> Why bother using a product from a company that is notorious for failing to commit to most of their services, when you can run something which produces output that is pretty close (and maybe better) and is free to run and change and train?
Because it costs $0.02 per image instead of $1000 on a graphics card and endless buggering around to set up.
>>nprate+(OP)
you can use stable diffusion on many hosted services out there (eg Replicate) for fractions of a cent. 2 cents per image is absurdly expensive, they're anchoring that on the dalle3 price, which likely won't go down because there's little incentive to do so, specially from their stakeholders/partners (shutterstock, etc)
>>nprate+(OP)
$0.02 per image is crazy expensive! Running a higher tier GPU on Runpod is a fraction of the cost (especially if you're pricing per image).
*it also takes like 15 mins to setup up (this includes loading the models).