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We brought our real-time video AI inference cost down from ~₹20/second to ~₹0.50/second.

From r/StartUpIndia: We're a small team building live AI virtual try-on for eCommerce and one of our biggest challenges has been making the economics work. When we started, running real-time video generation through third-party APIs was costing us close to ₹20 per second. That's ₹400 for a 20-second virtual try-on.

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Monday, October 26, 2026, ranked 40
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An Indian e-commerce startup's own cost numbers for real-time video AI; a rare concrete unit-economics post.
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AI, Infrastructure, Consumer