GPT 1.5 Low vs Medium vs High
By Sealine
GPT 1.5 offers 3 different models: low, medium and high. BudgetPixel offers all three options, and the price varies with low costing 30 credits medium 60 credits and high a whopping 250 credits. The question becomes, is high worth it? Today I'm just going to let you decide. I'm going to give you a series of images, each using the same prompt but run in GPT 1.5 low, medium and high. The images will be in that order. First up is my pinup with the 57 chevy from a recent QT on BudgetPixel. In this case, I chose to go with high as it gave the gloss I was looking for and the most detail. However, low and medium both did an excellent job as well. Next up in a fun image I created for a glasses QT on X. Here is the quirky young girl in low, medium and high. Again, same prompt. In this case, the painted style comes through more as the model level increases. I again could have easily gone with any of these, but I ended up choosing high. The overall expression, detail and style was more what I wanted. Though I did consider low as it has a more polished semi-realistic look that I also find appealing. For this batch of roses (above), high was more what I was going for. The pattern and texture of the material really came through. Although, the bold gold etching of medium is nice and the almost lacey texture of low may appeal to others. For the next batch of roses (below), I originally only ran low and high. For this blog, I went ahead and ran a medium for comparison. While there are things I like about medium and high, low is actually my favorite of this batch. The sheen from low actually gives this the more metallic look I wanted. The filigree cut-out in medium and high are more in line with the prompt, but where the color was added just looked off to me. For fun, here is the addition of a spider to the rose above run in low and high. This is an instance where low got the number of legs correct as prompted (although one is too short) and high added an extra leg. While high tends to be more accurate, it is not a guarantee. I'll finish up with my dark angel. Sometimes I am unhappy with the woman in medium and my first try at medium is the perfect example why. This angel is not the dark gothic beauty I was trying for. I also decided I did not like preparing to fly look for the how I wanted to later animate the image, so the prompt changed slightly as well for the next batch (below). In this case, I did give medium a second chance and it is the image I chose since I preferred her looking at the viewer. To wrap up, back to the question at hand: Is high worth the extra cost? There is no right or wrong answer. Generally speaking, I have found that high will follow your prompt better, include more details and have less errors. However, high is not a guarantee for perfection. Sometimes I like the gloss of low vs high. Sometimes the style in my prompt didn't work as well as I hoped and high shows those errors. It also can still make glaring mistakes. Sometimes image 2 image can fix these errors, but I'll save that for another blog. So really the choice is yours. Hopefully my images will help you decide if it's worth the chance for some of your creations. Thank you for reading. Do you ever run high? Would love to hear your feedback!