Photographer asks: is moving Wan video generation to cloud GPUs actually cheaper?
asdfghmfker · reddit · 2026-11-14
A photographer moving into AI video asks about cost control: his pipeline trains a LoRA on PixelDojo, generates a base image, then feeds it to Wan 2.6 for video. The pain point is rerolls — good base images take many tries, and the video step often needs several rerolls, so costs climb fast.
His ideas: run cheap short tests (via a nearly-free Dreamina offer) to validate a base image's motion/framing before paying for a real Wan run; and a bigger question — switching to open-source Wan managed from a MacBook Air with image/video generation offloaded to a cloud GPU service. He's asking whether that actually saves money once setup time and GPU hours are counted.
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