{ "data": { "a": { "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", "dns": "replicate-image.grade.anchorterminal.com", "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": 50.3, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 955, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1266, "categoryRank": 10, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 30, "payments": 20, "reliability": 48, "schema": 83, "security": 35, "transparency": 60 }, "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. 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" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 50.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 30, "payments": 20, "reliability": 48, "schema": 83, "security": 35, "transparency": 30 }, "provenanceScore": 89, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-01", "maintenance": "2026-10-01", "payments": "2026-10-01", "reliability": "2026-10-01", "schema": "2026-10-01", "security": "2026-10-01", "transparency": "2026-10-01" }, "last": "2026-10-01", "lastMoved": "2026-10-27", "oldest": "2026-10-01", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST https://api.replicate.com/v1/models/black-forest-labs/flux-schnell/predictions \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $REPLICATE_API_TOKEN\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -H \"Prefer: wait\" \\\n -d '{\"input\":{\"prompt\":\"a red fox in fresh snow\"}}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add replicate https://mcp.replicate.com/sse --transport sse --scope user", "config": { "mcpServers": { "replicate": { "args": [ "-y", "replicate-mcp" ], "command": "npx", "env": { "REPLICATE_API_TOKEN": "${REPLICATE_API_TOKEN}" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/image.generate", "tool": "https://letme.dev/replicate-image" }, "sameCompany": [ "replicate-deploy", "replicate-video", "replicate-musicgen" ], "area": "content", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "FLUX.1 schnell", "unit": "image", "usd": 0.003, "note": "$3 per 1,000 output images" }, { "item": "FLUX.1 dev", "unit": "image", "usd": 0.025 }, { "item": "FLUX 1.1 pro", "unit": "image", "usd": 0.04 }, { "item": "Imagen 4", "unit": "image", "usd": 0.04 }, { "item": "Nano Banana 2", "unit": "image", "usd": 0.067, "note": "lowest resolution tier, higher tiers $0.101 and $0.151" }, { "item": "Nano Banana Pro", "unit": "image", "usd": 0.15, "note": "$0.30 at 4K" }, { "item": "Ideogram v3 Quality", "unit": "image", "usd": 0.09 } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Replicate, LLC", "domain": "replicate.com", "domainRegistered": "1998-05-26", "domainNote": "replicate.com was registered in 1998, long before Replicate the company existed.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://replicate.com/terms", "privacy": "https://replicate.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://replicatestatus.com", "changelog": "https://replicate.com/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "replicatestatus.com redirects to Cloudflare's status page filtered to Replicate", "Terms last updated 2026-04-01 name Replicate, LLC as the contracting party" ], "score": 89 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/replicate-image.json", "live": { "slug": "replicate-image", "probe": { "target": "https://api.replicate.com/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-02T15:06:55.441644649Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 173, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 122, "p95ms24h": 201, "samples24h": 249, "samples30d": 8046, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-16", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 256, "ok": 256 }, { "date": "2026-10-19", "probes": 255, "ok": 255 }, { "date": "2026-10-20", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-22", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-23", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-24", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-10-25", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-26", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-27", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-28", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-29", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-30", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-31", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-11-01", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-11-02", "probes": 158, "ok": 158 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://replicatestatus.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T11:56:54.895474605Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "replicate/replicate-python", "version": "1.0.7", "released": "2025-05-27", "seenAt": "2026-11-01T17:29:11.302644489Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "replicate", "version": "1.4.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-01T17:29:09.273921264Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "replicate-mcp", "version": "0.9.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-01T17:29:09.533762743Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "replicate", "version": "1.0.7", "released": "2025-05-27", "seenAt": "2026-11-01T17:29:09.388434833Z" } ], "githubStars": 918, "npmWeekly": 766353, "pypiWeekly": 393521, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://replicate.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T15:42:16.942617923Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://replicate.com/docs/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T15:14:52.074749975Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "replicate.com", "registered": "1998-05-26", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/replicate.com", "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T14:20:16.006565471Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://replicate.com/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-01T13:15:09.837352617Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "490f4836aca3" }, { "url": "https://replicate.