投稿者: Lenka Vojtechova

Cursor pricing in 2026 starts at $0 for the free Hobby plan and tops out at $200 a month for Ultra. Pro is $20/month, Pro+ is $60/month, Teams is $40 per user/month, and Enterprise is custom-priced. Annual billing knocks 20% off every paid plan. The biggest deal almost nobody talks about, verified students get a full year of Pro free, a $240 value, with nothing more than a working .edu email and a SheerID check. Most pricing breakdowns for Cursor read like SaaS finance memos. This one is built for the people who actually use it. Students, hobbyist coders, side-project builders, and yes, full-time developers too. We will walk through […]

The best free AI for coding in 2026 is now three open-weight models, and they compete with paid frontier systems on every published benchmark. DeepSeek V4 Pro scores 80.6% on SWE-Bench Verified, Kimi K2.6 hits 80.2%, and Qwen 3.6 27B reaches 77.2%, all released between April 20 and April 24, 2026, and all free to use without a credit card. You can chat with each one in a browser, download the weights for offline use, or plug them into your code editor, with zero subscription required. We tested all three head-to-head against the questions students and hobby coders actually ask. Which one writes Python the fastest, which one understands a […]

Grok Imagine generated 1.245 billion videos in the 30 days leading up to its 1.0 release in early February 2026. That release bumped the model to 720p, 10-second clips, and dramatically better native audio. With OpenAI’s Sora 2 winding down by September 24, 2026, Grok Imagine now sits next to Google Veo 3.1 and Kling 3.0 as the dominant video APIs going forward, and it is the cheapest of the three. What separates a usable Grok Imagine clip from a wasted credit is almost always the prompt. This guide is the working prompt manual for Grok imagine video generation: the formula that produces clean output, 20 ready-to-paste examples across the […]

OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 on April 23, 2026, and DeepSeek countered with V4 Pro and V4 Flash the very next day. The two flagships now sit a few benchmark points apart on coding and reasoning, but the cost gap is enormous: DeepSeek V4 Flash output tokens cost $0.28 per million versus GPT-5.5 at $30, more than 100 times cheaper. That single number reshapes the entire DeepSeek vs ChatGPT debate. This guide compares the current 2026 flagships head to head across performance, pricing, features, privacy, and real-world use cases. You’ll see the canonical benchmark numbers, monthly cost scenarios at different scales, the privacy and censorship reality of each platform, and a clear […]

Grok Imagine Spicy Mode is xAI’s opt-in adult-content tier inside the Grok Imagine image and video generator. Since launching on August 4, 2025, it has been the most permissive feature shipped by any major AI lab. It allows partial nudity, suggestive scenes, and what xAI describes as “bolder cinematic tones,” but it is not a porn generator. Elon Musk publicly clarified the standard on March 12, 2026: “If it’s allowed in an R-rated movie, it’s allowed in Grok Imagine.” That single line is the cleanest way to think about it. Spicy Mode sits above standard image and video generation, below explicit content, and is fenced in by paid subscriptions, age […]

An AI just hacked its way across 4 countries and cloned itself onto each one from a single prompt. Here’s what Palisade’s May 2026 study really proved.

Update — May 12, 2026: The certificate revocation went live on schedule on May 8, 2026. If your ChatGPT, Codex, Codex CLI, or Atlas Mac app now refuses to open and shows a “damaged” or “cannot be verified” warning, this guide still works; the fastest fix is a fresh download from chatgpt.com/download, since the in-app updater is no longer reachable from any build signed with the revoked certificate. On May 8, 2026, OpenAI revoked the macOS code-signing certificate it had used to sign ChatGPT, Codex, Codex CLI, and Atlas through April 2026. From that day on, macOS Gatekeeper refuses to launch any version still signed with the old certificate, so […]

Kling AI pricing in 2026 covers five plans. Free is $0/month with 66 daily credits, Standard is $6.99/month, Pro is $25.99/month, Premier is $64.99/month, and Ultra sits at the top at $180/month. Annual billing knocks roughly 20% to 34% off each paid tier. The catch is the credit system; every video burns a different amount of credits depending on the model, the mode, and whether you turn on native audio. That’s why the headline price tells you almost nothing about what you’ll actually spend. A creator pumping out Kling 3.0 Professional clips with audio can blow through a 660-credit Standard plan in a weekend. This guide walks through every plan, […]

Claude Code costs $20/month on the Pro plan ($17 annual), $100/month on Max 5x, $200/month on Max 20x, $25/seat/month on Team Standard ($20 annual), $125/seat/month on Team Premium ($100 annual), or $20/seat plus API usage on Enterprise. The Free Claude tier does not include Claude Code. API access bills per token at $1/$5 per million on Haiku 4.5, $3/$15 on Sonnet 4.6, and $5/$25 on Opus 4.7. The Claude for Open Source program offers six months of Max 20x free for qualifying maintainers, a $1,200 value. That short answer is also the long story of Claude Code pricing in 2026. Anthropic shipped three policy changes in 60 days and briefly […]

Grok Imagine is the fastest AI video generator most people can actually use right now. It takes a text prompt, a voice command, or a still photo and turns it into a short video with synchronized audio in roughly 17 seconds. That’s faster than Sora 2 or Veo 3.1 by a wide margin. xAI launched it on July 28, 2025 and shipped Grok Imagine 1.0 on February 1, 2026, raising the cap to 10-second clips at 720p with dramatically better sound. This guide covers what Grok Imagine actually is, the five workflows it supports, and how to access it on the web and on your phone. You’ll also see what […]