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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": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 175, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-15" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/speridlabs/iris-3b", "capabilities": [ "image.generate", "image.upscale" ], "tags": [ "model", "open-source", "open-weights", "self-hosted", "local", "free", "no-card", "apache-2.0", "python", "gpu", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-12", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 50.9, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 826, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1094, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 54, "maintenance": 70, "payments": 60, "reliability": 45, "schema": 47, "security": 44, "transparency": 47 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-15" }, "negative": 0, "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.", "strengths": [ "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" ], "weaknesses": [ "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" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 50.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 54, "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\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/image.generate", "tool": "https://letme.dev/iris-3b" }, "area": "content", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Speridlabs", "domain": "speridlabs.com", "domainRegistered": "2025-02-25", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "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." ], "score": 44 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/iris-3b.json" }, "answer": "Iris-3B and Replicate image models score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 50.9 (D) and 50.2 (D). Replicate image models leads on schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "replicate-image", "name": "Replicate image models", "vendor": "Replicate (Cloudflare)", "vendorUrl": "https://replicate.com", "kind": "platform", "category": "image-generation", "summary": "Model platform running official and community image models through one predictions API.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/replicate-image", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/replicate-image.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/replicate-image.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/replicate-image.json", "repo": "https://github.com/replicate/replicate-python", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "http", "sse", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.replicate.com/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "replicate" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "replicate" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "replicate-mcp" } ], "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", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 in the docs index or pricing page (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 917, "npmWeekly": 634116, "pypiWeekly": 386704, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://replicate.com/docs", "llmsTxt": "https://replicate.com/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://api.replicate.com/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "image.generate", "image.edit", "image.upscale", "image.vector", "image.reference" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "model-platform", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "python", "typescript", "async-jobs", "webhooks", "open-weights" ], "lastRelease": "2025-11-17", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 50.2, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 840, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1094, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 30, "payments": 20, "reliability": 48, "schema": 83, "security": 35, "transparency": 59 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "Best when an agent needs a specific community fine-tune or LoRA, or a broad catalogue on one token.", "strengths": [ "Fixed per-image prices on official models, from $0.003 for FLUX.1 schnell", "Thousands of community fine-tunes alongside the big labs' models", "OpenAPI spec plus a typed input schema for every model", "`Prefer: wait` returns short jobs in one call, webhooks cover slow ones", "Published rate limits, 600 predictions a minute" ], "weaknesses": [ "No changelog entry since 21 April 2026 and no npm client release since November 2025", "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" ], "agentNotes": [ "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. 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Replicate image models leads on schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Iris-3B or Replicate image models?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Iris-3B. Replicate image models has a hosted endpoint at https://api.replicate.com/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call Iris-3B and Replicate image models without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "Iris-3B is open source (Apache-2.0 (code and weights)). 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Install is a git clone and `pip install -e .`" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 83 against 47", "Agent ergonomics, 66 against 54", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 59 against 47" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "Runs on your own machine" ], "goodFor": "Best when an agent needs a specific community fine-tune or LoRA, or a broad catalogue on one token.", "slug": "replicate-image", "watchFor": "No changelog entry since 21 April 2026 and no npm client release since November 2025" } ], "job": { "capability": "image.generate", "name": "Image generation" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-firefly-vs-iris-3b.json", "title": "Adobe Firefly API vs Iris-3B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-firefly-vs-iris-3b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-firefly-vs-replicate-image.json", "title": "Adobe Firefly API vs Replicate image models", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-firefly-vs-replicate-image" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/black-forest-labs-vs-iris-3b.json", "title": "Black Forest Labs FLUX API vs Iris-3B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/black-forest-labs-vs-iris-3b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/black-forest-labs-vs-replicate-image.json", "title": "Black Forest Labs FLUX API vs Replicate image models", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/black-forest-labs-vs-replicate-image" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bria-vs-iris-3b.json", "title": "Bria API vs Iris-3B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bria-vs-iris-3b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bria-vs-replicate-image.json", "title": "Bria API vs