Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large
Stability AI's 8.1B-parameter MMDiT text-to-image model from the Stable Diffusion 3.5 release, built for 1 megapixel images in styles that range from photography and 3D to painting and line art.
Overview
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large is an 8.1-billion-parameter MMDiT text-to-image model from Stability AI's 3.5 release. Its transformer blocks add Query-Key Normalization, which Stability AI introduced to stabilize training and make fine-tuning easier. Two CLIP encoders (OpenCLIP-ViT/G and CLIP-ViT/L) read up to 77 tokens each, and a T5-xxl encoder was trained with 77 and 256 tokens at different stages.
Stability AI aims the model at professional work at 1 megapixel. Its release post lists 3D, photography, painting and line art among the styles it covers, and says the model shows people with varied skin tones and features without extra prompting.
Choosing a variant: Stable Diffusion 3 Medium is the earlier 2B model of the SD3 series. Choose 3.5 Large when a single image has to follow a detailed prompt closely, since Stability AI reports it leads on prompt adherence. The default here is that kind of prompt: a tree shaped like a human profile, polluted on one half and green on the other. Go to Medium for batches of up to 20 images per run; this page has no output-count setting.
What you can build
- Technical-drawing posters like the mechanical cat schematic in the samples
- Aerial views of invented cities, such as the cliffside city sample
- Fantasy scenes like the sailing ship under a nebula or the frozen Statue of Liberty
- Editorial and concept art from paragraph-length briefs like the default prompt
Inputs
You write a prompt, which is required, and can describe unwanted traits in an optional negative prompt (prefilled with "bad quality, lowres"). Six advanced settings sit behind it. Steps default to 30 (max 500) and guidance to 7.0 (1 to 20). The seed begins at 123456, capped at 9,999,999. Width and height open at 1024 and stop at 2048 pixels. FlowMatchEulerDiscreteScheduler is the default, with seven other samplers such as DDIM and DPM-Solver Multistep available.
Outputs
Images come back at the width and height you set. All four samples here are square 1024 by 1024 renders.
Recommended settings
- Size: stay near 1 megapixel, the resolution Stability AI built the model around. 1024 by 1024 fits.
- Guidance: Stability AI's example pairs 28 steps with guidance 3.5, and its 4-bit example uses 4.5. Both are well below the 7.0 default here, so try that range first.
- Prompt order: the CLIP encoders stop at 77 tokens, so put the subject and style early in a long prompt.
- Seeds: try several. Stability AI says results for one prompt vary more across seeds by design, to keep a wide range of styles.
Limitations
- Prompts that leave details open give less predictable images, and Stability AI says aesthetic quality may vary with them.
- Stability AI's card rules out the model for accurate portrayals of real people or events.
Safety & compliance
The Stability AI Community License covers SD3.5 Large. Individuals and organizations under its annual revenue limit may use the model commercially as well as for research; anyone above that limit needs an Enterprise License. Stability AI states that users own the images they generate, and all use falls under its Acceptable Use Policy. The card adds that training-data filtering does not guarantee every harmful output is gone and asks deployers to build their own guardrails.
Example prompts
Great starting points for stable-diffusion-3.5-large.
API quick start
Run stable-diffusion-3.5-large with a single API call.
{
"prompt": "A strikingly symbolic surreal composition…",
"negativePrompt": "bad quality, lowres",
"steps": 30,
"scale": 7.0
}curl -X POST "https://api.wiro.ai/v1/Run/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-3-5-large" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_WIRO_API_KEY" \
--data-binary @- <<'JSON'
{
"prompt": "A strikingly symbolic surreal composition…",
"negativePrompt": "bad quality, lowres",
"steps": 30,
"scale": 7.0
}
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