I was building an image app for the Tiiny this week and went shopping in the Model Store for something that would do background removal. There are four of them sitting right there. Background-Remove, Object-Remove, Zoom, Outpaint.

So I designed around them, and then went to check the API before wiring it up.

The image endpoint takes model, prompt, negative_prompt, width, height, seed, steps and guidance_scale. That is the whole list. I got it by sending wrong types on purpose and letting the server tell me which fields it validates, so this isn't me guessing from docs.

There is no image input. Send an image or input_image or mask field and it gets accepted and thrown away, so nothing errors and nothing happens. There's no separate edit endpoint either. I tried about a dozen names. /v1/image/edit, /v1/image/inpaint, /v1/image/img2img, all 404.

Then I went and looked at what these models actually are. FLUX.2 klein is an editing model. Black Forest Labs' own API for it is titled generate or edit, and the request body takes input_image and input_image_2.

Which makes the four names make sense in a way I don't love. You can't outpaint from nothing. You can't remove an object from a picture that doesn't exist yet.

So as far as I can tell those models are installable and unusable. You can spend the disk and the NPU units on them and there is no request you can send that hands them a picture.

The one thing on the box that does take an image is chat completions. I sent a test PNG to Qwen3.8-27B and it described it correctly. So an upload does reach a model, just not an image model. Which means the only way to fake editing today is to have a vision model describe your photo and a text-to-image model paint a new one, and that isn't editing. I'm not going to ship an app that pretends it is.

Am I missing an endpoint here? If there's a way to do this that I haven't found, I'd rather be wrong.

If not, this looks like one optional input_image field on the endpoint that already exists, plus a mask for the two variants that want one. That would light up the whole specialist shelf at once instead of one model at a time.

Full writeup with the exact field lists and everything I probed: https://artifacts.semfreak.dev/a/tiiny/tiiny-image-api/

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