49/month is the price to make more money with less resources. Your competition also can sell at 5usd/1000 images because most users generate 10, 100 images. But

49/month is the price to make more money with less resources. Your competition also can sell at 5usd/1000 images because most users generate 10, 100 images. But the real cost is to keep 10 customers happy in place of 1.