Verified AI Launch Profile
Introducing Stable Diffusion 3.5
Stability AI released Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large and Large Turbo as open model weights, followed by Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium.
At a glance
Launch Snapshot
- Company
- Stability AI
- Launch date
- October 22, 2024
- Launch type
- Open-Source Release
- Category
- AI Image Tools, AI Open-Weight Models
- Audience
- AI Artists, Creators, Developers, Startups
- Pricing
- Weights are available under the Stability AI Community License, with API and enterprise licensing options.
- Free plan
- Yes
- API
- Yes
- Open weights/source
- Yes
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Verification & Sources
- Status
- Verified
- Source links
- 4
- Freshness
- Verified June 8, 2026
- Last verified
- June 8, 2026
- Last updated
- June 11, 2026
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Kingy Scores
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- Launch Score
- 8.5 / 10
- Demo Quality
- 3.0 / 10
- YouTube Potential
- Medium
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Kingy AI Take
A core open-weight image model record because it affects builders who want more control than closed image APIs allow.
Who it is for
Image creators, app builders, researchers, and teams that want customizable image models with downloadable weights.
What feels promising
Open weights, Hugging Face distribution, and consumer-hardware-oriented variants make the release broadly usable.
What feels unproven
The license terms and quality tradeoffs need to be checked carefully for commercial deployment.
Traction notes
Stable Diffusion 3.5 addressed creator and developer demand for a stronger, more customizable open image model family.
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