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How to use GPT Image 2: the 99% text rendering that removes the composite step, what Thinking Mode does, where it loses to Nano Banana 2, and prompt changes.

How to use Nano Banana 2 Lite: four-second 1K images, the official benchmarks, the corrected cost math, what the 1K ceiling rules out, and how to prompt it.

GPT-5.6 is released. It shipped as three tiers, the rollout was gated for weeks which is why answers conflict, and Terra is the one worth migrating to.

Kimi K3 specs, architecture, pricing, and API behavior in one place: 1M context, always-on reasoning, fixed sampling, and how to call it through an OpenAI-compatible API.

There is no Nano Banana API free tier: Google lists it as Not available on every model. Here are the real per-image rates, batch pricing, and what $0.02 buys.

Nano Banana Pro vs Nano Banana 2: they run on different model lines, only Pro is rated high on reasoning, and the right routing rule is your discard rate.

A visible badge and SynthID are different things. One is a product tier you can change, the other is provenance embedded in the content. How to tell them apart.

The Seedance 2.0 cost per second, by resolution and tier, plus the cheaper rate that only an uploaded video unlocks and the forecasting mistake it causes.

Seedance 2.5 camera control fails on mood words because adjectives map to fast default motion. Use explicit velocities, named rigs, and timestamped beats.

A Seedance 2.5 e-commerce video workflow: assign roles to references, stop shape drift with a white model, fix regions not clips, and state the negatives.

The Seedance 2.5 features ByteDance announced: 30-second single clips, 50 multimodal references, region editing, and why native 4K belongs to Seedance 2.0.

How many clips a credit balance buys depends on resolution, duration and input mode at once. Per-second billing answers the same question with multiplication.

The Seedream 5.0 Pro price splits at 2.36 million pixels, not at a tier label. What each tier costs, and how to size a 16:9 export to stay in the cheap one.

The Seedream Seedance workflow settles composition on a cheap image call, then hands one keyframe to the video model. What each phase owns, and what breaks.

Claude Code has six permission modes. Auto mode moves review to a classifier, rules fix one repeated command, and one settings file silently ignores auto.