200 drafts at 2.5 cents: Imagen 4 Fast, Qwen Image or Grok Image

Each costs $5.00 for 200 images on Sume. Imagen 4 Fast and Qwen Image take n up to 4, so 50 calls; Grok Image takes n of 1, so 200. Ratios and edits differ.

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Imagen 4 Fast, Qwen Image and Grok Image all bill $0.025 per image on Sume, so 200 draft images cost $5.00 on any of them. The call count is what differs: Imagen 4 Fast and Qwen Image accept n up to 4, so 200 images take 50 calls, while Grok Image accepts only n of 1, so the same batch takes 200. Only Qwen Image and Grok Image accept reference images; Imagen 4 Fast is text-to-image only.

The figures come from the Sume catalog on origin/main, read 2026-10-08. Charge per call is cost_usd × n, so splitting a batch changes the number of requests, not the price.

The three rows

Aspect lists are the main content difference. Imagen has five ratios. Qwen Image has thirteen, including 21:9 and 9:21. Grok Image has thirteen too, but its set is phone-shaped: 20:9, 19.5:9, 9:19.5 and 9:20 appear, and 21:9 does not.

200 drafts on three $0.025 rows (read 2026-10-08)
FieldImagen 4 FastQwen ImageGrok Image
Billed per image$0.025$0.025$0.025
200 images$5.00$5.00$5.00
n per call1 to 41 to 41 only
Calls for 2005050200
Reference imagesNoneUp to 10Up to 10
Aspect ratios513, with 21:913, with 20:9 and 19.5:9
Output formatspng, jpeg, webppng, jpeg, webppng, jpeg, webp

What 200 calls means

A call that finishes inside 30 seconds returns 200 with the images. One that does not returns 202 and a job envelope, and you poll status_url as the jobs page describes. A draft batch of 200 single-image calls multiplies that polling, so send Grok Image batches in modest waves and respect next_poll_after_seconds when it is present.

The 50-call routes have the easier loop. If the content of the draft does not need a specific ratio, Imagen 4 Fast in fours is the least code to run.

Choosing among them

Need a source photo in the request: Qwen Image or Grok Image. Need an ultrawide: Qwen Image. Need a phone-tall 20:9 or 9:20 draft: Grok Image. Need only squares and 16:9 from text: Imagen 4 Fast.

None of these rows lists quality or resolution, and none accepts seed, so repeats are fresh samples.

Write the batch runner so that the unit of work is one call, and set the number of images per call from the row's n maximum, which you can read from the catalog. That way a row with a different ceiling needs no code change, and a Grok Image run is the same loop with more iterations.

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