Awesome Image Generation Model

Awesome Image Generation Model

A curated list of open-source image generation models with release dates, parameters, teams, and links.

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Overview

This repository collects major open-source image generation models from 2022 to 2026, including diffusion models, autoregressive models, and hybrid architectures. Each entry includes the model name, release date, parameter count, releasing team, open-source link, and technical report.


2022

Model Name Release Date Parameters Team Open Source Link Technical Report
Stable Diffusion v1.5 2022-08-22 0.9 B CompVis (LMU Munich), Runway, Stability AI GitHub arXiv
Stable Diffusion v2.1 2022-12-07 0.9 B Stability AI HuggingFace None

2023

Model Name Release Date Parameters Team Open Source Link Technical Report
DeepFloyd IF 2023-04-29 4.3 B Stability AI GitHub Reproduction of Imagen
Stable Diffusion XL 2023-07-26 2.6 B Stability AI HuggingFace arXiv
PixArt-α 2023-11-30 0.6 B Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab GitHub arXiv

2024

Model Name Release Date Parameters Team Open Source Link Technical Report
Playground v2.5 2024-02-28 2.6 B
(Stable Diffusion XL)
Playground HuggingFace arXiv
PixArt-Σ 2024-04-07 0.6 B Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab GitHub arXiv
Lumina-Next 2024-05-12 2 B Alpha-VLLM (OpenGVLab at Shanghai AI Lab) GitHub arXiv
Chameleon 2024-05-16 7 B / 34 B Meta GitHub arXiv
Hunyuan-DiT 2024-05-22 1.5 B Hunyuan Team, Tencent GitHub arXiv
Stable Diffusion 3 2024-06-12 2 B Stability AI HuggingFace arXiv
Kolors 2024-07-06 2.6 B
(SDXL UNet)
Kolors Team, Kuaishou GitHub Paper
FLUX.1 2024-08-01 12 B Black Forest Labs GitHub Blog
OmniGen 2024-09-17 3.8 B VectorSpaceLab, Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence GitHub arXiv
Emu3 2024-09-27 8.5 B Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence GitHub arXiv
CogView 3 2024-09-29 3 B Zhipu HuggingFace arXiv
SANA v1: 2024-10-21
v1.5: 2025-01-29
Sprint: 2025-03-14
v1: 1.6 B
v1.5: 4.8 B
NVIDIA Research Projects GitHub arXiv v1
arXiv v1.5
arXiv Sprint
Stable Diffusion 3.5 2024-10-22 2.5 B / 8 B Stability AI HuggingFace Blog
Infinity 2024-12-05 2 B / 8 B ByteDance GitHub arXiv
Tokenflow 2024-12-09 13 B / 14 B ByteDance GitHub arXiv

2025

Model Name Release Date Parameters Team Open Source Link Technical Report
Janus-Pro 2025-01-27 1.5 B / 7 B DeepSeek GitHub arXiv
Lumina-Image 2.0 2025-01-31 2.6 B Alpha-VLLM (OpenGVLab at Shanghai AI Lab) GitHub arXiv
CogView 4 2025-03-04 6 B Zhipu GitHub HuggingFace
HiDream-I1-Full 2025-04-07 17 B HiDream GitHub arXiv
Step1X-Edit 2025-04-25 12 B StepFun GitHub arXiv
BLIP3-o 2025-05-14 4 B / 8 B Salesforce Research GitHub arXiv
BAGEL 2025-05-20 14 B (7 B active) Seed Team, ByteDance GitHub arXiv
MMaDA 2025-05-21 8 B (LLaDA) Seed Team, ByteDance GitHub arXiv
FLUX.1-Kontext 2025-05-29 12 B Black Forest Labs HuggingFace Blog / arXiv
UniWorld V1 2025-06-03 7 B Qwen 2.5 VL + 12 B FLUX.1 dev Peking University GitHub arXiv
OmniGen2 2025-06-16 3 B autoregressive + 4 B diffusion Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence GitHub arXiv
Show-o2 2025-06-19 1.5 B / 7 B Show Lab, National University of Singapore GitHub arXiv
Ovis-U1 2025-06-28 3 B Model-as-a-Service Team, Alibaba Token Hub GitHub arXiv
Chroma1 2025-07-29 8.9 B
(built on FLUX.1 architecture)
lodestones HuggingFace None
Qwen-Image 2025-08-04 20 B Qwen Team, Alibaba GitHub Blog / arXiv
Qwen-Image-Edit 2025-08-18
v2509: 2025-09-22
v2511: 2025-11-22
20 B Qwen Team, Alibaba HuggingFace arXiv
NextStep-1 v1: 2025-08-18
v1.1: 2025-12-24
14 B StepFun GitHub arXiv
Cosmos 2 2025-08-21 0.6 B / 2 B / 14 B NVIDIA Research Projects GitHub NVIDIA Lab
SRPO 2025-09-08 12 B
(FLUX.1 dev)
Hunyuan Team, Tencent GitHub arXiv
Hunyuan Image 2.1 2025-09-08 17 B Hunyuan Team, Tencent GitHub None
Lumina-DiMOO 2025-09-10 8 B Alpha-VLLM (OpenGVLab at Shanghai AI Lab) GitHub arXiv
Hunyuan Image 3.0 2025-09-28 80 B (13 B active) Hunyuan Team, Tencent GitHub arXiv
DreamOmni2 2025-10-09 12 B
(LoRA on FLUX Kontext)
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, JIA Lab GitHub arXiv
BLIP3o-NEXT 2025-10-17 3 B Salesforce Research GitHub arXiv
UniWorld-V2 2025-10-19 12 B / 20 B Peking University GitHub arXiv
FIBO 2025-10-29 8 B BRIA AI GitHub arXiv
Emu3.5 2025-10-30 34 B Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence GitHub arXiv
InfinityStar 2025-11-07 8 B ByteDance GitHub arXiv
PRX 2025-11-11
PRXpixel: 2026-06-11
1.3 B Photoroom GitHub HuggingFace Blog
Kandinsky 5.0 Lite T2I 2025-11-15 6 B Kandinsky Lab GitHub arXiv
FLUX 2 2025-11-25 32 B Black Forest Labs HuggingFace Blog / Research
Ovis-Image 2025-11-29 7 B Model-as-a-Service Team, Alibaba Token Hub GitHub arXiv
Z-Image 2025-11-26 7 B Tongyi-MAI, Alibaba GitHub arXiv
NewBie-image-Exp0.1 2025-12-05 3.5 B NewBieAI-Lab GitHub None
LongCat Image 2025-12-05 6 B LongCat Team, Meituan GitHub arXiv
Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 2025-12-23 20 B Qwen Team, Alibaba HuggingFace arXiv
DreamOmni3 2025-12-27 12 B
(LoRA on FLUX Kontext)
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, JIA Lab GitHub arXiv
Qwen-Image-2512 2025-12-31 20 B Qwen Team, Alibaba HuggingFace arXiv

