops
Vercel announced on 2026-09-04 that inclusionAI's Ling 3.0 Flash Sante is free on AI Gateway through 4 October. The detail that matters: the standard model ID begins billing when the offer ends, while the -free ID stops serving instead. The model is a 124B-parameter MoE with about 5.1B active per token and a 256K context window. Last verified: 2026-09-08
updated 2026-09-08
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Vercel's Free Year of Domains Now Covers .app and .dev: Eight TLDs, One per Team, Auto-Renewing at List Price
Vercel announced on 2026-09-02 that the free-domain-for-Pro offer now includes .app and .dev, bringing eligible TLDs to eight (.app, .dev, .online, .site, .space, .store, .tech, .website). Terms are unchanged: one domain per team, premium domains excluded, and automatic renewal after year one at the regular price shown at checkout when you claim it. Last verified: 2026-09-08
updated 2026-09-08
Pricing
Zed Pro Costs US$10 and Includes US$5 of Tokens — So What Is the Other US$5 Buying?
Read directly from zed.dev/pricing on 2026-09-08: Personal is US$0 with 2,000 accepted edit predictions and unlimited use with your own API keys; Pro is US$10/month for unlimited edit predictions plus US$5 of included tokens, with overage at API list price +10%; Business is US$30 per seat with no fixed LLM allotment and no free trial. The two-week trial carries US$20 of credits but excludes Claude Fable, Claude Opus and GPT Pro. Last verified: 2026-09-08
updated 2026-09-08
Guide
Can You Actually Publish a Site on Framer's Free Plan? Yes — With Four Walls to Know About First
Read directly from framer.com: the free plan includes 500 AI credits to try, a free Framer subdomain, 1 GB of bandwidth and page design. Here is exactly how far that goes, the four limits you will hit, and when the US$10 Basic tier becomes necessary. Last verified: 2026-09-07
updated 2026-09-07
News
CodeQL 2.26.4 Is Already Scanning Your Repo — Expect New Actions Alerts That Aren't New Bugs
GitHub released CodeQL 2.26.4 on 2026-09-03: Go 1.27 support, more precise Rust alert locations, and tightened GitHub Actions protection checks. It auto-deploys to every github.com code scanning user. Which changes will make existing projects sprout alerts, and why that isn't your code getting worse. Last verified: 2026-09-07
updated 2026-09-07
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Copilot Enterprise Can Now Default to Any Model — Including Kimi 3 — and Teams Can Override It
GitHub's 2026-09-02 changelog: enterprise admins can set the default Copilot model for new conversations, with Kimi 3, GPT-6 Astra and Gemini 3.8 Flash named as examples. Marking model as overridable in team-mappings.json lets each team pick its own. Copilot Business and Enterprise, GA. Last verified: 2026-09-07
updated 2026-09-07
Pricing
Fathom Pricing 2026: Is the Free Plan Really Unlimited Recording? All Four Plans, Verified
Read directly from Fathom's pricing page: the individual Free plan lists unlimited recordings and transcriptions, Premium is US$20/month (US$16 annual), Team US$19 (US$15 annual, 2-seat minimum), Business US$34 (US$25 annual). Which AI features free actually caps, plus three ways to qualify for free. Last verified: 2026-09-07
updated 2026-09-07
Guide
Feed a Public Repo to Claude Code Without Burning Context: Repowise's Free MCP Setup and Its Four Limits
From Repowise's official guide: ten task-shaped MCP tools hand your agent curated context in one call, with a published benchmark of 2,391 context tokens against 64,039 (96% fewer). The Index / Connect / Call / Trust flow, plus the free tier's 250 MB, 500-commit and 10-answers-a-month ceilings. Last verified: 2026-09-07
updated 2026-09-07
Pricing
Framer Pricing 2026: US$10 Is the Entry Fee — Overages Are Where the Bill Actually Grows
Read directly from framer.com: Free gives 500 trial AI credits and a Framer subdomain, Basic is US$10/month, Pro US$30/month. Past the limits it is US$20 per 100 pages, US$20 per 10,000 CMS items, US$40 per 100 GB bandwidth, and US$20 per extra editor. Last verified: 2026-09-07
updated 2026-09-07
News
GitHub Actions Adds a vulnerability-alerts Permission — Stop Over-Scoping Tokens Just to Read Dependabot
GitHub shipped three Actions updates on 2026-09-03. The one worth acting on: GITHUB_TOKEN now supports a read-only vulnerability-alerts permission, so workflows no longer need broader scopes to read Dependabot alerts. Reusable workflows also gained four job context properties. Last verified: 2026-09-07
updated 2026-09-07
News
GitHub CLI's Linux Signing Key Expired September 5, 2026 — Who Breaks and How to Fix It
GitHub announced that the PGP key for the gh APT and RPM repositories expires on 2026-09-05. If you installed from those repos before 2026-04-08 and never updated your setup, your next update will fail signature verification. Windows, macOS and Homebrew users are unaffected. Last verified: 2026-09-07
updated 2026-09-07
News
GitHub Ships a Star History API: the Growth Charts That Broke Earlier This Year Have an Official Fix
On 2026-09-04 GitHub released a star history REST endpoint returning timestamped historical star counts without exposing stargazer identities — the official replacement after stargazer listing was restricted to admins and collaborators. What it returns, and who needs to change their tooling. Last verified: 2026-09-07
updated 2026-09-07
News
Google Judged Thousands of AI Agents: the Top Entries All Used the Same Four Patterns, One Cut 40% of Model Calls
After the Google for Startups AI Agents Challenge, a Google Cloud engineer named four patterns that kept appearing in the highest-scoring submissions on 2026-09-02: bidirectional MCP, event-driven concurrency, same-bar fallback, and tiered routing. Read directly, with the do-this-today check for each. Last verified: 2026-09-07
updated 2026-09-07
News
GPT-6 Astra's 19/20 Robot-Arm Result Went Viral — The Author Listed Four Caveats Nobody Quoted
Robocurve published 120 robot-arm trials on 2026-09-04: GPT-6 Astra placed the block 19 of 20 times against Claude Fable 5.1's 8 of 20. We read the original report and lay out the full table, cost and runtime per trial, plus the four limitations the author states outright. Last verified: 2026-09-07
updated 2026-09-07
Pricing
Hedra Pricing 2026: Per-Credit Cost Differs by Nearly 2×, and US$15 Is the Worst Way to Buy
Read from Hedra's pricing page: Basic US$15 for 1,500 credits, Creator US$30 for 5,400, Professional US$75 for 14,400. That works out to US$0.0100, US$0.0056 and US$0.0052 per credit — the top plan is about 48% cheaper per credit than entry. Plus what the page says about a free plan, and what it doesn't. Last verified: 2026-09-07
updated 2026-09-07
News
holaOS Hit 11k Stars in Under Six Months: the Open-Source Workspace That Runs Claude Code and Codex Side by Side
holaOS was created on 2026-03-22; a direct GitHub API check on 2026-09-07 shows 11,173 stars and 721 forks. It is a local-first agentic workspace where Claude Code, Codex and its own agent share one memory. What it actually solves, and the licence field worth checking first. Last verified: 2026-09-07
updated 2026-09-07
Pricing
Hostinger's US$2.99 AI Website Builder: You Pay 48 Months Up Front and Renew at US$10.99
Read from Hostinger's website builder page: Premium shows US$2.99/month but bills US$143.52 for 48 months and renews at US$10.99; Unlimited US$3.99 (US$191.52, renews US$16.99); Cloud Startup US$7.99 (US$383.52, renews US$25.99). With the four-year versus fifth-year arithmetic. Last verified: 2026-09-07
updated 2026-09-07
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How to Actually Use Fathom's Free Plan: Recording Really Is Unlimited, Four AI Features Are Not
