Model reference · open weights
stable-diffusion-4 is an open-weight image model from CompVis. stable-diffusion-v1-4 (FP32) weighs 1.4 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.
Summary of the CompVis/stable-diffusion-v1-4 model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | CompVis |
|---|---|
| Released | 2022-08-20 |
| Parameters | 860M |
| VRAM | 1.4 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
Stable Diffusion is a latent text-to-image diffusion model capable of generating photo-realistic images given any text input. For more information about how Stable Diffusion functions, please have a look at 🤗's Stable Diffusion with 🧨Diffusers blog.
The Stable-Diffusion-v1-4 checkpoint was initialized with the weights of the Stable-Diffusion-v1-2 checkpoint and subsequently fine-tuned on 225k steps at resolution 512x512 on "laion-aesthetics v2 5+" and 10% dropping of the text-conditioning to improve classifier-free guidance sampling.
This weights here are intended to be used with the 🧨 Diffusers library. If you are looking for the weights to be loaded into the CompVis Stable Diffusion codebase, come here
Developed by: Robin Rombach, Patrick Esser
Model type: Diffusion-based text-to-image generation model
Language(s): English
License: The CreativeML OpenRAIL M license is an Open RAIL M license, adapted from the work that BigScience and the RAIL Initiative are jointly carrying in the area of responsible AI licensing. See also the article about the BLOOM Open RAIL license on which our license is based.
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 (CLIP ViT-L/14) as suggested in the Imagen paper.
Resources for more information: GitHub Repository, Paper.
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}
}
We recommend using 🤗's Diffusers library to run Stable Diffusion.
pip install --upgrade diffusers transformers scipy
Running the pipeline with the default PNDM scheduler:
import torch
from diffusers import StableDiffusionPipeline
model_id = "CompVis/stable-diffusion-v1-4"
device = "cuda"
pipe = StableDiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained(model_id, torch_dtype=torch.float16)
pipe = pipe.to(device)
prompt = "a photo of an astronaut riding a horse on mars"
image = pipe(prompt).images[0]
image.save("astronaut_rides_horse.png")
Note: If you are limited by GPU memory and have less than 4GB of GPU RAM available, please make sure to load the StableDiffusionPipeline in float16 precision instead of the default float32 precision as done above. You can do so by telling diffusers to expect the weights to be in float16 precision:
import torch
pipe = StableDiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained(model_id, torch_dtype=torch.float16)
pipe = pipe.to(device)
pipe.enable_attention_slicing()
prompt = "a photo of an astronaut riding a horse on mars"
image = pipe(prompt).images[0]
image.save("astronaut_rides_horse.png")
To swap out the noise scheduler, pass it to from_pretrained:
from diffusers import StableDiffusionPipeline, EulerDiscreteScheduler
model_id = "CompVis/stable-diffusion-v1-4"
# 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")
To use StableDiffusion on TPUs and GPUs for faster inference you can leverage JAX/Flax.
Running the pipeline with default PNDMScheduler
import jax
import numpy as np
from flax.jax_utils import replicate
from flax.training.common_utils import shard
from diffusers import FlaxStableDiffusionPipeline
pipeline, params = FlaxStableDiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained(
"CompVis/stable-diffusion-v1-4", revision="flax", dtype=jax.numpy.bfloat16
)
prompt = "a photo of an astronaut riding a horse on mars"
prng_seed = jax.random.PRNGKey(0)
num_inference_steps = 50
num_samples = jax.device_count()
prompt = num_samples * [prompt]
prompt_ids = pipeline.prepare_inputs(prompt)
# shard inputs and rng
params = replicate(params)
prng_seed = jax.random.split(prng_seed, num_samples)
prompt_ids = shard(prompt_ids)
images = pipeline(prompt_ids, params, prng_seed, num_inference_steps, jit=True).images
images = pipeline.numpy_to_pil(np.asarray(images.reshape((num_samples,) + images.shape[-3:])))
Note:
If you are limited by TPU memory, please make sure to load the FlaxStableDiffusionPipeline in bfloat16 precision instead of the default float32 precision as done above. You can do so by telling diffusers to load the weights from "bf16" branch.
import jax
import numpy as np
from flax.jax_utils import replicate
from flax.training.common_utils import shard
from diffusers import FlaxStableDiffusionPipeline
pipeline, params = FlaxStableDiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained(
"CompVis/stable-diffusion-v1-4",Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.
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
pipe = DiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained("CompVis/stable-diffusion-v1-4", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16).to("cuda")
image = pipe(prompt="a red bicycle on a cobbled street").images[0]
image.save("/workspace/out.png")