Comment by mox1

I wanted to try Googles Image generation models, to compliment my Claude API sub.

Holy Crap, I got about 45 minutes into setting up billing and just gave up and un-did everything.

Hint: If you want to put a spending Limit on your google cloud account, its not trivial.

I will say that Stability AI is similar to Claude, they will just let you buy credits and hit an API.