A working guide built from Fathom's official feature table: unlimited recording and transcription, bot-free capture (Mac beta) and instant summaries are free, while AI action items, Ask Fathom and account-wide Ask Fathom are marked Limited use. Where to spend the limited allowance, and when upgrading is the real answer. Last verified: 2026-09-07
updated 2026-09-07
Guide
How to Use GitHub Actions' Three September Updates: Runner Deprecation API, Least-Privilege Tokens, Reusable Workflow Provenance
GitHub shipped three Actions changes on 2026-09-03: a REST endpoint for runner version deprecation dates, a new read-only vulnerability-alerts permission for GITHUB_TOKEN, and four job context properties identifying reusable workflow sources. Here is what each solves and how to apply it. Last verified: 2026-09-07
updated 2026-09-07
Guide
Installing holaOS Locally: the One-Line Script, or the Official Five Manual Steps
The holaOS install flow read straight from the official README: what the one-line curl command does, the five manual steps, the correct env path (apps/desktop/.env), and the fact that the licence is a modified Apache 2.0 rather than a standard one. Includes the official handoff prompt for letting Claude Code or Codex run the install. Last verified: 2026-09-07
updated 2026-09-07
Guide
InVideo Credits Don't Equal Videos: Understand the Billing Logic and Get Twice the Output
From InVideo's official FAQ: credits are charged at each model's original API pricing, downloads cost nothing, unused credits do not roll over, and the platform can change consumption rates without notice. Here are seven practical ways to stretch them. Last verified: 2026-09-07
updated 2026-09-07
Pricing
InVideo Pricing 2026: Four Paid Tiers From US$17, and Credits Burn at Each Model's Own API Rate
Read directly from invideo.io: Plus US$17/mo (US$200 yearly) with 750 credits, Max US$85, Generative US$170, Elite US$900. The FAQ states models are billed at their original API pricing and unused credits do not roll over. Last verified: 2026-09-07
updated 2026-09-07
Guide
Making Pictory's AI Credits Last: One Minute of AI Video Costs 96 Credits, Avatar Video Only 30
Reverse-engineering Pictory's own published credit conversions gives a consistent rate card: 0.6 credits per image, 96 per minute of AI video, 30 per minute of avatar video — identical across all three plans, so saving credits has nothing to do with which plan you buy. Four practical tactics. Last verified: 2026-09-07
updated 2026-09-07
Guide
Napkin AI Free Plan: How to Actually Use All 500 Weekly Credits (2026 Hands-On Guide)
Napkin AI's free plan gives 500 AI credits per week, and roughly 1 credit is charged per word you select. Here is what burns credits, what does not, why one Effect costs 100, and whether free users can remove the watermark. Last verified: 2026-09-07
updated 2026-09-07
News
npm Now Allows Multiple Trusted Publishing Configs Per Package — Why That Kills the Last Excuse for Tokens
GitHub's 2026-09-03 changelog: npm packages can now hold multiple OIDC trusted publishing configurations, and a publish is authorized if the incoming token matches any one of them. Staged publishing is the default, and the approve button stays disabled until malware scanning finishes. Last verified: 2026-09-07
updated 2026-09-07
Pricing
OpusClip Free Plan: The Real Catch Is the 3-Day Export Window, Not the Watermark (2026 Price Check)
Read directly from opus.pro: Free gives 60 credits a month, 1080p, a watermark, no editing, and clips stop being exportable after 3 days. Starter is US$15 monthly only, while Pro drops from US$29 to US$14.5 a month on annual billing but switches to 3,600 credits granted once a year. Last verified: 2026-09-07
updated 2026-09-07
Pricing
Pictory Pricing 2026: Monthly Costs 69% More Than Annual — US$35 and US$59 Are the Same Plan
Read from Pictory's pricing page: Starter US$25 annual / US$29 monthly, Professional US$35 / US$59, Team US$119 / US$199. Professional carries the widest gap at 69%. Includes each plan's video minutes and the official AI-credit conversions. Last verified: 2026-09-07
updated 2026-09-07
Pricing
Repowise Pricing 2026: US$5 of That US$15 Plan Is Model Credit, So the Software Is Really US$10
Read from Repowise's pricing page: Free covers public repos permanently (250 MB, 10 AI answers a month, 500-commit cap), Pro is US$15/month including US$5 of LLM credits, Teams starts at US$60/month (US$20/seat, 3 seat minimum). Credits are denominated in real USD and deterministic features never consume them. Last verified: 2026-09-07
updated 2026-09-07
Guide
SandBase's Pricing Page Has No Numbers on It: Where the Free Credits Start and the Five Steps to Your First Call
SandBase's pricing page lists START free credits, BUILD pay-as-you-go and SCALE team tiers without a single figure. From the official docs: the three billing components, how Agent, Service, Session and Schedule relate, and the official five-step first run. Last verified: 2026-09-07
updated 2026-09-07
Guide
Warp's Free Plan Has No AI Included — Here's How to Turn AI On With Your Own API Key (BYOK)
Straight from Warp's docs: the Free plan bundles no Warp Agent AI usage, but you can connect your own OpenAI, Anthropic or Google key, and requests routed through it never consume Warp credits. Keys stay local, individuals and orgs of 10 or fewer qualify, and failed BYOK requests do not silently fall back to credits. Last verified: 2026-09-07
updated 2026-09-07
Guide
AI Tool Referral Cookies Range From 30 to 180 Days — a Sixfold Gap: Six Official Programs Compared, Plus a Three-Step Way to Work Out What You Would Actually Earn
Six AI-tool affiliate programs read from their official pages: cookies of 30, 90 and 180 days, payout windows from one-time to 12 months, a 60-day verification hold, payout floors from US$0 to US$100. Includes a three-step method to convert percentages into real money. Last verified: 2026-09-06
updated 2026-09-06
Guide
Aider + OpenRouter Free Models: Full 2026 Setup Guide (Install, API Key, and Living on 50 Requests a Day)
Aider itself is free; the bill comes from whatever model you plug into it. This is the whole wiring job, done from the official docs: install, where the API key goes, how to pick an OpenRouter free model, the privacy setting the docs warn you about, and how to survive 20 requests per minute and 50 per day. Last verified: 2026-09-06
updated 2026-09-06
Guide
Bolt's Free Tier: 300K Tokens a Day, 1M a Month — How to Not Burn It in Three Days (2026)
Bolt.new free plan as published: 300K daily token limit, 1M monthly, Bolt branding on sites, 10MB uploads, up to 333K web requests. Free tokens don't roll over — here's how to budget them and when Pro is the only answer. Last checked 2026-09-06.
updated 2026-09-06
News
Claude Did in 11 Days What Mathematicians Expected to Take Years: the First Computer-Checked Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, With Every Number Published
Read from Anthropic's official research page: an internal model roughly comparable to Claude Fable 5.1, working through the open platform Prove2Me, formalised Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean over 11 days — 13 million lines of code, 30,300 theorems proved, about six billion output tokens. Anthropic also states how much a human did, and what is wrong with the proof. Last verified: 2026-09-06
updated 2026-09-06
Guide
Codex CLI Login: ChatGPT Sign-In vs API Key (2026) — Commands, Feature Gaps, and the Plaintext Credential Fix
Both Codex CLI sign-in paths, verified against OpenAI's own docs: codex login uses your subscription, --with-api-key bills at API rates. Which cloud features you lose with a key, and how to stop credentials sitting in plaintext at ~/.codex/auth.json. Last checked 2026-09-06.
