Alternatives to ERNIE-Image

ERNIE-Image alternatives

ERNIE-Image's smallest published quantization is 2.00 GiB. The models below do the same job with a different trade — less memory, comparable size, or a more permissive licence.

From the file· sizes from summed file bytes

Meaningfully smaller

under 70% of its smallest quantization
ModelParamsSmallestQuantsLicence
wai-nsfw-illustrious-v110-sdxl2.6B1.39 GiB9—
stable-diffusion-3.5-medium2.5B1.35 GiB21other
stable-diffusion-3-medium7.9B1.20 GiB18other
Anima2.1B0.95 GiB23other
stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.02.6B1.39 GiB2other

Comparable in size

within ±40%, so a like-for-like swap
ModelParamsSmallestQuantsLicence
Krea-2-Turbo12.8B2.78 GiB33other
FLUX.2-klein-4B3.9B1.70 GiB21apache-2.0
Z-Image-Turbo6.2B2.41 GiB30apache-2.0
Krea-2-Raw12.8B2.34 GiB29other
stable-diffusion-v1-5860M1.46 GiB7creativeml-openrail-m
Pony_Diffusion_V6_XL2.6B2.61 GiB2—
FLUX.2-klein-base-4B3.9B1.70 GiB15apache-2.0
Janus-Pro-7B7.4B1.61 GiB36mit

More permissively licensed

licences that allow commercial use
ModelParamsSmallestQuantsLicence
Qwen-Image-Edit-251120.4B4.13 GiB36apache-2.0
FLUX.2-klein-4B3.9B1.70 GiB21apache-2.0
Z-Image-Turbo6.2B2.41 GiB30apache-2.0
Chroma8.9B3.99 GiB273apache-2.0
FLUX.1-schnell11.9B3.73 GiB37apache-2.0
Qwen-Image-251220.4B6.83 GiB17apache-2.0
Qwen-Image-Edit-250920.4B6.50 GiB51apache-2.0
Qwen-Image20.4B6.58 GiB43apache-2.0