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GLIDE (filtered) is an open-weights image model from OpenAI, released December 2021. Its published size is 0.3B parameters. Licence: mit.

Catalogue identity notes

openai/glide-text2im small filtered-data model. Comparison-only: the official code runs from notebooks, with no single command or published memory figure.

Model information sources

· Parameter count ↗

300M = the GLIDE (filtered) base 64x64 text-conditional diffusion model as OpenAI states it; the separately released small filtered upsampler (no count given) is not included. Not the 3.5B unreleased full GLIDE.

46.5±14.9comparison only: no current run option verifiedfrom 1 benchmark result across 1 source* thinly tested, treat the rank as provisional

Score within the LMArena text-to-image comparison set only.

$ how it compares

The image models ranked either side of GLIDE (filtered), out of 197 with a score, then more from OpenAI.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
115MetaQuery-XL Meta / NYU47±6comparison only2025-04
116HiDream-I1-Full HiDream47±2api $0.050/image +local~76GB2025-04
117GLIDE (filtered) OpenAI47±15comparison only2021-12
118Ideogram 2.0 Ideogram46±2api $0.080/image
119Infinity-8B ByteDance (FoundationVision)46±5comparison only2025-02
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1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst OpenAI92±2api $0.013/image2026-09
2GPT Image 2.5 Flare OpenAI88±2api $0.013/image2026-09
3GPT Image 2 OpenAI85±1api $0.053/image2026-04

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$ what it's good at

text to image▁▂▇▇▆▅█▇▂▃▁▁ #148 of 157 * · 6.1% of its score · 1 test

Trails CogView2, DALL·E Mega (minDALL-E), Versatile Diffusion v1.0 here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
HPS v2 benchmark (4-style average)23.5% ✎▃··▃▅·▅·▅▅█▅ beats 0/14hard · avg 27%▇▇ 6.1%blunt · at its level

$ where to run it

No verified API or download recorded yet · add one

Official weights and documentation: github.com/openai ↗

$ how the score was worked out · tgxs002/HPSv2 repository READ… 6%

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
tgxs002/HPSv2 repository README, HPS v2 benchmark table1▇▇ 6%Apache-2.0
prior · pull toward the middle▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 94%
weighted average= 46.5

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