WaveSpeed AI
half fal's price on the anchor, a fraction of the catalogue
less than half what fal charges on the one model we can compare directly, on a catalogue small enough that you should check your models are on it first.
on the anchor, WaveSpeed wins outright: $0.012 for a 1024x1024 flux.1 [dev] image against $0.025 a megapixel at fal and $0.025 an image at Replicate. pricing is per output with no monthly commitment, there is $1 of free credit without a card, and the platform covers text models as well as image and video.
the vendor claims no cold starts and a median end-to-end generation around ten seconds. both are vendor claims we have not independently timed, and cold-start behaviour is exactly the kind of thing that degrades quietly under load, so treat them as a starting point.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- generative media apis
- pricing
- $0.012 / image for flux.1 [dev]
- website
- wavespeed.ai
less than half what fal charges on the one model we can compare directly, on a catalogue small enough that you should check your models are on it first.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.