Model reference · open weights
kandinsky-2-2-prior is an open-weight image model from kandinsky-community. kandinsky-2-2-prior (BF16) weighs 10.6 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.
For self-hosting, compare this build's requirements below with the GPU you plan to rent.
Summary of the kandinsky-community/kandinsky-2-2-prior model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | kandinsky-community |
|---|---|
| Released | 2023-06-09 |
| VRAM | 10.6 GB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | One image | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| RTX 3060 12 GB | fits (encoders offloaded) | 11.6 GB |
| RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | fits (encoders offloaded) | 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
Kandinsky inherits best practices from Dall-E 2 and Latent diffusion while introducing some new ideas.
It uses the CLIP model as a text and image encoder, and diffusion image prior (mapping) between latent spaces of CLIP modalities. This approach increases the visual performance of the model and unveils new horizons in blending images and text-guided image manipulation.
The Kandinsky model is created by Arseniy Shakhmatov, Anton Razzhigaev, Aleksandr Nikolich, Igor Pavlov, Andrey Kuznetsov and Denis Dimitrov
Kandinsky 2.2 is available in diffusers!
pip install diffusers transformers accelerate
from diffusers import AutoPipelineForText2Image
import torch
pipe = AutoPipelineForText2Image.from_pretrained("kandinsky-community/kandinsky-2-2-decoder", torch_dtype=torch.float16)
pipe = pipe.to("cuda")
prompt = "portrait of a young women, blue eyes, cinematic"
negative_prompt = "low quality, bad quality"
image = pipe(prompt=prompt, negative_prompt=negative_prompt, prior_guidance_scale =1.0, height=768, width=768).images[0]
image.save("portrait.png")
from PIL import Image
import requests
from io import BytesIO
url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion/main/assets/stable-samples/img2img/sketch-mountains-input.jpg"
response = requests.get(url)
original_image = Image.open(BytesIO(response.content)).convert("RGB")
original_image = original_image.resize((768, 512))
from diffusers import AutoPipelineForImage2Image
import torch
pipe = AutoPipelineForImage2Image.from_pretrained("kandinsky-community/kandinsky-2-2-decoder", torch_dtype=torch.float16)
pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload()
prompt = "A fantasy landscape, Cinematic lighting"
negative_prompt = "low quality, bad quality"
image = pipe(prompt=prompt, image=original_image, strength=0.3, height=768, width=768).images[0]
out.images[0].save("fantasy_land.png")
from diffusers import KandinskyV22PriorPipeline, KandinskyV22Pipeline
from diffusers.utils import load_image
import PIL
import torch
pipe_prior = KandinskyV22PriorPipeline.from_pretrained(
"kandinsky-community/kandinsky-2-2-prior", torch_dtype=torch.float16
)
pipe_prior.to("cuda")
img1 = load_image(
"https://huggingface.co/datasets/hf-internal-testing/diffusers-images/resolve/main" "/kandinsky/cat.png"
)
img2 = load_image(
"https://huggingface.co/datasets/hf-internal-testing/diffusers-images/resolve/main" "/kandinsky/starry_night.jpeg"
)
# add all the conditions we want to interpolate, can be either text or image
images_texts = ["a cat", img1, img2]
# specify the weights for each condition in images_texts
weights = [0.3, 0.3, 0.4]
# We can leave the prompt empty
prompt = ""
prior_out = pipe_prior.interpolate(images_texts, weights)
pipe = KandinskyV22Pipeline.from_pretrained("kandinsky-community/kandinsky-2-2-decoder", torch_dtype=torch.float16)
pipe.to("cuda")
image = pipe(**prior_out, height=768, width=768).images[0]
image.save("starry_cat.png")
from diffusers import AutoPipelineForInpainting
from diffusers.utils import load_image
import torch
import numpy as np
pipe = AutoPipelineForInpainting.from_pretrained("kandinsky-community/kandinsky-2-2-decoder-inpaint", torch_dtype=torch.float16)
pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload()
prompt = "a hat"
init_image = load_image(
"https://huggingface.co/datasets/hf-internal-testing/diffusers-images/resolve/main" "/kandinsky/cat.png"
)
mask = np.zeros((768, 768), dtype=np.float32)
# Let's mask out an area above the cat's head
mask[:250, 250:-250] = 1
out = pipe(
prompt=prompt,
image=init_image,
mask_image=mask,
height=768,
width=768,
num_inference_steps=150,
)
image = out.images[0]
image.save("cat_with_hat.png")
Breaking change on the mask input:
We introduced a breaking change for Kandinsky inpainting pipeline in the following pull request: https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/pull/4207. Previously we accepted a mask format where black pixels represent the masked-out area. We have changed to use white pixels to represent masks instead in order to have a unified mask format across all our pipelines. Please upgrade your inpainting code to follow the above. If you are using Kandinsky Inpaint in production. You now need to change the mask to:
# For PIL input
import PIL.ImageOps
mask = PIL.ImageOps.invert(mask)
# For PyTorch and Numpy input
mask = 1 - mask
import torch
import numpy as np
from transformers import pipeline
from diffusers.utils import load_image
from diffusers import KandinskyV22PriorPipeline, KandinskyV22ControlnetPipeline
# let's take an image and extract its depth map.
def make_hint(image, depth_estimator):
image = depth_estimator(image)["depth"]
image = np.array(image)
image = image[:, :, None]
image = np.concatenate([image, image, image], axis=2)
detected_map = torch.from_numpy(image).float() / 255.0
hint = detected_map.permute(2, 0, 1)
return hint
img = load_image(
"https://huggingface.co/datasets/hf-internal-testing/diffusers-images/resolve/main/kandinskyv22/cat.png"
).resize((768, 768))
# We can use the `depth-estimation` pipeline from transformers to process the image and retrieve its depth map.
depth_estimator = pipeline("depth-estimation")
hint = make_hint(img, depth_estimator).unsqueeze(0).half().to("cuda")
# Now, we load the prior pipeline and the text-to-image controlnet pipeline
pipe_prior = KandinskyV22PriorPipeline.from_pretrained(
"kandinsky-community/kandinsky-2-2-prior", torch_dtype=torch.float16
)
pipe_priQuoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.
How it works
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("kandinsky-community/kandinsky-2-2-prior", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16).to("cuda")
image = pipe(prompt="a red bicycle on a cobbled street").images[0]
image.save("/workspace/out.png")