When will Starlight become more affordable for cloud rendering? I understand around $0.01 per token, but $0.1 is ridiculous. :confused: Or lower prices for 4K rendering. Does anyone really pay $1,600 for two hours of rendering? I would gladly subscribe to Topaz Video AI, but with these prices, it’s…

Nobody pays that, because you can’t do a two hour Starlight render on the cloud. I think the current limit is about six minutes. Longer would have to be done locally, and the amount of time it would take to do a two hour local Starlight render on even the fastest workstation would be mind bogglingly…

Dude, you split the movie into parts, but that doesn’t change the fact that 6 minutes is 750 tokens x $0.1 = $75 :exploding_head:

I bought mine a few years ago: Asus rog strix scar 17 i9/16gb/1TB/Rtx3070/i9-12900h So even if I decided to buy one locally, i wouldn’t go crazy :confused:

and the result upscaling FHD to 4k isn’t very impressive. Starlight model has his strength improving lowRes vids, or simply content that profits from heavy reconstructions the model does. focus on DVDs where no Blu-Ray exists, this makes more sense.

I am interested in upscaling low-quality SD (webdl) to QHD/4K—unfortunately, from what I have seen, SL FHD leaves artifacts, while 4K reconstructs these artifacts.

The idea of splitting a two-hour movie into six minute segments is enough to turn me off even before the cost of credits becomes a consideration.

Yes I know what you mean, Topaz should really improve the model here when doing 2x. But artifacts are greatly minimized when I use a high amount of gpu RAM, which is why I still use the old beta 7.0.0.4.b with my 5090, which allows me to use 2x. What bothers me in general are the fixed upscale fact…

Mine’s a bit long in the tooth also: 6 yr old hp z8g4/2X Xeon Gold 6132 (roughly equivalent to your i9, except that each CPU has 14 cores)/192Gb/RTX3070. I think the only viable upgrade path for this system would be an RTX3090. No point in putting any newer GPU in it because it’s only PCIe 3.

PCIe version does not always matter as much as people might think. Especially for other stuff than gaming… Quite sure a 4090 would work just fine, only with maybe about 5% loss in processing speed. Even with gaming it is pretty close, as seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx8DcqQHZbI Heck,…

I don’t think it makes sense to spend money on new components for a six year old computer. With today’s prices, the cost of a new GPU is more than halfway to a whole new pre built PC.

Starlight 4K Cloud Rendering Pricing

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naxci1 November 26, 2025, 10:52pm 14

With Comfy, it is possible to process the entire video without dividing it into minutes using the Starlight model, and it is cheaper, on average $100 for a 1-hour video.