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pony

Available as managed deployment Image calcuis · community Text→image 1 variants 4k dl/mo

pony is an open-weight image model from calcuis. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.

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Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.

What it is

Released bycalcuis
TypeImage models
TaskText→image
Released2025-01-03
Popularity4k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What pony is

setup (in general)

  • drag gguf file(s) to diffusion_models folder (./ComfyUI/models/diffusion_models)
  • drag clip or encoder(s), i.e., g-clip and l-clip, to text_encoders folder (./ComfyUI/models/text_encoders)
  • drag vae decoder(s), i.e., legacy-vae, to vae folder (./ComfyUI/models/vae)

run it straight (no installation needed way)

  • get the comfy pack with the new gguf-node here
  • run the .bat file in the main directory

workflow

  • drag any workflow json file to the activated browser; or
  • drag any generated output file (i.e., picture, video, etc.; which contains the workflow metadata) to the activated browser
  • example workflow json for the safetensors
  • example workflow json for the gguf

review

  • use tag/word(s) as input for more accurate results for those legacy models; not very convenient (compare to the recent models) at the very beginning
  • credits should be given to those contributors from civitai platform
  • good to run on old machines, i.e., 9xx series or before (legacy mode [--disable-cuda-malloc --lowvram] supported); compatible with the new gguf-node
  • disclaimer: some models (original files) are provided by someone else and we might not easily spot out the creator/contributor(s) behind, unless it was specified in the source; rather let it blank instead of anonymous/unnamed/unknown; if it is your work, do let us know; we will address it back properly and probably; thanks for everything

reference

From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.

How it works

How image models work

Text promptwhat to makeText encoderunderstands itDiffusion stepsdenoise to pixelsImagePNG / JPEGA diffusion model starts from noise and denoises it, guided by your prompt, into a finished image.

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys calcuis-pony for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (calcuis-pony below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/images/generations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"calcuis-pony","prompt":"a red bicycle","size":"1024x1024"}'

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