At 5usd for 100 operations, that thousand dollar gpu will break even very swiftly.
I used 5000 or more runs when I was learning to use stable diffusion.
In a commercial context, staff training alone will pay for the cards
My thoughts exactly. I did some guesstimates last month, the experimentation and playing I've done with my 3090 so far would have cost somewhere around $7k on the metered OPC options.