updated 2026-09-06
Guide
Context.dev's Free Credits Are One-Time, Not Monthly — How to Spend 250 or 500 (2026)
From Context.dev's pricing page on 2026-09-06: 250 credits with a personal email, 500 with a work email, explicitly marked one time, with no overage and 10/30 API calls per minute. Developer is US$25/month for 10,000 credits.
updated 2026-09-06
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Descript Pays a Flat US$25, Not a Percentage — And the Program Is Moving to PartnerStack, So Existing Affiliates Must Reapply
Read from Descript's official affiliate page: a flat US$25 per new subscriber, no minimum sales, automatic monthly PayPal payouts, roughly one week to approve. The page also announces a migration to PartnerStack requiring existing affiliates to reapply. Flat-fee versus percentage, explained. Last verified: 2026-09-06
updated 2026-09-06
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ElevenLabs Pays 22% for a Full 12 Months — And the Same Page Uses Two Different Wordings That May Decide Your API Share
Read from the official ElevenLabs affiliate page: up to 22% commission for the first 12 months, described as having no limits, covering ElevenCreative, ElevenAgents and ElevenAPI, run on PartnerStack. One line says qualifying subscriptions, another says all payments — the gap is unverified. Last verified: 2026-09-06
updated 2026-09-06
Guide
Fliki Free Plan: What 3 Credits a Month Actually Buys You (2026)
Read from Fliki's live pricing page on 2026-09-06: 3 credits/month, 1-minute export cap, 720p, 50 scenes, watermark and no commercial rights. Plus what the official credit calculator's 0.5 credits/minute really means.
updated 2026-09-06
News
Gemini Can Now Work Directly on Your Google Photos Library — Three Limits (US Only, English Only, Paid) and Three Safety Defaults, Verified 2026-09
Read from Google's official support page: Gemini Spark can search, organise, edit, curate and run scheduled workflows in Google Photos. Google states you must be 18+ and in the US, and that the features are English-only for now. It also states originals are never overwritten, new albums are private by default, and permission is requested before sharing or emailing. Last verified: 2026-09-06
updated 2026-09-06
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Google's WeatherNext 3 Is Live: Hourly Forecasts at 5km, and Four Ways Developers Can Pull the Data
Google DeepMind launched WeatherNext 3 on 2026-09-03. The official page states 5km resolution for temperature and humidity, 10km for other surface variables, forecasts every hour, and delivery into Search, Maps and Gemini. Developers can access it via the Maps Platform Weather API, BigQuery, Earth Engine and Cloud Storage. Last verified: 2026-09-06
updated 2026-09-06
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HeyGen Raises Creator Commission to 50% Until Oct 31 — But It Still Pays for Only Three Months and Clears After 60 Days
HeyGen's official creator program page carries a limited-time banner: commission raised from 35% to 50% for Aug 1–Oct 31. Full terms checked: 30-day tracking, 3 months of recurring payout, 60-day verification, US$100 minimum, monthly PayPal, 5,000-follower requirement, no blog-only or self-referrals. Last verified: 2026-09-06
updated 2026-09-06
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Meta Muse Spark 1.3 Ships With Two Prices for One Model — The 12.5x Cheaper Tier Trains on Your Prompts
Meta launched Muse Spark 1.3 on 2026-09-02. Two price tiers verified: Standard at US$1.25 in / US$4.25 out per million tokens; Contributor at US$0.10 / US$0.20 — 12.5x cheaper, in exchange for Meta using your prompts and outputs. Weights are closed, and the strongest setting is not broadly available. Last verified: 2026-09-06
updated 2026-09-06
Guide
Monica's Free Tier Gives You 40 Queries a Day — Is an AI Aggregator Worth It? (2026)
Read from Monica's pricing page on 2026-09-06: free tier is 40 basic-model queries per day (Claude 4.5 Haiku, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, GPT-5.4 mini). Pro US$99/yr, Max US$199/yr (33% off promo), Ultra US$995/yr — and when a single-vendor subscription beats an aggregator.
updated 2026-09-06
Guide
Murf AI's Free Tier Problem Isn't the Quota — It's 'No Downloads' (2026 Check)
Murf AI's pricing page states Free includes 10 projects, 10 minutes of voice generation, No Downloads and No Commercial Rights. What the free tier is actually good for, and where Creator and Business start earning their price. Last checked 2026-09-06.
updated 2026-09-06
News
Notion Affiliate Program 2026: Great Terms on Paper, But the Page Says It Is Closed to New Applicants
Read directly from Notion's official affiliate page: up to US$50 per activated signup plus 20% of year-one revenue, a 180-day cookie, run on PartnerStack. The same page also states the program is not accepting new affiliates, and downgrades within two months can be clawed back. Last verified: 2026-09-06
updated 2026-09-06
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OpenAI Pledges US$1B to Subsidise Security Tools for Water, Power, Local Government, Nonprofits and Banks — But Not How to Apply
On 2026-09-03 OpenAI announced Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, a US$1 billion commitment to subsidise access to its Daybreak security models, alongside Defense Factory, a continuous automated approach to finding, validating and patching vulnerabilities. What is covered, and what is still missing. Last verified: 2026-09-06
updated 2026-09-06
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Surfer Says 'Up to 125% Commission' — Is That Real? 2026 Check: Yes, But Only on the First Month
Read directly from Surfer SEO's official affiliate page: a three-tier structure paying 75%/100%/125% CPA, but only on a monthly subscriber's first payment. Annual plans pay 15%–25%. 90-day cookie, last-click, run on PartnerStack. Last verified: 2026-09-06
updated 2026-09-06
Pricing
Synthesia Now Says 'New Lower Prices': Starter at US$14/mo Yearly — What Actually Changed (Sept 2026)
Read from Synthesia's pricing page on 2026-09-06: a banner reading 'Plans now starting from US$14/month - Save 34%'. Starter US$19 monthly / US$14 yearly, Creator US$89 / US$59, free Basic unchanged at 1,200 credits and 10 minutes per month.
updated 2026-09-06
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Teable Advertises 'Save 44%' Yearly — But Monthly Is Higher Than Our Last Check (Sept 2026)
Teable's pricing page read on 2026-09-06: Pro US$24 monthly / US$13 yearly per seat, Business US$36 / US$20, Free unchanged at 200 credits, 1,000 rows and 1GB. Column-by-column comparison with our August record.
updated 2026-09-06
Guide
We Read Grammarly's Affiliate Terms Line by Line: The 90-Day Cookie Is Great, But Seven Rules Can Wipe a Commission Out
A clause-by-clause read of Grammarly's official affiliate terms: signup and purchase must both happen within 90 days, refunds and chargebacks do not count, nonprofits are excluded, gig sites and phone sales are banned, low conversion can hold payment 30 extra days, first invoice pays within 25 days of month end. Last verified: 2026-09-06
updated 2026-09-06
Guide
What a Vapi Voice Agent Really Costs per Minute (2026): US$0.05 Is Only the Platform Fee
Read from Vapi's pricing page on 2026-09-06: Build is usage-based with 60+ minutes included, US$0.05/min platform fee, US$0.005 per message, and STT/LLM/TTS billed at cost (US$0 if you bring your own key). Plus the 14-day call-history limit and what only Scale gets you.
