[franciscop]

I have a bigger budget and would love higher quality, would it be possible easily to adapt the code to ouput 50-100 bytes strings in a similar fashion (2x-4x), or it'd be a complete rewrite? I read the JS code but unfortunately I'm really unfamiliar with low level byte manipulation and could not make heads or tails out of it.

[Scaevolus]

Try very small webp images. 32x32 quality 5 webp images are around 100-150 bytes.

[franciscop]

Given the difference in quality seen, I'd guess Thumbhash at 50 bytes would be similar quality to webp at 100-150 bytes, so basically 1/3rd of the size or 3x the quality for "the same price". The examples of webp are way worse quality, and almost 2x the size.