SDXL-Lightning is ByteDance's fast text-to-image model that produces high-quality images in 4 steps 3. It can be run through Replicate's cloud API, where the 4-step ByteDance Lightning SDXL model is listed 13; SGLang is a general serving framework for diffusion models and is not a direct way to run this model 2.
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Open-source serving framework that supports diffusion models for image and video generation across hardware platforms, so it can host SDXL-type models self-hosted 2.
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- 1Replicate - Run AI with an APIreplicate.com · read 2026-10-29
- 2SGLang – Fast, Open-Source LLM & Multimodal Serving Frameworksglang.io · read 2026-10-29
- 3bytedance/sdxl-lightning-4step: declares "bytedance/sdxl-lightning-4step" (the record we read and signed)unfragile.ai · read 2026-10-24
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bytedance/sdxl-lightning-4step · bytedance/sdxl-lightning-4step verified and signed
SDXL-Lightning by ByteDance: a fast text-to-image model that makes high-quality images in 4 steps
lucataco/ssd-1b · lucataco/ssd-1b verified and signed
Segmind Stable Diffusion Model (SSD-1B) is a distilled 50% smaller version of SDXL, offering a 60% speedup while maintaining high-quality text-to-image generation capabilities
lucataco/sdxl · lucataco/sdxl verified and signed
SDXL v1.0 - A text-to-image generative AI model that creates beautiful images
lucataco/dreamshaper-xl-lightning · lucataco/dreamshaper-xl-lightning verified and signed
dreamshaper-xl-lightning is a Stable Diffusion model that has been fine-tuned on SDXL
shefa/turbo-enigma · shefa/turbo-enigma verified and signed
SDXL based text-to-image model applying Distribution Matching Distillation, supporting zero-shot identity generation in 2-5s. https://ai-visionboard.com
stability-ai/sdxl · stability-ai/sdxl verified and signed
A text-to-image generative AI model that creates beautiful images
sdxl-based/epicrealismxl-lightning-hades · sdxl-based/epicrealismxl-lightning-hades verified and signed
Fast and high quality lightning model, epiCRealismXL-Lightning Hades
asiryan/sdxl · asiryan/sdxl verified and signed
SDXL Model (Text2Img, Img2Img and Inpainting)
jasonljin/sdxl-betterup · jasonljin/sdxl-betterup verified and signed
BetterUp Stable Diffusion XL Image Model
lucataco/ip_adapter-sdxl-face · lucataco/ip_adapter-sdxl-face verified and signed
The image prompt adapter is designed to enable a pretrained text-to-image diffusion model to generate SDXL images with an image prompt
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