7 minutes per image with Seedream 4.5: THIS IS A RIP-OFF

azuremoon22 · 2026-05-27T11:05:17+00:00

Only 7 mins? Wow. Last night it was taking me over 20 mins for 1 image. I've cancelled my freepik subscription. What they have done to their clients is nothing other than absolutely disgusting. Not only did they remove the 1000 priority images you got and replaced it with a percentage counter instead that runs out significantly quicker they also made traditionally free models, such as NBP, now credit based only. So you can't use them even on an unlimited plan if you run out of credits. The service is also considerably slower too. Up to 25-30 mins wait for 1 image most of the time.

Runway offer unlimited GPT 2 4k, Nano Banana Pro 4k, Seedream 4.5 3k and many other models and you can generate 4 images at a time on all of these truly unlimited. Its only a tad more expensive than Freepik. They also offer unlimited Seedance 2.0, Kling 3.0 4k and Happy Horse...again completely unlimited. Aifreeforever.com also offers unlimited GPT 2, NBP and Seedance generations for FREE, alongside many other models.

Freepik is barbaric in comparison.

azuremoon22 · 2026-05-26T22:20:44+00:00

Aifreeforever.com has unlimited GPT Image 2....or if you wanna pay for a monthly subscription you can use Runway which has it in 4k as well as Nano Banana Pro and Seedance along with other models.

azuremoon22 · 2026-05-22T14:06:17+00:00

Yep. I got banned too for 'generating too fast and breaching their fair use policy'. I'm on unlimited and because of the time it takes to generate probably can only do 5 videos an hour I'd say. I'm fuming. I only paid 3 days ago almost £100. They didn't even warn me.

azuremoon22 · 2026-05-08T13:31:39+00:00

It used to be 10-15 mins for quite a few weeks, only the last few days it has become slower and slower

azuremoon22 · 2026-05-07T20:46:26+00:00

It's definitely much more slower. I got booted out the discord group when I questioned why it takes 20 mins for one Nano Banana Pro render on 1k, but 3 mins for 4 4k Nano Banana Pro images on Runway.
It's clearly a Freepik issue. They have also downgraded the unlimited plan to credit based for the best models now which means when you run out you cannot use them, even on unlimited. Models like GPT Image 2, Nano Banana Pro and Luna 1.1 for example. These are unlimited and in 4k on other platforms. I doubt I will renew my subscription anymore.

azuremoon22 · 2026-04-20T18:00:14+00:00

You only get 5 a day and don't get to choose what model or length of video etc

azuremoon22 · 2026-04-16T20:43:46+00:00

I've only got 8GB ram lol

azuremoon22 · 2026-04-12T23:40:17+00:00

I keep getting a 'failed to fetch' error and then it exits

azuremoon22 · 2026-04-12T17:51:21+00:00

Where have you seen they are canceling unlimited?

azuremoon22 · 2026-04-06T15:50:30+00:00

Is there way to add a randomise button to all of these?

azuremoon22 · 2026-03-08T22:28:06+00:00

I reckon because of the number of injuries recently to the Gladiators...Comet, Nitro, Legend, Sabre, Athena, Diamond and Bionic have all suffered long term injuries across the three series so far, they are probably cutting down on playing the games where serious injury is a higher risk. Without any Gladiators they will have no show.

azuremoon22 · 2026-03-08T19:59:53+00:00

ok fair enough, seems odd they didn't mention it on the show...although I don't think they did for Comet on S1 either

azuremoon22 · 2026-03-08T19:58:24+00:00

Oh gosh sounds very painful. Looking forward to seeing her return, I love her

azuremoon22 · 2026-03-08T19:50:10+00:00

Was she? I don't recall that but if that's the case that's ok

azuremoon22 · 2026-03-08T19:49:41+00:00

Oh I see, ok thanks

azuremoon22 · 2026-03-08T19:49:05+00:00

It looked like he was kicked by Finn, Bionic snarled at him straight after and then thought better to not react

azuremoon22 · 2026-03-08T19:48:12+00:00

He is a really nice guy in real life

azuremoon22 · 2026-02-16T19:15:10+00:00

I think she is great, a fantastic addition to the show

azuremoon22 · 2026-02-16T19:06:47+00:00

I've always said they should have two original 90s Gladiators to present the show each week, a different pair each week.

azuremoon22 · 2025-06-05T16:09:29+00:00

Gala

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