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Depth Anything V1 Small — depth estimation running in your browser

Depth Anything V1 Small is a 24.8M-parameter ONNX model that predicts a relative depth value for every pixel of a single ordinary photograph. On this page it runs entirely inside your browser: the 99 MB download comes straight from the Hugging Face repository “Xenova/depth-anything-small-hf” into your browser cache, and every inference after that executes on your own GPU through WebGPU. That is a one-off download of well under a minute on a normal connection, and small enough that integrated graphics handle it without complaint.

At a glance

Hugging Face repository
Xenova/depth-anything-small-hf
Task
Depth Estimation
Download size
99 MB
Parameters
24.8M
Precisions
fp32, q8
Monthly downloads
10k
Runs on
WebGPU in your browser (WebAssembly fallback)
Price
Free — your GPU does the work

The v1 checkpoint — same size and speed as v2, slightly softer on fine detail. In practice people reach for a model like this for depth-of-field and parallax effects, depth-driven compositing, and feeding the 3D point-cloud viewer.

Available precisions: fp32 (full precision) and q8 (8-bit). fp32 comes first because at this size full precision is both the fastest WebGPU path and the best quality; the quantized variant exists for the WebAssembly fallback and for tight cache budgets. Hugging Face records about 10k downloads a month. It is a specialist choice rather than a default, which is exactly why it is worth trying when the popular model gets your particular input wrong.

Because there is no inference server behind this page, there is nothing to rate-limit and nothing to bill: the only cost of running Depth Anything V1 Small here is the one-off 99 MB download, and once that is cached the page keeps working with the network switched off.

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Frequently asked questions

How large is the Depth Anything V1 Small download?

About 99 MB for the fp32 build, including the tokenizer and config files the runtime also has to fetch — this is the whole payload, not just the weights file. It is downloaded once and then served from the browser Cache Storage API.

Can Depth Anything V1 Small run without a GPU?

Yes, through the WebAssembly fallback, which is slower but works anywhere. WebGPU (Chrome or Edge 113+, Safari 26+) is what makes it feel interactive. On WASM, prefer the smaller quantized build.

Do I need a Hugging Face token or an API key?

No. Xenova/depth-anything-small-hf is a public repository, so your browser fetches the ONNX files directly over HTTPS. There is no account, no key and no server in between.

Is my data uploaded to a server?

No. The model weights are downloaded from Hugging Face to your browser once, and every inference after that runs on your own GPU through WebGPU. Your text, images and audio are never sent anywhere — hjLabs.in has no inference server and no way to see your input.