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Stability AI released Stable Diffusion and suddenly image generation costs dropped from ~$0.02/image (DALL-E 2) to essentially free if you have a GPU. I calculated the break-even point. | Contents | Stability AI just open-sourced Stable Diffusion , and the pricing math of AI image generation changed overnight. | Before August 2022, generating an image meant paying per image. DALL-E 2 charges about $0.02 per image. Midjourney starts at $10/month for limited generations. | After August 2022, if you own an NVIDIA GPU with 8+ GB VRAM, the cost per image is effectively zero. The model weights are…
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I built a complete timeline of AI API pricing from GPT-3 beta in 2020 to today. 47 price points across 5 years. The cost curve looks like a waterfall. Quality went up 10x while prices fell 100x. I've never seen anything like it in any industry. I've been tracking AI API prices since GPT-3's beta in 2020. Today I'm publishing the full timeline. 47 data points. 12 providers. 5 years. The pattern is unlike anything I've seen in technology. The complete timeline (output token pricing, best available model) | Date | Model | Output/M tokens | Quality (MMLU equiv.) | |------|-------|-----------------|----------------------| | Jun 2020 | GPT-3 Davinci | $60.00 | ~43% | | Mar 2021 | GPT-3 Davinci (price cut) | $40.00 | ~43% | | Jan 2022 | GPT-3 Davinci (instruct) | $20.00 | ~50% | | Dec 2022 | ChatGPT (gpt-3.5-turbo) | $2.00 | ~70% | | Mar 2023 | GPT-4 | $60.00 | ~86% | | Jun 2023 | GPT-3.5-turbo (updated) | $1.50 | ~70% | | Nov 2023 | GPT-4 Turbo | $30.00 | ~86% | | Mar 2024 | Claude 3 Haiku | $1.25 | ~75% | | May 2024 | GPT-4o | $15.00 | ~89% | | Jun 2024 | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | $15.00 | ~89% | | Jul 2024 | GPT-4o mini | $0.60 | ~82% | | Dec 2024 | Gemini 2.0 Flash | $0.40 | ~84% | | Jan…




