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Re: Stable Diffusion 3 API Now Available

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"In keeping with our commitment to open generative AI, we aim to make the model weights available for self-hosting with a Stability AI Membership in the near future." Does this mean that SD3 will not be available from Huggingface etc.?

I've noticed some models on Hugging Face require an extra layer of terms acceptance, like a EULA. Maybe it'll be like that? Otherwise I'm guessing they want one to make a dedicated Stability AI account, accept some terms, and then enable the download.

Re: Stable Diffusion 3 API Now Available

#12

- Models will be released - Free to use for non commercial projects - 20$/m subscription needed if project has less than $1m annual revenue or - Undisclosed "Enterprise" subscription needed for projects larger than above To me the $240/y sounds pretty awesome for a smaller commercial project, and i like they've set the threshold pretty high up. But still don't like "undisclosed" black box enterprise pricing though wh…

What SaaS company discloses their Enterprise prices?

Re: Stable Diffusion 3 API Now Available

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- Models will be released - Free to use for non commercial projects - 20$/m subscription needed if project has less than $1m annual revenue or - Undisclosed "Enterprise" subscription needed for projects larger than above To me the $240/y sounds pretty awesome for a smaller commercial project, and i like they've set the threshold pretty high up. But still don't like "undisclosed" black box enterprise pricing though wh…

*under $1m annual revenue and <1m users

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Re: Stable Diffusion 3 API Now Available

#14
post #6

This Reddit thread from someone with early access has some sample images: https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1c2je28/i_... Maybe the early access beta was limiting the available resources, or they used bad settings, bud juding by that thread it looks like the model got worse during training or the earlier examples were quite cherry-picked.

I didn't think those were bad at all

Not bad, but also not the big jump over fine-tuned SD1.5/SDXL checkpoints that some expected.

Re: Stable Diffusion 3 API Now Available

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- Models will be released - Free to use for non commercial projects - 20$/m subscription needed if project has less than $1m annual revenue or - Undisclosed "Enterprise" subscription needed for projects larger than above To me the $240/y sounds pretty awesome for a smaller commercial project, and i like they've set the threshold pretty high up. But still don't like "undisclosed" black box enterprise pricing though wh…

What SaaS company discloses their Enterprise prices?

A tangent but i believe all pricing should public information by law above some threshold to battle corruption, nepotism, cartel making and monopolies.

I've seen too many governments and even medium sized companies paying absurd amounts to some shitty locked in cloud platform with lots of better alternatives, because someone got kickbacks, gifts, vacations or a seat on some board, and everyone should be more enraged.

The EU has tried to battle this with various public procurement processes but it's a big clown show of course so i don't know what the solution is.

Re: Stable Diffusion 3 API Now Available

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- Models will be released - Free to use for non commercial projects - 20$/m subscription needed if project has less than $1m annual revenue or - Undisclosed "Enterprise" subscription needed for projects larger than above To me the $240/y sounds pretty awesome for a smaller commercial project, and i like they've set the threshold pretty high up. But still don't like "undisclosed" black box enterprise pricing though wh…

> …they can tax you to death if you build a service that competes with their API right…

I'm curious why that'd be a concern, since building a service that effectively just resells an API isn't a viable business model.

Re: Stable Diffusion 3 API Now Available

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What SaaS company discloses their Enterprise prices?

A tangent but i believe all pricing should public information by law above some threshold to battle corruption, nepotism, cartel making and monopolies. I've seen too many governments and even medium sized companies paying absurd amounts to some shitty locked in cloud platform with lots of better alternatives, because someone got kickbacks, gifts, vacations or a seat on some board, and everyone should be more enraged.…

Unless there's absolutely no alternative, and it's something I desperately need, I basically won't buy anything that says "call for pricing" or some such, because I interpret that as "call so one of our trained liars (i.e., salesmen) can figure out how hard we can screw you".

In many cases I'd even pay a premium to avoid talking to one of those people.

Re: Stable Diffusion 3 API Now Available

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post #6

This Reddit thread from someone with early access has some sample images: https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1c2je28/i_... Maybe the early access beta was limiting the available resources, or they used bad settings, bud juding by that thread it looks like the model got worse during training or the earlier examples were quite cherry-picked.

I didn't think those were bad at all

That woman at the top (at least I assume it's supposed to be a woman) should be wearing a beauty pageant sash reading "Ms Uncanny Valley of 2024". Creepy AF, IMO.

Agreed that some of the others aren't so bad, however the bar for a convincing swamp creature is a lot lower than for a convincing human being.

If breasts come out looking like that, I'd be taking a hard look at my training data.

Re: Stable Diffusion 3 API Now Available

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- Models will be released - Free to use for non commercial projects - 20$/m subscription needed if project has less than $1m annual revenue or - Undisclosed "Enterprise" subscription needed for projects larger than above To me the $240/y sounds pretty awesome for a smaller commercial project, and i like they've set the threshold pretty high up. But still don't like "undisclosed" black box enterprise pricing though wh…

> But still don't like "undisclosed" black box enterprise pricing though when they're running their own API, because it basically means they can tax you to death if you build a service that competes with their API right - so in effect only viable to create small companies with this tech?

"undisclosed" doesn't imply changing the price after it was negotiated with you. It just mean they will negotiate the contracts for large projects, without disclosing the terms to the public ... in my view.

Re: Stable Diffusion 3 API Now Available

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post #6

This Reddit thread from someone with early access has some sample images: https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1c2je28/i_... Maybe the early access beta was limiting the available resources, or they used bad settings, bud juding by that thread it looks like the model got worse during training or the earlier examples were quite cherry-picked.

The real value of Stable Diffusion models are the finetuned models when the base model is released.
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