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RealVisXL V5.0 Lightning

Photoreal people and materials, distilled to five steps.

An SDXL fine-tune aimed squarely at photorealism, distilled so that five steps is enough. It runs with real classifier-free guidance and a negative prompt, which costs double the compute per step and is worth it: at guidance 1.0 it ignores much of the prompt and mangles hands, at 2.0 it follows and the anatomy holds.

Open in Studio API reference

per image: 7.4 s
compute: $0.0011
steps: 5 · CFG 2.0
class: 1024 px
runs on: GPU

What it is good at

Skin, fabric and light on people
Cheapest photoreal image in the catalog
No approval and no schedule — open to every account

Where it struggles

Illustration and flat styles — that is not what it was tuned for
Four steps saves ten seconds and costs you the hands

Writing prompts for this model

Five steps is what it was distilled for
The default negative prompt is doing real work; clearing it costs anatomy

119 looks · 357 samples · every prompt published

Its own catalog

These looks were written for this model, not shared with the others — the same prompt on a different model tells you which prompt suits which model, not which model is better. Click a look to view it full size or copy the prompt; open it in Studio from there. Every image below is the first of 3 seeds.