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      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/iris-3b",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/iris-3b.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/iris-3b.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/iris-3b.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/speridlabs/iris-3b",
      "license": "Apache-2.0 (code and weights)",
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      "packages": [],
      "auth": "none",
      "authNotes": "No account or key. Weights download from a public, ungated Hugging Face repository, and the frozen Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct text encoder downloads from its publisher on the first run. The software opens no network service.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free under Apache-2.0 with nothing to buy. Speridlabs has no hosted API or paid plan. The owner pays for an NVIDIA GPU. The demo Spaces run on Hugging Face ZeroGPU.",
      "priceSummary": "Free · OSS",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the repository, the model card or the project page (checked 2026-10-15). There is no paid tier or hosted endpoint.",
        "endpoints": []
      },
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        "githubStars": 175,
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        "pypiWeekly": null,
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        "image.generate",
        "image.upscale"
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        "model",
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        "graded": true,
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        "agentReady": false,
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        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1094,
        "categoryRank": 8,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "maintenance": 70,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 45,
          "schema": 47,
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          "transparency": 47
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
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          "confidence": "medium",
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        "verdict": "Code and weights are Apache-2.0, and one Python package runs text-to-image, a 4-step Turbo, depth and 4x restoration from a documented CLI. It is ten days old, with no PyPI package, version tags, changelog or CI, needs an NVIDIA GPU and about 12 GB of weights, and has no server or API of its own.",
        "bestFor": "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.",
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          "Code, training recipe and all four checkpoints are under Apache-2.0, with a NOTICE file and a table of third-party licences",
          "One CLI, `scripts/sample.py`, with typed flags and documented defaults (1024x1024, 100 steps, CFG 3), plus Python classes for depth and restoration",
          "Turbo samples a 1024x1024 image in 4 steps, which the vendor times at about 0.7 s on one H100 at batch 4",
          "Released weights are safetensors, and a published benchmark table covers GenEval, DPG-Bench, LongText-Bench and OneIG-Bench",
          "Three dated weight releases in eight days (5, 8 and 12 October 2026), and two outside pull requests merged within two days"
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          "No package on PyPI, no version tags, no changelog and no CI workflow. Install is a git clone and `pip install -e .`",
          "Needs an NVIDIA GPU with CUDA. All three models together take about 45 GB of GPU memory, or about 20 GB peak with offloading",
          "No HTTP server, OpenAPI or MCP interface. The only hosted route is the Gradio demo Spaces on Hugging Face ZeroGPU",
          "No safety filter in the code, no SECURITY.md or security.txt, and no privacy or terms pages on speridlabs.com",
          "Training defaults to reporting runs to Weights \u0026 Biases (`report_to: wandb`), which the README doesn't mention"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Check for an NVIDIA GPU with CUDA and Python 3.11 or newer before downloading. The base weights are about 12 GB, and Qwen3-VL-4B downloads on the first run",
          "Exclude `depth/*`, `upscaler/*` and `turbo/*` in `hf download` unless those models are needed. Each of the first two adds about 12 GB",
          "Don't pass `--steps`, `--cfg-scale`, `--negative-prompt`, `--order` or `--shift` with a Turbo checkpoint. The script exits with an error",
          "Pass `--seed` to reproduce an image, and set `--outdir`, since files are named after the prompt and a repeat run overwrites them",
          "Load only exported directories (`model.safetensors` and `config.yaml`). A training `.pth` is read with `torch.load(weights_only=False)`, so never load one from an untrusted source"
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        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
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        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
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            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "D",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
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            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
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        ],
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          "maintenance": 70,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 45,
          "schema": 47,
          "security": 44,
          "transparency": 50
        },
        "provenanceScore": 44
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "git clone https://github.com/speridlabs/iris-3b.git \u0026\u0026 cd iris-3b \u0026\u0026 pip install -e .\nhf download speridlabs/iris-3b --local-dir iris-3b --exclude \"depth/*\" \"upscaler/*\" \"turbo/*\"\npython scripts/sample.py --checkpoint iris-3b --prompt \"a red fox sleeping in fresh snow, golden hour\""
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      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/image.generate",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/iris-3b"
      },
      "area": "content",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Speridlabs",
        "domain": "speridlabs.com",
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        "terms": "",
        "privacy": "",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-15",
        "notes": [
          "The NOTICE file reads Copyright 2026 Speridlabs. The site's schema.org data names the organisation Sperid Labs, founded 2024, with contact@speridlabs.com. No registered company name or address was found on speridlabs.com.",
          "RDAP at Verisign gives a registration date of 2025-02-25 for speridlabs.com.",
          "speridlabs.com has no terms or privacy page. /privacy, /terms, /legal and /privacy-policy returned 404 on 15 October 2026, and the sitemap lists none. The Apache-2.0 licence stands in for terms for the code and weights.",
          "speridlabs.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 15 October 2026. The repository has no SECURITY.md.",
          "No changelog, release notes or tags. Dated commits on GitHub and on the Hugging Face model repository are the only record of changes.",
          "Software the owner runs, so there is no vendor endpoint or status page. The demo Spaces run on Hugging Face infrastructure."
