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stable Diffusion Xl V1 0
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RANKED #93 OF 107 IMAGES · OVERALL #465 OF 7,140 · VIBE SCORE 5.1 · 51 VOICES
Fireworks/models/stable Diffusion Xl V1 0 available through cloud APIs.
HAPPY6.6
6 mentions
SAD8.4
5 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 11 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 stable Diffusion Xl V1 0 once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
3.5B base parameters (6.6 GB safetensors file in FP16, 13 GB with refiner)
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$260 USEDFP16 base model, 1024x1024 resolution, standard 30 steps
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$520 NEWFP16 base model with refiner pass or LoRAs, 1024x1024, fast iteration
- FULL POWER
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$1750 USEDFP16 base and refiner with large batch generation and ControlNet workflows
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN STABLE DIFFUSION XL V1 0?
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 stable Diffusion Xl V1 0 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 12GB | FULL POWERNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make an imageone picture at normal settings | ~18 S★★★★★ | ~6 S★★★★★ | ~2 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
People generally like stable Diffusion Xl V1 0, with some gripes. Biggest praise: how results look.
13 POSTS · 38 COMMENTS · REDDIT · STACK OVERFLOW
PEOPLE LOVE
- Results look great (2 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Results can look off or glitchy (1 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- How results lookMOSTLY POSITIVE
2 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
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V1.1
Midjourney> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2024-09-27 · 164 UPVOTESCtrl-X code released, controlnet without finetuning or guidance.
Ctrl-X code released, controlnet without finetuning or guidance.
- REDDIT · 2025-10-26 · 22 UPVOTESComment in r/StableDiffusion
Any online service will be censored. You can set this up to do on your own computer and the capability will never go away.
- REDDIT · 2023-12-25 · 4 UPVOTESQuestion about Dalle3 vs. Stable Diffusion XL V1.0
Question about Dalle3 vs. Stable Diffusion XL V1.0
- REDDIT · 2025-10-26 · 3 UPVOTESComment in r/StableDiffusion
These are public figures. Doesn't this fall under political satire like a newspaper cartoon? In theory, that is true. In practice, anyone can sue you and make you bleed in litigation fees (even just consulting a lawyer can cost thousands). Much easier for…
- REDDIT · 2025-05-23 · 3 UPVOTESComment in r/StableDiffusion
why you use upscale latent with same resolution of initial latent space? is needed for add details? The result is really good!!
- REDDIT · 2024-09-26 · 2 UPVOTESAnyone fine tuned SDXL using stability ai's API?
Anyone fine tuned SDXL using stability ai's API?
- REDDIT · 2026-05-19 · 2 UPVOTESComment in r/StableDiffusion
Seems that at the moment, Linux+ROCm is the most solid way to train for AMD cards. But people did have some success with Onetrainer: [
- REDDIT · 2025-10-26 · 0 UPVOTESRecent stable diffusion engine censorship changes related to politicians or celebrity likeness?
I have a political satire generator which would turn politicians into clowns using randomized scenarios or environments. Using the engine stable-diffusion-xl-1024-v1-0 with the API from stability.ai. Used to work wonderfully now it seems like the certain…
- REDDIT · 2025-05-23 · 0 UPVOTESTook a break from training LLMs on 8×H100s to run SDXL in ComfyUI
While prepping to train a few language models on a pretty serious rig (8× NVIDIA H100s with 640GB VRAM, 160 vCPUs, 1.9TB RAM, and 42TB of NVMe storage), I took a quick detour to try out Stable Diffusion XL v1.0, and I’m really glad I did. Running it through…
- REDDIT · 2025-06-03 · 0 UPVOTESCan't load PonyRealism_v23 checkpoint - console error log
Hi all, I post here with the hope that someone can help me. I can't load the PonyRealism_v23 checkpoint (I have a GTX 1160 Super GPU). the console gives me an enormously huge error list. I post it here in case someone wuold be so kind to help me (it seems to…
- REDDIT · 2025-06-11 · 0 UPVOTESTrouble getting good quality image. Running Local SD
So, I'm trying to make some pics, but they're coming out terrible. Even when I use someone else's prompt, they come out very bad. Distorted, partial pics, etc.. I'm running this model: (Warning: explicit images. [POV All In One SDXL (Realistic/Anime/WD14 -…
- REDDIT · 2025-05-23 · 0 UPVOTES[P] Running LLMs on 8× H100s… but sometimes you have to let AI be the artist too
While prepping to train a few language models on a pretty serious rig (8× NVIDIA H100s with 640GB VRAM, 160 vCPUs, 1.9TB RAM, and 42TB of NVMe storage), I took a quick detour to try out Stable Diffusion XL v1.0, and I’m really glad I did. Running it through…