LLM Reference

Stable Diffusion XL

Released
2023-07-26
Last refreshed
2026-06-29
Status
Researched 90d ago
Open weightsCommercial use: conditionalMultimodalVision

Stable Diffusion XL is worth evaluating for vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating vision
  • Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route

Do not use it for

  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Specifications
Released
2023-07-26
Parameters
3K
Architecture
Diffusion
Specialization
image-generation
Openness
Open weights
License
Stability AI Community LicenseCommercial use: conditional
Weights
Available
Code
Unknown
Created by

Open-source generative AI models.

London, United Kingdom
Founded 2020
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
-
Input / 1M
-

Cheapest of 1 route · Prodia

About

Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) is Stability AI's large-scale image generation model, released July 2023. It features a two-stage pipeline (base model + optional refiner), dual text encoders (OpenCLIP and CLIP-L), and a larger UNet backbone producing higher-resolution, more detailed images than SD 1.5. SDXL became a widely used base for community fine-tunes and supports LoRA, ControlNet, and inpainting.

Stable Diffusion XL is an open-weight model. The structured metadata tracks multimodal input. This page tracks provider routes through Prodia. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Stable Diffusion XL yet.

Top use-case fit

Vision

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
Prodia--
ServerlessPartial

Capabilities

Multimodal

Benchmark peer barsfor Vision

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

Frequently asked questions

When was Stable Diffusion XL released?

Stable Diffusion XL was released on 2023-07-26.

Which providers offer Stable Diffusion XL?

Stable Diffusion XL is available from 1 provider: Prodia.