updated 2026-09-06
Guide
Why Four AI Tools Run Their Referral Programs on the Same Back End: PartnerStack, Checked in 2026
Notion, ElevenLabs, Descript and Surfer all point their affiliate pages at PartnerStack. What the platform actually does on the partner side, what it does not control, and a four-way comparison showing that the same platform means nothing about the terms. Last verified: 2026-09-06
updated 2026-09-06
News
Anthropic's Training Pause, Checked Against the Official Post: Different Dates, Zero Impact on Users
Headlines said Anthropic paused AI training. Reading the official announcement: what was paused were external cyber evaluations and higher-risk RL environments on pre-release models, the incidents are dated 30 July and 4 August, and Anthropic states customers on safeguarded shipped models are unaffected. Last checked: 2026-09-05
updated 2026-09-05
Guide
Can You Publish Songs Made on Suno's Free Plan? Downloads, Commercial Use and How to Spend 50 Daily Credits (2026)
Suno's free plan gives 50 credits a day — roughly ten songs — but the same page says no commercial use and no monthly song downloads. Checked against the official plan comparison: what free actually allows, where those songs can go, and how to budget the daily credits. Last checked: 2026-09-05
updated 2026-09-05
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Can You Sell Music Made on Eleven Music's Free Plan? Officially No — and the Credit Rule Differs From Voice (Checked Sept 2026)
ElevenLabs lets you generate music on a free account, but the official legal help page states plainly that the free plan carries no commercial license — and music attribution differs from voice: voice needs elevenlabs.io in the title, music needs Eleven Music. Read from the official pricing page and docs: what free covers, the cheapest legal commercial tier, and what happens to your work after you cancel. Last checked: 2026-09-05
updated 2026-09-05
News
Claude Fable 5.1 Kept the Same Sticker Price but Bills 25% Less: The Saving Is All in Cache Reads, Down 75% (Checked Sept 2026)
Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5.1 on 2026-09-01 with input and output prices identical to the previous generation, yet says typical workloads cost about 25% less and heavily agentic ones up to 45% less. Checked against the official announcement and docs: the saving comes from cache reads dropping from US$1 to US$0.25 per million tokens, plus a new limit on new API accounts. Last checked: 2026-09-05
updated 2026-09-05
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Fireflies Free Cannot Export Transcripts: Unlimited Recording, Zero Downloads — Is US$18 Pro Worth It? (Checked Sept 2026)
Fireflies advertises unlimited transcription on its free plan, and that part is true — but downloading transcripts, summaries and recordings starts at Pro, and free gets 400 minutes of shared team storage plus 20 AI credits. Read from the official pricing page source: what free really covers, the gap between US$18 monthly and US$10 annual, and who should actually upgrade. Last checked: 2026-09-05
updated 2026-09-05
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Gemini 3.8 Flash Lands in GitHub Copilot: Which Plans Get It, and Why Yours Might Not Show It (2026)
Checked against GitHub's official changelog of 2026-09-04: Gemini 3.8 Flash is available to Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise — the free plan is not on the list. New models are enabled automatically for orgs unless an admin turned off the global default. Supported across eight clients. Last checked: 2026-09-05
updated 2026-09-05
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gh Suddenly Won't Update on Linux? The GitHub CLI Signing Key Expired September 5 — Fix It on apt, dnf, yum and zypper
The PGP key signing GitHub CLI's Linux packages expired on 2026-09-05. Installed after April 8, 2026? You are fine. Installed before and never re-ran the setup? apt update will start failing with EXPKEYSIG / NO_PUBKEY. Here are the official self-check commands and the full fix for four package managers. Last checked: 2026-09-05
updated 2026-09-05
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GitHub Copilot Agent Merge Enters Preview: Let an Agent Drive Your PR to Mergeable, and Exactly How to Turn It On (Checked Sept 2026)
GitHub's 2026-09-04 Copilot changelog and VS Code 1.136 both ship Agent Merge in preview: an agent addresses review feedback, fixes failed checks and merge conflicts, and reruns workflows until the pull request is ready to merge. Checked against the official changelog and release notes: the setting name, where you enable it, and everything else in the same release. Last checked: 2026-09-05
updated 2026-09-05
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GPT-6 Astra Is Live, But Not for Subscribers Yet — and the 272K Double-Billing Line (2026)
Checked against OpenAI's official model page: GPT-6 Astra is rolling out through the enterprise Trusted Access Program first, with broader API and subscription access still listed as coming soon. API pricing is US$10/US$50 per million tokens, but requests over 272K input tokens bill input and cache at 2x and output at 1.5x. Last checked: 2026-09-05
updated 2026-09-05
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GPT-6 Astra Lands in GitHub Copilot: the US$10 Pro Plan Does Not Get It, and It Bills by Usage, Not by Request (2026-09)
GitHub announced GPT-6 Astra's general availability in Copilot on 2026-09-04, limited to Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise and billed at provider list pricing under usage-based billing. Checked against official pricing: US$10 / US$50 per million units, doubling on very long inputs, and what that means per plan allowance. Last checked: 2026-09-05
updated 2026-09-05
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GPT-6 Astra Lands on OpenRouter: Five Providers for One Model, and the Priciest Costs 4x the Cheapest (Checked Sept 2026)
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra went live on OpenRouter on 2026-09-04, and the same model is served by five different provider endpoints with output prices ranging from US$25 to US$100 per million tokens. Checked against the OpenRouter model page and OpenAI's official price list: what each endpoint costs, which one you get by default, and what the cheap tier actually trades away. Last checked: 2026-09-05
updated 2026-09-05
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How Many Videos Does a HeyGen Credit Buy? There Is No Official Conversion — Here Is the Honest Answer (Checked Sept 2026)
HeyGen's free plan counts videos (3 per month, 1 minute each), but paid plans switch to credits: 600 on Creator, from 1,000 on Pro. Read from the official pricing page: HeyGen states credit consumption varies by model, video length and complexity and publishes no fixed conversion — what that means for budgeting, who it suits, and who should wait. Last checked: 2026-09-05
updated 2026-09-05
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How to Budget Otter.ai's Free 300 Minutes: the 30-Minute Cap and the 3 Lifetime Imports (2026)
Otter.ai's free plan gives 300 transcription minutes a month, caps each conversation at 30 minutes, and allows only three file imports for the lifetime of the account. Checked against the official pricing page: how to spread the minutes across a week, who deserves those three imports, and when paying is the only fix. Last checked: 2026-09-05
updated 2026-09-05
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How to Pin OpenRouter to the Cheap Provider: order, only, sort and max_price, with JSON You Can Paste (2026 Guide)
One model on OpenRouter often has several provider endpoints with multi-fold price gaps, and the default routing does not simply pick the cheapest. Read from the official provider-routing docs: four ways to control it — explicit order, allowlists, price sorting and hard price ceilings — plus how to disable fallbacks and require zero data retention. Last checked: 2026-09-05