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        "score": 44
      },
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      "slug": "recraft",
      "name": "Recraft API",
      "vendor": "Recraft",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.recraft.ai",
      "kind": "model",
      "category": "image-generation",
      "summary": "Recraft's own image models (V2, V3, V4, V4.1, V4.1 Flash and V4 Styles) behind an OpenAI-compatible REST API.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/recraft",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/recraft.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/recraft.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/recraft.json",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http"
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      "remoteUrl": "https://external.api.recraft.ai/v1",
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Bearer API token for the REST API, created in the Recraft profile. The hosted MCP server at https://mcp.recraft.ai/mcp uses OAuth 2.0 and bills the Studio subscription credits, not API units.",
      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "Prepaid API units at $1 per 1,000 units, non-refundable and non-expiring. V4.1 Flash $0.007 an image, V4.1 and V4.1 Utility $0.035, V4.1 Pro $0.21, V4 $0.04, V4 Pro $0.25, V3 $0.04, V2 $0.022. Vector output costs more (V4.1 Vector $0.08, V4.1 Pro Vector $0.30). Vectorise and background removal $0.01 a request, crisp upscale $0.004, creative upscale $0.25 (https://www.recraft.ai/docs/api-reference/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "$0.004 / call",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402 in the API docs or pricing page (checked 2026-09-30).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
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        "pypiWeekly": null,
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        "image.generate",
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        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
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        "bestFor": "Logos, icons and brand-consistent graphics where SVG matters.",
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          "Native SVG vector generation, not traced raster",
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          "OpenAI-compatible endpoints, so OpenAI SDKs work with a new base URL",
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          "No incidents on the status page in August or September 2026"
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          "No changelog and no error reference",
          "security.txt expired on 2025-11-11, no bug bounty or certification found",
          "Result URLs are public to anyone holding the link for about 24 hours",
          "No free API allowance, and the hosted MCP bills Studio credits, not API units",
          "No 429 or backoff guidance"
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        "agentNotes": [
          "Use `/v1/images/generations/vector` when the task must return SVG, so the server rejects raster models",
          "Ask for `b64_json` or `multipart` if you can't fetch the URL within a day",
          "Name `recraftv4_1_flash` for drafts at $0.007. The default `recraftv4_1` costs $0.035",
          "Stay under 100 images a minute and 5 requests a second per user",
          "Point the OpenAI SDK at `https://external.api.recraft.ai/v1`, but expect some parameters to be ignored"
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          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
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          "reliability": 70,
          "schema": 64,
          "security": 30,
          "transparency": 45
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        "provenanceScore": 72
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        "http": "curl -X POST https://external.api.recraft.ai/v1/images/generations \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer $RECRAFT_API_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"prompt\":\"race car on a track\"}'",
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          "item": "Recraft V4.1 Flash",
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          "item": "Recraft V4.1 Pro",
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          "item": "Recraft V4.1 Vector",
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          "item": "Recraft V3",
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          "item": "Crisp upscale",
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        "privacy": "https://www.recraft.ai/legal/privacy",
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          "status.recraft.ai redirects to recraft.instatus.com",
          "The Swagger UI at https://external.api.recraft.ai/doc/ didn't expose a spec URL we could fetch"
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        "a": "Speridlabs",
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      {
        "a": "no (local only)",
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        "a": "",
        "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP",
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      {
        "a": "None",
        "b": "OAuth or key",
        "name": "Auth"
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      {
        "a": "Free",
        "b": "Pay per use",
        "name": "Pricing"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "x402"
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      {
        "a": "Apache-2.0 (code and weights)",
        "b": "none",
        "name": "Licence"
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      {
        "a": "none",
        "b": "9",
        "name": "Tools exposed"
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      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "Read-only variant documented"
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      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "llms.txt"
      },
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        "a": "2026-10-12",
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        "name": "Last release"
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        "a": "no document linked",
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        "name": "Terms last updated"
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      {
        "a": "no document linked",
        "b": "2026-03-12",
        "name": "Privacy policy last updated"
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      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "yes, with an opt-out",
        "name": "Customer content may train models"
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      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "Terms restrict automated access"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "not found in the text",
        "name": "Terms or service can change without notice"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver"
      },
      {
        "a": "175 stars",
        "b": "none",
        "name": "Popularity"
      },
      {
        "a": "none",
        "b": "3.5/5 (2)",
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      {
        "answer": "Recraft API scores 52.8 (D) on agent readiness against Iris-3B's 50.9 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Iris-3B leads on security \u0026 auth, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.",
        "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Iris-3B or Recraft API?"