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-01T13:15:12.51478587Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "3f1305f154be" }, { "url": "https://replicate.com/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-01T13:15:14.679425963Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "8e299fbc64eb" }, { "url": "https://replicate.com/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-01T13:15:16.203785623Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "ea48efe3382b" } ], "github": { "repo": "replicate/replicate-python", "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T09:21:19.009588043Z", "stars": 918, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2025-08-26T17:18:17Z", "openIssues": 58, "openPRs": 15, "issuesOpened90d": 6, "issuesClosed90d": 3, "prsMerged90d": 0, "replies": { "sampled": 25, "unanswered": 22, "medianDays": 16.9 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-02T15:06:55.441644649Z" } }, "answer": "Replicate image models scores 50.3 (D) on agent readiness against SurgePix API's 36 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. SurgePix API leads on security \u0026 auth and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "surgepix", "name": "SurgePix API", "vendor": "SurgePix", "vendorUrl": "https://surgepix.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "image-generation", "summary": "SurgePix is a web design workspace that generates and edits images, posters and slide decks. A REST API with API keys, async tasks and file upload is called through MIT-licensed agent skills for coding agents.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/surgepix", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/surgepix.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/surgepix.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/surgepix.json", "dns": "surgepix.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/SurgePix/agent-skills", "license": "Proprietary hosted service under the Surgepix User Agreement, which names no company and restricts commercial use without SurgePix's permission. The agent skills repository is MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.surgepix.ai/api", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "An API key starting `sk-`, created and managed in the account's settings on surgepix.ai, sent as the raw value of the `authorization` header with no `Bearer` prefix. The docs say a leaked key can be revoked and reset. No scopes, read-only keys or spend caps were found. The skills read the key from `SURGEPIX_API_KEY` and also need `SURGEPIX_BASE_URL` set to https://api.surgepix.ai/api (https://surgepix.ai/blog/developer-guides/api-keys-reference, https://surgepix.ai/blog/developer-guides/install-skills).", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan with 25 credits a day that don't roll over. Basic is $9.90 a month (2,000 credits) or $95.04 a year, and Pro $24.90 a month (11,500 credits) or $239.04 a year, with introductory prices of $0.99 and $4.99 a month for three months. Credits are spent on input and output tokens, and a failed generation charges the input only. No per-call API price is published, and the changelog says skills calling SurgePix's own models don't use credits (9 July 2026) and that some models are billed per generation (9 September 2026) (https://surgepix.ai/blog/introduction/credit-subscription/plans-pricing, https://surgepix.ai/blog/introduction/credit-subscription/how-credits-work, https://surgepix.ai/blog/whats-new/updates).", "priceSummary": "$9.90 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API reference, the skills, the pricing pages or the terms. Access is by an API key from a browser account, and the privacy policy names Alipay and WeChat Pay for payments (checked 2026-11-02).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-02" }, "docsUrl": "https://surgepix.ai/blog/developer-guides/api-keys-reference", "capabilities": [ "image.generate", "image.edit" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "agent-skills", "async-jobs", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-status-page", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-23", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 36, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1173, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1266, "categoryRank": 14, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 53, "maintenance": 66, "payments": 20, "reliability": 15, "schema": 40, "security": 41, "transparency": 28 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-02" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A small, readable API with async tasks and MIT skill scripts that cover posters, decks, edits and translation. Only background removal is documented, the terms name no company and restrict commercial use and automated querying, and uploaded files become public URLs.", "bestFor": "An agent that needs finished marketing assets, such as posters, slide decks, Xiaohongshu carousels, logos and translated images, as one file from a short request.", "strengths": [ "The API reference gives request tables, JSON examples and an error table for upload, background removal and task polling", "Every task returns one download URL, or one ZIP for a set, so responses stay small", "The MIT skill scripts show the request bodies for 11 undocumented generation and edit endpoints", "Free plan with 25 credits a day, and a failed generation charges only the input tokens", "Dated public changelog with entries on 15, 22 and 23 October 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "Only background removal and upload are in the public API reference, with no OpenAPI file or llms.txt", "No status page, rate limits, 429 guidance or SLA was found", "The terms and privacy policy name no company or address, and the terms restrict commercial use without permission", "Uploaded files become publicly accessible URLs on Tencent Cloud storage in Seoul, and no retention period is given", "No scopes, read-only keys, security.txt or disclosure policy was found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send