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Chroma1 HD
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RANKED #76 OF 101 IMAGES · OVERALL #388 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 5.5 · 44 VOICES ·
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Chroma1-HD on Hugging Face (text to image). 68,678 downloads. Open weights for local or hosted use.
HAPPY9.5
14 mentions
SAD5.5
1 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 20 voices in this window
HOLDING UP
Recent vibe is steady. No clear fade in the crowd.
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 Chroma1 HD once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
8.9B parameters, an FP8/Q4 checkpoint is about 5 to 9 GB while BF16 is ~16.6 GB
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$260 USEDGGUF Q4 or SDNQ 4-bit with CPU offloaded T5 encoder at 1024x1024
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
16 GB VRAM
~$750 NEWFP8 scaled checkpoint with FP8 T5 encoder at 1024x1024
- FULL POWER
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$1650 USEDFull BF16 / FP16 precision transformer with T5-XXL text encoder
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN CHROMA1 HD?
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 Chroma1 HD 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 Ti Super 16GB | FULL POWERNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make an imageone picture at normal settings | ~45 S★★★★★ | ~18 S★★★★★ | ~8 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 Chroma1 HD yet to call it. We found 44 posts but people did not say much either way.
30 POSTS · 14 COMMENTS · REDDIT · GITHUB
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.
Flux
Midjourney> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2025-08-23 · 1278 UPVOTESUpdate: Chroma Project training is finished! The models are now released.
Update: Chroma Project training is finished! The models are now released.
- REDDIT · 2025-08-24 · 299 UPVOTESPushing the limits of Chroma1-HD
Pushing the limits of Chroma1-HD
- REDDIT · 2025-09-08 · 179 UPVOTESCross-Image Try-On Flux Kontext_v0.2
Cross-Image Try-On Flux Kontext_v0.2
- REDDIT · 2025-10-16 · 110 UPVOTESChroma1-HD + r64-flash-huen-lora + lenovo-ultrareal-lora (CFG = 1).
Chroma1-HD + r64-flash-huen-lora + lenovo-ultrareal-lora (CFG = 1).
- REDDIT · 2025-10-27 · 100 UPVOTESA request to anyone training new models: please let this composition die
A request to anyone training new models: please let this composition die
- REDDIT · 2025-09-09 · 66 UPVOTESComic, oil painting, 3D and a drawing style LoRAs for Chroma1-HD
Comic, oil painting, 3D and a drawing style LoRAs for Chroma1-HD
- REDDIT · 2025-08-18 · 57 UPVOTESChroma v48 to Chroma1-Base
Chroma v48 to Chroma1-Base
- REDDIT · 2026-04-22 · 44 UPVOTES(5) The same message applies to several models: Chroma, Z image, Klein, Ernie, Qwen 2512
(5) The same message applies to several models: Chroma, Z image, Klein, Ernie, Qwen 2512
- REDDIT · 2026-05-14 · 41 UPVOTESCharacter Workflow: Chroma1-HD + Flux.2 Dev + Wan 2.2 + LTX 2.3
Character Workflow: Chroma1-HD + Flux.2 Dev + Wan 2.2 + LTX 2.3
- REDDIT · 2026-04-20 · 38 UPVOTES(3) The same message applies to several models: Chroma, Z image, Klein, Ernie, Midjourney
(3) The same message applies to several models: Chroma, Z image, Klein, Ernie, Midjourney
- REDDIT · 2026-05-12 · 35 UPVOTESChroma1-HD Character Transfer with Flux.2 Dev
Chroma1-HD Character Transfer with Flux.2 Dev
- REDDIT · 2026-03-10 · 26 UPVOTESI vibe-coded a text RPG engine that uses your local LLM as the Dungeon Master
This is an open source project (MIT license, no monetization) built specifically around local LLMs I'm not a PC expert at all and I'm completely new to the whole LLM and local LLM scene. Before running models locally I used AI Dungeon — I really enjoyed it at…