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Chroma1-Base

Name: Chroma1-Base
Author: lodestones

Chroma1-Base is an 8.9B parameter text-to-image foundational model based on FLUX.1-schnell. It is fully Apache 2.0 licensed, ensuring that anyone can use, modify, and build upon it.

Params

8.9 B

Context

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Commercial use: allowed apache-2.0 Not gated SAFETENSORS View on Hugging Face ↗

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Can you run it?

Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.

File	Quant	Size	Est. VRAM	Verdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB
model.safetensors	bf16	45.3 GB	51.7 GB	❌ Won’t fit

Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.

Specifications

Parameters: 8.9 B
Tensor type: BF16
Licence: apache-2.0
First seen on the Hub: 2025-07-29
Training datasets: undisclosed
Added to our catalog: 2026-07-28

Compare with

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