the key as the raw `authorization` header value, with no `Bearer` prefix", "Don't upload confidential files. The upload flow returns a public URL for every file", "Check `code` in the JSON body as well as the HTTP status, since failures come back as a non-zero `code` with a `msg`", "Poll `GET /tasks/{taskId}` within 24 hours, after which the task returns 404", "Get written permission before using outputs commercially, since the terms restrict commercial use" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 36 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 53, "maintenance": 66, "payments": 20, "reliability": 15, "schema": 40, "security": 41, "transparency": 14 }, "provenanceScore": 41, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-02", "maintenance": "2026-11-02", "payments": "2026-11-02", "reliability": "2026-11-02", "schema": "2026-11-02", "security": "2026-11-02", "transparency": "2026-11-02" }, "last": "2026-11-02", "oldest": "2026-11-02", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "npx skills add SurgePix/agent-skills", "http": "curl --request POST \\\n --url https://api.surgepix.ai/api/tasks/remove-background \\\n --header 'authorization: sk-YOUR_API_KEY' \\\n --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n --data '{\"fileUrl\": \"\u003cURL from the upload flow\u003e\", \"noWait\": true}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/image.generate", "tool": "https://letme.dev/surgepix" }, "area": "content", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Basic plan, 2,000 credits", "unit": "month", "usd": 9.9, "note": "$0.99 a month for the first three months; about 130 image generations a month per the pricing page" }, { "item": "Pro plan, 11,500 credits", "unit": "month", "usd": 24.9, "note": "$4.99 a month for the first three months; about 750 image generations a month per the pricing page" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "surgepix.ai", "domainRegistered": "2025-11-06", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://surgepix.ai/blog/legal/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://surgepix.ai/blog/legal/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://surgepix.ai/blog/whats-new/updates", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-02", "notes": [ "The Surgepix User Agreement names no company or address. It applies the laws of the People's Republic of China, sends disputes to the court where \"Surgepix's limited company\" is located, and refers to users outside mainland China.", "The privacy policy, dated 10 June 2026 at the top and 1 July 2022 near the end, gives the service provider as \"Surgepix.ai\" and says information is stored on \"domestic servers\".", "The contact email on every surgepix.ai page is at tate-a-tate.com. Tate-A-Tate's terms name Torsi Information Technology Co., Ltd. as its provider, and surgepix.ai's footer links Tate-A-Tate and Surgeflow. SurgePix's own pages don't name Torsi.", "RDAP for surgepix.ai gives a registration date of 6 November 2025 through Aceville Pte. Ltd., Cloudflare name servers and a registrant in Beijing, China.", "surgepix.ai/.well-known/security.txt and /security.txt return 404. status.surgepix.ai doesn't resolve and no status page is linked.", "The API answers at api.surgepix.ai under the product's own domain. Uploads and outputs are served from Tencent Cloud Object Storage buckets in ap-seoul." ], "score": 41 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/surgepix.json", "live": { "slug": "surgepix", "probe": { "target": "https://api.surgepix.ai/api", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-02T15:07:00.16742116Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 1202, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 1204, "p95ms24h": 1340, "samples24h": 41, "samples30d": 41, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-02", "probes": 41, "ok": 41 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-02T15:07:00.16742116Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 43, "category": "schema", "leads": "replicate-image", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "OpenAPI spec at api.replicate.com/openapi.json, and every model publishes its own input and output schema (25). llms.txt for the docs (10). Official model pages state what the model does. Community model descriptions vary and rarely say when not to use them (12). Typed per-model inputs with enums and defaults generated from each model's schema (13). Examples on every model page, no error catalogue found in this run (8). Models pinned by version hash and a dated changelog (15).", "b": "No OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract was found (0). surgepix.ai/llms.txt returns 404. The docs are HTML pages, but the 15 SKILL.md files in the MIT repository are Markdown written for agents, so half (5). The API reference states the purpose of each of its five operations and the async and session model. The SKILL.md files add trigger phrases and explicit do-not-use routing between skills, but 11 of the task endpoints the skills call appear only in their scripts, with no reference (10). Parameter tables give type and required for the documented operations, with no enums or limits, and the undocumented endpoints have no schema at all (7). JSON examples for every documented operation and an error table with 401, 404 and `error.file.sensitive_content` (10). A dated public changelog from 11 March 2026, but no version in the API path and no API-specific change notes (8). 