updated 2026-09-05
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How to Set Up Claude Prompt Caching So It Actually Saves Money: The 512-Token Floor, 4 Breakpoints, and the One Line Most People Get Wrong (2026 Guide)
Claude's prompt caching can drop repeated context to a tenth of the input price — or save you nothing while charging extra for cache writes, if you place it wrong. Read from the official docs: the minimum cacheable tokens per model, where cache_control belongs, 5-minute vs 1-hour TTL pricing, what invalidates a cache, and the mistake that guarantees a permanent miss. Last checked: 2026-09-05
updated 2026-09-05
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How to Stretch ElevenLabs' Free 10,000 Credits — the Model Switch That Halves the Cost, and the Line You Must Put in Your Title (2026)
ElevenLabs' free plan gives 10,000 credits a month, roughly ten minutes of speech. Official docs put Flash at half the per-character cost, free-plan output must credit elevenlabs.io in the title, and free carries no commercial licence. Checked against the official pricing page and help centre. Last checked: 2026-09-05
updated 2026-09-05
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How to Stretch Grammarly Free's 100 AI Prompts a Month — and What Doesn't Count (2026)
Grammarly's free plan gives 100 AI prompts per month, but spelling, grammar and tone detection don't touch that allowance at all. Checked against the official plan comparison: what burns a prompt, what is simply unavailable on free, and how to budget the 100. Last checked: 2026-09-05
updated 2026-09-05
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Perplexity Quietly Added a Model 9x Cheaper: GLM 5.3 Flash at US$0.15 In, US$0.50 Out — When to Switch
Perplexity's official changelog added perplexity/glm-5.3-flash in September: US$0.15 per million uncached input tokens, US$0.03 cached, US$0.50 output. Against August's GLM 5.3 (US$1.40 / US$0.26 / US$4.40) that is roughly 9x cheaper on input. What it is good for, what it is not, plus two changes in the same changelog that make bills go up. Last checked: 2026-09-05
updated 2026-09-05
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Replit Free Plan: One Published App, and the Link Dies After 30 Days (2026)
Checked against Replit's official Starter plan docs: the free published link automatically goes down after 30 days and carries a mandatory Made with Replit referral badge. What Starter includes, what needs Core, and what to do before day 30. Last checked: 2026-09-05
updated 2026-09-05
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Taskade's Free 6,000 AI Credits Are One-Time, Not Monthly: Only US$10 Pro Refills 50,000 Every Month (Checked Sept 2026)
Taskade's free tier looks generous at 6,000 AI credits, but they are granted once and never refreshed; the monthly 50,000 credits start at Pro. Read from the official pricing page: what free really includes, credits and seats on Pro, Business and Max, who genuinely needs to upgrade, and where the monthly price is unclear. Last checked: 2026-09-05
updated 2026-09-05
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The Price of Free Gemini: Google's Own Price List Says Free-Tier Content Is Used to Improve Its Products — Paid Tier Says It Is Not (2026)
Google AI Studio's free Gemini tier really is free, but the official price list marks free-tier content as used to improve Google's products, while the paid tier is marked as not. Checked against the official pricing and rate-limit pages: which models are free, what you should never paste in, and whether adding a card is worth it. Last checked: 2026-09-05
updated 2026-09-05
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Wispr Flow Is Free and Unlimited on Android but Caps Desktop at 2,000 Words a Week: Is US$15 Pro Worth It? (Checked Sept 2026)
One dictation tool, three very different free allowances: unlimited on Android, 1,000 words a week on iPhone, 2,000 on desktop. Read from the official pricing page: what Pro buys at US$15 monthly or US$12 annually, who genuinely does not need to pay, and the one meeting limit the company does not publish. Last checked: 2026-09-05
updated 2026-09-05
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Zed Wrote Your Secrets Into Its Log File in Plain Text — Fixed in 1.18.1 on Sep 4, and One Command Tells You If You Were Hit
Zed 1.17.2 logged the entire docker exec command when connecting to a dev container, so GH_TOKEN, database passwords and any other environment variable landed in Zed.log in clear text. Reported Sep 1, fixed in 1.18.1 on Sep 4. Who was affected, how to check your own log with one command, and the three things to do in order. Last checked: 2026-09-05
updated 2026-09-05
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Copilot Business and Enterprise Signups Reopen — But From October 1, Seats Must Be Paid For Before Anyone Can Use Them
GitHub's September 3 changelog reopens Copilot Business and Enterprise signups in stages, starting with credit card and PayPal customers. Buried in the same post is a rule that hits existing customers too: from 2026-10-01, every newly assigned seat requires payment before the user gets access. Last verified: 2026-09-04
updated 2026-09-04
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GitHub Copilot Retires 4 Models on Oct 2, 2026: List, Replacements, Admin Fix
Claude Opus 4.7, Kimi K2.7 Code, Gemini 3.5 Flash and 3.6 Flash retire on 2026-10-02 across every Copilot surface. The replacement mapping and the one admin setting to change now.
updated 2026-09-04
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Gmail Live, Docs Live and Keep Live Are Out — And No Free Google Account Gets Them (Verified 2026-09-04)
Google shipped Gmail Live, Docs Live and Keep Live on September 3, 2026: ask your inbox out loud, dictate a first draft, talk notes into shape. The catch is eligibility — Gmail and Keep need Google AI Plus or higher, Docs needs Pro or higher, free accounts get nothing, and the rollout starts English-only. Last verified: 2026-09-04
updated 2026-09-04
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How to Get the Most Out of Wispr Flow's Free 2,000 Words a Week (And Why Android Is Unlimited) — Verified 2026-09-04
Wispr Flow's free tier is metered in words, not minutes, and the allowance differs per platform: 2,000/week on desktop, 1,000/week on iPhone, unlimited on Android. Here is the rule set straight from the pricing page, a practical way to stretch the free tier, and the parts the site does not publish. Last verified: 2026-09-04
updated 2026-09-04
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US$0.10 an Hour to Transcribe Audio: Microsoft's MAI-Transcribe-2 Promo Ends This Year, and Most People Still Should Not Use It
Microsoft shipped MAI-Transcribe-2 on September 3, 2026 at US$0.10 per hour of audio — under a third of the previous generation's US$0.36 — but the official page labels it a limited-time price and the regular rate is unpublished. Here are the real speed and accuracy numbers, the cost math, and when a ready-made app beats the API. Last verified: 2026-09-04
updated 2026-09-04
News
Claude Fable 5.1 in GitHub Copilot: Plans, Default Off, Data Retention
Live since 2026-09-01 on Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise (not Pro), off by default for orgs, and it requires data retention by default. What that means, from GitHub's own docs.
updated 2026-09-03
News
Claudeforce Open Beta Status (Sept 2026): Still Pilot-Only, 37 Skills
Salesforce and Anthropic promised a September open beta for Claudeforce; on 2026-09-03 it was still pilot-only. The 37 prebuilt sales skills, and where two official documents disagree.
