When the first version of Stable Diffusion appeared back in August 2022, there was an explosion of innovation around it. In a matter of days after its release, the open-source community created lots of compelling derivatives, like the material diffusion models which generated tiling images, the inpainting models that gave you an AI paintbrush, and animation models that could interpolate between prompts.

Fast forward nearly two years, and Stable Diffusion 3 (SD3) just came out this week. People are hyped about the capabilities of this new model, and we expect to see a lot of the same open-source innovation we saw in Stable Diffusion’s early days.

In this post, we’ll show you how to get your own custom version of Stable Diffusion 3 running on Replicate.

Prerequisites

To follow this guide, you’ll need: