Aliteq · since 2019
Aliteq started in 2019 as a PC hardware shop and is now a US-based publication. We build the VRAM and cost calculators on this site, track live cloud-GPU prices, and write guides with AI-assisted drafting that we check against primary sources before publishing.
We gave Kling 3.0 and Seedance 2.5 the same product photo and the same store-ad brief, five times each. Four of ten clips kept the product right. Here is the cost per keeper, the failures to check for, and how it compares with a UGC creator.
Aliteq Team · · 8 min
Yes: Higgsfield doesn't own your outputs, doesn't limit commercial use, and lets you hand the rights to a client. The catches that matter to agencies and brands are training, exclusivity and who carries the legal risk.
Aliteq Team · · 9 min
ByteDance's Seedance has no free app of its own. Where the official free credits are, what they actually buy, what one clip costs on each official route, and why the top "Seedance free" results aren't ByteDance.
Aliteq Team · · 9 min
Most of what a small business site needs from SEO comes from free tools made by Google and Microsoft. What each free tool covers, which jobs are one-off rather than a subscription, the four situations where a paid tool earns its fee, and which one fits which budget, with prices checked on the vendors' pages.
Aliteq Team · · 12 min
AI assistants repeat whatever their sources say, and old listings are the usual culprit. The questions to ask to catch the mistakes, which listing to fix for each one, what Google, Microsoft and Apple say about how long fixes take, and how to keep watching it.
Aliteq Team · · 12 min
A Reddit post said 65% of Shopify stores block AI crawlers without knowing it. We read the robots.txt files of 87 real Shopify stores: 4 blocked any AI crawler, and none blocked ChatGPT search with an AI-specific rule. The gaps we did find were thin product descriptions and missing product data. How to check your own store in 10 minutes.
Aliteq Team · · 14 min
Gemma 4 comes in five sizes, from a phone model to a 31B that wants a 24GB card. Here is the one that fits your GPU, the exact Ollama tag (the bare one pulls a small model), and when Qwen3.8 27B is the better pick in November 2026.
Aliteq Team · · 13 min
A 125B model on a gaming card sounds wrong. Flash Next uses only 6B parameters per token, so the experts can live in system RAM and the n-gram table on your SSD. What each card size needs, which quants people run, and where the quality argument stands.
Aliteq Team · · 11 min
SE Ranking has two self-serve plans, Core and Growth, both 20% cheaper billed yearly, and a 14-day trial that needs no card. What each plan covers, what costs extra, what a Shopify store gets from Core, and how it compares with Semrush on price. Checked on SE Ranking's own pages on Nov 1, 2026.
Aliteq Team · · 6 min
Semrush has a free plan with no card required, capped at one demo project and 10 reports a day. The 7-day trial turns into a paid plan unless you cancel, and monthly plans can't be refunded. What a store or small business can do with 10 reports a day, checked on Semrush's own pages on Nov 1, 2026.
Aliteq Team · · 7 min
There's no secret file or special markup. Microsoft and Google both say the same few things, and our own data showed which pages AI assistants picked. The checklist for a business site or an online store, with the myths, like llms.txt, sorted out.
Aliteq Team · · 7 min
Your customers ask AI assistants which product to buy and which store to trust. Four free checks show whether you're named, which pages get used and who's named instead, using Bing Webmaster Tools, Google Search Console, your Shopify or Google Analytics reports and the assistants themselves.
Aliteq Team · · 7 min
Being named in AI answers and getting visitors from them are two different things. Our own Bing and Google Analytics numbers, what got cited, what didn't, what it means for an online store, and how to check the same for your business with free tools.
Aliteq Team · · 7 min
Google doesn't penalize content for being written with AI. It penalizes publishing lots of pages mainly to rank, however they were made. What that means for a store using AI for product descriptions, blog posts and Shopping feeds, in Google's own words, checked Nov 1, 2026.
Aliteq Team · · 7 min
Alibaba's Wan 3.0 has no open weights, so you can't run it free on your own PC. The official free routes are daily check-in credits on wan.video and a 30-second API quota. What one clip costs, what GPU the open Wan 2.2 needs instead, and why most "free Wan 3.0" sites aren't Alibaba's.
