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Estimating costs for an image generation feature

Estimating costs for an image generation feature

From the course: AI Pricing and ROI: A Technical Breakdown

Estimating costs for an image generation feature

- [Instructor] Let's calculate the costs for an image gen feature for an e-commerce store. We want to generate realistic placements for our product in realistic environments. As an example, imagine we had a flamingo toy and we wanted to place it into a pool. In this case, we wanted to generate the image on the right. Let's go ahead and look at some pricing. I'm on the OpenAI website, and for image models, I can see the pricing here per image. Let's look at the DALL-E 2 pricing because this is the model that can do this background filling. We can confirm this on the image generation page on OpenAI's website. Only for DALL-E 2 can we make this edit, also called inpainting. So per image, it's going to cost us around 2 cents. Now let's assume for a store, we want to have five variations of four different scenes for our image. If we have 20 items in total, we're going to have 400 image generations. Let's go ahead and…

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