      },
      {
        "answer": "Iris-3B needs no key. Recraft API takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.",
        "question": "Do Iris-3B and Recraft API need an API key?"
      },
      {
        "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Iris-3B. Recraft API has a hosted endpoint at https://external.api.recraft.ai/v1.",
        "question": "Can an agent call Iris-3B and Recraft API without installing anything?"
      },
      {
        "answer": "Iris-3B is open source (Apache-2.0 (code and weights)). No open-source release is listed for Recraft API.",
        "question": "Are Iris-3B and Recraft API open source?"
      }
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          "Security \u0026 auth, 44 against 30",
          "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 30",
          "Maintenance \u0026 community, 70 against 48"
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/recraft.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/recraft.json\n- Best image generation for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/image-generation/index.md\n- All 91 image comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/image-generation/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Iris-3B (D)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 44 against 30\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 70 against 48\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Free to start without a card\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: No package on PyPI, no version tags, no changelog and no CI workflow. Install is a git clone and `pip install -e .`\n\n### Recraft API (D)\n\nGood for: Logos, icons and brand-consistent graphics where SVG matters.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 70 against 45\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 64 against 47\n- Agent ergonomics, 62 against 54\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 59 against 47\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: No changelog and no error reference\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Iris-3B | Recraft API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 45 | 70 | Recraft API +25 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 47 | 64 | Recraft API +17 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 54 | 62 | Recraft API +8 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 44 | 30 | Iris-3B +14 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 30 | Iris-3B +30 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 48 | Iris-3B +22 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 47 | 59 | Recraft API +12 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **50.9 · D** | **52.8 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Iris-3B | Recraft API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model API |\n| Vendor | Speridlabs | Recraft |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://external.api.recraft.ai/v1` |\n| Transports |  | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | None | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 (code and weights) | none |\n| Tools exposed | none | 9 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-12 | none |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-08-11 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-03-12 |\n| Customer content may train models |  | yes, with an opt-out |\n| Terms restrict automated access |  | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |\n| Popularity | 175 stars | none |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Iris-3B.** Code and weights are Apache-2.0, and one Python package runs text-to-image, a 4-step Turbo, depth and 4x restoration from a documented CLI. It is ten days old, with no PyPI package, version tags, changelog or CI, needs an NVIDIA GPU and about 12 GB of weights, and has no server or API of its own.\n\n**Recraft API.** Native SVG vector generation, not traced raster. No changelog and no error reference.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Iris-3B\n\n1. Check for an NVIDIA GPU with CUDA and Python 3.11 or newer before downloading. The base weights are about 12 GB, and Qwen3-VL-4B downloads on the first run\n2. Exclude `depth/*`, `upscaler/*` and `turbo/*` in `hf download` unless those models are needed. Each of the first two adds about 12 GB\n3. Don't pass `--steps`, `--cfg-scale`, `--negative-prompt`, `--order` or `--shift` with a Turbo checkpoint. The script exits with an error\n4. Pass `--seed` to reproduce an image, and set `--outdir`, since files are named after the prompt and a repeat run overwrites them\n5. Load only exported directories (`model.safetensors` and `config.yaml`). A training `.pth` is read with `torch.load(weights_only=False)`, so never load one from an untrusted source\n\n### Recraft API\n\n1. Use `/v1/images/generations/vector` when the task must return SVG, so the server rejects raster models\n2. Ask for `b64_json` or `multipart` if you can't fetch the URL within a day\n3. Name `recraftv4_1_flash` for drafts at $0.007. The default `recraftv4_1` costs $0.035\n4. Stay under 100 images a minute and 5 requests a second per user\n5. Point the OpenAI SDK at `https://external.api.recraft.ai/v1`, but expect some parameters to be ignored\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Iris-3B or Recraft API?\n\nRecraft API scores 52.8 (D) on agent readiness against Iris-3B's 50.9 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Iris-3B leads on security \u0026 auth, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Iris-3B and Recraft API need an API key?\n\nIris-3B needs no key. 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