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stable-diffusion-2-1 is an open-weight image model from sd2-community. 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 | sd2-community |
|---|---|
| Type | Image models |
| Task | Text→image |
| Parameters (lead) | 866M |
| Runs with | diffusers |
| Released | 2025-11-15 |
| Popularity | 11k downloads / month |
| Licence | Open weights |
About
stabilityai/stable-diffusion-2-1, this repository and organization are not affiliated in any way with Stability AI.This model card focuses on the model associated with the Stable Diffusion v2-1 model, codebase available here.
This stable-diffusion-2-1 model is fine-tuned from stable-diffusion-2 (768-v-ema.ckpt) with an additional 55k steps on the same dataset (with punsafe=0.1), and then fine-tuned for another 155k extra steps with punsafe=0.98.
stablediffusion repository: download the v2-1_768-ema-pruned.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 DDIM, in this example we are swapping it to DPMSolverMultistepScheduler):
import torch
from diffusers import StableDiffusionPipeline, DPMSolverMultistepScheduler
model_id = "stabilityai/stable-diffusion-2-1"
# Use the DPMSolverMultistepScheduler (DPM-Solver++) scheduler here instead
pipe = StableDiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained(model_id, torch_dtype=torch.float16)
pipe.scheduler = DPMSolverMultistepScheduler.from_config(pipe.scheduler.config)
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 stable-diffusion-2-1 for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (stable-diffusion-2-1 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":"stable-diffusion-2-1","prompt":"a red bicycle","size":"1024x1024"}'
Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 3M free tokens every 30 days with every new account.