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	Model Type Support In SwarmUI
Swarm natively supports ModelSpec metadata and can import metadata from some legacy formats used by other UIs (auto webui thumbnails, matrix jsons, etc)
Swarm supports models of all the common architectures:
Stable Diffusion v1 and v2
SDv1/SDv2 models work exactly as normal. Even legacy (pre-ModelSpec models are supported).
Stable Diffusion v1 Inpainting Models
SDv1 inpaint models (RunwayML) are supported, but will work best if you manually edit the Architecture ID to be stable-diffusion-v1/inpaint.
Stable Diffusion XL
SDXL models work as normal, with the bonus that by default enhanced inference settings will be used (eg scaled up rescond).
Additional, SDXL-Refiner architecture models can be inferenced, both as refiner or even as a base (you must manually set res to 512x512 and it will generate weird results).
Stable Diffusion 3
Stable Diffusion 3 Medium is supported and works as normal.
By default the first time you run an SD3 model, Swarm will download the text encoders for you.
Under the Sampling parameters group, a parameter named SD3 TextEncs is available to select whether to use CLIP, T5, or both. By default, CLIP is used (no T5) as results are near-identical but CLIP-only has much better performance, especially on systems with limited resources.
Under Advanced Sampling, the parameter Sigma Shift is available. This defaults to 3 on SD3, but you can lower it to around ~1.5 if you wish to experiment with different values. Messing with this value too much is not recommended.
For upscaling with SD3, the Refiner Do Tiling parameter is highly recommended (SD3 does not respond well to regular upscaling without tiling).
SDXL Turbo and SD Turbo
Turbo models work the same as regular models, just set CFG Scale to 1 and Steps to 1 as well. Under the Sampling group set Scheduler to Turbo.
Latency Consistency Models
LCM models work the same as regular models, just set CFG Scale to 1 and Steps to 4. Under the Sampling group set Sampler to lcm.
Lightning Models
Lightning models work the same as regular models, just set CFG Scale to 1 and (TODO: Sampling specifics for lightning).
SegMind SSD-1B
SegMind SSD-1B models work the same as SD models.
Stable Video Diffusion
SVD models are supported via the "Video" parameter group. Like XL, video by default uses enhanced inference settings (better sampler and larger sigma value).
You can do text2video by just checking Video as normal, or image2video by using an Init Image and setting Creativity to 0.
Stable Cascade
Stable Cascade is supported if you use the "ComfyUI Format" models (aka "All In One") https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-cascade/tree/main/comfyui_checkpoints that come as a pair of stage_b and stage_c models.
You must keep the two in the same folder, named the same with the only difference being stage_b vs stage_c in the filename.
Either model can be selected in the UI to use them, it will automatically use both.
TensorRT
TensorRT support (.engine) is available for SDv1, SDv2-768-v, SDXL Base, SDXL Refiner, SD3-Medium
TensorRT is an nvidia-specific accelerator library that provides faster SD image generation at the cost of reduced flexibility. Generally this is best for heavy usages, especially for API/Bots/etc. and less useful for regular individual usage.
You can generate TensorRT engines from the model menu. This includes a button on-page to autoinstall TRT support your first time using it, and configuration of graph size limits and optimal scales. (TensorRT works fastest when you generate at the selected optimal resolution, and slightly less fast at any dynamic resolution outside the optimal setting.)
Note that TensorRT is not compatible with LoRAs, ControlNets, etc.
Note that you need to make a fresh TRT engine for any different model you want to use.
PixArt Sigma
The PixArt Sigma MS models are supported in Swarm with a few setup steps.
These steps are not friendly to beginners (if PixArt gains popularity, likely more direct/automated/native support will be added), but advanced users can follow:
- You must install https://github.com/city96/ComfyUI_ExtraModels to your Comfy backend.
- After downloading the model, run Swarm's Utilities -> Pickle To Safetensors -> Convert Models. You need a safetensors models for Swarm to accurately identify model type.- Or download a preconverted copy, like this one: https://huggingface.co/HDiffusion/Pixart-Sigma-Safetensors
 
- After you have a safetensors model, find it in the Models tab and click the menu button on the model and select "Edit Metadata"- From the Architecturedropdown, selectPixArtMS Sigma XL 2for 1024 or lower models, orXL 2 (2K)for the 2k
- In the Standard Resolutionbox, enter1024x1024for 1024 or512x512for the 512, or2048x2048for the 2k
 
