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Capabilities:image
License:Stability AI Community License
Open sourceAPI availableLocal runtimeOpen weightsStable Diffusion
About
The open-weights image generation model family from Stability AI. Runs locally with no GPU required for small models, and powers countless apps, extensions and fine-tunes.
Pricing
Free
Stable Diffusion is a family of open-weights text-to-image models that democratized generative art. SDXL and SD3 generate high-quality images and run locally on consumer hardware.
Key Features
- Text-to-image generation.
- Inpainting and outpainting.
- Open weights — run, fine-tune and ship it.
- Community ecosystem: ComfyUI, AUTOMATIC1111, LoRAs.
- Stability AI API for hosted generation.
- Image-to-image and ControlNet support.
Pricing
- Models: free with the Stability AI Community License.
- API: pay per image via the Stability AI platform.
- Self-hosted: free to run locally.
Getting Started
# via diffusers
pip install diffusers transformers accelerate torch
from diffusers import StableDiffusionXLPipeline
pipe = StableDiffusionXLPipeline.from_pretrained("stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0")
Or install ComfyUI/AUTOMATIC1111 for a node-based GUI.