Stable Cascade

Stability AI · 2024 · Image Generation · UK

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A · App: No
B · Built By: Stability AI
C · CEO & Politics: Prem Akkaraju — No public partisan activity documented
D · Date: 2024
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Images
H · Deployment: Cloud + Local (open weights)
I · Inputs: Text→Image
J · Jurisdiction: UK
K · Key Staffers: Prem Akkaraju (CEO), Robin Rombach (Lead Researcher)
L · Languages: English-primary
M · Model Type: Image Generation
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Yes — open weights
P · Pricing: Free (open weights, non-commercial research license)
Q · AIDb Rating: [UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special: Stability AI's Stable Cascade text-to-image model, built on the Würstchen architecture as a three-stage cascade (Stages A, B and C) that works in a 42x-compressed latent space (a 1024x1024 image encodes to 24x24), for faster inference and cheaper training than Stable Diffusion; supports fine-tuning, LoRA, ControlNet, IP-Adapter and LCM.
S · Stock / Status: Private
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: Downloadable
X · X Handle: @StabilityAI
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Open-weights Image Generation from Stability AI, released 2024.

Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗

“Stable Cascade.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/stable-cascade.html