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Janus

DeepSeek

Janus is an image generation model line from DeepSeek. The latest release is Janus-Pro (27 Jan 2025). This page tracks all 2 Janus releases since 1 Oct 2024, with specs, licensing, and how to access each one. Official site →

Janus-Pro

Open weightsFreeCommunity APISelf-host

Autoregressive unified model (1B and 7B); claimed to beat DALL-E 3 and SDXL on GenEval/DPG

License
MIT / DeepSeek License
Commercial use
Allowed
Availability
Self-host, Community API

Janus

Open weightsFreeCommunity APISelf-host

Unified understanding and generation (Janus / JanusFlow)

License
MIT / DeepSeek License
Commercial use
Allowed
Availability
Self-host, Community API
Parameters
1.3B

Date approximate - October 2024; exact day not pinned.

See Janus in context on the image model timeline, or browse all model families.