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Stable Cascade
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by Stability AI
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RANKED #25 OF 74 IMAGES · OVERALL #118 OF 6,608 · VIBE SCORE 6.2 · 195 VOICES
stable-cascade on Hugging Face (text to image). 8,585 downloads. Open weights for local or hosted use.
HAPPY9.4
41 mentions
SAD5.6
13 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 3 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 Cascade once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
5.1B total parameters across Stage A, B (1B), and C (3.6B), requiring about 10 GB to 14 GB of storage
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$250 USEDBF16 or FP8 sequential stage execution at 1024x1024
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
16 GB VRAM
~$750 NEWBF16 full precision stages at 1024x1024 with fast stage offloading
- FULL POWER
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$1750 NEWFull FP16/BF16 in-memory without stage swapping and higher batch sizes
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN STABLE CASCADE?
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 Cascade 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 | ~12 S★★★★★ | ~4 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 are mostly happy with Stable Cascade. Biggest praise: how results look.
162 POSTS · 33 COMMENTS · REDDIT · GITHUB
PEOPLE LOVE
- Results look great (3 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- How results lookPEOPLE LOVE THIS
3 thumbs up · 0 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM REDDIT >
“Stable Cascade is worth the extra steps - the aesthetic ranking scores for all the recent models are tied but the prompt adherence for SC is way higher.”
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Midjourney> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2024-02-13 · 969 UPVOTESTesting Stable Cascade
Testing Stable Cascade
- REDDIT · 2024-02-14 · 785 UPVOTESStable Cascade text rendering is a huge step from Stable Difussion - most of this are from the first try
Stable Cascade text rendering is a huge step from Stable Difussion - most of this are from the first try
- REDDIT · 2024-02-14 · 739 UPVOTESComparing hands in SDXL vs Stable Cascade
Comparing hands in SDXL vs Stable Cascade
- REDDIT · 2024-06-23 · 319 UPVOTESWoman Lying On Grass Comparasion - Midjourney vs Dalle 3 vs Adobe Firefly vs SDXL vs SDXL Turbo vs Dreamshaper XL Lighting vs Juggernaut X…
Woman Lying On Grass Comparasion - Midjourney vs Dalle 3 vs Adobe Firefly vs SDXL vs SDXL Turbo vs Dreamshaper XL Lighting vs Juggernaut X vs Stable Cascade vs EpicRealism 5 vs SD 1.5 vs SD3
- REDDIT · 2024-02-17 · 263 UPVOTESFeedback on Base Model Releases
Feedback on Base Model Releases
- REDDIT · 2024-02-17 · 216 UPVOTESStable Cascade -> Stable Video
Stable Cascade -> Stable Video
- REDDIT · 2024-04-16 · 215 UPVOTESI've used Würstchen v3 aka Stable Cascade for months since release, tuning it, experimenting with it, learning the architecture, using…
I've used Würstchen v3 aka Stable Cascade for months since release, tuning it, experimenting with it, learning the architecture, using build in clip-vision, control-net (canny), inpainting, HiRes upscale using the same models. Here is my demo of Würstchen v3…
- REDDIT · 2024-06-24 · 203 UPVOTESStable Cascade weights were actually MIT licensed for 4 days?!?
Stable Cascade weights were actually MIT licensed for 4 days?!?
- REDDIT · 2024-02-18 · 203 UPVOTESDenser Dungeon: Stable Cascade can generate 16 megapixels (2048×8192) in one shot on a 12 GB GPU
Denser Dungeon: Stable Cascade can generate 16 megapixels (2048×8192) in one shot on a 12 GB GPU
- REDDIT · 2024-04-21 · 201 UPVOTESExperimental LCM Workflow "The Ravens" for Würstchen v3 aka Stable Cascade is up and ready for download. Explore new ways of using…
Experimental LCM Workflow "The Ravens" for Würstchen v3 aka Stable Cascade is up and ready for download. Explore new ways of using Würstchen v3 architecture and gain a unique experience that sets it apart from SDXL and SD1.5. Show us your best -
- REDDIT · 2024-02-13 · 171 UPVOTESStable Cascade still can't draw Garfield
Stable Cascade still can't draw Garfield
- REDDIT · 2024-04-16 · 164 UPVOTESOneDiff 1.0 is out! (Acceleration of SD & SVD with one line of code)
OneDiff 1.0 is out! (Acceleration of SD & SVD with one line of code)