stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0 vs FLUX.1-schnell-gguf

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

stabilityai · A · Open weights
Params
2.6 B
Context
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30d
4.6 M
openrail++ licence · conditional
city96 · B · Open weights
Params
—
Context
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30d
165 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0 FLUX.1-schnell-gguf
Parameters 2.6 B —
Architecture — —
Context length — —
Licence openrail++ apache-2.0
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 4,649,928 165,382
Downloads all time 131.4 M 1.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS GGUF
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-07-25 2024-08-15

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

4.7 M105 K
stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0 FLUX.1-schnell-gguf

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

FLUX.1-schnell-gguf · Q4_0 7.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0 · fp16 39.7 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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