u/MichiderKluge

I'm building my own companion app as a personal project and I've hit a wall on the image-generation side. I can't run models locally (no GPU worth mentioning), so everything has to go through an API.

My requirements are pretty specific:

• Must allow NSFW output
• Must support custom LoRAs (ideally I can upload my own / point to a URL)
• Pay-per-use API, reasonable pricing, decent reliability

So far I've mostly dug into fal.ai. From what I can tell, the only model there that actually allows NSFW is SDXL (fal-ai/lora) — Flux and Z-Image are content-filtered, and anything ComfyUI-based means self-deploying the whole pipeline yourself.

Before I lock myself into SDXL-only, I wanted to ask people who've actually shipped something like this:

• Which API providers do you use for NSFW + LoRA?
• Is anyone getting Flux or newer models to work uncensored through an API, or is SDXL still the realistic ceiling?
• Are hosted/serverless ComfyUI services worth it vs. rolling your own endpoint?
• Rough cost per image on whatever you're using?

To be clear: I'm not trying to buy hardware or host my own GPU box — I just want the most reliable API-based setup. Any pointers appreciated 🙏

I'm building my own companion app as a personal project and I've hit a wall on the image-generation side. I can't run models locally (no GPU worth mentioning), so everything has to go through an API.

My requirements are pretty specific:

• Must allow NSFW output
• Must support custom LoRAs (ideally I can upload my own / point to a URL)
• Pay-per-use API, reasonable pricing, decent reliability

So far I've mostly dug into fal.ai. From what I can tell, the only model there that actually allows NSFW is SDXL (fal-ai/lora) — Flux and Z-Image are content-filtered, and anything ComfyUI-based means self-deploying the whole pipeline yourself.

Before I lock myself into SDXL-only, I wanted to ask people who've actually shipped something like this:

• Which API providers do you use for NSFW + LoRA? (Replicate, RunPod serverless, Novita, others?)
• Is anyone getting Flux or newer models to work uncensored through an API, or is SDXL still the realistic ceiling?
• Are hosted/serverless ComfyUI services worth it vs. rolling your own endpoint?
• Rough cost per image on whatever you're using?

To be clear: I'm not trying to buy hardware or host my own GPU box — I just want the most reliable API-based setup. Any pointers appreciated 🙏