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Honest answers about AI tools & GPUs.

Is it free, what does it really cost, what's the catch. Read from each tool's own pricing and help pages, dated, with live GPU prices. In 45 seconds on video, in full here.

Ari Valefounder & chief editor

Who's behind this

Hi, I'm Ari. I read the fine print so you don't have to.

Aliteq started in 2019 as a PC hardware shop. Now it answers three questions: is this AI tool worth it, what does it really cost, and will my GPU run it? I pay for Higgsfield's Ultra plan with my own card and rent GPUs on Runpod and Vast, and every price here is checked against the vendor's own page, screenshotted and dated.

Real talk: AI helps us draft. It never gets the last word. Some links earn us a referral, but they don't buy the verdict. If something isn't worth your money, we'll say so and point you to what is.

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  • 67

    AI-tool answers, each checked against the official page

  • 39

    GPUs with rental prices, refreshed every hour

  • 59

    open models in our VRAM engine

  • 2,019

    the year Aliteq started, as a PC hardware shop

AI video & image models

Free, paid, or quietly gone? We read the fine print.

All 67 Higgsfield answers →
  1. 1HiggsfieldIs Higgsfield free?Yes, with limits: a few models, no credits, a watermark on every generation, and no free trial.Read the answer
  2. 2HiggsfieldHiggsfield pricing: is it worth it?It runs on credits. What a credit actually buys, and whether unused ones expire, from Higgsfield's own pricing.Read the answer
  3. 3HiggsfieldPromo codes: what's realNo public code we could verify. Higgsfield's affiliate page says partner links get up to 50% off for three hours; annual billing is the other real discount.Read the answer

Higgsfield login: the official pageIs Higgsfield legit?How credits work

Is it free? The models Higgsfield runs

The same question for every big video and image model, answered from the maker's own pages.

We actually tried it

Receipts from our own tests, not the press kit

Real outputs from our own Higgsfield account, run the same way for every model, with what each one cost.

Pip says

“Unlimited” is doing a lot of heavy lifting: a short list of models, website only, slower queue. Read the catch →

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Higgsfield

67 answers · checked Nov 9, 2026

AI video and image studio. What each plan includes, how credits run out, when Unlimited isn't, and when another tool fits better.

11.11Higgsfield sale: Plus $35/mo, Ultra $65/mo billed yearly, with 14 days of unlimited Seedance 2.5. Ends Nov 14, 7 pm ET.
All 67 Higgsfield answers →
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Model guides: one page of answers per video model

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App, API or your own GPU?

One 5-second clip, three very different price tags

The same clip three ways: in an app, through a per-second API, or on a GPU you rent by the hour. Renting is the cheapest per clip only once you make a lot of them.

The full math →

Per 5-second clip, priced on Nov 1, 2026. The rented-GPU rows are a real month on an RTX 4090: setup time, retries and 100 GB of model storage are spread over the clips, which is why renting only wins at volume.

See the full math

Pip says

Renting a GPU looks cheap until you count setup time. Under about 25 clips a month, an app or an API wins. See the math →

Find your GPU

What your graphics card can actually run

Popular open models on the smallest card they fit at good quality (Q4_K_M, or a model's own 4-bit release like gpt-oss's MXFP4; 8K context), from our VRAM engine. Tap a card for its specs and prices, or a model for its full cost to run. Rental prices are live.

Every GPU, by VRAM →

  1. 12 GB

    Rent from $0.03/hrL4
    Runs

    AI video (NVIDIA): Wan 2.2 5B, with ComfyUI's native offloading. ComfyUI setup

  2. 16 GB

    Rent from $0.03/hrL4
    Runs

  3. 24 GB

    Rent from $0.03/hrL4
    Runs

    AI video (NVIDIA): Wan 2.2 14B at 640x640 with fp8 weights. ComfyUI setup

  4. 32 GB

    Rent from $0.16/hrA40

    Every model above, with room for a longer context or a higher-quality quant.

  5. 48 GB

    Rent from $0.16/hrA40

    Every model above, with room for a longer context or a higher-quality quant.

    AI video (NVIDIA): Wan 2.2 14B in fp16, or in fp8 at 720p. ComfyUI setup

  6. 80–96 GB

    Rent from $0.27/hrRTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
    Runs

    AI video (NVIDIA): Wan 2.2 14B at 720p without offloading. ComfyUI setup

  7. 128 GB

    Rent from $1.32/hrH200 SXM
    Runs

  8. A server

    Rent several H200s
    Needs

    More memory than any one card holds: these run on several data-center GPUs, rented by the hour.

Pip says

24 GB is the sweet spot right now: 5 of the popular models above fit on one card, with room for the context. The 24 GB cards →

Fits are our VRAM engine's estimates (weights, KV cache and runtime overhead), not benchmarks: a model goes on the smallest card it fills to 90% or less. Rental is the cheapest live offer with at least that much memory, updated .

Run AI models

Rent a GPU or just call an API? Pick your fighter.

Two honest ways to run an open model without buying hardware. Live prices for both, so you can see which one fits what you are doing.

Option A

Rent a GPU by the hour

For private data, fine-tuning, image and video models, or long sessions. You pay while it runs.

  • 16–80 GBNVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10 Grace Blackwell) · Vast.ai$0.01/hr

Cheapest listed hourly price per VRAM tier, updated . 4 providers tracked.

Compare live GPU prices

Option B

Just call an API, pay per token

For chat, coding and agents on open models, with no GPU to manage. You pay for what you send and get back.

USD per 1M tokens, Novita AI's published rates, read Oct 29, 2026. Bars show the output price.

Cost to run any model, both ways

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Watch

45-second answers

Pip, our presenter, takes one question at a time, with the sources on screen. Every short covers the same three things:

  • Is it free?
  • What does it really cost?
  • What's the catch?
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Show me the receipts

Every price and rule, screenshotted

We don't do “trust me bro.” Here are a few of the official pages behind our answers, outlined where it matters and dated. Tap one to see where we used it.

How we check →

How we check

  • 1From the tool's own pagesPlans, prices and limits come from official pricing and help pages, linked on every answer.
  • 2Dated and re-checkedEvery answer says when it was last verified. Prices change; so do our pages.
  • 3We say when it's the wrong toolAlternatives and "skip it if" sections on every tool we cover.
  • 4Referral links, disclosedWe may earn a commission when you subscribe. It never changes the verdict.

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