AI Image Generation for Australian Small Business: What It Costs and Where It Actually Helps

Ask a small business owner about AI image tools and you will usually get one of two answers: either they tried a free tier once and forgot about it, or they assume it is expensive enterprise software.Both assumptions are now wrong, and the gap between them is where a genuinely useful and quite cheap capability sits unused.
What Changed
The shift was not in the models — it was in how they are sold. Image generation is now billed per image, in fractions of a cent to a few tens of cents depen