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Stretch a big AI plan: pools, credits and prices

After this you'll be able to:

Know what shares your pool

On the X Subscription, one weekly pool covers Grok Chat, Imagine, Voice and Bot, plus Grok models in Cursor. Grok Bot doesn't get a separate pool. 1 2 On Claude, claude.ai, the desktop app and Claude Code all count toward the same limit. 3

Bigger plan or extra credits?

If you run out once a month, buy extra usage. If you run out every week, a bigger tier is usually cheaper. Claude sells usage credits on paid plans 4, xAI sells top-ups beyond the included usage 2, and ChatGPT credits cover some features like Codex and ChatGPT Work. 5

Watch for allowance changes

Plans change, and not always for the worse. On Oct 29, 2026, OpenAI canceled a planned cut to ChatGPT Pro 200 and doubled the Work and Codex allowance on Pro 100 and Pro 500. 5 What changed. The change log tracks these.

What costs more than you'd think
Prompt: plan my week of usage
Here are the AI jobs I want to do this week: [list]. Sort them into: quick (light model), heavy (top model or high effort), and batch-able. Suggest an order that keeps the heavy jobs early in my weekly allowance.

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Sources (8)

  1. x.ai/pricing
  2. xAI docs: X Subscription pricing
  3. Claude Help Center: How usage and length limits work
  4. Claude Help Center: Usage credits for paid plans
  5. OpenAI Help: About ChatGPT Pro tiers
  6. Claude Help Center: Model, effort and thinking settings
  7. Gemini Apps Help: Usage limits
  8. learn.chatgpt.com: pricing

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New models, price changes and the best deal of the week. One email on Fridays, starting in November. Free.

First issue in November. Sign up now and you'll get it first. Sign-up opens soon. Until then the button opens your email app with a pre-filled request to [email protected], and we'll add you when the first issue goes out.