Moebius image inpainting model
Ranked 17 of 22 image generation models by recommenders
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.
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.
16 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 7
- approval share
- 56%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1.2 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Impressive sample outputs
“The gallery of their samples is pretty impressive!”
Comment from 22 Jun 2026 in “Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance” “the text details amazing work”
Comment from 22 Jun 2026 in “Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Inpainted areas look smooth
“inpainted regions were visibly smoother than surroundings, and performed very badly on novel objects”
Comment from 22 Jun 2026 in “Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance” “The inpainted areas are, as usual, very smooth compared to the detailed, "high frequency" look of natural photos.”
Comment from 23 Jun 2026 in “Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance” Fails on many images
“it failed on all the images I tried”
Comment from 22 Jun 2026 in “Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance” “It never works in my case.”
Comment from 22 Jun 2026 in “Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance” Structural errors in objects
“Moebius should definitely get a "structural confusion" tag for the back of the surfboard”
Comment from 22 Jun 2026 in “Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance” “The one removing that high tension wire in the nature photo is especially bad.”
Comment from 23 Jun 2026 in “Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance”
Other image generation models people recommend
The four most recommended other image generation models, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nano Banana | 265 | 159 | 63% | 12 | 6 mo5 owners | — |
| gpt-image-1 | 79 | 79 | 50% | 12 | — | — |
| FLUX.2 | 66 | 51 | 56% | 10 | — | — |
| gpt-image-2 | 63 | 26 | 71% | 8 | — | Approved |
| Moebius image inpainting modelThis page | 9 | 7 | 56% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
14 of the 17 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“The one removing that high tension wire in the nature photo is especially bad.”
“The inpainted areas are, as usual, very smooth compared to the detailed, "high frequency" look of natural photos.”
“I got this working with ONNX (thanks, Claude Opus 4.8) and now I have an interactive demo of the model running entirely in the browser”
“some (possibly cherry-picked) examples still exhibit similar problems when you inspect them in detail”
“the quality is closer to pre-2022 Photoshop content aware fill than actual 10B models”
“It never works in my case.”
“the text details amazing work”
“inpainted regions were visibly smoother than surroundings, and performed very badly on novel objects”
“it failed on all the images I tried”
“Moebius should definitely get a "structural confusion" tag for the back of the surfboard”
“It sure has a thing for chins, jaws and removing weight, looksmaxing build in.”
“There’s so many usecases this makes possible.”
“Yeah it's great but how do I use it?”
“The gallery of their samples is pretty impressive!”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.