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Stable Diffusion XL

Hugging Face: stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0 · checked 2026-10-13

The 2023 workhorse; runs on 8 GB and has the deepest tooling.

Datasheet

Maker
Stability AI
Parameters
2.57 BVerifiedsafetensors.total from the HF API Source
Licence
CreativeML OpenRAIL++-MVerified
Access
Public download
Task (HF pipeline)
text-to-image
First published on HF
2023-07-25
Last updated on HF
2023-10-30
Weights in memory
5.1 GB at 16-bit · 1.6 GB at ~4.85 bitsEstimateParameters × bits ÷ 8. Excludes context cache and runtime overhead; not every model has a 4-bit build.

Benchmark

0.55
GenEval, overall · #3 of 3 scored in this category

Third-party report: SDXL row in the HiDream-I1 model card. Source

The description summarises the model card at https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0. Parameters and licence are read from the Hugging Face API; the weights-in-memory line is our arithmetic, not a measurement.