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Mage-Flow-Turbo

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Mage-Flow-Turbo is an open-weights image model from Microsoft, released July 2026. Its published size is 4B parameters.

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Release date ↗ · Parameter count ↗

Maker's paper (Microsoft, arXiv 2607.19064). 4B = the NR-MMDiT backbone shared by Base, RL-aligned and Turbo text-to-image variants (README names them Mage-Flow-4B-*); Mage-VAE and any text encoder are not included.

32.6±20.9#3 of 3 image modelsfrom 9 benchmark results across 1 source

Score within the CVTG-2K word accuracy comparison set only.

$ how it compares

Scored image models released closest to Mage-Flow-Turbo, out of 197 with a score, then more from Microsoft.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
4MAI-Image-2.6 Microsoft AI81±2comparison only2026-08
7Reve 2.1 Reve78±2api $0.25/image2026-07
8Muse Image Meta76±2api $0.010/image2026-07
11Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro Alibaba75±2api $0.040/image2026-07
12Seedream 5.0 Pro ByteDance Seed75±2api $0.050/image2026-07
more from Microsoft
110VQ-Diffusion (ITHQ) Microsoft48±15local~4.1GB2022-11

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$ what it's good at

text to image█····█·····█ #3 of 3 · 73% of its score · 9 tests
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
GenEval lab88.0% ✎▇▃▅▇▁▄▅▃█▃▃▅ beats 36/39very easy · avg 87%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 20%sharp · small run
CVTG-2K word accuracy lab87.3% ✎▄▄▄█▄▄·▄···▄ beats 5/8very easy · avg 87%▇▇▇▇ 9.1%small run
TIIF-Bench testmini (short prompts) lab83.6% ✎█·█········█ beats 2/2easy · avg 83%▇▇▇ 7.9%small run
TIIF-Bench testmini (long prompts) lab84.2% ✎█······█···█ beats 1/2easy · avg 84%▇▇▇ 7.4%small run
LongText-Bench (CN) lab80.1% ✎▃·······████ beats 2/12easy · avg 81%▇▇▇ 6.9%small run
OneIG-Bench (CN) lab49.1% ✎▃·▃█▃·▃··▃·▃ beats 0/8medium · avg 50%▇▇ 5.7%at its level · small run
OneIG-Bench (EN) lab52.3% ✎▃······▃▅█▅▃ beats 1/9medium · avg 53%▇▇ 5.6%at its level · small run
LongText-Bench (EN) lab91.1% ✎▃·····▅██▅▃▃ beats 3/12very easy · avg 92%▇▇ 5.1%small run
1 more test
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
DPG-Bench lab85.5% ✎▄·▂·▂▆█▄▂▄▂▂ beats 7/17very easy · avg 86%▇▇ 5.0%small run

$ where to run it

Other ways to run it

version

  1. Run it as published · needs ~13.8 GB · from github.com/leejet
    sd-cli --diffusion-model models/mage_flow_turbo_bf16.safetensors --llm models/Qwen3VL-4B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf --vae models/mage_flow_vae_bf16.safetensors -p "a lovely cat holding a sign says 'mage.cpp'" --cfg-scale 1.0 --steps 4 --diffusion-fa -v --offload-to-cpu

Official weights and documentation: github.com/microsoft ↗

$ how the score was worked out · Mage-Flow: An Efficient Nativ… 73%

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
Mage-Flow: An Efficient Native-Resolution Foundation Model for Image Generation and Editing · lab-reported9▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 73%CC-BY-4.0
prior · pull toward the middle▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 27%
weighted average= 32.6

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