stability-ai/stable-diffusion/stable-diffusion-3-5-large
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Stability AI · Image
Stable Diffusion models: Versions, specs, GPU requirements & hosting
Stability AI Stable Diffusion spans established and current image-generation releases whose checkpoint formats, licenses and runtime paths differ materially.
Overview and history
Stable Diffusion is an official Stability AI model family represented here through independently verified release, checkpoint, license, runtime and hardware evidence. Stability AI Stable Diffusion spans established and current image-generation releases whose checkpoint formats, licenses and runtime paths differ materially. Current public releases are grouped by the Image Generation tracks so sibling sizes and specialist branches are not presented as false chronological generations.
FusionPointAI currently tracks 3 certified public Stable Diffusion releases. The catalogue preserves release dates and evaluates Current, Recent, Previous and Legacy status within each model track rather than by database insertion order.
Mature image ecosystem
Multiple generation tiers
Broad Diffusers support
Architecture and model range
This Image generation family has 3 source-certified public releases. Architecture, parameter counts, and pipeline details are shown only when the official source publishes them; language-model-only context and KV-cache assumptions are not applied.
Public releases3
Model tracks1
Current generationStable Diffusion 3.5 Medium
Last verified2026-08-26T00:00:00.000000Z
Generations, tracks and variants
General
Stable Diffusion 3.5
Current generation 3 sibling variantsStable Diffusion 3.5 Large
8.1B parameters · N/A / Not directly comparable context
Image · Dense
Multimodal diffusion transformer
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Turbo
8.1B parameters · N/A / Not directly comparable context
Image · Dense
Multimodal diffusion transformer
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium
2.5B parameters · N/A / Not directly comparable context
Image · Dense
MMDiT-X diffusion transformer
Deployment ecosystem
Choose a specific Stable Diffusion release and certified checkpoint before sizing hardware. FusionPointAI rejects unknown runtime configurations and applies workload-specific memory rules before separating compatible hardware from rentable inventory.
Validate the exact checkpoint, license, runtime, precision, input and output dimensions, batch size, and GPU memory. Resource sizing uses rules appropriate to Image generation workloads.
Common use cases
Private Image generation workloads
Controlled model evaluation
Production deployment planning
License overview
Licenses are certified per release, not inferred from the provider. Review the release page before commercial deployment because terms can differ between generations and variants.
Commercial-use status is a source-backed catalogue classification, not legal advice. Follow the linked official license and attribution requirements.
Release timeline
stability-ai/stable-diffusion/stable-diffusion-3-5-medium
Source details
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stability-ai/stable-diffusion/stable-diffusion-3-5-large-turbo
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Source revision: 9a4937caa8aad7e5a78e56bf8427000fead8e456eeba7af772c64d16aa0e1702
Frequently asked questions
Which Stable Diffusion release is current?
Current releases are Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large, Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium, Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Turbo, evaluated within their respective tracks.
Can Stable Diffusion be self-hosted?
Only releases with a verified official checkpoint and supported runtime configuration are presented as deployable.
Which GPU should run Stable Diffusion?
GPU selection depends on the exact variant, checkpoint precision, context length and concurrency; use the release hardware recommendations rather than the family name alone.
Official references
Last verified: 2026-08-26