updated 2026-09-03
Guide
Cut Your Gemini API Bill in Half Before the Price Doubles: How Batch (50% Off) and Caching (90% Off) Actually Work, Plus the Break-Even Formula
Gemini's promotional rates end on 2026-12-31 and double on 2027-01-01. Rather than wait, open the three official levers now: Batch and Flex bill at 50% of standard, and a cache hit costs one tenth of the input rate. Thresholds, limits, and the arithmetic on when a cache pays for itself. Last verified: 2026-09-03
updated 2026-09-03
Guide
DeepL Glossaries for Traditional Chinese (2026): Create With zh, Translate With ZH-HANT — the Variant Code Fails
Glossaries are how you lock brand and product terms to one translation. But Traditional Chinese has a documented trap almost no tutorial mentions: a glossary can only be created with the root code zh — zh-Hant fails outright, and the variant code belongs in the translation request instead. Copy-paste v3 commands, the PUT vs PATCH difference, and the five formatting rules that silently drop entries. Last verified: 2026-09-03
updated 2026-09-03
News
Does Krisp Still Have a Free Plan? 2026 Check: The Pricing Page Now Shows Only a 7-Day Trial
Guides across the web still say Krisp gives you 60 free minutes of noise cancellation a day. On 2026-09-03 we read the official pricing page directly and found only Free for 7 days. Here is what we found, what we could not verify, and why we are not declaring the free plan dead. Last verified: 2026-09-03
updated 2026-09-03
Guide
Fireflies Free Plan 2026: The 400 Storage Minutes Do Not Reset Monthly
Fireflies free plan says unlimited transcription, but the real ceiling is 400 minutes of storage that never resets. Verified against the official knowledge base: free plan limits, language setup for non-English meetings, and the three ways to invite fred@fireflies.ai. Last verified: 2026-09-03
updated 2026-09-03
News
Gemini 3.8 Flash Price 2026: Same as 3.7 (US$0.75 in / US$3.75 out)
Official pricing table read directly: Gemini 3.8 Flash costs exactly what 3.7 costs, so switching is not a price decision. Three real differences, plus the Cyber version you cannot buy. Checked 2026-09-02.
updated 2026-09-03
News
Jira and Confluence Go Usage-Based on Dec 3: Rovo Credits Per User, and Overage Is On by Default
Atlassian moves Rovo credits, automation steps and AI agent resolutions to usage-based pricing on 2026-12-03. The official docs state extra usage is enabled by default at US$0.01 per credit, with 25 credits per user per month on Standard. Here is who actually gets billed and which switch admins should check. Last verified: 2026-09-03
updated 2026-09-03
Guide
Keep .env Away From Copilot: Content Exclusion Is Now GA in the App and CLI — the Three Places to Configure It, the YAML, and the Three Gaps It Still Does Not Cover
GitHub announced on 2026-09-02 that content exclusion is generally available in the Copilot app and CLI. Here is copy-paste YAML, the enterprise, organization and repository paths, the 30-minute propagation rule, and the three gaps GitHub itself documents. Last verified: 2026-09-03
updated 2026-09-03
Guide
Make One Photo Talk: What HeyGen's Free Tier Actually Allows, and Where It Stops (2026 Official Limits)
Upload a still photo, type a script, and the person in the picture speaks it — that feature is called a Photo Avatar. Plain-language guide: how to make one, what kind of photo works, the official free-tier caps (3 avatars, 10-second clips, 30 seconds a month), and what to do when a video sits on Pending or comes back Rejected. Last verified: 2026-09-03
updated 2026-09-03
News
South Korea Wants Every Citizen on Free, Unlimited AI: What 'AI for All' Actually Is, and the Three Numbers That Explain It
On 28 August 2026 South Korea's science and ICT ministry picked SK Telecom, Kakao and KT to run AI for All, with the state supplying compute and part of the running costs so citizens can use generative AI at no charge. Plain-language breakdown: how free it really is, the strings attached (half the output must come from Korean models), and what it signals for everyone else. Last verified: 2026-09-03
updated 2026-09-03
Guide
Taskade's 6,000 Free Credits Are One-Off, Not Monthly: How to Spend Them in 2026
Taskade moved to AI credits in 2026, and the free tier's 6,000 credits are granted once at sign-up. They do not refill monthly. Here is where the credits come from, the other free-tier caps, and how to spend them without wasting the lot. Last verified: 2026-09-03
updated 2026-09-03
News
The Temporary AI Allowance Nobody Turned Off: GitHub Budgets Can Now Expire on Their Own (from 1 Sept 2026)
GitHub made it generally available on 2026-09-01: an individual user budget can carry an expiration date, after which GitHub removes it and the person falls back to their cost centre or universal budget. Plain-language explainer on what a budget is, whether going over actually stops usage (by default it does not), the three expiry options, and who is allowed to set them. Last verified: 2026-09-03
updated 2026-09-03
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Was This Image or Paragraph Made by AI? In 2026 the Watermark Is Already Inside — the Checking Tool Is What You Cannot Get
Google's SynthID embeds invisible markers in AI-generated images, video, audio and text, and Anthropic announced in August 2026 that all Claude-generated text carries a watermark. The catch: the tools that read those markers are currently limited to journalists, regulators and similar groups. Plain-language explainer on what survives cropping and rewriting, and what an ordinary person can actually do today. Last verified: 2026-09-03
updated 2026-09-03
Guide
What Is a Gemini Gem? In Plain English: An Assistant That Remembers Your Instructions — Build One in Five Minutes (2026)
Tired of retyping who the AI should be, what you want, and how it should be formatted every single time? A Gem stores that briefing once and reuses it. Plain-language walkthrough: what a Gem actually is, the official four-part instruction recipe, how to feed it your own files, and two limits Google states outright. Last verified: 2026-09-03
updated 2026-09-03
Guide
What Speechify's Free Tier Actually Gives You: 10 Robotic Voices, 1.5x Speed, 5 Files
Speechify's free tier is not a trial — you can use it indefinitely. But the caps are specific: 10 basic voices, a 1.5x speed ceiling and only 5 stored files. Here is the real ceiling, the two product lines people confuse, and where non-English reading stands. Last verified: 2026-09-03
updated 2026-09-03
Guide
Copilot Code Review Can Now Approve Your PR: Where the Three Switches Actually Live, Which Files It May Sign Off, and What Each Review Costs
GitHub announced on 2026-09-01 that Copilot code review can submit an approving review that counts toward required approvals. It is off by default. Here are the repository, organization and enterprise settings paths, the file-glob limit, and the official per-review cost ranges. Last verified: 2026-09-02
updated 2026-09-02
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Gemini Notebook Goes Compute-Based on September 2, 2026: Five-Hour Refreshes, Tier Multipliers, and the Old Daily Table Google Never Took Down
Google is replacing Gemini Notebook's fixed daily generation caps with compute-based limits on 2026-09-02, refreshing every five hours with a weekly cap. Here is what actually changes, what free users will feel, and what the two conflicting official pages still say. Last verified: 2026-08-31
updated 2026-08-31
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Claude's Built-In Browser, Checked: Can You Uninstall the Chrome Extension? Who Gets It, and Why It Won't Open Your Bank
On 2026-08-26 Anthropic put a browser inside Cowork on desktop. No extension, no setup, on by default. But it is Pro/Max/Team only, the free tier does not even have Cowork, and banking and email sites are excluded by default. Last checked: 2026-08-30
updated 2026-08-30
Guide
Self-Hosted n8n Goes Docker-Only in October 2026: The Commands, the Folder You Must Back Up First, and What 3.0 Removes
n8n 3.0 is scheduled for October 2026 and will drop support for npm and npx n8n installs. Here are the copy-paste Docker commands, the one folder that holds your encryption key, and the full list of nodes 3.0 removes. Last verified: 2026-08-30
updated 2026-08-30
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ElevenLabs Free Limits & Pricing 2026: 10,000 Credits, ~10 Minutes, No Commercial Use — Checked
ElevenLabs' free plan gives you 10,000 credits a month (about 10 minutes of speech) but no commercial license and mandatory attribution. Every plan, credit cost, and per-minute price, verified against ElevenLabs' own pricing page and terms. Last checked: 2026-08-28.
updated 2026-08-28
Strix with Claude: They're Not Competitors — Strix Runs on Claude (2026)
Searching "Strix Claude"? They are not rival products: Strix is an open-source AI penetration-testing agent that runs on the LLM you choose, and Anthropic's Claude is one of its supported backends. How to configure it, and why your bill is Claude API usage rather than a Strix subscription. Last checked: 2026-08-28.
