SDXL Lightning

Image generation · by Bytedance
🔓 Open-weight

Ranking

Image generation
#143 of 153
904 ELO · 13,502 votes
434 ELO behind the leader (GPT Image 2 (high))

Run it yourself

SDXL Lightning has open weights you can download and run on your own hardware. ~8 GB VRAM recommended · License: CreativeML Open RAIL++. Works with AUTOMATIC1111, ComfyUI, Fooocus.

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GPT Image 2 (high)#1 · OpenAIReve 2.1#2 · ReveMAI-Image-2.5#3 · Microsoft AIHiDream-O1-Image-1.5#4 · HiDreamNano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)#5 · GoogleGPT Image 1.5 (high)#6 · OpenAINano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)#7 · GoogleRiverflow 2.0#8 · Sourceful
How this is ranked: ELO scores from blind human preference (people compare two outputs and pick the one they prefer) — rankings by Artificial Analysis. Open-weight means the model can be downloaded and run on your own hardware; where we cannot confirm it, we mark the model unverified rather than guess. See the full media model leaderboard.