I have used the AI engine in Elements with great success. It has helped me resolve tasks that I have not yet trained myself to do on my own. Question, however: is there a cost for using this AI model?
Hi Mike,
In my experience the only extra cost I can see is your AI provider.
I’ve been using a basic ChatGPT Plus account (using Sol 5.6) to help me streamline and build stuff using an MCP connection. However, I found that I ran out of my ‘5 hour allowance’ fairly quickly.
That was until they released GPT-Sol 6.1 recently.
Just yesterday I used 6.1 to build an entire booking system for a client via the MCP connection. It included CMS items for the client to edit things and Stripe payment integration. I spent about 6 hours on it and never got anywhere near my allowance using that new model 
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I went with the MCP connection initially to try it out. Plus, I had a lot of chat history in the ChatGPT app from building the original site, so it just made more sense for me to continue to work in the way I was familiar with. I’m also not too keen on blowing API tokens blindly.
Hope that helps.
I agree with this completely. Whatever OpenAI did with the new GPT-6.1 Sol model is fantastic. I was using it the other day for about half the day and by the time my 5 hour limit was about to reset, I still had around 55% usage left (so I only used about 45% usage for the whole time). Then my 5 hour limit reset and I was back to 100%.
This is on a ChatGPT Plus subscription too, so only ~$20/mo.
They have really improved the cost with GPT-6.1 Sol so I recommend people connect their ChatGTP app to the Elements MCP server and start using that model for their more complex/demanding work. 
Anyone tested ChatGPT 6 Astra Medium?
You might have run out of tokens, have you checked the account on the AI service you are using? i.e Do you have enough credit?
Maybe this is my problem, I’ve been using Claude mostly and when I do use ChatGPT I was using an older model thinking that it would be cheaper on tokens.