Guides, prompt playbooks, and research
Prompt guides built from each model's documented controls, migration guides, and first-party research on pricing and leaderboards.
Fal vs Replicate vs Infer: which platform in 2026
Fal wins on latency, Replicate on catalog depth, Infer on multimodal price. This is Infer's own blog comparing itself, so here's the honest breakdown.
Read →How AI video leaderboards actually work (and why they disagree)
Elo, Bradley-Terry math, and dimension scoring, explained with a real example: the same model ranked #3 on one snapshot and #6 on another, 83 days apart.
Read →How to prompt Seedance 2.0: camera, lighting, audio
Seedance 2.0 Pro rewards director-style prompts: subject, camera move, lighting, and audio intent in one line. Ten worked templates and what fails.
Read →Replicate alternatives in 2026, post-Cloudflare
Cloudflare's acquisition of Replicate isn't a shutdown, but it's a reason to know your options. Here's who covers media, LLMs, and dedicated GPUs instead.
Read →Midjourney API alternatives: there's still no official one
Midjourney has no official API in 2026. Here's how V8.1's painterly, typography, and photoreal strengths map onto FLUX, Seedream, Nano Banana, and GPT Image.
Read →AI video pricing index: what a second costs in July 2026
Every AI video model price found in July 2026, cross-checked against fal.ai and official APIs, with a verification-status column for what is actually confirmed.
Read →Sora 2 is shutting down: alternatives and migration guide
OpenAI is retiring the Sora 2 API on September 24, 2026. Here is what to migrate to, what it costs on Infer, and the API and prompt changes to test before then.
Read →The State of AI Video Generation: July 2026
Twelve months of AI video data: leaderboard shifts, an 8x price spread, and audio going from novelty to table stakes. The July 2026 reference report.
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