# FLORA vs Iris-3B (slim)

> FLORA scores 64.8 (B) to Iris-3B's 55 (C) for image generation. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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FLORA scores 64.8 (B) on agent readiness against Iris-3B's 55 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Iris-3B leads on payments & pricing. Both do image generation.

- FLORA: B 64.8, rank #555 of 1524 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/flora.min.md
- Iris-3B: C 55, rank #977 of 1524 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/iris-3b.min.md
- FLORA, good for Agents working for a design or brand team that already uses FLORA, generating batches of images and clips across many hosted models into the team's canvases and Techniques, with a dollar quote before each spend and the results left where people review and comment on them. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 79 against 47; Agent ergonomics, 68 against 54; Security & auth, 68 against 44; Maintenance & community, 83 against 70; Transparency & trust, 68 against 52. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- Iris-3B, good for An agent on a machine with a CUDA GPU that needs Apache-2.0 image generation, relative depth or 4x restoration without a vendor account. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 90 against 53. Also No key needed to call it; Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | FLORA | Iris-3B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 46 | 45 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 79 | 47 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 68 | 54 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 44 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 53 | 90 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 83 | 70 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 68 | 52 |

| Fact (where they differ) | FLORA | Iris-3B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Model API |
| Vendor | FLORA | Speridlabs |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://agents.flora.ai/mcp` | no (local only) |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP, HTTP |  |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under FLORA's terms of service (updated 17 November 2025), which give the user all rights in output. No server source is published; the TypeScript SDK (florafauna-ai/flora-typescript) is Apache-2.0 and the skills and plugin repository (florafauna-ai/flora-mcp-skills) is MIT | Apache-2.0 (code and weights) |
| Tools exposed | 59 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| MCP registry | `ai.flora/flora` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-23 | 2026-10-12 |
| Terms last updated | not read yet | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | not read yet | no document linked |
| Popularity | 157 npm/wk | 175 stars |

Why the edge:
- Payments & pricing, Iris-3B +37: FLORA 53 (No x402, MPP or L402 (0).); Iris-3B 90 (Free Apache-2.0 software with nothing to buy, so 20 + 20 + 20 for pricing, free use and no sign-up.)
- Schema & documentation, FLORA +32: FLORA 79 (Platform with an MCP server and an API, read with the API and MCP lines.); Iris-3B 47 (Read for a model the owner runs through a CLI and a Python package.)
- Security & auth, FLORA +24: FLORA 68 (OAuth with the authorisation code grant, PKCE (the metadata lists plain and S256, the docs S256), dynamic client registration, refresh tokens and revocation at…); Iris-3B 44 (Read as software the owner runs.)
- Transparency & trust, FLORA +16: FLORA 68 (Closed service under terms of service (17 November 2025) that name FLORA AND FAUNA FLOWERSHOP, INC., give the user all rights in output and limit FLORA's licenc…); Iris-3B 52 (Apache-2.0 for code and weights, with a NOTICE file, a third-party licence table and the full training and distillation recipe.)
- Agent ergonomics, FLORA +14: FLORA 68 (MCP reading for context cost.); Iris-3B 54 (Read as a local image model an agent calls through the CLI or Python.)
- Maintenance & community, FLORA +13: FLORA 83 (Closed service with a dated changelog.); Iris-3B 70 (Read for an open-weight model first released on 5 October 2026. The newest change is a merged demo fix on 15 October 2026 (a clone on 4 November shows no later…)