Open image generation models

Open text-to-image and image-editing models you can download and run. Every one is downloadable and runs on your own machine or a rented GPU — honest, $0-markup.

• FLUX.1 [dev] — Text → image, Black Forest Labs · ~12 GB VRAM · rent $0.13/hr · non-commercial
• Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 (SDXL) — Text → image, Stability AI · ~8.0 GB VRAM · rent $0.06/hr · commercial OK
• Stable Diffusion 1.5 — Text → image, Runway / Stability AI · ~4.0 GB VRAM · rent $0.06/hr · commercial OK
• FLUX.1 Kontext [dev] — Image editing, Black Forest Labs · ~12 GB VRAM · rent $0.13/hr · non-commercial
• FLUX.1 [schnell] — Text → image, Black Forest Labs · ~12 GB VRAM · rent $0.13/hr · commercial OK
• Qwen-Image — Text → image, Alibaba (Qwen) · ~24 GB VRAM · rent $0.49/hr · commercial OK
• Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large — Text → image, Stability AI · ~12 GB VRAM · rent $0.13/hr · commercial OK
• Qwen-Image-Edit — Image editing, Alibaba (Qwen) · ~24 GB VRAM · rent $0.49/hr · commercial OK
• HiDream-I1 Full — Text → image, HiDream.ai · ~16 GB VRAM · rent $0.13/hr · commercial OK
• Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium — Text → image, Stability AI · ~6.0 GB VRAM · rent $0.06/hr · commercial OK
• Sana 1.6B (1024px) — Text → image, NVIDIA · ~8.0 GB VRAM · rent $0.06/hr · non-commercial
• PixArt-Sigma XL/2 1024-MS — Text → image, PixArt-alpha (Huawei Noah's Ark Lab) · ~8.0 GB VRAM · rent $0.06/hr · commercial OK
• Playground v2.5 — Text → image, Playground AI · ~8.0 GB VRAM · rent $0.06/hr · commercial OK
• Kolors — Text → image, Kuaishou (Kolors Team) · ~12 GB VRAM · rent $0.13/hr · non-commercial
• Chroma1-HD — Text → image, lodestones · ~12 GB VRAM · rent $0.13/hr · commercial OK
• Lumina-Image 2.0 — Text → image, Alpha-VLLM (Shanghai AI Lab) · ~12 GB VRAM · rent $0.13/hr · commercial OK

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