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HiDream-I1-Full is an open-weights image model from HiDream, released April 2025. Its published size is 17B parameters. Licence: mit.

Model information sources

Release date ↗ · Weights licence ↗ · Parameter count ↗

Stated for HiDream-I1 (sparse diffusion transformer) on the I1-Full card; excludes the Llama-3.1-8B / T5-XXL / CLIP text encoders and VAE.

46.6±1.7#91 of 144 image modelsfrom 7 benchmark results across 5 sources

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

$ how it compares

The image models ranked either side of HiDream-I1-Full, out of 197 with a score, then more from HiDream.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
114FLUX.1 Krea [dev] Black Forest Labs / Krea47±3api $0.025/image +local~41GB2025-07
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
more from HiDream
60HiDream-O1-Image HiDream58±2api $0.010/image +local~5.3GB2026-05
86HiDream-O1-Image-Dev HiDream54±5comparison only2026-05
190HiDream-E1.1 HiDream26±11comparison only2025-07

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$ what it's good at

text to image▂▅▅▃▄▄█▃▁▂▁▁ #76 of 126 · 83% of its score · 6 tests

Beats Latent Diffusion text2img-large (LDM-KL-8-G, LAION-400M), VQ-Diffusion (ITHQ) here, though they rank higher overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
GenExam (relaxed overall, GPT-5 judge)21.2% ✎▄█▂▃▂▂▆▄·▂·▂ beats 7/16hard · avg 26%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 43%sharp
T2I-ReasonBench (overall)64.2% ✎▅▂█▂▃▂····▂▂ beats 10/13easy · avg 69%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 23%at its level
MMMG knowledge-image generation (MMMG-Score, average over education levels)28.0% ✎▃··▃·█▃▃▅··▃ beats 9/9hard · avg 24%▇▇▇▇ 8.9%typical
DPG-Bench lab85.9% ✎▄·▂·▂▆█▄▂▄▂▂ beats 8/17very easy · avg 87%▇▇ 4.8%small run
LongText-Bench (EN) lab54.3% ✎▃·····▅██▅▃▃ beats 0/12very easy · avg 85%▇ 2.7%noisy · small run
LongText-Bench (CN) lab2.4% ✎▃·······████ beats 0/12very easy · avg 88%▇ 0.3%noisy · small run
other tests1 not in a task · 16% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
VVRBench accuracy (10,000 verifiable synthetic-scene tasks)4.2% ✎▃·█▅▃·▅▃···▃ beats 5/10very hard · avg 7.6%▇▇▇▇▇▇ 16%sharp · too hard for it

$ where to run it

Through an API

api · fal.ai · $0.050/image · fal.ai ↗ · price sourceUSD for one 1-megapixel output: fal bills this endpoint $0.05 per megapixel (price = rate × 1 MP; fal's rounding for 1024×1024 ≈ 1.05 MP is not stated; larger outputs cost proportionally more). Product: fal.ai serverless text-to-image. API model: fal-ai/hidream-i1-full (HiDream I1 Full, 17B; the dev and fast endpoints are separate). Settings: 1 MP output, one image. Price basis: published per-megapixel list rate × 1 MP. Currency: USD. Not a HiDream direct tariff. fal.ai official model page, observed 2026-09-26.

Other ways to run it

  1. Run it as published · needs ~76.4 GB, NVIDIA only · from huggingface.co/HiDream-ai
    git clone https://github.com/HiDream-ai/HiDream-I1 && cd HiDream-I1 && pip install -r requirements.txt && python ./inference.py --model_type full

Weights and documentation: huggingface.co/HiDream-ai ↗

$ how the score was worked out · GenExam: A Multidisciplinary… 43%, T2I-ReasonBench: Benchmarking… 23%, Verifiable Visual Rewards Tra… 16% and 2 more

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

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