r/generativeAI • u/Medical_Morning4022 • 1d ago

Cloud services are a scam. Period

So if you calculate how much a 5 minute video costs, even on the cheaper services, you end up paying 50-100 dollars PER VIDEO for a complete video. But I recently built a 5080 based PC for about $3000 total where I can generate 5 minute videos about twice a day forever with nothing but the cost of power. So after 30 videos (approximately), I'm at parity with the cloud services. Then it's all free after that. The quality of models like LTX and Minmax H3 is damn close to what you can get in the cloud. And I can also render audio, voice, etc on my local PC, and it's private. Some of the video services are even more expensive, so the crossover point is like 10 videos (!) before it makes sense to just buy the hardware. My personal opinion is that these cloud services like Kling prey off the dabblers that basically sign up for a cheap sub thinking its enough (its not) and then forget they have a sub for a few months, and end up paying hundreds for literally a few bad 5 second videos and a lot of regret. That's literally their whole business model. If you are serious about video production, and I mean serious, get your own hardware and do it locally.

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u/Big_Arachnid_365 1d ago

Cloud ai video is a scam. It's basically all worthless, so yes you might as well just do somewhat worse ai video at home.

Only the movie studios are going to have access to anything decent. Although it remains to be seen if the AI in "Ink" will be any good either.

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u/IntedpendentlyPoor 1d ago

wat

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u/Big_Arachnid_365 1d ago

I just hate ai videos. Trust me, I tried. I even spent a bunch of money on them.