0+5+10+7+10+8 = 40." }, "scores": { "a": 83, "b": 40 } }, { "by": 36, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "surgepix", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "The changelog's newest entry is agent skills on 21 April 2026, 163 days ago (10). No dated changelog entries in the last 90 days (0). Public changelog. We didn't check GitHub issue response times in this run (5). The npm client was last published as 1.4.0 on 17 November 2025, and the changelog says the MCP server is discoverable through the official registry (12). replicate-mcp has had no release since June 2025 per the listing (3).", "b": "The last dated change is GPT-Image-2.5 on 23 October 2026, 10 days before the check (30). Changelog entries on 15, 22 and 23 October, 16, 9 and 2 September 2026, more than three in 90 days (20). For a closed service, a dated changelog, a Discord server and a contact email. We didn't open Discord or the GitHub issues, so answering isn't confirmed (8). No official SDK. The skills are maintained client scripts with tags from v1.0.0 (4 June 2026) to v1.5.0 (2 September 2026), a judgement call (5). The repository's CI checks SKILL.md front matter only, with no tests, and the skills aren't published as a package (3). 30+20+8+5+3 = 66." }, "scores": { "a": 30, "b": 66 } }, { "by": 33, "category": "reliability", "leads": "replicate-image", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "replicatestatus.com exists, but when we fetched it the page said all services were online as of 15 April and listed only incidents from April 2024. The listing says it now redirects to Cloudflare's status page filtered to Replicate (10). No readable 90-day history (5). Published limits of 600 create-prediction requests a minute and 3,000 for other endpoints, 6 a minute for accounts with granted credit and no card, and tighter limits as a balance nears zero (15). Over the limit the API returns 429 with a message giving the reset time, about 30 seconds, but no Retry-After header or backoff advice (8). No SLA found (0). GA (10).", "b": "Read with the hosted lines. No status page was found on surgepix.ai or in the docs, and status.surgepix.ai doesn't resolve (0). With no history to read, the incident line takes the floor (5). No rate limits with numbers are documented. The terms say \"non-human continuous or frequent query operations\" lead to automatic account suspension, with no threshold given (0). No 429 or backoff guidance. The skill scripts poll every 2 seconds for up to 5 to 15 minutes, but that is client code, not a documented policy (0). No SLA, and the terms disclaim uninterrupted service (0). The API isn't labelled beta or preview, and API keys have been self-serve since 2 June 2026 per the changelog (10). 0+5+0+0+0+10 = 15." }, "scores": { "a": 48, "b": 15 } }, { "by": 32, "category": "transparency", "leads": "replicate-image", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "Closed platform under terms updated 1 April 2026 naming Replicate, LLC. The clients are Apache-2.0 and each model keeps its own licence (15). The privacy policy (also 1 April 2026) says nothing on how long prediction inputs and outputs are kept or whether customer content trains models (5). Dated deprecations in the changelog, such as the stream parameter in July 2024 and spend limits in July 2025, but no policy on notice for hosted models (10). No subprocessor list or data locations in the privacy policy (0).", "b": "The editorial half. A closed service whose terms name no company or address. They restrict any commercial use of what the service produces without SurgePix's permission, and contain clauses from an unrelated product (a \"big data\" query platform and \"non-resume content\"). The skills are MIT. Unclear terms, with a little credit for the open skills (5). The privacy policy is dated both 10 June 2026 and 1 July 2022, describes WeChat and phone registration and \"domestic servers\", and gives no retention periods. The API reference says uploads go to Tencent Cloud storage in Seoul as public URLs. No DPA. The statements don't agree (5). No deprecation policy or notices, and the terms let changes take effect on publication without notice (0). Tencent Cloud Object Storage in ap-seoul is named in the API reference, and Alipay and WeChat Pay in the privacy policy. No subprocessor list or stated data location (4). 5+5+0+4 = 14." }, "scores": { "a": 60, "b": 28 } }, { "by": 13, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "replicate-image", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "replicate-mcp exposes every HTTP API operation as a tool, more than 30 (5), with a code mode the changelog lists as the way to keep context down (10). Outputs come back as URLs, list endpoints paginate, and `Prefer: wait` returns short jobs in one call (18). Error responses not checked in this run (10). No idempotency key. Webhooks for slow models (8). Official Python and JavaScript clients, few required inputs on official models (15).", "b": "Every task returns one download URL, or one ZIP for an image set, and status responses are a few fields, so little enters context (18). Nothing to paginate. `noWait` chooses sync or async, and the skills pass size, aspect ratio, count and language, but none of these are in the public reference (10). Errors come back as a JSON `code` and `msg`, with 401 and 404 documented and an NSFW error on upload, but a failure can arrive as HTTP 200 with a non-zero `code` and failed task states carry no documented reason (12). Upload deduplicates by MD5 and returns the existing URL. Tasks have no idempotency key, and a retried task is a new task that spends credits again (5). Few required parameters (`fileUrl` for background removal). No official SDK, only the Node scripts inside the skills (8). 18+10+12+5+8 = 53." }, "scores": { "a": 66, "b": 53 } }, { "by": 6, "category": "security", "leads": "surgepix", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "Plain bearer API tokens, no scopes found (20). No read-only or least-privilege mode found, and the changelog shows monthly spend limits were removed in July 2025 (0). The MCP server returns model descriptions and READMEs written by community authors, with no injection guidance found (5). Each prediction is listed with its inputs, outputs and logs on the dashboard and API (10). No security.txt, and no bug bounty or certification found in this run (0).", "b": "Plain API keys created in the account settings, which the docs say can be revoked and reset. The key goes in the `authorization` header, never in a URL. No scopes found (20). No read-only key or spend cap. The plan's credit allowance bounds spend. Every uploaded file becomes a publicly accessible URL on Tencent Cloud storage, which counts against least privilege (3). The API returns image and file URLs, not untrusted text (10). The billing page's credit statement lists each request with its model and token counts, and sessions group calls in the web app, per the docs (8). No security.txt, disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification was found (0). 