# Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

> Three and a half billion parameters, announced from the stage of an AWS summit, and for about a year the default base for anyone fine-tuning an image model — SDXL LoRAs became a genre of their own. Amazon's hosted endpoint closed in May 2025, by which point the model's real life was being lived on other people's GPUs.

2023-07-26 — 2025-05-20 · lived 1 year, 9 months

## Last words

It needed a second model, a refiner, to finish what the first one had started.

## The record

- Provider: Stability AI
- Model id: `stability.stable-diffusion-xl-v1`
- Cause of death: Superseded
- Notice given: 2024-10-16
- Succeeded by: [Stable Diffusion 3 Large](https://models.rip/sd3-large/epitaph) (this archive's reading of lineage, not the provider's migration guidance)

## Sources

- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/stability-ai-announces-stable-diffusion-xl-1-0--featured-on-amazon-bedrock-301886507.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20260220023706/https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-lifecycle.html

## Elsewhere

- [Stand at this grave](https://models.rip/stable-diffusion-xl-v1)
- [The Stability AI plot](https://models.rip/stability-ai)
- [The whole cemetery](https://models.rip/)