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That's about 10x as expensive as it should be

You should ship a competitor! Sounds like you found a great market opportunity.

$0.13/prompt can only be useful for artists/end users. Anyone thinking about using this at scale would need a 20/30x reduction in price. But there's still no API available so I think that will change with time. Maybe they will add different tiers based on volume.

Thing is, as a current user: you rarely get it right in the first prompt, you can iterate 10 times until you get what you want.

I spent several tries yesterday to get this angle "from the ground up": https://labs.openai.com/s/mz8LiyvkI8KwD2luJ6MrS23m

So $1.30 for getting a result that would have cost how much to pay someone to make? Not to mention the 59 other variations you would have.

That is a fair point. I don't think the pricing is unreasonable, but it feels limiting. You could try 1000 variations until you find what you need perfectly, but in that pricing model users will be induced to use less the tool, not more.

I'd prefer an option to pay like 200 usd/year to use unlimited. And maybe have a price per use only in the API.

edit: this pricing model also makes it expensive to learn to use the tool.

Give it some time. Other organizations will race to the bottom.

They might even provide image generation at a loss to drive people to their platforms.

Until you consider the level of demand for this product, which is surely higher than OpenAI can scale to with the number of GPUs they have. If they price it lower they’ll be overwhelmed.

What are you basing that on? What should the price be? The training and generation are probably expensive.

$15 for 115 iterations/460 images?

Yep. During the alpha it was (50*6) 300 images per day, by their pricing model that would be $300 a month now

$15 for 115 attempts to get usable images.

When there is a competitor, they can adjust pricing. For now, it's virtually magic.

That’s a good thing. It’s harm reduction to save artist jobs.

Welcome to SaaS.

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