- From the 
- Make sure in User Settings, you have a DefaultSDXLVaeselected. If not, you can download this one https://huggingface.co/madebyollin/sdxl-vae-fp16-fix and save it in(Swarm)/Models/VAE
- Swarm will autodownload T5XXL-EncoderOnly for you on first run (same as SD3-Medium T5-Only mode)
- You can now use the model as easily as any other model. Some feature compatibility features might arise.
AuraFlow v0.1
Fal.ai's AuraFlow v0.1 and v0.2 is supported in Swarm, but you must manually select architecture to use it. (The AuraFlow team intend to add modelspec metadata in the near future).
Download the model, then click "Edit Metadata" and select (Temporary) AuraFlow as the architecture, and set resolution to 1024x1024.
Black Forest Labs' Flux.1 Models
- Black Forest Labs' Flux.1 model is fully supported in Swarm https://blackforestlabs.ai/announcing-black-forest-labs/
- Recommended: use the NF4 Format Files
- Alternate: the simplified fp8 file:
- Dev https://huggingface.co/Comfy-Org/flux1-dev/blob/main/flux1-dev-fp8.safetensors
- Schnell https://huggingface.co/Comfy-Org/flux1-schnell/blob/main/flux1-schnell-fp8.safetensors
- goes in your regular (Swarm)/Models/Stable-Diffusiondir
 
- or, not recommended: You can download BFL's original files:
- Download "Schnell" (Turbo) from https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell
- Or "Dev" (non-Turbo) from https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-dev
- Put dev/schnell in (Swarm)/Models/diffusion_models
- Put the ae.sftfile in(Swarm)/Models/VAE
 
- For both models, use CFG=1 (negative prompt won't work). Sampling leave default (will use Euler + Simple)
- For the Dev model, there is also a Flux Guidance Scaleparameter underSampling, which is a distilled embedding value that the model was trained to use.
- Dev can use some slightly-higher CFG values (allowing for negative prompt), possibly higher if you reduce the Flux Guidance value and/or use Dynamic Thresholding.
 
- For the Dev model, there is also a 
- For Schnell use Steps=4 (or lower, it can even do 1 step), for Dev use Steps=20 or higher
- This is best on a very high end GPU (eg 4090) for now. It is a 12B model.
- Smaller GPUs can run it, but will be slow. This requires a lot of system RAM (32GiB+). It's been shown to work as low down as an RTX 2070 or 2060 (very slowly).
 
- On a 4090, schnell takes about 4/5 seconds to generate a 4-step image, very close to SDXL 20 steps in time, but much higher quality.
- By default swarm will use fp8_e4m3fn for Flux, if you have a very very big GPU and want to use fp16/bf16, under Advanced SamplingsetPreferred DTypetoDefault (16 bit)
- It natively supports any resolution up to 2 mp (1920x1088), and any aspect ratio thereof. By default will use 1MP 1024x1024 in Swarm. You can take it down to 256x256 and still get good results.
- You can mess with the resolution quite a lot and still get decent results. It's very flexible even past what it was trained on.
 
- You can do a refiner upscale 2x and it will work but take a long time and might not have excellent quality. Refiner tiling may be better.
 
Bits-and-Bytes NF4 Format Models
- BnB NF4 format models, such as this copy of Flux Dev https://huggingface.co/lllyasviel/flux1-dev-bnb-nf4/tree/main?show_file_info=flux1-dev-bnb-nf4.safetensors, are partially supported in SwarmUI automatically.
- The detection internally works by looking for bitsandbytes__nf4in the model's keys
- The first time you try to load an NF4 model, it will give you a popup asking to install support
- This will autoinstall https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI_bitsandbytes_NF4 which is developed by comfyanonymous and lllyasviel, and is under the AGPL license.
 
- You can accept this popup, and it will install and reload the backend
- Then try to generate again, and it should work
 
- The detection internally works by looking for 
- Note that BnB-NF4 models have multiple compatibility limitations, including even LoRAs don't apply properly.
- If you want a quantized flux model, GGUF is recommended instead.
 
GGUF Quantized Models
- GGUF Quantized diffusion_modelsmodels, such as Flux Schnell https://huggingface.co/city96/FLUX.1-schnell-gguf/tree/main or Flux Dev https://huggingface.co/city96/FLUX.1-dev-gguf/tree/main are supported in SwarmUI automatically.- The detection is based on file extension.
- They go in (Swarm)/Models/diffusion_modelsand work similar to otherdiffusion_modelsformat models
- You will have to click Edit Metadataon the model and set the architecture, it cannot be autodetected currently.
- The first time you try to load a GGUF model, it will give you a popup asking to install support
- This will autoinstall https://github.com/city96/ComfyUI-GGUF which is developed by city96.
 
- You can accept this popup, and it will install and reload the backend
- Then try to generate again, and it should just work
 
