Text to image
Make an image from a written prompt.
Also called “image generation”, “text-to-image”, “txt2img”, “diffusion”, “stable diffusion”, “flux”, “ai image generator”, “generate images”.
Variants
Every text to image model
| Model | Accuracy (paper under it) | 4090 per image (size and steps under it) | VRAM peak | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLUX.2 [klein]2 sizes: 4b, base-4b | 0.82 GenEval | 1.30 s1024x1024 · 4 steps | 20.0 GiB | Commercial OK |
| Lumina-Image 2.01 size: 2.0 | 0.63 GenEval0.73 GenEval overall paper | 13.7 s1024x1024 · 50 steps | 15.3 GiB | Conditional |
| PixArt-Σ1 size: xl-2-1024-ms | 0.55 GenEval | 2.47 s1024x1024 · 20 steps | 16.9 GiB | Conditional |
| Playground v2.51 size: 1024px-aesthetic | 0.59 GenEval | 5.99 s1024x1024 · 50 steps | 14.6 GiB | Conditional |
| Sana 1.52 sizes: 1.6b, 4.8b | 0.81 GenEval0.82 GenEval overall paper | 1.53 s1024x1024 · 20 steps | 12.1 GiB | Conditional |
| Sana-Sprint1 size: 1.6b | 0.75 GenEval0.77 GenEval overall paper | 0.27 s1024x1024 · 2 steps | 12.0 GiB | Conditional |
| SDXL-Lightning1 size: 4step | 0.54 GenEval | 0.56 s1024x1024 · 4 steps | 14.4 GiB | Conditional |
| SDXL-Turbo1 size: 1.0 | 0.55 GenEval | 0.15 s512x512 · 1 step | 9.3 GiB | Conditional |
| Stable Diffusion 1.51 size: v1-5 | 0.43 GenEval | 1.39 s512x512 · 50 steps | 4.2 GiB | Conditional |
| Stable Diffusion XL1 size: base | 0.54 GenEval | 5.97 s1024x1024 · 50 steps | 14.6 GiB | Conditional |
| Z-Image2 sizes: turbo, base | 0.76 GenEval0.82 GenEval overall paper | 4.50 s1024x1024 · 9 steps | 22.7 GiB | Commercial OK |