Especially for these kinds of rather artistic use cases, I'd rather see it using some of the open source models which might cost almost an order of magnitude less (disclaimer, I might be biased towards extremely good price/perf of the OS ones as someone who works and maintains a popular inference service for these kind of ML models).
Yeah, I defintely agree with that haha. I'm new at this and haven't even run my own SD or any open source model on my own hardware yet. I'm sure it's not that hard, but I don't think my CPU-rated Linode is up to the task. Haven't looked into renting a cloud machine that can do it quickly but I'm sure it exists. I absolutely want to move the LLM away from OpenAI GPT and the image generated away from DALL-E. But for right now this was the fastest way I could get the idea online, so APIs it is.
But I'm 100% on board with the open source models and I definitely want to get that going. Yeah the DALL-E 3 images are 4 cents per image! Phewph!
Would be happy to give you a hand at this and let you started using fal.ai with to run some of the more advanced diffusion models (with free credits if this is more of an hobby/art-style project, although SDXL with reasonable settings costs almost ~20X cheaper than OpenAI so you might not even need it)! Shoot me an e-mail at batuhan [at] fal.ai.
