How to Estimate Image Generation API Costs: A Portable Preflight for Marketplace Backends
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The important trade-off is simple: provider portability is useful only if the user can see, and the system can enforce, the cost of a generation before a remote call commits it. In a marketplace that answers questions from a private knowledge base and then generates an image from the answer, I woul…
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How to Estimate Image Generation API Costs: A Portable Preflight for Marketplace Backends