Replicate image models", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bria-vs-replicate-image" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fal-image-vs-iris-3b.json", 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ideogram-vs-replicate-image.json", "title": "Ideogram API vs Replicate image models", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ideogram-vs-replicate-image" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/iris-3b-vs-leonardo-ai.json", "title": "Iris-3B vs Leonardo.Ai API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/iris-3b-vs-leonardo-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/iris-3b-vs-openai-image-api.json", "title": "Iris-3B vs OpenAI Image API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/iris-3b-vs-openai-image-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/iris-3b-vs-qwen-image-2-1.json", "title": "Iris-3B vs Qwen-Image 2.1 (Model Studio)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/iris-3b-vs-qwen-image-2-1" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/iris-3b-vs-recraft.json", "title": "Iris-3B vs Recraft API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/iris-3b-vs-recraft" }, { 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"replicate-image", "iris-3b": 45, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "replicate-image": 48, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 36, "edge": "replicate-image", "iris-3b": 47, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "replicate-image": 83, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 12, "edge": "replicate-image", "iris-3b": 54, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "replicate-image": 66, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 9, "edge": "iris-3b", "iris-3b": 44, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "replicate-image": 35, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 40, "edge": "iris-3b", "iris-3b": 60, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "replicate-image": 20, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 40, "edge": "iris-3b", "iris-3b": 70, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "replicate-image": 30, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 12, "edge": "replicate-image", "iris-3b": 47, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "replicate-image": 59, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Iris-3B and Replicate image models score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 50.9 (D) and 50.2 (D). Replicate image models leads on schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do image generation.", "verdicts": { "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.", "replicate-image": "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." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/iris-3b-vs-replicate-image", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/iris-3b-vs-replicate-image.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/iris-3b-vs-replicate-image.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/iris-3b-vs-replicate-image.min.md" }, "markdown": "Iris-3B and Replicate image models score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 50.9 (D) and 50.2 (D). Replicate image models leads on schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do image generation.\n\n- Iris-3B: grade D, 50.9/100, rank #826 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/iris-3b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/iris-3b.json\n- Replicate image models: grade D, 50.2/100, rank #840 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/replicate-image.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/replicate-image.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 35\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 70 against 30\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### Replicate image models (D)\n\nGood for: Best when an agent needs a specific community fine-tune or LoRA, or a broad catalogue on one token.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 83 against 47\n- Agent ergonomics, 66 against 54\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 59 against 47\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: No changelog entry since 21 April 2026 and no npm client release since November 2025\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Iris-3B | Replicate image models | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 45 | 48 | Replicate image models +3 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 47 | 83 | Replicate image models +36 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 54 | 66 | Replicate image models +12 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 44 | 35 | Iris-3B +9 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 20 | Iris-3B +40 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 30 | Iris-3B +40 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 47 | 59 | Replicate image models +12 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **50.9 · D** | **50.2 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Iris-3B | Replicate image models |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Platform |\n| Vendor | Speridlabs | Replicate (Cloudflare) |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.replicate.com/v1` |\n| Transports | | HTTP, SSE (legacy), stdio |\n| Auth | None | API key |\n| Pricing | Free | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 (code and weights) | Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-12 | 2025-11-17 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-04-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-04-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | yes |\n| Popularity | 175 stars | 917 stars, 634k npm/wk, 387k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (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**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### 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### 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## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Iris-3B or Replicate image models?\n\nIris-3B and Replicate image models score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 50.9 (D) and 50.2 (D). Replicate image models leads on schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Can an agent call Iris-3B and Replicate image models without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Iris-3B. Replicate image models has a hosted endpoint at https://api.replicate.com/v1.\n\n### Are Iris-3B and Replicate image models open source?\n\nIris-3B is open source (Apache-2.0 (code and weights)). No open-source release is listed for Replicate image models.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/iris-3b-vs-replicate-image.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/iris-3b-vs-replicate-image.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"iris-3b\", \"b\": \"replicate-image\"}`. 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