I'm out of touch with the latest developments in image generation. (Last one I tried running myself was Dreambooth in 2022). What are the best text-to-image generation APIs? What is the premium for a no-hassle API vs running something myself?

I'm eth newbie..just learning
(working on @farcaster)

terminally.online

aichannel

Tired: Midjourney 
 SREFs and moodboards for your brand 

Wired: custom finetuned flux instance for your brand 

https://blackforestlabs.ai/announcing-the-flux-pro-finetuning-api/

It’s your lucky day https://warpcast.com/keccers.eth/0x76706bbd

Not sure about running yourself but you can run flux on https://replicate.com/black-forest-labs/flux-1.1-pro-ultra for about $0.06 an image.

works well

Depends, mj for aesthetics or if wanting realism go w grok aurora or flux pro. wouldn't bother w any others tbh.

Black Forest flux, smaller models for quick iterations and pro ones for final results