LinkModel · Journal
Tutorials, product updates, and insights
How to prompt Google's Gemini image models (Nano Banana Pro, 2 and Lite) — pick the right tier, write for text and layout, and cut cost, with copy-paste examples.
How LLM function calling / tool use works — define tools, handle the model's tool calls, return results, and build agents. With a copy-paste example and best practices.
A practical DeepSeek V4 review — Flash vs Pro, real pricing, coding benchmarks, the 1M context and 98% cache discount, plus the China data caveat and how to use it safely.
Claude vs Gemini compared for 2026 — reasoning and writing vs long context and multimodal, real pricing across tiers, and which to pick for coding, chat and documents.
A practical Claude Opus 4.8 review — what it's best at, how it compares to GPT-5.6 Sol, real pricing, and when the $5/$25 flagship is worth it over cheaper tiers.
The cheapest AI image generation APIs in 2026 ranked by real cost per image — Seedream, Nano Banana, GPT Image 2 and open models — with quality trade-offs and how to save.
A copy-paste Python quickstart for calling LLMs, image and video models over one API — auth, requests, streaming, retries and switching models with a single line.
A copy-paste Node.js/JavaScript quickstart for calling LLMs, image and video models over one API — fetch, auth, streaming, retries, and switching models in one line.
How to choose an AI API for chatbots in 2026 — which models balance quality, latency and cost, plus streaming, tool use and the one-key setup to build and scale a bot.
Wan 2.6 vs 2.2 vs 2.1 compared: what each version added, which to use, and how to upgrade your video pipeline. Call the current Wan model through one API key with LinkModel.
A practical Wan 2.6 prompting guide — reference-to-video role-play, multi-shot narrative, audio-visual sync and identity retention, with copy-paste API examples.
How to use Stable Diffusion and Flux via API in 2026 — Flux.2 vs Flux.1, Kontext editing, official hosts, and cheaper hosted image-model alternatives through one key.
A practical Seedream 5.0 Pro prompting guide — structure prompts for legible multilingual text, layer-separated editing and up to 10 references, with copy-paste examples.
Looking for a Runway alternative? Compare Seedance, Kling and Hailuo on price, native audio, output resolution, controls, and API workflow through one key.
Need a Qwen alternative or a hosted API? Compare Alibaba's Qwen (coder, chat, image) with GPT, Claude, DeepSeek and Seedream — one key, up to 30% off, zero data retention.
Midjourney still has no official public API in 2026. Here's why third-party wrappers are risky, and the best official image-model APIs to use instead — through one key.
A practical Kling V3 prompting guide — structure prompts for camera movement, 4K detail, multi-shot sequences and image-to-video, with copy-paste API examples.
Need an Ideogram alternative for text-in-image generation? Compare Nano Banana Pro, GPT Image 2 and Seedream on text accuracy, languages and price — through one API key.