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Cutting My AI Image Bill by 92%: A Developer's Guide to Smart Image Generation
How I moved from spending a euro per blog post on Gemini 3 Pro to a hybrid Gemini 2.5 Flash + Replicate FLUX setup that costs almost nothing — without sacrificing quality where it matters.
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