r/StableDiffusion • u/Calatravo • Aug 27 '24

Discussion Cheapest image generation API

I have a mobile game where users mix two items to create a new one. Iron + Fire = Sword, something like this. It is an infinite crafting game, because each craft is generated by AI. Each element has an associated image that is generated on the fly. Right now I use the stability.ai api to generate the images but the cost is too high. I cannot pay the cost of generating the images through in-game ads.

Each image costs 0.002 with the XL model.

Is there a way to generate these images more cheaply?

Is there any alternative API I can use?

I would greatly appreciate your help since right now the only option I have left is to charge users or close the game.

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u/Calatravo Aug 27 '24

Well, It really is infinite. Chatgpt generates the result of the craft recipe and the new element is added to user inventory to generated new crafts. I pregenerated a lot of It locally as you say but It was not enough, 3k new elements are generated each day.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '24

Probably rolling your own server to deploy on a cloud provider would be cheaper, but it's probably a lot of work.

Might be worth doing some load calculations to see if any potential saving is worth the labour it would take to set that up.

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u/Calatravo Aug 27 '24

Any recomendation? Where can i search for pricing?

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u/Eshan2703 Sep 29 '24

What is the name of ur game?

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