Aliteq Team · · 10 min
Google's free Gemini app makes images with Nano Banana 2, but Google Flow gives accounts without a plan up to 20 Nano Banana Pro images a day. The limits, the watermark rules, what Pro costs when you pay, and the "free unlimited" offers that aren't Google.
Aliteq Team · · 9 min
The Kimi API is pay as you go from Moonshot's own platform, and Kimi K3 unlocks after a $1 top-up; we found no free tier, only a $5 voucher once you have added $5. Here are Moonshot's real per-million-token prices, the same-model price on Novita AI, and why running K3 yourself is not a realistic option.
Aliteq Team · · 11 min
Hailuo's Free plan costs nothing, but it has 0 monthly credits, a one-time welcome pack that expires after three days, and watermarked downloads. What the free route really gives, what one clip costs, why "High Demand Failure" happens, and which Hailuo sites aren't Hailuo.
Aliteq Team · · 9 min
The DeepSeek API is pay per token. You get a key from DeepSeek's own platform, and it only works once you add money; we found no free tier on DeepSeek's pages. Here are the real per-million-token prices, the off-peak rate most US users get by default, a same-model price check against Novita AI, and what is actually free.
Aliteq Team · · 11 min
OpenAI closed the Sora app and website in April 2026 and the Sora API in September, and says there's no one-to-one replacement. Which model does what Sora did, what one clip costs now, how to get your old Sora videos out, and why "free Sora 2" sites aren't OpenAI.
Aliteq Team · · 9 min
Google gives 50 Flow credits a day, but its own help pages disagree on whether you need a plan, and the Gemini app has swapped Veo for Gemini Omni. The real free and paid routes to Veo 3.1, and the look-alike sites to skip.
Aliteq Team · · 8 min
Kling's Basic plan costs nothing, but it has no monthly credits, adds a watermark and isn't for commercial use. What the free plan really gives, what one clip costs, why free accounts wait in a queue, and which Kling sites aren't Kling.
Aliteq Team · · 9 min
If you only make a few videos a month, a $59 plan you don't use up is the expensive way in. The Higgsfield API bills per clip from a small prepaid balance, has the top video models, and a coding agent like Codex or Claude Code can drive it for you. Here's the setup, the prices and who should skip it.
Aliteq Team · · 7 min
A 10-second Kling 4.0 clip at 1080p costs 32.5 credits on Higgsfield's Generate button right now, a temporary discount on its listed 40. No plan makes it Unlimited. Kling 3.0 is cheaper still, and Seedance 2.5 is not the bargain it looks.
Aliteq Team · · 7 min
Since 22 October, Etsy says the instructions in a crochet, knitting, sewing, quilting or embroidery pattern must be your own work, and every pattern listing needs a real photo of something made from it. What changed, what Etsy actually wrote, and a checklist for your shop.
Aliteq Team · · 5 min
Etsy's one unedited photo rule is written for most products, not all. Print-on-demand, digital downloads, customized and made-to-order items each get their own line in Etsy's Listing Image Requirements. Here is every one, in Etsy's words.
Aliteq Team · · 5 min
Etsy didn't ban AI photos. It now wants one unedited photo of the real item on most listings, bans AI-written patterns, recipes and instructions, and removes bot-made listings. One table, one checklist, Etsy's own words.
Aliteq Team · · 4 min
Higgsfield Academy is Higgsfield's free video school. Its beginner course, AI Creation First Steps, runs 1 hour 42 minutes with PDF guides and a certificate. Watching costs nothing, but the homework that unlocks the later lessons needs a paid plan and spends your credits. Here is what's inside, who it suits, and where our free guides cover the same ground.
Aliteq Team · · 8 min
Katana is Higgsfield's video-edit remixer that runs inside Claude. You give it a reference edit (your own video or a preset) and up to five photos of a person, product or outfit, and it rebuilds the edit with them in it. It needs a paid Higgsfield plan, it always spends credits, and Unlimited doesn't cover it. Here is what Higgsfield documents, what an agency remaking a client edit needs to know, and what Higgsfield doesn't say.
Aliteq Team · · 9 min
Higgsfield launched Playable on October 26, 2026, and within four hours creators were telling X it could one-shot the ads behind mobile games making millions. Five of the six posts we tracked carry X's Paid partnership label. None of those five says that the playable-ad export is for Enterprise customers only. Here is every post, what it claims, and what it leaves out.
Aliteq Team · · 7 min