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Google sets September 30 as the deprecation date for the gemini-omni-flash-preview endpoint
Anyone still calling Google's omni preview route has until the end of the month. The release notes give a date and a destination, and not much else that a team mid-migration would want.
news 20 Sep 2026
OpenArt Arena ranks video and image models by creative job, without publishing prompt, judge or vote counts
OpenArt wants to rank models by the job you are actually doing, from lip sync to e-commerce stills. The methodology disclosure stops short of the numbers that would let anyone measure how much evidence sits behind each ranking.
news 17 Sep 2026
Higgsfield's new API sells 50+ video and image models per generation, billed separately from its subscription
The subscription platform now rents out the same frontier models through a developer API, with published per-model rates and a discount ladder that starts at 15 percent. The two products do not share credits, plans or even the same catalog.
news 17 Sep 2026
Krea retires its Kling models and sunsets their API endpoints on September 15
A hosted route disappeared on a published date, and four additions landed in the same changelog entry. If your pipeline called Krea's Kling endpoints, the migration deadline has already passed.
news 16 Sep 2026
Every AI Video Platform's Free Tier, Compared
Which platform actually lets you keep generating for free, and which just gives you one trial run.
comparison 14 Sep 2026
Every "Unlimited" AI Video Plan We Found, and What It Actually Covers
What "unlimited" actually covers on each platform we track, model by model.
comparison 14 Sep 2026
Higgsfield Review and Pricing: Confirmed Plans, 40+ Models, and an "Unlimited" Tier on a 7-Day Countdown
Real pricing from $19/mo, and the real mechanics behind Higgsfield's heavily-promoted "unlimited" tier: a 7-day default, a standard (not priority) queue, and website-only access.
guide 14 Sep 2026
Magnific Review and Pricing: Image, Video and Audio in One Subscription, No Free Tier
No free tier for individuals, credits that roll over, the video models it carries, and what users report since the rebrand from Freepik.
guide 14 Sep 2026
Krea Review and Pricing: 60+ Models, Its Own Krea 2, and a $9/mo Plan That Isn't There
A widely-cited $9/mo tier that isn't on the live pricing page, and a Max plan where the credit amount you choose changes your rate 2.5x.
guide 14 Sep 2026
Leonardo.Ai Review and Pricing: In-House Models, and the Most Generous Free Tier We've Found
A recurring daily free tier, real pricing from $12/mo, and per-token costs that barely punish smaller plans.
guide 14 Sep 2026
OpenArt Review and Pricing: A Wide Model Catalog, but the Free Trial Lasts 7 Days
Real pricing from $14/mo, a thin one-time free trial, and a recurring Trustpilot complaint about credits that do not roll over.
guide 14 Sep 2026
ImagineArt Review and Pricing: Wide Model Access, Base Prices, and the Refund Pattern to Know
Base prices from $13/mo once you ignore the sale banner, the widest named "unlimited" model list we found in this category, and the most specific refund complaint pattern too.
guide 14 Sep 2026
LTX Studio Review and Pricing: Its Own Frontier Model, and a Refund Cutoff Worth Knowing
Real pricing from €15/mo, consistent annual savings at every tier, and a refund cutoff that arrives faster than the credit count suggests.
guide 14 Sep 2026
Runway Review and Pricing: Confirmed Plans, Real Model Breadth, and a 1.1/5 Trustpilot Rating
Real pricing from $15/mo, a Max tier that matches Runway's own API rate exactly, and a Trustpilot score worse than any other platform we cover.
guide 14 Sep 2026
Higgsfield Alternatives: What to Check Before You Subscribe
Higgsfield's catalog is the widest in this category. Here's what else to look at, and what each one actually trades off.
guide 12 Sep 2026
Best Sora Alternatives Now That It's Shutting Down for Good
Sora's gone. Based on our own testing, not a spec sheet, here's what to actually use instead.
guide 12 Sep 2026
Kling AI Review: What Our Own 40-Prompt Benchmark Found
We ran Kling 3.0 through our own 40-prompt battery. Here's what it's actually good at, and the audio claim that doesn't hold up.
review 12 Sep 2026
Sora 3 and Kling 3.5 are still rumors. Veo 4 already has an answer, and it is not Veo 4.
One of these three rumors already resolved, just not the way anyone expected. The other two are still just rumors.
news 12 Sep 2026
The Sora API shuts down on 24 September. Here is how to migrate.
OpenAI kills the Sora API on 24 September 2026 with no named successor. We benchmarked Sora against Kling and Grok on the same 40 prompts and found a frontier model marketed for its dialogue that generates zero audio. A practical migration guide with measured data, not copied claims.
guide 12 Sep 2026
Disney just licensed 200+ characters to Sora. The API you would use to build on it shuts down this month.
One Sora is getting a $1 billion Disney partnership. The other Sora, the one developers actually build on, is shutting down for good.
news 12 Sep 2026
Kling AI's revenue went from $100 million to $500 million ARR in a year
The numbers vary by source, but the direction does not: Kling AI is the first AI video company with real, growing revenue.
news 11 Sep 2026
Runway stopped trying to win the leaderboard. Now it just resells whoever is winning it.
Runway's own model fell out of the top 10. Its answer was to start selling access to the models that replaced it.
news 10 Sep 2026
Alibaba's anonymous model took the #1 spot on the video leaderboard. By September, it had lost it too.
A model with no listed owner topped the leaderboard cold. Alibaba built it, and it did not stay on top for long.
news 10 Sep 2026
His 5-minute AI teaser hit 8 million views. Now it is a funded feature film.
A 3-person team, two weeks, one AI model, and a viral teaser that got greenlit into a real feature.
news 9 Sep 2026