Cost Optimization Guide for Video Models - from someone who spends 70K/month on Tokens
1) What all providers did I test?
- Tested Higgsfield, Runware, KIE, Fal, BytePlus, Runway, Sume, Sunra, Replicate
2) Which is the cheapest?
- Depends on the model you are trying to use.
- Kei is cheapest for all Google models - especially image generation models (I believe they are doing some illegal stuff - by buying retail accounts at 200$ each and then serving API requests through browser automations).
- Btw you can do it yourself too: https://t.co/ijErEKPT3x
- All Byteplus models (Seedance/Seedream) are cheapest on Byteplus, and no other providers support their "Digital Asset Library" - which is the greatest marketing play ever.
- All generations that require consistent characters across generations can be done with references - and Byteplus does not let you generate content with references if they are not part of their digital asset library. Which they charge $1400/month for.
- Higgsfield Soul 2.0 is only available on Higgsfield - and is also the cheapest there - soul is unparalleled quality (not to mention dirt cheap) when it comes to UGC style content.
- Sume is misleading advertisement - they compare their cost with lower resolution generation and call themselves cheaper.
3) Which one is the most reliable?
- Fal is king - I have tested them all - nothing even closely compares to Fal's reliability. In our testing - attempting to make 90s pixar animation style videos with seedance 2.5 - it takes about 17 minutes e2e.
- The same task with others providers takes upto 45 minutes at times - and upon investigation - the majority latency comes from time to request completion on the 3providers end - queues are maxxed out - and they dont have enough capacity - and hence you end up waiting in the queue for all your requests.
- Also the issue of dropped requests is especially high on runware, and sume. These are requests that are stuck in processing forever.
- Conspiracy theory - in our testing - output quality also varies from providers to provider - fal is supreme - runware, replicate is slightly worse - this is empirical but for some reason we are noticing downscaled resolution of the output for some providers.
4) How to Min-Max Token usage without compromising quality
- Generate videos at 480p and upscale with Topaz - it will be 4x cheaper
- Instead of using Seedance 2.5 use Wan 3.0 (64% cheaper) for Human Avatar Workflows - equal quality as seedance for human workflows.
- Instead of using Seedance 2.5 use Kling 4 (34% cheaper) for Animated Workflows - comparable quality as seedance for animated workflows.
- Reserve Seedance 2.5 for only talking head workflows
> Its ridiculously slow
> Does not respect toolcall output structure
> Inferior in coding to every frontier model
> Not even close to the pareto frontier as far as costs are concerned
> Good at image and video understanding
> Decent at copy writing
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Gemini 4 Carbon is ridiculously efficient
It barely uses any tokens, it's super cheap and incredibly fast for a model not far off Fable 5.2 in capabilities
One hell of a drop
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I was fed up with "Yt to mp4" websites so i made my own solution
It's better than anything else out there
(fingers crossed haha)
Plus its 100% free (and will be open sourced)
> Downloads anything (even Spotify, X, +1,200 others)
> Supports 4k, 6k, 8k + ProRes and other codecs
> Mac native (based around yt-dlp)
> Lets you clip sections of a full video
> Supports bulk downloading (very useful)
> Under 100mb to download and is very fast
> Drag downloads straight from the app to your timeline
plus so, so, so much more.
I have been using this tool nearly every day for the past couple months and it has streamlined my workflow a ton, hope others find it helpful as well
I will also probably get around to making premiere/ae/davinci plugins for it too.
First though, I want to really perfect the app experience so would love to hear any and all feedback!
For anyone working with UGC slideshow for TT/IG
Scraping Pinterest images - its better to use warmed up accounts instead of using anonymous scraping.
Pinterest returns worse images for non-logged in users, easily a 2x improvement in quality
Cost Optimization Guide for Video Models - from someone who spends 70K/month on Tokens
1) What all providers did I test?
- Tested Higgsfield, Runware, KIE, Fal, BytePlus, Runway, Sume, Sunra, Replicate
2) Which is the cheapest?
- Depends on the model you are trying to use.
- Kei is cheapest for all Google models - especially image generation models (I believe they are doing some illegal stuff - by buying retail accounts at 200$ each and then serving API requests through browser automations).
- Btw you can do it yourself too: https://t.co/ijErEKPT3x
- All Byteplus models (Seedance/Seedream) are cheapest on Byteplus, and no other providers support their "Digital Asset Library" - which is the greatest marketing play ever.
- All generations that require consistent characters across generations can be done with references - and Byteplus does not let you generate content with references if they are not part of their digital asset library. Which they charge $1400/month for.
- Higgsfield Soul 2.0 is only available on Higgsfield - and is also the cheapest there - soul is unparalleled quality (not to mention dirt cheap) when it comes to UGC style content.
- Sume is misleading advertisement - they compare their cost with lower resolution generation and call themselves cheaper.
3) Which one is the most reliable?
- Fal is king - I have tested them all - nothing even closely compares to Fal's reliability. In our testing - attempting to make 90s pixar animation style videos with seedance 2.5 - it takes about 17 minutes e2e.
- The same task with others providers takes upto 45 minutes at times - and upon investigation - the majority latency comes from time to request completion on the 3providers end - queues are maxxed out - and they dont have enough capacity - and hence you end up waiting in the queue for all your requests.
- Also the issue of dropped requests is especially high on runware, and sume. These are requests that are stuck in processing forever.
- Conspiracy theory - in our testing - output quality also varies from providers to provider - fal is supreme - runware, replicate is slightly worse - this is empirical but for some reason we are noticing downscaled resolution of the output for some providers.
4) How to Min-Max Token usage without compromising quality
- Generate videos at 480p and upscale with Topaz - it will be 4x cheaper
- Instead of using Seedance 2.5 use Wan 3.0 (64% cheaper) for Human Avatar Workflows - equal quality as seedance for human workflows.
- Instead of using Seedance 2.5 use Kling 4 (34% cheaper) for Animated Workflows - comparable quality as seedance for animated workflows.
- Reserve Seedance 2.5 for only talking head workflows
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