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amanatsu-illustrious-sdxl

amanatsu-illustrious-sdxl is an open-weight image model from John6666, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.

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About

What amanatsu-illustrious-sdxl is

Original model is here. This model created by Ikena.

Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.

Specifications

What it is

MakerJohn6666
TypeImage models
Parameters (lead)2.6B
Variants1
Runs withdiffusers
Based onOnomaAIResearch/Illustrious-xl-early-release-v0
Released2025-03-13
Popularity121k downloads / month
Likes3
LicenceCommercial licence needed

How it works

How image models work

Text promptwhat to makeText encoderunderstands itDiffusion stepsdenoise to pixelsImagePNG / JPEGA diffusion model starts from noise and denoises it, guided by your prompt, into a finished image.

Variants

Sizes & precisions

Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.

VariantParamsPrecisionVRAMFits 16 GBWeights
amanatsu-illustrious-v11-sdxl2.6BBF16~5.9 GBWeights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys amanatsu-illustrious-sdxl for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (amanatsu-illustrious-sdxl below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/images/generations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"amanatsu-illustrious-sdxl","prompt":"a red bicycle","size":"1024x1024"}'

Details

Languages, data & research

Languages

en

Tags

diffusers safetensors text-to-image stable-diffusion stable-diffusion-xl anime girls characters detailed anime look backgrounds better eyes illustrious en endpoints_compatible

Licence

Commercial licence needed

The weights are open but its licence needs a commercial agreement for business use. AxForge can arrange that licence and host the model for you — you pay AxForge, we settle with the model’s maker. Ask us for a quote. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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