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Stable Diffusion

Stability AI · #18 most active of 19 in Image

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A family of downloadable image models with a large ecosystem of fine-tunes and tooling.

Current version

3.5 Large

Entry cost

Free weights, hosted API usage-based

Changes / 30d

0

Capabilities

  • Open weights
  • LoRA fine-tuning
  • ControlNet ecosystem
  • Local inference
  • Commercial licence

Pricing

  • Self-hosted

    Free

  • API credits

    usage-based

    Free

  • Enterprise licence

    custom

    Free

Entry price over time

Not enough pricing history yet — we start charting from the second observation.

Geek mode

Models under the hood

  • Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large

    Stability AI

    disclosed

  • SDXL

    Stability AI

    disclosed

Context window

n/a

Public API

yes

Multi-model routing

no

Stack signals

  • PyTorch
  • Diffusers
  • ComfyUI

Shared model stack

Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.

green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unknown

Reported scale

Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.

  • Model downloads

    30M+

    downloads

    Public registry

    Aggregated across checkpoints.

    as of May 2025·Hugging Face model hub ·inferred

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Change history

  • pricing

    Commercial licensing simplified into a single enterprise tier

    Creator, EnterpriseEnterprise licence

    source