Igor Gridel

Aug 12, 2026

Sora is shutting down: API pricing, shutdown date, and where creators go next

Sora's app is gone and its API ends September 24, 2026. See the final API prices, compare replacement costs, and plan a migration before access disappears.

Aug 7, 2026

Higgsfield pricing in 2026: every plan in real dollars, and the catch nobody mentions

Higgsfield lists a starting price of $19 a month. That number is real, but it is also close to useless, because Higgsfield does not sell you videos. It sells you credits, and credits are where the actual cost hides.

Jun 24, 2026

Seedance 2.0 Mini is here. Here's what it actually costs to use it for serious work.

Mini is 2x faster and about 50% cheaper than 2.0 Fast: roughly $0.07 a second at 720p, near $35 a month for 500 seconds. It caps at 720p and faces drift on close-ups, so here is when to use it, when to stay on 2.0 standard, and the seed-reuse trick that cuts iteration cost 6x.

Jun 18, 2026

LTX Trainer: 10 Fine-Tunable Video Effects, and the First Agent-Driven Training Loop

LTX just shipped a training framework, not a model. Ten demo LoRAs, open source, and the first time a major video lab has shipped a tool an agent can drive end-to-end, including the training step.

Jun 6, 2026

Ideogram 4.0 is Good. Just Good.

Blind test of 240 images across 10 designers: Ideogram 4.0 wins typography at 47.9%, but ties Gemini on overall quality. The open weights model is the real story.

Jun 4, 2026

Magnific just killed its pay-per-usage API plan. Here is what changed and what to do.

Magnific API killed its pay-per-usage plan. June 30 deadline. Everyone moves to credit-based Business or Enterprise. Here is who wins, who loses, the MCP alternative, and what to do now.

Jun 2, 2026

Where to find unlimited Seedance 2.0 after Runway retires Unlimited

Runway retired its Unlimited plan on June 1, 2026. The two platforms still selling "unlimited Seedance 2.0" (Loova, Topview) gate the offer behind an annual commitment and a 720p cap, while the per-second math favors credit platforms (BytePlus) and a Magnific-led hybrid beats both.

May 22, 2026

Why ElevenLabs Is a $300 Pricing Trap

ElevenLabs is a world-class audio company trying to sell a plain, half-baked image canvas by forcing you to rent a $299 monthly subscription. Here's the credit math they don't want you to run.

Apr 22, 2026

GPT Image 2 supports 4K. Most tools give you 1K.

Eight platforms added GPT Image 2. Four offer the full resolution range. Four cap at 1K. Same model, different infrastructure.

Apr 22, 2026

fal.ai vs Replicate: Picking an AI API platform for production

Both let developers call 40+ models from one API. Replicate is the mature choice with 1000+ models and legacy reliability, fal.ai is the newer, faster platform with better cold-start latency. The tradeoff: stability vs speed.

Apr 22, 2026

Krea vs Leonardo: Which creative platform scales better?

Both offer 40+ models in one interface. Krea emphasizes real-time generation and model breadth. Leonardo emphasizes compute credits and commercial-first pricing. Where you land depends on whether you're iterating live or rendering batch jobs.

Apr 22, 2026

Suno vs Udio: Which music AI fits your workflow?

Both generate full songs from prompts. One targets musicians with precision controls; the other targets creators who want finished tracks fast. Where you land depends on whether you're building from a description or iterating toward a sound.

Apr 15, 2026

Why credit-based pricing almost always costs more than you think

Credits look like a neutral unit on the pricing page. They aren't. Three recurring traps turn the headline number into something between two and six times larger by the time you actually use the tool.

Apr 10, 2026

How Scopeful verifies every price

Every number on this site has a date, a human, and a source URL attached to it. Here is the process, the refresh cadence, and the places where even careful verification still struggles.