Model reference · open weights
stable-diffusion-2-1-unclip is an open-weight image model from sd2-community. stable-diffusion-2-1-unclip (FP32) weighs 1.9 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 sd2-community/stable-diffusion-2-1-unclip model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | sd2-community |
|---|---|
| Released | 2025-11-14 |
| Parameters | 870M |
| VRAM | 1.9 GB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | One image | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| RTX 3060 12 GB | fits | 11.6 GB |
| RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | fits | 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
stabilityai/stable-diffusion-2-1-unclip, this repository and organization are not affiliated in any way with Stability AI.This model card focuses on the model associated with the Stable Diffusion v2-1 model, codebase available here.
This stable-diffusion-2-1-unclip is a finetuned version of Stable Diffusion 2.1, modified to accept (noisy) CLIP image embedding in addition to the text prompt, and can be used to create image variations (Examples) or can be chained with text-to-image CLIP priors. The amount of noise added to the image embedding can be specified via the noise_level (0 means no noise, 1000 full noise).
diffusersDeveloped by: Robin Rombach, Patrick Esser
Model type: Diffusion-based text-to-image generation model
Language(s): English
License: CreativeML Open RAIL++-M License
Model Description: This is a model that can be used to generate and modify images based on text prompts. It is a Latent Diffusion Model that uses a fixed, pretrained text encoder (OpenCLIP-ViT/H).
Resources for more information: GitHub Repository.
Cite as:
@InProceedings{Rombach_2022_CVPR,
author = {Rombach, Robin and Blattmann, Andreas and Lorenz, Dominik and Esser, Patrick and Ommer, Bj\"orn},
title = {High-Resolution Image Synthesis With Latent Diffusion Models},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
month = {June},
year = {2022},
pages = {10684-10695}
}
Using the 🤗's Diffusers library to run Stable Diffusion UnCLIP 2-1-small in a simple and efficient manner.
pip install diffusers transformers accelerate scipy safetensors
Running the pipeline (if you don't swap the scheduler it will run with the default DDIM, in this example we are swapping it to DPMSolverMultistepScheduler):
from diffusers import DiffusionPipeline
from diffusers.utils import load_image
import torch
pipe = DiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained("stabilityai/stable-diffusion-2-1-unclip-small", torch_dtype=torch.float16)
pipe.to("cuda")
# get image
url = "https://huggingface.co/datasets/hf-internal-testing/diffusers-images/resolve/main/stable_unclip/tarsila_do_amaral.png"
image = load_image(url)
# run image variation
image = pipe(image).images[0]
The model is intended for research purposes only. Possible research areas and tasks include
Excluded uses are described below.
Note: This section is originally taken from the DALLE-MINI model card, was used for Stable Diffusion v1, but applies in the same way to Stable Diffusion v2.
The model should not be used to intentionally create or disseminate images that create hostile or alienating environments for people. This includes generating images that people would foreseeably find disturbing, distressing, or offensive; or content that propagates historical or current stereotypes.
The model was not trained to be factual or true representations of people or events, and therefore using the model to generate such content is out-of-scope for the abilities of this model.
Using the model to generate content that is cruel to individuals is a misuse of this model. This includes, but is not limited to:
While the capabilities of image generation models are impressive, they can also reinforce or exacerbate social biases. Stable Diffusion was primarily trained on subsets of LAION-2B(en), which consists of images that are limited to English descriptions. Texts and images from communities and cultures that use other languages are likely to be insufficiently accounted for. This affects the over
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.
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("sd2-community/stable-diffusion-2-1-unclip", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16).to("cuda")
image = pipe(prompt="a red bicycle on a cobbled street").images[0]
image.save("/workspace/out.png")