Is the dearer model worth it? 2.0 mini against 2.0 fast

No, not for this defect. Both tiers turn our bottle into a plain blue one the moment it is in motion being sprayed, in the same shot, at the same second. That was the only reason to pay more. 2.0 fast costs $0.091 a second against mini's $0.0675, which is 1.35x for a defect it does not fix.

The same 15 seconds of video 04, same source, same prompt, same two reference images, reviewed by the same QA model. 2.0 fast caps its input at 15 seconds, so that is the whole of what one pass can do.

2.0 mini — $0.0675/s
2 fatal · 1 major
2.0 fast — $0.091/s
1 fatal · 2 major · 1 minor

What each one was marked down for

Defect2.0 mini2.0 fast
Our bottle becomes a plain blue one while being sprayed fatal at 8.0sfatal at 9s
Stylist's gold bracelet jumps to the other hand major at 2.0smajor at 2s
Hair is already wet and smooth before any spray fatal at 5.7smajor at 9s
Distorted fingers on a fast-moving hand —minor at 4s

Reading it honestly. The one-fatal gap is the hair jump, which both tiers contain and which the reviewer simply graded differently on the two files — that jump is the donor's own hard cut and is present in the untouched original. The two defects that matter, the bottle and the bracelet, appear in both at the same second. The product failure is not a question of tier. It happens where the bottle is blurred and changing silhouette in a moving hand, which leaves the model nothing stable to repaint. The fix that follows from this is dedicated product footage to cut to, rather than a dearer model to repaint a blur. Verdicts are in qa/.