Logic Pro users who run out of AI allowance can now buy extra use from Apple for 49.99 dollars
It is the first time Apple has charged separately for Apple Intelligence, for now only for Creator Studio subscribers and not in Belgium.
Since Monday, Apple has been selling extra usage packs for AI features in its creative apps. According to 9to5Mac and Engadget, a pack costs a one-off 49.99 dollars and Logic Pro on the Mac is the first app to support it. Subscribers to Creator Studio, Apple's bundle of professional apps, get a fixed AI allowance each month. The extra pack is only drawn on once that monthly allowance has run out.
Unused allowance rolls over to the next month and expires twelve months after purchase, Make Tech Easier reports, citing Apple's support page. Sharing with family members is not possible and the purchase cannot be refunded, except where the law requires it. Apple does not say exactly how much extra use a pack provides. The AI assistant in Logic Pro runs on models from Apple and third parties, including Google's Gemini according to Make Tech Easier, and for now works only in US English.
The packs are on sale in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil, France, Germany, India and Mexico. Belgium is not on the list. Reports say Final Cut Pro, Pixelmator Pro and the iWork apps will follow later this month, although Apple itself has not confirmed this.