ShipRadar weekly, October 16, 2026

Suno's real limit is downloads, not the price

Suno, the app that turns a sentence or your lyrics into a finished song with vocals, lists Pro at $8 a month. That's the yearly bill. Pay month to month and it's $10 (Suno pricing). The number that matters more is 20: since September 3, Pro includes 20 song downloads a month and Premier 60, and anyone who joined the free plan after that date gets no regular downloads, only the occasional trial one (Suno's help page).

One line on that help page is easy to miss. Work done in Suno Studio, the song editor that comes with Premier ($24 a month billed yearly), isn't subject to the download limits. If you make songs for a channel and need more than 20 files a month, Premier is the plan to look at.

If you only share links, stay on the free plan. If you want MP3s for a video or your phone, pay for Pro, the cheapest plan with downloads included. Free accounts can buy downloads too, but the pricing page doesn't say what they cost. And don't switch to Udio to dodge the cap. Kol Tregaskes put it on X as bad, "but nothing like Udio where all downloads were blocked." More in our music guide.

Krea 3's $0.06 edit isn't $0.06 once you add your photo

Krea, an AI image studio, launched Krea 3 on October 15. It edits a picture from a typed instruction ("swap the sofa, keep the room") at $0.06 per 2K image. Krea's comparison chart puts Google's Nano Banana Pro at $0.135 and OpenAI's GPT Image 2 at $0.22, but the footnote says those rival prices are "without image references" (Krea's launch post).

An edit always starts from a photo, though. On Replicate, a site developers use to run AI models, Krea 3 also charges $0.02 per megapixel for every image you send, and shrinks anything over 4 megapixels to that size (Replicate's Krea 3 page). Send a full phone photo and you can pay $0.14 for the edit, about what the chart lists for Nano Banana Pro. Replicate's own docs say around 1 megapixel is enough for most inputs, which brings the edit to $0.08. The rival prices on the chart leave input costs out too, so Krea may still be cheaper. The $0.06 you'll see quoted everywhere just isn't what an edit costs.

We'd still try it for product shots and room swaps, the jobs Krea built it for, and it's quick: Krea says most edits finish in under 8 seconds. Resize your photos first. We checked Replicate's billing only; Krea's own app may count credits differently.

Translating a whole file? Google's free tab beats DeepL's free plan

Google Translate has a Documents tab that's easy to miss. In a browser (not on phones), it takes Word, PDF, PowerPoint and Excel files up to 10 MB, PDFs up to 300 pages, and hands back the same kind of file, free (Google's help page). DeepL, the German translator whose wording usually reads more naturally, allows one file a month on its free plan, at up to 5 MB, and three on the paid Individual plan, which was €7.49 a month billed yearly where we checked (DeepL plans).

The catch with Google: text inside pictures and scanned PDF pages comes through untranslated. That bites on old letters and certificates, which are often scans. Chatbots aren't the fix for big files either. One user asked ChatGPT to translate a 100-page Word file, and it "first said it needed to use a third-party service—Google Translate."

Use Google for the bulk and save DeepL for the one file where the wording has to sound right, like a cover letter. Anything going to US immigration needs a certified human translator: the rule asks the translator to certify the translation is complete and accurate, which an app can't do. Details in our translation guide.

AI headshots: your refund ends the moment you download

HeadshotPro starts at $29 for 30 headshots, ready in about two hours (HeadshotPro pricing). Its money-back promise only applies if you haven't downloaded a single photo and it's been under 14 days (refund terms). Aragon works the same way: its refund policy says "downloading your photos is considered as using your product."

So go through the whole set in the preview before you save any of them.

For a LinkedIn or company photo, HeadshotPro is the safe buy. Gemini can do it free, but it redraws your whole face. A photographer who tested it on r/headshots said the results "Kinda look like me but definitely don't." If you meet clients in person, book a real photographer. More in our headshot guide.

Prices and limits checked on each maker's own page on October 16, 2026. Past guides live at shipradarai.com/takes.