About the author

Aditya Bawankule

AI engineer, Seattle. Maker of Dream Pixel Forge.

I build AI-native products and open-source tools, from GenAI apps to MCP servers. Every guide on this blog is written from a stack I keep running in production, not from a spec sheet.

AI engineer

Seattle, WA

Previously at Meta

I write the model comparisons here because I run these models every day, on work where a bad output costs me something. Dream Pixel Forge is mine end to end, so when a new image or video model ships I put it through the same pipeline my own businesses depend on before I write a word about it.

Two of those businesses are why the details matter to me. I run an affiliate marketing website with over 250,000 monthly visitors, where AI image generation is a core part of how the business operates rather than an experiment on the side. I also own an Etsy store with over 200 sales in which every design and every product mockup is generated rather than photographed.

That mix, a high-traffic content site and a small product business sitting on top of the generation stack I built, is where these guides come from. If a model is slow, drifts across a character sheet, or mangles text on a mockup, I have usually hit it on a real deadline before it shows up in a post here.

Corrections and disagreements are welcome. If something in a guide no longer matches how a model behaves, tell me and I will retest it and update the post.

Where the experience comes from

  • 250k+

    monthly visitors

    An affiliate marketing site I own and run, where AI image generation is not a garnish but a core part of how the content gets made.

  • 200+

    Etsy sales

    A store where every design and every product mockup is AI-generated, which is where I learn what these models do to type, texture, and print.

  • Daily

    models in production

    Dream Pixel Forge is my own engineering: the provider router, the credit ledger, and the agent that plans a run and checks its own output.

Elsewhere

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