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Notes from theproduction floor.

How the models actually behave, what they cost to run, and what teams are shipping with them. Written by the people building it.

Choosing a video model is a budget decision, not a quality one

The gap between the best video model and the second-best is smaller than the gap between their prices. Here is how we actually pick.

Long prompts feel thorough and behave worse. What a generation model actually does with the words you give it.

Why generation is priced per second and per megapixel rather than per request, and how to read a cost estimate before you commit to it.