Protogen Nova (Experimental Model) Official Release
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Protogen Nova (Experimental Model) Official Release by darkstorm2150. Nova is most heavily weighted by Seek Mega Art, ModelShoot, and Dreamlike Photoreal2, with a little porn and anime. It's a good general fantasy model
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Unlock the boundless realms of your creative mind with ProtoGen Nova - the pinnacle fusion in the ProtoGen series. This cutting-edge model is equipped with all the tools necessary to elevate your artistic endeavors. Furthermore, by acquiring ProtoGen Nova, you will also gain access to the , , and . Don't delay, elevate your artistic expression with ProtoGen Nova.
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Protogen Nova (Experimental Model) Official Release Popularity Trend
Heat score, last 12 months
Heat score
8,146°
This week
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0.5%
8,149° then, 8,146° now
This month
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2.0%
8,157° then, 8,146° now
Past year
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24.1%
8,280° then, 8,146° now
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+1,150°
Civitai downloads
6,072 downloads of this exact version on Civitai. Downloads are the heaviest ingredient and are counted on a log scale: ten times the downloads adds the same 300°, so a model with a million downloads is not a thousand times hotter than one with a thousand. The six download sources share that one term, split between them in proportion to their counts.
+430°
Likes
735 likes and thumbs up across the sources. A like weighs half a download, on the same log scale.
+25°
Adoption rate
About 1 downloads a day, measured between two readings of the sources, never guessed from a lifetime average. Speed weighs a quarter of the download term, so a fresh surge shows without letting a one-day spike outrank years of use.
+150°
Full model
+150° because this is a full model: a checkpoint, the weights themselves. A LoRA or an embedding is an add-on to someone else's weights and does not outrank a checkpoint of equal popularity.
−609°
Age
−609° because the SD15 weights came out in 2022. Every model inherits the age of the weights it is built on: 150° a year, up to 750°, and it keeps growing until then. Without it the top of the list would be 2022 and 2023 checkpoints on the strength of downloads that had years to pile up.
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Every number on this site can be checked. This model's heat score is 8,146°, and here it is built one ingredient at a time, with the running total after each: the floor, the degrees each source adds, the bonus for the kind of model and what the age of its weights takes away. The colors are the bands of the chart above. The glossary at the end defines every term.
- 1Start at the floor.Why 7,000° and not zero: the scale runs from 0° to 9,999°, and the part below 7,000° is reserved for models no source reports on yet, which carry a stand-in number there so the lists stay complete and never outrank a model with data. 7,000° is where measured data begins. A model with real data but almost no downloads sits here; everything that follows is measurement, and the room above the floor holds ten tenfold steps in downloads at 300° each. The floor is the same for every model, so it decides nothing; the degrees above it do.7,000°running total
- 2Add the downloads.6,072 download-equivalents in all, from Civitai downloads. Ten times the downloads adds the same 300°, so size matters but never runs away with the score.+1,150°8,150°running total
- 3Add the likes.735 likes and thumbs up, at half the weight of a download.+430°8,580°running total
- 4Add the adoption rate.About 1 downloads a day right now, measured between two readings, at a quarter of the weight.+25°8,605°running total
- 5Bonus for a full model.A checkpoint carries the weights themselves; add-ons do not outrank one of equal popularity.+150°8,755°running total
- 6Take off the age.The SD15 weights came out in 2022: 150° a year, up to 750°, growing until then.−609°8,146°running total
- =The heat score.Where this model stands on every list of this site. Nothing else adjusts it.8,146°
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- One number for how much a model is used and wanted right now, from 0° to 9,999°. Every list on this site that says hottest is sorted by it and nothing else.
- Floor
- The 7,000° every model with real data starts from. The scale runs from 0° to 9,999°; the part below the floor is reserved for stand-ins (models without data), so that a model with data always ranks above one without. The floor is the same for everyone and decides nothing; the degrees above it are the measurement.
- Download-equivalents
- Everything the score treats as a download, added up: downloads themselves, each torrent seeder as 1,000, each AI Horde image and each run on a generation site as one.
- Log scale
- Counting by tens, not by ones: going from 1,000 to 10,000 downloads adds the same degrees as going from 10,000 to 100,000. It keeps giants from crowding out everything else.
- Likes
- Thumbs up and likes from every source, worth half a download each on the log scale.
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- How many downloads a day a model gets right now, from the difference between two readings of a source. A quarter of the weight of the download term.
- Measured and estimated
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- Seeder
- Someone who keeps a copy of the weights online for others to download over a torrent, or a hosted mirror doing the same. Each one counts as 1,000 downloads.
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- A text model served through an API, such as Claude or GPT, has no weights to download, so its usage is measured in tokens: the pieces of text it read and wrote through OpenRouter, a gateway many apps use, over the last 30 days. Every 10,000,000 tokens count as one download. Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), CC BY 4.0.
- Full model (checkpoint)
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- Age
- Degrees taken off for how long ago the family's weights came out: 150° a year, up to 750°. It keeps old downloads that had years to pile up from freezing the top of the list.
- Family boost
- A small, bounded nudge for LoRAs of a family this site is pushing forward right now, always listed in the breakdown.
- Stand-in score
- A stable number below the floor given to a model no source reports on yet, so lists stay complete. It never ranks above a model with data.
- New! (grace period)
- A model less than 7 days old shows New! instead of a score and holds no place in the rankings. Its score is computed from day one, but a model one day old grows faster than anything, so without the wait the week's #1 would always be whatever came out yesterday rather than what held up for a week.
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- How a model's growth over a period compares with the typical model's growth over the same period. Faster than typical reads as a rise, slower as a fall.
- Typical model
- The middle of the catalog: half the models with a figure grew faster over the period, half slower.
How this model's popularity has moved against the rest of the catalog: its growth in downloads, likes and usage over each period, measured against the typical model's growth over the same period, with its heat score at the time. Above the typical growth reads as a rise, below it as a fall. The past is reconstructed from today's totals, the model's first day and its measured download speed where two readings exist; a model that did not exist at the start of a period shows n/a.
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Protogen Nova (Experimental Model) Official Release is a base model for the Stable Diffusion 1.5 family listed on ModelTrends.ai, a read-only catalog of open source AI image, video and text models. Compare it with other Stable Diffusion 1.5 models, check its heat score to see how it is trending, and open it on PirateDiffusion or BitVector to try it.
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