Apple Launches $50 Intelligence Usage Packs for Select AI Features
Apple has added a "Buy More Usage" option in Logic Pro, letting users pay a one-time $49.99 for extra quota on certain Apple Intelligence features. The packs are tied to the purchasing Apple Account, exclude Family Sharing, and roll over monthly but expire 12 months after purchase. The move marks Apple's first step toward tiered billing for AI capabilities that rely on cloud models from OpenAI or Google Gemini.
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After publishing a support article in early September outlining usage limits for some Apple Intelligence features, the company has updated Logic Pro with an option to “Buy More Usage” for a one-time purchase price of $49.99, as spotted by 9to5Mac. It has a built-in AI assistant to do things like “start a new song, set up a vocal track from a single prompt, or refine an active project.”
These Intelligence Usage Packs, as Apple calls them, will allow users to continue accessing certain Apple Intelligence features that have usage limits because they rely on cloud-based AI models from OpenAI or Google Gemini. The Usage Packs can only be used by the Apple Account that purchased them (Family Sharing isn’t supported) and, as Apple explains on its website, any unused additional usage will roll over from month to month, but will expire 12 months after it was purchased.