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Start by being honest about which product you are actually buying. If you want to make images for yourself, a consumer generator is the better and cheaper tool and you should stop reading here. If your own app needs to generate for your users, you need a real API and the shortlist gets very short.
Then check the unglamorous things, because that is where reliability comes from at volume. Bearer tokens scoped per environment so staging cannot drain production. Stable machine readable error codes rather than an HTML error page. Rate limit headers on every response and a Retry-After on the 429. Idempotency keys so a retry after a timeout does not double charge you. Async jobs with signed webhooks for video, which takes far too long to hold a request open.
Price it per generation, not per month. Work out your real monthly volume and multiply. At 100,000 images a month the difference between 2.5 cents and 1.7 cents is $800, and both are usually cheaper than keeping your own GPU workers warm before a single request arrives.
Finally, check who eats the failures. Ask whether blocked and failed generations draw down your balance, and whether moderation runs on every output. If you are billed for moderation rejections and infrastructure hiccups, your unit economics rot at exactly the volume where you can least afford it. Also worth saying plainly: two of the three here are consumer tools, so treat any automation against them as a prototype, not a production dependency.


