Model reference · open weights
pony is an open-weight image model from purplesmartai. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.
Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.
What it is
| Released by | purplesmartai |
|---|---|
| Type | Image models |
| Task | Text→image |
| Parameters (lead) | 6.9B |
| Runs with | diffusers |
| Released | 2025-10-22 |
| Popularity | 41k downloads / month |
| Licence | Commercial licence needed |
About
Pony V7 is a versatile character generation model based on AuraFlow architecture. It supports a wide range of styles and species types (humanoid, anthro, feral, and more) and handles character interactions through natural language prompts.
First, let me introduce Fictional - our multimodal platform where AI Characters come alive through text, images, voice, and (soon) video. Powered by PonyV7, V6, Chroma, Seedream 4, and other advanced models, Fictional lets you discover, create, and interact with characters who live their own lives and share their own stories.
Fictional is also what enables the development of models like V7, so if you're excited about the future of multimodal AI characters, please download Fictional on iOS or Android and help shape our future!
Please check this article to learn more about why it took so long for us to ship V7 and upcoming model releases.
This model supports a wide array of styles and aesthetics but provides an opinionated default prompt template:
special tags, factual description of image, stylistic description of image, additional content tags
score_X, style_cluster_x, source_X - warning: V7 prompting may be inconsistent, please see the article as we are working on V7.1 to address this.
Description of what is portrayed in the image without any stylistic indicators. Two recommendations:
Start with a single phrase describing what you want in the image before going into details
When referring to characters use pattern: from
For example "Anthro bunny female Lola Bunny from Space Jam".
This model is capable of recognizing many popular and obscure characters and series.
Any information about image medium, shot type, lighting, etc. (More info TBD with captioning Colab)
V7 is trained on a combination of natural language prompts and tags and is capable of understanding both, so describing the intended result using normal language works in most cases, although you can add some tags after the main prompt to boost them.
V7 supports resolutions in the range of 768px to 1536px. It is recommended to go for higher resolutions and at least 30 steps during inference.
The model has been trained on ~10M images aesthetically ranked and selected from a superset of over 30M images with roughly 1:1 ratio between anime/cartoon/furry/pony datasets and 1:1 ratio between safe/questionable/explicit ratings. 100% of all images have been tagged and captioned with high quality detailed captions.
All images have been used in training with both captions and tags. Artists' names have been removed and source data has been filtered based on our Opt-in/Opt-out program. Any inappropriate explicit content has been filtered out.
We recommend using SimpleTuner for LoRA training following this guide.
For information on converting SimpleTuner LoRAs to diffusers/ComfyUI compatible format, see the LoRA folder. A LoRA workflow example is also available.
We provide commercial API via
From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys pony for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (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":"pony","prompt":"a red bicycle","size":"1024x1024"}'
Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 3M free tokens every 30 days with every new account.