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Comment by aaronharnly | Hacker News Reader

Pricing page says:

  1024×1024 $0.020 / image
  512×512 $0.018 / image
  256×256 $0.016 / image

So just under 2 cents per image at the standard size. That would certainly add up quickly for any interactive use case.

https://openai.com/api/pricing/

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Yeah, I prefer Midjourney pricing which is a monthly flat fee with multiple tiers. Unlimited use.

https://midjourney.gitbook.io/docs/billing#plans

I hope it stays reasonable as they continue to gain traction.

You can use Stable Diffusion on google colab[0] for free, and if you pay for the subscription you can generate several thousand images for $10 worth of credits, additionally you can opt to use a whole A100 40gig to make larger images, or spit out 512x512 at like 3 seconds per image for really rapid exploration. No reason to use midjourney at all, and in fact ethically it's better not to imo.

[0]https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/wiki...

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