Using the Google Colab playground - Stable Diffusion Tutorial

- Although Stable Diffusion is at least partially open source, some tools like Google Colab allow you to work with the API with a simple interface. In order to use the Stable Diffusion API, you need to have an account, which you can get by going to the developer platform website. Let's take a look at how the pricing works. Like a lot of other projects, pricing is based on compute time and calculated over a credit system. Requests for different services will consume a different amount of credits. When you open up the account, if you use your Google credentials, you get 25 credits, which is a tiny amount that will let you create a handful of images. You can get more generations for a hundred credits per dollar with a $10 minimum, so $10 will give you a thousand credits. Now, I highly suggest that you add at least $10 worth of credits to fully take advantage of the rest of this course. Each Stable Diffusion 3 image will cost six and a half credits, or you can use the turbo version of the…