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shap-e-img2img is an open-weight image model from OpenAI. shap-e-img2img (BF16) weighs 1.7 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.
Summary of the openai/shap-e-img2img model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | OpenAI |
|---|---|
| Released | 2023-07-04 |
| VRAM | 1.7 GB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | One image | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| RTX 3060 12 GB | fits | 11.6 GB |
| RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | fits | 15.4 GB |
| RTX 3090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | fits | 31.0 GB |
| L40S 48 GB | fits | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | fits | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | fits | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | fits | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | fits | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | fits | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | fits | 176 GB |
From the model card
Shap-E introduces a diffusion process that can generate a 3D image from a text prompt. It was introduced in Shap-E: Generating Conditional 3D Implicit Functions by Heewoo Jun and Alex Nichol from OpenAI.
Original repository of Shap-E can be found here: https://github.com/openai/shap-e.
The authors of Shap-E didn't author this model card. They provide a separate model card here.
The abstract of the Shap-E paper:
We present Shap-E, a conditional generative model for 3D assets. Unlike recent work on 3D generative models which produce a single output representation, Shap-E directly generates the parameters of implicit functions that can be rendered as both textured meshes and neural radiance fields. We train Shap-E in two stages: first, we train an encoder that deterministically maps 3D assets into the parameters of an implicit function; second, we train a conditional diffusion model on outputs of the encoder. When trained on a large dataset of paired 3D and text data, our resulting models are capable of generating complex and diverse 3D assets in a matter of seconds. When compared to Point-E, an explicit generative model over point clouds, Shap-E converges faster and reaches comparable or better sample quality despite modeling a higher-dimensional, multi-representation output space. We release model weights, inference code, and samples at this https URL.
The authors released the following checkpoints:
First make sure you have installed all the dependencies:
pip install transformers accelerate -q
pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers@@shap-ee
Once the dependencies are installed, use the code below:
import torch
from diffusers import ShapEImg2ImgPipeline
from diffusers.utils import export_to_gif, load_image
ckpt_id = "openai/shap-e-img2img"
pipe = ShapEImg2ImgPipeline.from_pretrained(repo).to("cuda")
img_url = "https://hf.co/datasets/diffusers/docs-images/resolve/main/shap-e/corgi.png"
image = load_image(img_url)
generator = torch.Generator(device="cuda").manual_seed(0)
batch_size = 4
guidance_scale = 3.0
images = pipe(
image,
num_images_per_prompt=batch_size,
generator=generator,
guidance_scale=guidance_scale,
num_inference_steps=64,
size=256,
output_type="pil"
).images
gif_path = export_to_gif(images, "corgi_sampled_3d.gif")
Refer to the original paper.
Refer to the original model card.
@misc{jun2023shape,
title={Shap-E: Generating Conditional 3D Implicit Functions},
author={Heewoo Jun and Alex Nichol},
year={2023},
eprint={2305.02463},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CV}
}
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.
How it works
Running it yourself
Rent a machine by the hour. Runs as it is with diffusers, on the machine, in Python.
# on your rented machine: pip install diffusers transformers accelerate
import torch
from diffusers import DiffusionPipeline
from diffusers.utils import load_image
pipe = DiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained("openai/shap-e-img2img", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16).to("cuda")
start = load_image("/workspace/in.png")
image = pipe(prompt="the same scene at golden hour", image=start).images[0]
image.save("/workspace/out.png")