Is there a good set of benchmarks available for Stable Diffusion? I was able to run a custom Stable Diffusion build on a GCE A100 instance (~$1/hour) at around 1Mpix per 10 seconds. I.e, I could create a 512x512 image in 2.5 seconds with some batching optimizations. A consumer GPU like a 3090 runs at ~1Mpix per 20 seconds. I'm wondering what the price floor of stock art will be when someone can use https://lexica.art…
It can be even cheaper. Midjourney, in case you appreciate their output, has an unlimited plan for 30$ a month. The only limitation is that if you're an extremely heavy user, they may "relax" you, which means results come in a bit slower. Note that they've been also experimenting with a --beta parameter which basically means the algorithm uses StableDiffusion's algorithm behind the scenes, or you can use any of 4 ver…
You don't have to be an extremely heavy user. I used it for about an hour every evening and it took 11 days out of a month subscription for them to put me on relax mode.
The relax mode is based on how busy the service is. If usage is low, it's the same a fast mode. But other times its really slow.
That makes it unpredictable enough that it stopped being fun for me to use it. I've barely used midjourney since I got put on relaxed mode - it stopped feeling like I can jump on and play because I might hit a busy period and then it'll take 5 minutes to generate a prompt
That said, I could buy more hours of fast mode and I think it's still way cheaper than Dall-E or Dreamstudio