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Online AI Video generators -- with models ready built instant video engines

  4. fal.ai and Replicate - only for video or any AI? for developers Both are mainly for generative media , not just video. fal.ai has 1,094 models across: image-to-image 347, image-to-video 151, text-to-image 149, text-to-video 102, video-to-video 125, text-to-audio 34 Replicate has ∼200 models. Both have: FLUX, SDXL, Kling, Veo, Wan, Sora, LTX, plus audio, 3D, lip-sync. They also have some LLMs, but if you need GPT-4/Claude they don't have it. In short: Use fal.ai / Replicate when you want ready API for image/video/audio - no setup. LTX direct API -- also free to use in local server --  3. What is cheapest for video - fal vs RunPod vs LTX vs Google Flow? Here is real cost for 1 minute final video : Platform Cost for 1 min 1080p How it bills RunPod Serverless Flex 4090 (self-host LTX) $0.05 - $0.60 $0.00044/sec GPU time fal.ai LTX Fast $2.4 $0.04/sec video fal.ai LTX Pro $3.6 $0.06/sec video Google Flow Veo 3 Fast $9 $0.15/sec video Google Flow Veo 3 $24 $0.40/sec video

AI image geberators Flux Midjourney Flux Midjourney

  Flux / Midjourney Here is the full picture: 1. Flux / Midjourney - Are they inside LTX? No, separate. LTX = only video. It takes an image and makes it move. Flux = image generator made by Black Forest Labs - successor to Stable Diffusion. It's open-source and free. 12 billion params. You run it locally on your 4060 Ti. Midjourney = image generator - paid, artistic style, $10/month basic. Runs on Discord. Workflow is 2 steps: Generate Indian characters image with Flux (free) or Midjourney Feed that image to LTX API to make video of them walking / talking. Flux is not included in LTX, you have to run it separately, but both can run in same ComfyUI. 1. Can you run Flux / Midjourney on RTX 2050 4GB? Midjourney: No install needed, runs on their website/Discord - works on any laptop. $10/month. Flux: No, your 2050 can't run it properly. Official FP16 needs 24GB VRAM Quantized Q8 needs ∼13GB Lowest Q4 needs 6-16GB Your RTX 2050 is 4GB . Even 8GB cards need special 4-bit qua...

online gpu rental services -- for AI -- with free docker images for salad cheap user rented GPUs

  RunPod -- GPUS with pre installed configured MOdels -- and  cheap for running model per sec pulse --  https://salad.com/pricing -- very cheap -- https://cloud.vast.ai/ Why salad so cheap: We utilize unused, latent compute resources from gamers and e-sports arenas worldwide to power our network — think Airbnb for GPUs. RunPod = real datacenters in US/EU - reliable, fast. Salad = thousands of gamer PCs worldwide sleeping at night - they rent their GPU when not gaming. That's why it's cheap. Salad good: Insanely cheap ($0.02/hr for RTX 5090) , 191 countries Salad bad: Distributed = unpredictable availability, Max 24GB VRAM per GPU, Not for low-latency workloads RunPod: Per-second billing Salad: You only pay for time hardware is available, they don't charge for cold boot. Hourly calculator, but billed per second. Both per hour, not per month, but you can keep running 720 hrs = monthly. Is Salad cheapest? For batch jobs / non-critical - Yes, Salad is cheapest in world at RT...