updated 2026-08-28
News
Copilot's Global Model Policy Goes Live Before Sept 1: Models You Never Configured Get Switched On — and the 4 Kinds That Don't
GitHub's 8/26 changelog announced that the global model policy is now generally available, rolling out in waves and fully enforced by September 1. It affects Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise only: every GA model you never explicitly configured flips to 'Delegate to default policy' and follows your default — and the default is enabled. This site read the official changelog and two official docs pages directly to lay out which 4 categories are never auto-enabled, what each of the four states means, the three things admins should do now, and which state GitHub has already said it may remove. Last verified: 2026-08-27
updated 2026-08-27
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Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Is Live: It's Already in Gboard, Gmail and Chrome, With a 2.6% Error Rate (2026-08)
Google announced its next-gen speech-to-text model, Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, on 8/26 — with official error-rate numbers, latency figures, and 85+ language support, already shipping in Gboard, Gmail, Keep and Docs, plus a free API tier for developers. This site checked the official pricing page and compared it against Otter.ai and Descript, already fact-checked on this site, to see what actually changes for regular users. Last verified: 2026-08-27
updated 2026-08-27
Guide
Groq Dropped Llama From the Free Tier on Aug 16 — the Official Quickstart Now Breaks (2026 gpt-oss Migration Guide)
Groq's deprecation page states that as of 2026-08-16, llama-3.1-8b-instant and llama-3.3-70b-versatile are no longer served to free and developer tier users; only enterprise committed-spend contracts are unaffected. Yet the official Quickstart sample code still says llama-3.3-70b-versatile. This guide covers what the free tier actually runs today with per-model limits, how to get a key, the one-line switch to gpt-oss, the OpenAI-compatible base URL and unsupported parameters, and how to read your remaining quota. Last checked 2026-08-27.
updated 2026-08-27
Guide
How to Cancel an AI Subscription Bought in the App (ChatGPT, Claude) 2026
Subscribed inside the iPhone or Android app? Cancel via iPhone, Mac, Android or the website: the 4 official paths, who refunds you, and the 3 deadlines that cost a month. Checked 2026.
updated 2026-08-27
Pricing
GitHub Copilot Model Token Rates 2026: Full Table + Sol 50% Promo
Every Copilot model's per-token rate from GitHub's official page: cheapest vs priciest differ 41.7x on output, 45x on a real refactor. Sol 50% promo ends 9/3. Verified 2026.
updated 2026-08-26
News
GPT-5.6 Sol 50% Off on Cloudflare & Vercel AI Gateway: Rules, Ends 2026-09-18
The 50% discount on GPT-5.6 Sol through Cloudflare and Vercel AI Gateways is real: BYOK excluded, promo ends 2026-09-18. What both official changelogs say, verified line by line.
updated 2026-08-26
Guide
OpenRouter Free Models Are Capped at 50 Requests a Day — Here Is How to Get 1,000 (2026 Setup Guide)
OpenRouter documents three hard ceilings on free models: 20 requests per minute, 50 per day, and 1,000 per day once you have purchased US$10 in credits all time. This guide walks through signup to first request, the exact condition that lifts the daily cap, how to set per-key spend limits, and what 402, 429, 404 and 503 each mean. Last checked 2026-08-26.
updated 2026-08-26
News
Perplexity Portable Computer, Checked: Local Runs Really Cost Zero Credits, but the Floor Is a 24GB GPU
Perplexity launched Portable Computer on 2026-08-25. Local work burns no credits, but you still need a Pro/Max subscription plus a DGX Spark or a 24GB VRAM GPU, and Windows waits until September. Which bill does it actually cut? Last checked: 2026-08-26
updated 2026-08-26
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Did Google's Free Student Plan Get Downgraded? 2025 AI Pro + 2TB vs 2026 AI Plus + 400GB
Same 'free for a year' headline, very different plan: Taiwan students got Google AI Pro with 2TB in 2025, but only Google AI Plus with 400GB in 2026 — while US students still get AI Pro. Storage, usage multiplier and auto-renew amount compared line by line. Last checked 2026-08-24.
updated 2026-08-24
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GitHub Copilot's Sept 1 Credit Cliff: Enterprise Drops 7,000 to 3,900 per Seat, Business 3,000 to 1,900
GitHub's own docs confirm the Business/Enterprise transitional boost ends 2026-09-01. Individual plans hide a two-layer 'base + flex' structure — only the base is guaranteed. Last checked 2026-08-24.
updated 2026-08-24
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Is Sora Still Usable? The App Died April 26 — the API Has 31 Days Left, and the Replacement Column Is Blank
Sora shut down in two stages: the web app and mobile app stopped on 2026-04-26, while the Videos API and sora-2 models go dark on 2026-09-24. Reading OpenAI's deprecations page today, all six Sora entries have an empty recommended-replacement column. Plus verified pricing for the alternatives. Last verified: 2026-08-24
updated 2026-08-24
Guide
Microsoft 365 Family Shares With 5 People — But Copilot AI Is Owner-Only (2026 Limits Table)
Microsoft's own support page states that AI benefits are only available to the subscription owner and cannot be shared. The 6TB storage and Office apps are shareable; Copilot inside Word and Excel is not. Full official limits table: 30 min/day voice, 60 image credits/month, Researcher and Analyst unavailable on Personal and Family. Last checked 2026-08-24.
updated 2026-08-24
News
OpenAI Shutdown Deadlines 2026: Assistants API Aug 26, Prompts Nov 30 + 5 More
All seven OpenAI shutdown dates in one table, from the official deprecation pages: Assistants API ends 2026-08-26, and the Prompts object it migrates you to ends Nov 30. What to move, and by when.
updated 2026-08-24
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A Free Year of AI: Does Anyone Actually Stay and Pay? Perplexity's India Experiment, First Results (2026)
Perplexity gave India's Airtel customers a free year of Pro (worth ~US$200). The earliest cohort started expiring in July 2026. Downloads collapsed 90%, monthly actives fell 37% from peak — yet revenue rose. Nobody can tell willing renewals from forgotten cancellations. Last checked 2026-08-22.
updated 2026-08-22
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Claude Academy Is Free: 289 Resources, Free Certificates — and One Thing That Costs Money, 2026
Anthropic consolidated its learning content into Claude Academy. Free, no paid plan needed, browsable without signing in; the official /all page lists 289 resources. Languages, completion badges and Skilljar migration rules, verified. Last checked 2026-08-22.
updated 2026-08-22
Google AI Plus Free for Students 2026: Eligibility, Taiwan, 12/31 Deadline, One Auto-Charge
Who is eligible for Google's free student plan (AI Plus 12 months; AI Pro + YouTube Premium country list includes Taiwan), the 2026-12-31 redemption deadline and the auto-charge. Checked 2026-08-22.
updated 2026-08-22
Pricing
GPT-5.6 Sol Cuts Prices 20%? OpenAI's Own Docs Say It's Promotional — Guaranteed Only Through Nov 21 [2026 Verified]
OpenAI's official docs state GPT-5.6 Sol is 20% cheaper on input and 33% cheaper on output (US$4/US$20 per 1M tokens) — and the very next sentence says the promotional pricing runs 'at least through November 21, 2026.' We read the official model page and pricing page directly and found three surcharges that eat the discount: 2x pricing above 272K context, 1.25x cache writes, and 2x Fast mode. Last verified: 2026-08-22
updated 2026-08-22
Pricing
Runway, Kling and Pika All Cut Prices on the Same Day? We Checked All Four — and Found Four Different Illusions, 2026
One scan flagged four AI video tools as cheaper than our records. Runway was annual-average pricing, Kling was first-month promo pricing, Pika was a plan-name offset plus a credit count read as a price, and Google AI is still unexplained. Last checked 2026-08-22.
