Reliability of the SFR estimations using the X-CIGALE mock catalogues for sources with and without MIR bands. Top panel: SFR calculation with and without W4 or MIPS1 photometric data. The dashed line represent the one-to-one relation. The two measurements are consistent as indicated by the Pearson coefficient. Middle panel: Estimated SFR based on the mock catalogues compared to the true values provided by the best-fit model. The filled (open) symbols represent the X-XIGALE runs with (without) MIR data. X-CIGALE can successfully recover the SFR of the host galaxy, even in the absence of W4 or MIPS photometry, as indicated by the Pearson correlation factor. Bottom panel: Distributions of the difference between estimated and true values. The two distributions are very similar based on the mean and dispersion values.