2026

Model Name Release Date Parameters Team Open Source Link Technical Report
UniPic-3 2026-01-09 20 B
(Qwen Image)
Skywork GitHub arXiv
GLM Image 2026-01-14 9 B autoregressive + 7 B diffusion Zhipu GitHub Blog
FLUX 2 Klein 2026-01-15 4 B / 9 B Black Forest Labs HuggingFace Blog
TeleStyle v1: 2026-01-28
v2: 2026-06-10
20 B
(LoRA on Qwen-Image-Edit)
Institute of Artificial Intelligence, China Telecom (TeleAI) GitHub v1 / GitHub v2 arXiv v1 / arXiv v2
Qwen-Image 2.0 2026-02-10 / 2026-04-22 / 2026-06-22 7 B Qwen Team, Alibaba None arXiv
Ming 2.0 2026-02-11 100 B (6 B active) inclusionAI, Ant Group GitHub arXiv / arXiv
FireRed-Image-Edit v1: 2026-02-14 /
v1.1: 2026-03-03
20 B
(LoRA on Qwen-Image-Edit)
Super Intelligence Team, Xiaohongshu GitHub arXiv
BitDance 2026-02-17 14 B ByteDance GitHub arXiv
InternVL-U 2026-03-06 4 B Shanghai AI Laboratory GitHub arXiv
DreamLite 2026-03-30 0.39 B Intelligent Creation Lab, ByteDance GitHub arXiv
JoyAI Image edit: 2026-04-02
edit-plus: 2026-06-23
16 B Joy Future Academy, JD GitHub arXiv
PixelDiT 2026-04-07 1.3 B NVIDIA GitHub arXiv
Nucleus-Image 2026-04-14 17 B (2 B active) Nucleus AI HuggingFace arXiv
GRN 2026-04-14 2 B ByteDance GitHub arXiv
ERNIE Image 2026-04-15 8 B Baidu GitHub Blog
SenseNova-U1 2026-04-27 8 B SenseNova GitHub arXiv
HiDream-O1-Image 2026-05-08 8 B HiDream GitHub arXiv
Anima 2026-05-15 2 B CircleStone Labs HuggingFace None
Lance 2026-05-18 3 B Intelligent Creation Lab, ByteDance GitHub arXiv
Lens 2026-05-20 3.8 B Microsoft HuggingFace arXiv
Bonsai Image 2026-05-26 1-bit FLUX.2 Klein 4 B PrismML HuggingFace None
Cosmos 3 2026-05-31 64 B NVIDIA Research Projects GitHub NVIDIA Lab
Ideogram 4 2026-06-03 9.3 B Ideogram GitHub Blog
i1 2026-06-09 3 B Princeton University GitHub arXiv
Boogu-Image-0.1 2026-06-16 10 B Celia Lab, Huawei GitHub arXiv
MiniT2I 2026-06-17 B/16: 0.258 B
L/16: 0.912 B
MIT (Kaiming He) GitHub Project Page
SeFi Image 2026-06-21 1 B / 2 B / 5 B SeFi Image Team GitHub arXiv
Krea 2 2026-06-23 12 B Krea AI GitHub Blog
SenseNova-Vision 2026-07-08 14 B (7 B active, BAGEL backbone) SenseNova GitHub arXiv

License

This repository is for informational purposes only. Each model has its own license — please refer to the respective open-source links for license details.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! If you’d like to add a new model or update an existing entry, please submit a pull request.


Awesome Image Generation Model
https://huan-yin.github.io/2026/07/14/awesome-image-generation-model/
作者
李相越
发布于
2026年7月14日
许可协议