[redox99]

Yeah, I'm sorry for the incorrect statement.

MidJourney claims 3.3 hours of GPU for $10. If that's 3.3 hours of A100, at a rate of $2/hour that's $6.6 of GPU costs.

My original statement was based on MJ feeling very expensive per image compared to the huge number of images I can generate in an hour with SDXL on my 3090 (and 3090s can be rented for $0.20 an hour).

But I forgot how overpriced A100s are (I doubt MJ is running 3090s but that'd be pretty cool), and that MJ is probably 4x the size of SDXL (although surely more optimized).

My revised statement is that for their $10 plan there's a few bucks of GPU compute cost. Probably between 2x and 5x margins.

[joefourier]

A100s aren’t $2/h at MJ scale tho. Firstly they likely own quite a few and they’re relatively cheap now at $4k a card, and secondly you can get much better deals than $2/h if you rent a large amount and pre-pay.

[redox99]

Sure, I was establishing a upper and lower bound. That's why I said between 2x and 5x margins.