20+3+10+8+0 = 41." }, "scores": { "a": 35, "b": 41 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "Platform", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Replicate (Cloudflare)", "b": "SurgePix", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.replicate.com/v1", "b": "https://api.surgepix.ai/api", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, SSE (legacy), stdio", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0", "b": "Proprietary hosted service under the Surgepix User Agreement, which names no company and restricts commercial use without SurgePix's permission. The agent skills repository is MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2025-11-17", "b": "2026-10-23", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-04-01", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-04-01", "b": "2026-06-10", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "917 stars, 634k npm/wk, 387k PyPI/wk", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Replicate image models scores 50.3 (D) on agent readiness against SurgePix API's 36 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. SurgePix API leads on security \u0026 auth and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Replicate image models or SurgePix API?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Replicate image models has a hosted endpoint at https://api.replicate.com/v1 and SurgePix API at https://api.surgepix.ai/api.", "question": "Can an agent call Replicate image models and SurgePix API without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 48 against 15", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 83 against 40", "Agent ergonomics, 66 against 53", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 60 against 28" ], "also": [ "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" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 41 against 35", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 66 against 30" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "An agent that needs finished marketing assets, such as posters, slide decks, Xiaohongshu carousels, logos and translated images, as one file from a short request.", "slug": "surgepix", "watchFor": "Only background removal and upload are in the public API reference, with no OpenAPI file or llms.txt" } ], "history": { "replicate-image": [ { "causes": [ "method" ], "date": "2026-10-27", "delta": 0.1, "from": 50.2, "fromGrade": "D", "to": 50.3, "toGrade": "D" }, { "causes": [ "method" ], "date": "2026-10-08", "delta": -0.1, "from": 50.3, "fromGrade": "D", "to": 50.2, "toGrade": "D" } ], "surgepix": null }, "job": { "capability": "image.generate", "name": "Image generation" }, "others": [ { "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/adobe-firefly-vs-surgepix.json", "title": "Adobe Firefly API vs SurgePix API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-firefly-vs-surgepix" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/artcraft-vs-replicate-image.json", "title": "ArtCraft vs Replicate image models", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/artcraft-vs-replicate-image" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/artcraft-vs-surgepix.json", "title": "ArtCraft vs SurgePix API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/artcraft-vs-surgepix" }, { "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/black-forest-labs-vs-surgepix.json", "title": "Black Forest Labs FLUX API vs SurgePix API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/black-forest-labs-vs-surgepix" }, { "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/bria-vs-surgepix.json", "title": "Bria API vs SurgePix API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bria-vs-surgepix" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fal-image-vs-replicate-image.json", "title": "fal image models vs Replicate image models", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fal-image-vs-replicate-image" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fal-image-vs-surgepix.json", "title": "fal image models vs SurgePix API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fal-image-vs-surgepix" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-imagen-vs-replicate-image.json", "title": "Google Imagen vs Replicate image models", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-imagen-vs-replicate-image" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-imagen-vs-surgepix.json", "title": "Google Imagen vs SurgePix API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-imagen-vs-surgepix" }, { "json": "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/ideogram-vs-surgepix.json", "title": "Ideogram API vs SurgePix API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ideogram-vs-surgepix" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/iris-3b-vs-replicate-image.json", "title": "Iris-3B vs Replicate image models", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/iris-3b-vs-replicate-image" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/iris-3b-vs-surgepix.json", "title": "Iris-3B vs SurgePix API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/iris-3b-vs-surgepix" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leonardo-ai-vs-replicate-image.json", "title": "Leonardo.Ai API vs Replicate image models", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leonardo-ai-vs-replicate-image" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leonardo-ai-vs-surgepix.json", "title": "Leonardo.Ai API vs SurgePix API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leonardo-ai-vs-surgepix" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-image-api-vs-replicate-image.json", "title": "OpenAI Image API vs Replicate image models", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-image-api-vs-replicate-image" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-image-api-vs-surgepix.json", "title": "OpenAI Image API vs SurgePix API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-image-api-vs-surgepix" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen-image-2-1-vs-replicate-image.json", "title": "Qwen-Image 2.1 (Model Studio) vs Replicate image models", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen-image-2-1-vs-replicate-image" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen-image-2-1-vs-surgepix.json", "title": "Qwen-Image 2.1 (Model Studio) vs SurgePix API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen-image-2-1-vs-surgepix" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/recraft-vs-replicate-image.json", "title": "Recraft API vs Replicate image models", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/recraft-vs-replicate-image" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/recraft-vs-surgepix.json", "title": "Recraft API vs SurgePix API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/recraft-vs-surgepix" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/replicate-image-vs-seedream-on-byteplus-modelark.json", "title": "Replicate image models vs Seedream on BytePlus ModelArk", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/replicate-image-vs-seedream-on-byteplus-modelark" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/replicate-image-vs-stability-ai-image.json", "title": "Replicate image models vs Stability AI Image API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/replicate-image-vs-stability-ai-image" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/seedream-on-byteplus-modelark-vs-surgepix.json", "title": "Seedream on BytePlus ModelArk vs SurgePix API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/seedream-on-byteplus-modelark-vs-surgepix" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/stability-ai-image-vs-surgepix.json", "title": "Stability AI Image API vs SurgePix API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/stability-ai-image-vs-surgepix" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 33, "edge": "replicate-image", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "replicate-image": 48, "surgepix": 15, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 43, "edge": "replicate-image", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "replicate-image": 83, "surgepix": 40, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 13, "edge": "replicate-image", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "replicate-image": 66, "surgepix": 53, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 6, "edge": "surgepix", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "replicate-image": 35, "surgepix": 41, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "replicate-image": 20, "surgepix": 20, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 36, "edge": "surgepix", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "replicate-image": 30, "surgepix": 66, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 32, "edge": "replicate-image", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "replicate-image": 60, "surgepix": 28, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Replicate image models scores 50.3 (D) on agent readiness against SurgePix API's 36 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. SurgePix API leads on security \u0026 auth and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do image generation.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [ { "title": "Run an image prediction with Replicate", "tool": "replicate-image", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tutorials/replicate-image/" } ], "verdicts": { "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.", "surgepix": "A small, readable API with async tasks and MIT skill scripts that cover posters, decks, edits and translation. Only background removal is documented, the terms name no company and restrict commercial use and automated querying, and uploaded files become public URLs." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/replicate-image-vs-surgepix", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/replicate-image-vs-surgepix.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/replicate-image-vs-surgepix.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/replicate-image-vs-surgepix.min.md" }, "markdown": "Replicate image models scores 50.3 (D) on agent readiness against SurgePix API's 36 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. SurgePix API leads on security \u0026 auth and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do image generation.\n\n- Replicate image models: grade D, 50.3/100, rank #955 of 1266. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/replicate-image.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/replicate-image.json\n- SurgePix API: grade F, 36/100, rank #1173 of 1266. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/surgepix.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/surgepix.json\n- Best image generation for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/image-generation/index.md\n- All 120 image comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/image-generation/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\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- Reliability, 48 against 15\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 83 against 40\n- Agent ergonomics, 66 against 53\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 60 against 28\n\nAlso in its favour:\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### SurgePix API (F)\n\nGood for: An agent that needs finished marketing assets, such as posters, slide decks, Xiaohongshu carousels, logos and translated images, as one file from a short request.