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Understood as: generate, product, images, diffusion, text-to-image, image-generation · task: text to image

Best models

Ranked by fit to the task, adoption and reported results. Hosted models are paid APIs; the rest can be downloaded.

1
molbal/ideogram-4-gguf
matches diffusion, text-to-image, image-generation · built for text to image · 94,144 downloads · other license
2
cyberdelia/CyberRealisticPony
matches diffusion, text-to-image, image-generation · built for text to image · 78,143 downloads · creativeml-openrail-m license
3
ideogram-ai/ideogram-4-fp8
matches diffusion, text-to-image, image-generation · built for text to image · 55,382 downloads · other license
4
cyberdelia/CyberRealisticXL
matches diffusion, text-to-image, image-generation · built for text to image · 50,387 downloads · creativeml-openrail-m license
5
stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0
matches diffusion, text-to-image · built for text to image · 4,276,998 downloads · openrail++ license
6
cyberdelia/CyberRealistic
matches diffusion, text-to-image, image-generation · built for text to image · 33,694 downloads · creativeml-openrail-m license

Research to read

1
DeBoneDiT: Depth-Driven Conditional Bridge Diffusion Transformers for Bone Suppression in Chest X-Ray Images
matches images, diffusion
2
ScenePercept: Scenario-Conditioned Perceptual Assessment of Real-World User-Generated Content Images
matches generate, images
3
LiFi: LiDAR Generation from Multi-View Images via Geometric and Semantic Collaborative Guidance
matches images
4
Image Tokenizers Should Be Trained Between Images
matches images
5
Regime-Aware Router Learning for Multi-Domain Medical Image Generation with Diffusion Experts
matches diffusion
6
MiniDog: Dog-Breed Text-to-image Flow Matching from Pretraining to Fine-Tuning on 4 Consumer GPUs
matches text-to-image

Open-source tools and code

1
Sana
matches diffusion, text-to-image, image-generation · 9,329 GitHub stars · Apache-2.0 license
2
ComfyUI-LTXVideo
matches diffusion, text-to-image, image-generation · 4,196 GitHub stars
3
stable-diffusion-webui
matches diffusion, image-generation · 165,057 GitHub stars · AGPL-3.0 license
4
airunner
matches diffusion, text-to-image, image-generation · 1,318 GitHub stars · GPL-3.0 license
5
unsloth
matches diffusion, image-generation · 78,016 GitHub stars · Apache-2.0 license
6
LocalAI
matches diffusion, image-generation · 49,540 GitHub stars · MIT license

Datasets

1
lioooox/T2I-CoReBench-Images
matches images, diffusion, text-to-image · 11,368 downloads · apache-2.0 license
2
Goku-OpenLab/gpt-image-2-prompts-datasets
matches text-to-image, image-generation · 116,271 downloads · cc-by-4.0 license
3
MeiGen-AI/GenEvolve-Data-Bench
matches text-to-image, image-generation · 42,955 downloads · apache-2.0 license
4
picbreeder-vlm/picbreeder-vlm-archive
matches generate, images · 41,513 downloads · cc-by-nc-4.0 license
5
huggingface/documentation-images
matches images · 3,792,911 downloads · cc-by-nc-sa-4.0 license
6
Goku-OpenLab/nano-banana-pro-prompts-datasets
matches text-to-image, image-generation · 26,456 downloads · cc-by-4.0 license

Rankings are computed from public metadata and are a starting point, not a guarantee. Always test on your own data and check each license. Ask the community if you are unsure.