Pony is an image model family known for character work and a large community fine-tune catalog. There is no base model on Mage called Pony. The catalog holds Pony checkpoints, hosted on Mage’s GPUs, so they work in a browser tab with no local install.
Overview
Best for
- Character illustration
- Stylized and semi-realistic art
- Workflows that already depend on SDXL LoRAs
- Score-tag prompting
An example prompt to start from
Limitations
- Pony checkpoints are SDXL-based, so anything trained for SDXL generally loads against them, and they are not connected to Characters or References.
- Prompt adherence is weaker than Flux 2 or Mango 3, and text inside an image usually comes out wrong.
Last modified on September 14, 2026
