Model reference · open weights
stable-diffusion-2 is an open-weight image model from Manojb. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.
Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.
What it is
| Released by | Manojb |
|---|---|
| Type | Image models |
| Task | Text→image |
| Parameters (lead) | 866M |
| Runs with | diffusers |
| Released | 2025-06-13 |
| Popularity | 2k downloads / month |
| Licence | Open weights |
About
This model card focuses on the model associated with the Stable Diffusion v2-base model, available here.
The model is trained from scratch 550k steps at resolution 256x256 on a subset of LAION-5B filtered for explicit pornographic material, using the LAION-NSFW classifier with punsafe=0.1 and an aesthetic score >= 4.5. Then it is further trained for 850k steps at resolution 512x512 on the same dataset on images with resolution >= 512x512.
stablediffusion repository: download the 512-base-ema.ckpt here.diffusersDeveloped by: Robin Rombach, Patrick Esser
Model type: Diffusion-based text-to-image generation model
Language(s): English
License: CreativeML Open RAIL++-M License
Model Description: This is a model that can be used to generate and modify images based on text prompts. It is a Latent Diffusion Model that uses a fixed, pretrained text encoder (OpenCLIP-ViT/H).
Resources for more information: GitHub Repository.
Cite as:
@InProceedings{Rombach_2022_CVPR,
author = {Rombach, Robin and Blattmann, Andreas and Lorenz, Dominik and Esser, Patrick and Ommer, Bj\"orn},
title = {High-Resolution Image Synthesis With Latent Diffusion Models},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
month = {June},
year = {2022},
pages = {10684-10695}
}
Using the 🤗's Diffusers library to run Stable Diffusion 2 in a simple and efficient manner.
pip install diffusers transformers accelerate scipy safetensors
Running the pipeline (if you don't swap the scheduler it will run with the default PNDM/PLMS scheduler, in this example we are swapping it to EulerDiscreteScheduler):
from diffusers import StableDiffusionPipeline, EulerDiscreteScheduler
import torch
model_id = "stabilityai/stable-diffusion-2-base"
# Use the Euler scheduler here instead
scheduler = EulerDiscreteScheduler.from_pretrained(model_id, subfolder="scheduler")
pipe = StableDiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained(model_id, scheduler=scheduler, torch_dtype=torch.float16)
pipe = pipe.to("cuda")
prompt = "a photo of an astronaut riding a horse on mars"
image = pipe(prompt).images[0]
image.save("astronaut_rides_horse.png")
Notes:
pipe.enable_attention_slicing() after sending it to cuda for less VRAM usage (to the cost of speed)The model is intended for research purposes only. Possible research areas and tasks include
Excluded uses are described below.
Note: This section is originally taken from the DALLE-MINI model card, was used for Stable Diffusion v1, but applies in the same way to Stable Diffusion v2.
The model should not be used to intentionally create or disseminate images that create hostile or alienating environments for people. This includes generating images that people would foreseeably find disturbing, distressing, or offensive; or content that propagates historical or current stereotypes.
The model was not trained to be factual or true representations of people or events, and therefore using the model to generate such content is out-of-scope for the abilities of this model.
Using the model to generate content that is cruel to individuals is a misuse of this model. This includes, but is not limited to:
From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys manojb-stable-diffusion-2 for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (manojb-stable-diffusion-2 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":"manojb-stable-diffusion-2","prompt":"a red bicycle","size":"1024x1024"}'
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