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Illustrious XL
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by Aria1th261
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RANKED #55 OF 94 IMAGES · OVERALL #223 OF 6,567 · VIBE SCORE 5.8 · 100 VOICES
Illustrious-XL on Civitai. 180,926 downloads. Community image checkpoint.
HAPPY8.9
16 mentions
SAD6.1
7 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 17 voices
TOO QUIET
Not enough weekly voices to call a trend yet.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Illustrious XL once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
3.5B parameters (SDXL architecture), safetensors weights are around 6.5 to 6.9 GB in FP16/BF16
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$220 USEDFP16 full precision, native 1024x1024 / 1536x1536 generation in ComfyUI or SD WebUI Forge
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super
12 GB VRAM
~$590 NEWFP16 full precision with LoRAs, high-res fix, and fast xFormers/TensorRT acceleration
- FULL POWER
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
24 GB VRAM
~$1750 USEDFull speed unconstrained batching, 1536x1536 native generation, LoRAs, and multi-pass upscaling
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN ILLUSTRIOUS XL?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Illustrious XL takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB | SWEET SPOTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super | FULL POWERNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make an imageone picture at normal settings | ~7 S★★★★★ | ~3 S★★★★★ | ~1 S★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Not enough discussion about Illustrious XL yet to call it. We found 100 posts but people did not say much either way.
81 POSTS · 19 COMMENTS · REDDIT
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Other models the crowd has fully reviewed, starting with images models like this one.
V1.1> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2026-04-28 · 342 UPVOTESIllustrious & NoobAI Style Explorer: Now with 16,000+ Danbooru Artist Aesthetics (Free, Open Source, Online/Offline)
Illustrious & NoobAI Style Explorer: Now with 16,000+ Danbooru Artist Aesthetics (Free, Open Source, Online/Offline)
- REDDIT · 2025-04-19 · 318 UPVOTESI almost never thought this day would come...
I almost never thought this day would come...
- REDDIT · 2026-04-23 · 283 UPVOTESIllustrious & NoobAI Style Explorer: 5,000+ Danbooru Artist Styles (Free, Open Source, Online/Offline)
Illustrious & NoobAI Style Explorer: 5,000+ Danbooru Artist Styles (Free, Open Source, Online/Offline)
- REDDIT · 2025-02-12 · 237 UPVOTES🤗 Illustrious XL v1.0
🤗 Illustrious XL v1.0
- REDDIT · 2025-03-21 · 148 UPVOTESIllustrious-XL-v1.1 is now open-source model
Illustrious-XL-v1.1 is now open-source model
- REDDIT · 2025-03-17 · 144 UPVOTESSeems like OnomaAI decided to open their most recent Illustrious v3.5... when it hits certain support.
Seems like OnomaAI decided to open their most recent Illustrious v3.5... when it hits certain support.
- REDDIT · 2024-10-09 · 144 UPVOTESThis week in SD - all the major developments in a nutshell
This week in SD - all the major developments in a nutshell
- REDDIT · 2025-03-18 · 141 UPVOTESIllustrious v3.5-pred is already trained and has raised 100% Stardust, but they will not open the model weights (at least not for 300,000…
Illustrious v3.5-pred is already trained and has raised 100% Stardust, but they will not open the model weights (at least not for 300,000 Stardust).
- REDDIT · 2025-09-08 · 120 UPVOTESAnother one from me: Easy-Illustrious (Illustrious XL tools for ComfyUI)
Another one from me: Easy-Illustrious (Illustrious XL tools for ComfyUI)
- REDDIT · 2025-11-14 · 74 UPVOTESPlease, how do I make these kind of artstyle?
Please, how do I make these kind of artstyle?
- REDDIT · 2026-07-11 · 62 UPVOTESINT4 Convrot ComfyUI Models: A Cornucopia of Choices
INT4 Convrot ComfyUI Models: A Cornucopia of Choices
- REDDIT · 2025-03-22 · 53 UPVOTESIllustrious XL 3.0–3.5-vpred 2048 Resolution and Natural Language Blog 3/23
Illustrious XL 3.0–3.5-vpred 2048 Resolution and Natural Language Blog 3/23