Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Turbo
Distilled 4-step variant of SD3.5 Large. 8B params, ~4x faster inference at competitive quality.
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Turbo is image generation AI model from Custom, priced at β¬0.000 per 1M input tokens with a unknown context window.
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API Integration
Use our OpenAI-compatible API to integrate Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Turbo into your application.
npm install railwailimport railwail from "railwail";
const rw = railwail("YOUR_API_KEY");
const images = await rw.run("sd-3-5-large-turbo-stability", "A beautiful sunset over Tokyo");
console.log(images[0].url);
// Or use the image() method for full control
const res = await rw.image("sd-3-5-large-turbo-stability", "A cat in space", {
size: "1024x1024",
n: 1,
});
console.log(res.data[0].url);Deep dive β Stability AI's Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Turbo
Stability AI was founded in 2019 by Emad Mostaque (CEO until March 2024; succeeded by Prem Akkaraju) and is headquartered in London. The company sponsored and released the original Stable Diffusion (2022, in partnership with CompVis/LMU Munich and Runway), SDXL (2023), SD3 (2024) and SD 3.5 (Oct 2024). After the original Latent-Diffusion team left in mid-2024 to found Black Forest Labs, Stability AI was restructured under new ownership led by Sean Parker. The October 2024 SD 3.5 release included three variants β Large (8.1B), Large Turbo (distilled few-step) and Medium (2.5B) β all under a permissive Community License.
Visit Stability AI βStable Diffusion 3.5 Large Turbo is the few-step distilled variant of SD 3.5 Large, released October 2024 by Stability AI. The architecture is identical to SD 3.5 Large β an 8.1B parameter Multimodal Diffusion Transformer (MMDiT) with CLIP-L, CLIP-G and T5-XXL text encoders, trained with rectified-flow on a large curated image-text corpus β but Turbo applies Adversarial Diffusion Distillation (Sauer et al. 2023, ADD) to compress the inference schedule from 28-50 steps down to just 4 steps. ADD trains a student model against a teacher U-Net via a hybrid score-distillation + adversarial GAN loss, preserving high-resolution quality while drastically reducing sampling cost. Stability AI reports SD 3.5 Large Turbo achieves quality close to the full Large model at roughly 4-7x faster inference, making it a strong fit for interactive applications and batch generation. The model is open-weights under the same Stability Community License.
- Parameters
- 8.1B parameters
- Context
- 256 tokens
- 4-step inference for 4-7x faster generation than SD 3.5 Large
- Quality close to full SD 3.5 Large (8.1B MMDiT)
- Open weights with permissive Community License
- Three text encoders (CLIP-L, CLIP-G, T5-XXL)
- 1024x1024 native resolution
- Compatible with the ControlNet, LoRA and IP-Adapter ecosystem
- Self-hostable on consumer GPUs with quantisation
- Best for: interactive creative apps, real-time previews, batch pipelines, on-prem chat-with-image.
Same pretraining as SD 3.5 Large, followed by ADD distillation with an adversarial loss against the SD 3.5 Large teacher.
License: Stability AI Community License β free for non-commercial and commercial use up to $1M annual revenue; enterprise license required above that threshold.
Known limitations
- Quality slightly below non-Turbo SD 3.5 Large on fine detail
- 4-step sampling reduces fidelity on complex compositions
- Open weights have no built-in safety filter
- Commercial-revenue threshold ($1M) for free use
Frequently asked questions
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