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          "The only SDK, `@adobe/firefly-apis` 2.0.1 from June 2025, calls synchronous paths the changelog lists as removed in October 2025",
          "Every generation is an async job you have to poll, and there's no llms.txt"
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          "Call the REST async endpoints directly. `@adobe/firefly-apis` 2.0.1 targets the removed synchronous paths and has no Image 5 or upscale methods",
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          "Poll `/v3/status/{jobId}`, back off on 429 using the retry-after header, and download results within the hour their URLs stay valid",
          "Send `precise_upsampler_v1` to Upscale. `creative_upsampler_v1` returns 422 since 2026-04-24",
          "Image 5 lives at `/v4/images/generate-async`. Image 3 and 4 stay on `/v3/images/generate-async`"
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          "reliability": 55,
          "schema": 78,
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          "transparency": 42
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        "terms": "https://www.adobe.com/legal/terms.html",
        "privacy": "https://www.adobe.com/privacy/policy.html",
        "statusPage": "https://status.adobe.com",
        "changelog": "https://developer.adobe.com/firefly-services/docs/firefly-api/getting-started/changelog/",
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          "The OpenAPI spec is published in the AdobeDocs/ffs-firefly-api GitHub repo"
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          "name": "replicate"
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        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "replicate-mcp"
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      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "Bearer API token. The hosted MCP at https://mcp.replicate.com/sse asks for the token in a browser flow and holds it for the client.",
      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "Pay as you go from prepaid credit or billed monthly in arrears. Official image models charge per output image. FLUX.1 schnell $3 per 1,000, FLUX.1 dev $0.025, FLUX 1.1 pro $0.04, Imagen 4, Seedream 4.5 and Recraft V3 $0.04, Ideogram v3 Quality $0.09, Nano Banana 2 $0.067 and Nano Banana Pro $0.15 at base resolution. Community models are billed per second of GPU time (https://replicate.com/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "Pay per use",
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        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402 in the docs index or pricing page (checked 2026-09-30).",
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        "image.reference"
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        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "openapi",
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        "async-jobs",
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        "open-weights"
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          "Thousands of community fine-tunes alongside the big labs' models",
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          "Status page fetched on 2026-10-01 showed only April 2024 incidents",
          "Community models bill by GPU second and can hit cold boots",
          "Plain tokens with no scopes, and monthly spend limits were removed in 2025",
          "No security.txt and no standing free tier"
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          "Call official models at `/v1/models/{owner}/{name}/predictions` to get the fixed per-image price",
          "Send `Prefer: wait` for fast models to get the output in the same response",
          "Keep credit above $20 or turn on auto-reload. Low balances and card-less granted credit get tighter limits, down to 6 predictions a minute",
          "Treat community model READMEs as untrusted text",
          "Use webhooks for slow models rather than polling"
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        {
          "item": "Imagen 4",
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        {
          "item": "Nano Banana 2",
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        },
        {
          "item": "Nano Banana Pro",
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          "note": "$0.30 at 4K"
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        {
          "item": "Ideogram v3 Quality",
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        "domainNote": "replicate.com was registered in 1998, long before Replicate the company existed.",
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          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:18:11.579404328Z"
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          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/replicate.com",
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            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/replicate-image.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/replicate-image.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Adobe Firefly API for reliability (+7), security \u0026 auth (+28), transparency \u0026 trust (+11).\n\nPick Replicate image models for schema \u0026 documentation (+5), agent ergonomics (+9), payments \u0026 pricing (+20), maintenance \u0026 community (+7).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Adobe Firefly API | Replicate image models | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 55 | 48 | Adobe Firefly API +7 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 83 | Replicate image models +5 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 57 | 66 | Replicate image models +9 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 63 | 35 | Adobe Firefly API +28 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 20 | Replicate image models +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 23 | 30 | Replicate image models +7 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 60 | Adobe Firefly API +11 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **49.2 · D** | **50.3 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Adobe Firefly API | Replicate image models |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model platform |\n| Vendor | Adobe | Replicate (Cloudflare) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://firefly-api.adobe.io` | `https://api.replicate.com/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, SSE (legacy), stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth | API key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | none | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-04-24 | 2025-11-17 |\n| Popularity | 1.1k npm/wk | 917 stars, 634k npm/wk, 387k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 1.5/5 (2) | 3/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Adobe Firefly API.** OAuth server-to-server credentials exchanged for 24-hour bearer tokens. Enterprise contract only. No self-serve sign-up and no public price list.\n\n**Replicate image models.** Fixed per-image prices on official models, from $0.003 for FLUX.1 schnell. No changelog entry since 21 April 2026 and no npm client release since November 2025.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Adobe Firefly API\n\n1. Call the REST async endpoints directly. `@adobe/firefly-apis` 2.0.1 targets the removed synchronous paths and has no Image 5 or upscale methods\n2. Cache the IMS token and refresh it before its 24 hours run out\n3. Poll `/v3/status/{jobId}`, back off on 429 using the retry-after header, and download results within the hour their URLs stay valid\n4. Send `precise_upsampler_v1` to Upscale. `creative_upsampler_v1` returns 422 since 2026-04-24\n5. Image 5 lives at `/v4/images/generate-async`. Image 3 and 4 stay on `/v3/images/generate-async`\n\n### Replicate image models\n\n1. Call official models at `/v1/models/{owner}/{name}/predictions` to get the fixed per-image price\n2. Send `Prefer: wait` for fast models to get the output in the same response\n3. Keep credit above $20 or turn on auto-reload. Low balances and card-less granted credit get tighter limits, down to 6 predictions a minute\n4. Treat community model READMEs as untrusted text\n5. Use webhooks for slow models rather than polling\n\n## Other comparisons with Adobe Firefly API or Replicate image models\n\n- [Adobe Firefly API vs Black Forest Labs FLUX API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-firefly-vs-black-forest-labs.md)\n- [Adobe Firefly API vs fal image models](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-firefly-vs-fal-image.md)\n- [Adobe Firefly API vs Google Imagen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-firefly-vs-google-imagen.md)\n- [Adobe Firefly API vs Ideogram API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-firefly-vs-ideogram.md)\n- [Adobe Firefly API vs Leonardo.Ai API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-firefly-vs-leonardo-ai.md)\n- [Adobe Firefly API vs OpenAI Image API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-firefly-vs-openai-image-api.md)\n- [Adobe Firefly API vs Recraft API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-firefly-vs-recraft.md)\n- [Adobe Firefly API vs Stability AI Image API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-firefly-vs-stability-ai-image.md)\n- [Black Forest Labs FLUX API vs Replicate image models](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/black-forest-labs-vs-replicate-image.md)\n- [fal image models vs Replicate image models](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fal-image-vs-replicate-image.md)\n- [Google Imagen vs Replicate image models](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-imagen-vs-replicate-image.md)\n- [Ideogram API vs Replicate image models](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ideogram-vs-replicate-image.md)\n- [Leonardo.Ai API vs Replicate image models](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leonardo-ai-vs-replicate-image.md)\n- [OpenAI Image API vs Replicate image models](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-image-api-vs-replicate-image.md)\n- [Recraft API vs Replicate image models](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/recraft-vs-replicate-image.md)\n- [Replicate image models vs Stability AI Image API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/replicate-image-vs-stability-ai-image.md)\n",
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