Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Turbo

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Image Generation

Distilled 4-step variant of SD3.5 Large. 8B params, ~4x faster inference at competitive quality.

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TL;DR·Last updated May 16, 2026

Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Turbo is image generation AI model from Custom, priced at €0.000 per 1M input tokens with a unknown context window.

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Pricing

Price per Generation
Per generation€0.04

API Integration

Use our OpenAI-compatible API to integrate Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Turbo into your application.

Install
npm install railwail
JavaScript / TypeScript
import 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);
Specifications
Price
€0.04
Developer
Custom
Category
Image Generation
Supported Formats
text
Tags
stability
text-to-image
open-weights
fast

Deep dive — Stability AI's Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Turbo

About Stability AI
Founded 2019 · London, UK

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 — Large (8.1B), Large Turbo (distilled few-step) and Medium (2.5B) — all under a permissive Community License.

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Architecture
MMDiT distilled to 4 steps via Adversarial Diffusion Distillation

Stable 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 — 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 — 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
What it can do
  • 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.
Training & License

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 — 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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