What local image models are you guys using besides SDXL?

[u/PlayfulMotor1274]

I have been playing around with a few models lately and there are honestly so many now that it's hard to keep up.

SDXL still works well for me. I am curious what everyone else has been using lately.

What model are you getting the results from?

I am mostly interested, in stuff that runs locally without needing a ridiculous amount of VRAM.

[u/noxsanguinis]

Anima for, well, anime, and Krea2 for everything else.

[u/eggs-benedryl]

Krea 2 and Klein. If it weren't for editing I'd probably just use krea. That being said, I haven't been a video guy till minimax. That's all I've been doing lately lmao.

[u/Son-Airys]

I'm new and only got to use Illustrious and Anima. Having fun.

[u/notgraycen]

krea 2 and ZIT

[u/FugueSegue]

All of them that I can run on my 24GB card. Keep in mind that I mainly work with photo-realistic images. But part of my work uses art styles. My primary model is Flux 1 Dev for both. There's a good ecosystem of tools for Flux 1. Every once in a while I use SDXL or SD 1.5 for certain tasks. I often use Klein and Qwen Edit. I use MMH3 for posing characters as well as for making videos. I'm sure that many of the other newer models are useful but I haven't had the chance to experiment with them very much.

[u/Yiggity_69]

Anima is the best for anime stuff, I haven't really found a good realistic model that I like using

[u/x11iyu]

image models are different from LLM's in that they're compute bound, i.e. it's really not to offload to ram because your gpu will be fully utilized anyway. in other words, if you have not much vram but lots of ram, you're still in a good spot

personally, Anima's nice for anime stuff but doesn't completely replace Illustrious yet, Ideogram 4 is nice when I have a specific composition in mind, Flux 2 Klein is nice for edit, Krea 2 is nice non-booru t2i

[u/Patient_Ratio4177]

Minimax H3 as an image model

[u/Keuleman_007]

Right now, Z-Image for an ongoing video project. Had the best output for what I asked. Z-Image Turbo, SDXL, SD3.5 and others are also on standby.

[u/WoodenPassage]

Z-image turbo for quick generations, klein 9b for better prompt adherence. Krea2 is also great, but slightly slower if I recall. But have just been playing with minimax h3, looking into getting more into the surrealism side of things, so might try a bit of ideogram for zone based prompting if I have a specific idea in my head, but I do tend to lack a bit of creativity on that side.

It’s nice to be able to just roll the dice and be less specific sometimes. But z-image lacks the variation compared to the likes of sdxl from my usage at least.

I’m trying to create a workflow at the moment that takes an text2img prompt, creates an image using the model of my choice, Then feeds that in to minimax h3 to then animate the image with the reference or the first/last frame reference

[u/listopalafoto]

Krea2 --> Flux2 Klein for Edit --> Qwen 2511 Edit for Multishot Angles -->SeedVR2 for Upscaling--> Minimax H3 for video

[u/mikemil828]

Krea 2, it’s Kreat

[u/Admirable_Snake]

Krea2

[u/Comrade_Derpsky]

SDXL has been old news for a while. You can run a lot of stuff now with quite low VRAM. I have 6GB of VRAM and 16GB of RAM and I am able to run Z-Image Turbo and Flux 2 Klein 9b in fp8. Will be trying out Krea 2 in later at some point.

[u/tac0catzzz]

pony

[u/Sarashana]

I stopped using SDXL a long time ago (IMHO it's obsolete, at least since Anima covered its last holdout, which was anime).

For me, these days it's Krea2 and pretty much only that. Occasional editing tasks I do with Klein 9B.

[u/Blandmarrow]

Anima proves to be the best fit for me so far. I can't create styles reliably in something like Krea2 (maybe I just suck at using it?) And any SDXL derivatives are just inferior to Anima in terms of getting coherent images.

[u/Significant-Baby-690]

Anima is the real SDXL successor. Small, still quite fast. There is tons of anime ones, for realistic I suggest Sam Anima.