# Moebius image inpainting model

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/moebius-image-inpainting-model/

7 people recommended Moebius image inpainting model in Hacker News comments, 2 had mixed feelings and 7 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 12 months, in 2 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

6 of the 7 people who recommend it commented in one thread, “Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance”.

**Verdict:** Compact inpainting model that fills masked regions; people praise its sample outputs and browser demo. Critics say inpainted areas look smooth and it fails on novel objects.

Summary written by Claude from 14 comments.

## Why people recommend it

- Impressive sample outputs (2 comments in the sample): "The gallery of their samples is pretty impressive!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48631136)) "the text details amazing work" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48635172))

## What people warn about

- Inpainted areas look smooth (2 comments in the sample): "inpainted regions were visibly smoother than surroundings, and performed very badly on novel objects" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48634569)) "The inpainted areas are, as usual,  very smooth compared to the detailed, "high frequency" look of natural photos." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48644879))
- Fails on many images (2 comments in the sample): "it failed on all the images I tried" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48633399)) "It never works in my case." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636197))
- Structural errors in objects (2 comments in the sample): "Moebius should definitely get a "structural confusion" tag for the back of the surfboard" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48633341)) "The one removing that high tension wire in the nature photo is especially bad." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48647134))

## Other image generation models people recommend

- [Nano Banana](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nano-banana-pro/): 187 recommend, 61 mixed, 135 criticize
- [gpt-image-1](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gpt-image-1-5/): 46 recommend, 28 mixed, 73 criticize
- [FLUX.2](https://hackerapproved.com/p/flux-2/): 46 recommend, 15 mixed, 44 criticize
- [gpt-image-2](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gpt-image-2/): 45 recommend, 15 mixed, 17 criticize

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Moebius image inpainting model", https://hackerapproved.com/p/moebius-image-inpainting-model/ (7 recommend, 2 mixed, 7 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.