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 41 against 35\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 66 against 30\n\nWatch for: Only background removal and upload are in the public API reference, with no OpenAPI file or llms.txt\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Replicate image models +43\n\n- Replicate image models (83): OpenAPI spec at api.replicate.com/openapi.json, and every model publishes its own input and output schema (25). llms.txt for the docs (10). Official model pages state what the model does. Community model descriptions vary and rarely say when not to use them (12). Typed per-model inputs with enums and defaults generated from each model's schema (13). Examples on every model page, no error catalogue found in this run (8). Models pinned by version hash and a dated changelog (15).\n- SurgePix API (40): No OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract was found (0). surgepix.ai/llms.txt returns 404. The docs are HTML pages, but the 15 SKILL.md files in the MIT repository are Markdown written for agents, so half (5). The API reference states the purpose of each of its five operations and the async and session model. The SKILL.md files add trigger phrases and explicit do-not-use routing between skills, but 11 of the task endpoints the skills call appear only in their scripts, with no reference (10). Parameter tables give type and required for the documented operations, with no enums or limits, and the undocumented endpoints have no schema at all (7). JSON examples for every documented operation and an error table with 401, 404 and `error.file.sensitive_content` (10). A dated public changelog from 11 March 2026, but no version in the API path and no API-specific change notes (8). 0+5+10+7+10+8 = 40.\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: SurgePix API +36\n\n- Replicate image models (30): The changelog's newest entry is agent skills on 21 April 2026, 163 days ago (10). No dated changelog entries in the last 90 days (0). Public changelog. We didn't check GitHub issue response times in this run (5). The npm client was last published as 1.4.0 on 17 November 2025, and the changelog says the MCP server is discoverable through the official registry (12). replicate-mcp has had no release since June 2025 per the listing (3).\n- SurgePix API (66): The last dated change is GPT-Image-2.5 on 23 October 2026, 10 days before the check (30). Changelog entries on 15, 22 and 23 October, 16, 9 and 2 September 2026, more than three in 90 days (20). For a closed service, a dated changelog, a Discord server and a contact email. We didn't open Discord or the GitHub issues, so answering isn't confirmed (8). No official SDK. The skills are maintained client scripts with tags from v1.0.0 (4 June 2026) to v1.5.0 (2 September 2026), a judgement call (5). The repository's CI checks SKILL.md front matter only, with no tests, and the skills aren't published as a package (3). 30+20+8+5+3 = 66.\n\n### Reliability: Replicate image models +33\n\n- Replicate image models (48): replicatestatus.com exists, but when we fetched it the page said all services were online as of 15 April and listed only incidents from April 2024. The listing says it now redirects to Cloudflare's status page filtered to Replicate (10). No readable 90-day history (5). Published limits of 600 create-prediction requests a minute and 3,000 for other endpoints, 6 a minute for accounts with granted credit and no card, and tighter limits as a balance nears zero (15). Over the limit the API returns 429 with a message giving the reset time, about 30 seconds, but no Retry-After header or backoff advice (8). No SLA found (0). GA (10).\n- SurgePix API (15): Read with the hosted lines. No status page was found on surgepix.ai or in the docs, and status.surgepix.ai doesn't resolve (0). With no history to read, the incident line takes the floor (5). No rate limits with numbers are documented. The terms say \"non-human continuous or frequent query operations\" lead to automatic account suspension, with no threshold given (0). No 429 or backoff guidance. The skill scripts poll every 2 seconds for up to 5 to 15 minutes, but that is client code, not a documented policy (0). No SLA, and the terms disclaim uninterrupted service (0). The API isn't labelled beta or preview, and API keys have been self-serve since 2 June 2026 per the changelog (10). 0+5+0+0+0+10 = 15.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Replicate image models +32\n\n- Replicate image models (60): Closed platform under terms updated 1 April 2026 naming Replicate, LLC. The clients are Apache-2.0 and each model keeps its own licence (15). The privacy policy (also 1 April 2026) says nothing on how long prediction inputs and outputs are kept or whether customer content trains models (5). Dated deprecations in the changelog, such as the stream parameter in July 2024 and spend limits in July 2025, but no policy on notice for hosted models (10). No subprocessor list or data locations in the privacy policy (0).\n- SurgePix API (28): The editorial half. A closed service whose terms name no company or address. They restrict any commercial use of what the service produces without SurgePix's permission, and contain clauses from an unrelated product (a \"big data\" query platform and \"non-resume content\"). The skills are MIT. Unclear terms, with a little credit for the open skills (5). The privacy policy is dated both 10 June 2026 and 1 July 2022, describes WeChat and phone registration and \"domestic servers\", and gives no retention periods. The API reference says uploads go to Tencent Cloud storage in Seoul as public URLs. No DPA. The statements don't agree (5). No deprecation policy or notices, and the terms let changes take effect on publication without notice (0). Tencent Cloud Object Storage in ap-seoul is named in the API reference, and Alipay and WeChat Pay in the privacy policy. No subprocessor list or stated data location (4). 5+5+0+4 = 14.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Replicate image models +13\n\n- Replicate image models (66): replicate-mcp exposes every HTTP API operation as a tool, more than 30 (5), with a code mode the changelog lists as the way to keep context down (10). Outputs come back as URLs, list endpoints paginate, and `Prefer: wait` returns short jobs in one call (18). Error responses not checked in this run (10). No idempotency key. Webhooks for slow models (8). Official Python and JavaScript clients, few required inputs on official models (15).