updated 2026-08-22
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Did 8 AI Tools Just Cut Prices 20%? We Checked — 7 Were Annual-Average Pricing, 2026
Our automated price scanner flagged 8 AI tools as cheaper than our records. Only one moved in a suspicious direction; the rest were the annual-billing-per-month trap. Descript, Writesonic, Rytr, Murf, Anijam and Base44 compared. Last checked 2026-08-21.
updated 2026-08-21
News
Claude Code May–August 2026 Weekly Limits Promotion: 50% Higher, Ends Aug 31
Anthropic's Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion raised weekly usage 50% automatically and expired 2026-08-31. Which plans got it and how to check. Last checked 2026-08-20.
updated 2026-08-20
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Cursor Now Hosts Your Code: Origin Takes On GitHub, Live for All Paid Plans
Cursor shipped Origin code hosting on 2026-08-17 — early beta, straight to every paid plan. Repos, PRs, two-way GitHub sync, and a promise that agent-native features ship soon. Last checked 2026-08-20.
updated 2026-08-20
Pricing
CapCut AI Plans 2026: Free Limits, the Watermark Trap, and Standard vs Pro
Which CapCut AI features are genuinely free, and when does the watermark actually appear? Standard ~US$10 vs Pro ~US$20 (US$179.99/yr) compared. Pricing is third-party, not from the official site. Last checked 2026-08-14.
updated 2026-08-16
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Claude Sonnet 5 Price Hike Cancelled: US$2/US$10 per MTok Is Now Permanent (2026)
Anthropic cancelled the scheduled Sept 1 increase to US$3/US$15 per MTok — Sonnet 5's launch pricing is now the standard price. Verified against two official Anthropic pages, with cost math and one token variable people miss. Last checked 2026-08-16.
updated 2026-08-16
Pricing
How Far Does Cursor's Free Tier Go? Hobby vs Pro, Pro+ and Ultra, 2026
Cursor Hobby free tier, Pro US$20, Pro+ US$60, Ultra US$200 and Teams US$40/seat compared — no credit card needed to start. Last checked 2026-08-14.
updated 2026-08-15
Pricing
Is ChatGPT Go (US$8/mo) Worth It? Every Limit Compared, 2026
ChatGPT Go at US$8/month is 'more quota, no new features'. Context window 27K→54K, input 12→40 pages — verified against the official pricing page. Last checked 2026-08-14.
updated 2026-08-15
Pricing
Suno Free Tier: 50 Credits a Day, and the Monthly Price Is US$10 — Not US$8 (2026)
Suno's free plan resets 50 credits daily and they never roll over — and songs made on it are owned by Suno, no commercial use. The US$8/US$24 shown on the pricing page is the annual monthly-average; the real monthly list price is US$10/US$30. Last checked 2026-08-14.
updated 2026-08-15
News
DeepSeek to Raise Prices from 8/17: Its Priciest Item Jumps 12x, and Taiwan's Whole Workday Falls in Peak Hours
DeepSeek implements peak-valley pricing starting midnight 8/17. V4 Pro peak output pricing rises from ¥6 to ¥27 per million tokens, and the cache-hit price becomes 12x its original. Peak hours are 9-12 and 14-18 Beijing time, which fully overlap with Taiwan. Includes the official price list and four things to do before 8/17. Last verified: 2026-08-14
updated 2026-08-14
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Gemini 3.7 Flash Claims 'Half Price'? I Checked the Official Pricing Page: It's a Promo, Doubling on January 1, 2027
Google announced Gemini 3.7 Flash on 8/13, officially claiming half price: US$0.75/US$3.75 per million tokens. But this site read the official pricing page directly and found this is a limited-time promo price valid until 2026-12-31, reverting to US$1.50/US$7.50 on 2027-01-01 — and the older 3.6 Flash is now listed at the same price. Last verified: 2026-08-14
updated 2026-08-14
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OpenAI's Ultrafast Really Is 14x Faster, But the Price Is Nowhere to Be Found and ChatGPT Doesn't Get It Either (2026-08)
OpenAI announced Ultrafast on 8/13, with GPT-5.6 Sol hitting up to 750 tokens per second — claimed to be 14 times faster than the standard version. This site checked the official pricing page: there's no listing for Ultrafast at all; the limited preview requires a signup form, and ChatGPT is nowhere on the list. What actually affects average users in Taiwan is a different piece of news entirely. Last verified: 2026-08-14
updated 2026-08-14
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Six AI Giants Agree on a 'Universal Plugin' Standard: Build Once, Run Everywhere—But Anthropic, the Inventor of the Format, Isn't on the List (Latest as of 2026-08)
On 2026-08-06, OpenAI, AWS, Microsoft, Cursor, and Vercel released Agent Plugins 1.0; on 8/12 GitHub Copilot's full lineup (including the US$0 free tier) officially added support. But our on-site fact-check found: Anthropic, the inventor of Skills and MCP, is not on the maintainer list, and Claude Code's shell file names are simply different. Last verified: 2026-08-14
updated 2026-08-14
Pricing
Adobe Firefly Pricing 2026: Free Plan 25 Credits, Plans from US$9.99 — Checked
Adobe Firefly pricing in 2026: the free plan gives 25 watermarked credits a month; Standard US$9.99, Pro US$19.99, Pro Plus US$49.99, Premium US$199.99, with a first-year 30% discount running to 2026-10-21. Every credit cost explained. Last checked: 2026-08-28.
updated 2026-08-28
Pricing
Felo AI Free Plan in 2026: What You Actually Get Before Paying US$14.99 (Tested)
Free Felo: unlimited basic search, ~5 Pro searches/day (200 credits), 3 file analyses. Pro US$14.99/mo or US$12.50/mo on annual. Verified 2026-09-16.
updated 2026-09-16
Pricing
Grok Pricing in 2026: Free Tier, SuperGrok, and Every Plan Explained
Grok pricing broken down: what the free tier actually gives you, SuperGrok Lite vs SuperGrok vs Heavy, the X Premium bundle route, and which plan fits which user — with sourcing notes on what xAI officially confirms.
updated 2026-08-08
Pricing
Is Google AI Studio Free? 2026 Pricing Breakdown
Google AI Studio's free tier covers most Gemini model usage with rate limits by account tier. Here's what's free, what costs extra, and when you'll pay.
updated 2026-08-08
Pricing
Is NotebookLM Still Free in 2026? Pricing Explained
NotebookLM stays free with no credit card in 2026. Here's what the free tier covers, what each paid Google AI plan costs, and where the limits sit.
updated 2026-08-08
Guide
Microsoft Copilot vs GitHub Copilot: Free vs Paid Pricing
Confused which Copilot you need? Compare Microsoft Copilot and GitHub Copilot free tiers and paid plan pricing side by side, verified against official sources.
updated 2026-08-08
Pricing
Notion AI Pricing in 2026: What's Free, What Costs US$20, and What Changed
Notion AI pricing explained from the official pricing page: what the free plan includes, why full Notion AI now lives in the US$20 Business plan, the dead US$10 add-on, and the free Plus plan for students.
updated 2026-08-08
