[donkeyd]

I'm just going out on a limb here, but a paid service needs to be good with limited input. I've used SD locally quite a lot and it takes quite a bit of work through x/y plots to find combinations of settings that produce good images somewhat consistently. Even when using decent fine tunings from CivitAI.

When I use a decent paid service, pretty much every prompt gives me a good response out of the box. Which is good, because otherwise I'd have no use for paid services, since I can run it all locally. This causes me to go to a paid service whenever I want something quick, but don't need full control. When I do want full control, I stick to my local solution, but that takes a lot more time.