\n- SurgePix API (53): Every task returns one download URL, or one ZIP for an image set, and status responses are a few fields, so little enters context (18). Nothing to paginate. `noWait` chooses sync or async, and the skills pass size, aspect ratio, count and language, but none of these are in the public reference (10). Errors come back as a JSON `code` and `msg`, with 401 and 404 documented and an NSFW error on upload, but a failure can arrive as HTTP 200 with a non-zero `code` and failed task states carry no documented reason (12). Upload deduplicates by MD5 and returns the existing URL. Tasks have no idempotency key, and a retried task is a new task that spends credits again (5). Few required parameters (`fileUrl` for background removal). No official SDK, only the Node scripts inside the skills (8). 18+10+12+5+8 = 53.\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: SurgePix API +6\n\n- Replicate image models (35): Plain bearer API tokens, no scopes found (20). No read-only or least-privilege mode found, and the changelog shows monthly spend limits were removed in July 2025 (0). The MCP server returns model descriptions and READMEs written by community authors, with no injection guidance found (5). Each prediction is listed with its inputs, outputs and logs on the dashboard and API (10). No security.txt, and no bug bounty or certification found in this run (0).\n- SurgePix API (41): Plain API keys created in the account settings, which the docs say can be revoked and reset. The key goes in the `authorization` header, never in a URL. No scopes found (20). No read-only key or spend cap. The plan's credit allowance bounds spend. Every uploaded file becomes a publicly accessible URL on Tencent Cloud storage, which counts against least privilege (3). The API returns image and file URLs, not untrusted text (10). The billing page's credit statement lists each request with its model and token counts, and sessions group calls in the web app, per the docs (8). No security.txt, disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification was found (0). 20+3+10+8+0 = 41.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Replicate image models | SurgePix API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 48 | 15 | Replicate image models +33 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 40 | Replicate image models +43 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 66 | 53 | Replicate image models +13 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 35 | 41 | SurgePix API +6 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 20 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 30 | 66 | SurgePix API +36 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 28 | Replicate image models +32 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **50.3 · D** | **36 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Replicate image models | SurgePix API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Platform | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Replicate (Cloudflare) | SurgePix |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.replicate.com/v1` | `https://api.surgepix.ai/api` |\n| Transports | HTTP, SSE (legacy), stdio | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary hosted service under the Surgepix User Agreement, which names no company and restricts commercial use without SurgePix's permission. The agent skills repository is MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2025-11-17 | 2026-10-23 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-04-01 | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-04-01 | 2026-06-10 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 917 stars, 634k npm/wk, 387k PyPI/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Replicate image models\n\n- +0.1 on 27 October 2026: checklist\n- -0.1 on 8 October 2026: checklist\n\n### SurgePix API\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n## Verdicts\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**SurgePix API.** A small, readable API with async tasks and MIT skill scripts that cover posters, decks, edits and translation. Only background removal is documented, the terms name no company and restrict commercial use and automated querying, and uploaded files become public URLs.\n\n## Before you call either\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### SurgePix API\n\n1. Send the key as the raw `authorization` header value, with no `Bearer` prefix\n2. Don't upload confidential files. The upload flow returns a public URL for every file\n3. Check `code` in the JSON body as well as the HTTP status, since failures come back as a non-zero `code` with a `msg`\n4. Poll `GET /tasks/{taskId}` within 24 hours, after which the task returns 404\n5. Get written permission before using outputs commercially, since the terms restrict commercial use\n\n## Tutorials\n\n- [Run an image prediction with Replicate](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tutorials/replicate-image/), for Replicate image models\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Replicate image models or SurgePix API?\n\nReplicate image models scores 50.3 (D) on agent readiness against SurgePix API's 36 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. SurgePix API leads on security \u0026 auth and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Can an agent call Replicate image models and SurgePix API without installing anything?\n\nYes. Replicate image models has a hosted endpoint at https://api.replicate.com/v1 and SurgePix API at https://api.surgepix.ai/api.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/replicate-image-vs-surgepix.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/replicate-image-vs-surgepix.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"replicate-image\", \"b\": \"surgepix\"}`. 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