I Switched from Replicate to NexaAPI and Cut My AI API Bill by 50%

Last year, my startup's AI API bill hit $800/month. We were running Flux and Stable Diffusion via Replicate for our image generation feature. The product was working, but the margins were getting squeezed. Then I found NexaAPI. Here's what happened. The Problem with Replicate (for Production) Don't get me wrong — Replicate is great for prototyping. The community model catalog is huge, and the DX is solid. But when you're running thousands of requests per day: GPU-second billing is unpredictable. You can estimate, but you can't know exactly what 10,000 image generations will cost until the bill arrives. Cold starts hurt. Less popular models can take 10–30 seconds to warm up. No video or audio. If you want Kling or ElevenLabs, you need separate accounts and API keys. Enter NexaAPI NexaAPI is an inference aggregator on RapidAPI. They've curated 56 production-grade AI models — image, video, and audio — and made them all accessible with a single API key. The pricing is fixed per request (no