NVIDIA ResearchImage model

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px

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Summary

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px is an image model from NVIDIA Research. NVlabs documents direct Diffusers T2I inference and a 1,024-pixel model.

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SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px

As of November 2026 · Source: gradually.ai popularity index

Over time

First value from November 2, 2026. The timeline appears from the second week.

Head-to-head comparisons

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. GPT Image 2

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Reve 2.1

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Nano Banana 2

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Midjourney V8.2

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. GPT Image 1.5

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SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. MAI-Image-2.5

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Nano Banana Pro

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Nano Banana 2 Lite

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Seedream 5.0 Pro

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Grok Imagine Image Quality

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. FLUX.2 Max

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Qwen Image 2.0 Pro

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. MAI-Image-2.5 Flash

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. HiDream-O1-Image-1.5

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Krea 2 Medium Turbo

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Seedream 4.0

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Krea 2 Large

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Luma Uni-1.1 Max

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. FLUX.2 Flex

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Recraft V4.1 Utility

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Ideogram 4.0

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Wan 2.6 Text to Image

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. FLUX.2 Pro

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. FLUX.2 Klein 9B

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. HiDream-O1-Image

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Firefly Image Model 5

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Midjourney V8.1

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. GPT Image 2.5 Flare

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Qwen-Image-2.1

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. MAI-Image-2.6

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. MAI-Image-2.6 Flash

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Muse Image

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Grok Imagine Image 2.0

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. FLUX 3 Image

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. FLUX 3 Image Klein

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Nano Banana 2.1

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Ideogram 4.5

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Hy Image 3.5 Preview

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Ming-Image-0.1-Design

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Recraft V4.1

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Recraft V4.1 Flash

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Bria FIBO 2

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Krea 3

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Qwen Image 3.0 Pro

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Qwen Image 3.0

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Qwen Image 2.1 Pro

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Qwen Image 2.1 Turbo

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Wan 2.7 Image Pro

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Wan 2.7 Image

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Seedream 5.0 Flash

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. SenseNova U1.5 Lite

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Kling Image 3.0

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Kling Image 3.0 Omni

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Vidu Q2 Image

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. WAND-Vega-Image 1.0 Pro

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. WAND-Vega-Image 1.0 Flash

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. WAND-Vega-Image 1.0 Lite

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. GLM-Image

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. MiniMax Image-01

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Z-Image Turbo

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Luma Uni-1.1

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Runway Gen-4 Image

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Runway Gen-4 Image Turbo

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Leonardo Phoenix 1.0

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Leonardo Lucid Origin

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Leonardo Lucid Realism

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Adobe Firefly Image 3

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Adobe Firefly Image 4

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Adobe Firefly Image 4 Ultra

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Turbo

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Stable Diffusion 3.5 Flash

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Xingliu Star-3

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. MiracleVision V6

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Hy Image 3.0

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Bria FIBO Lite

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Mystic 2.5

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Mystic 2.5 Flexible

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Mystic 2.5 Fluid

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Recraft V4.1 Utility Pro

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Seedream 4.5

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Seedream 5.0 Lite

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Kling Image O1

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Stable Image Core

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Stable Image Ultra

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. FLUX.2 Klein 9B Preview

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. GPT Image 1 Mini

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. ChatGPT Image Latest (API-Alias)

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. FLUX.2 Klein 4B

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. FLUX.2 Dev

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. FLUX1.1 [pro]

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. FLUX1.1 [pro] Ultra

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. FLUX.1 [dev]

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. FLUX.1 Kontext [pro]

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. FLUX.1 Kontext [max]

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Stable Diffusion 3 Medium

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. SDXL Turbo

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Stable Diffusion Turbo

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Midjourney V7

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Niji 7

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Grok Imagine Image 1.0

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. HUMAIN Image 1

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. MOSS-Image-Base

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. MOSS-Image-SFT

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. LLaDA-Image

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. LLaDA-Image-Turbo

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Nucleus-Image

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. LongCat-Image

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. BAGEL-7B-MoT

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. OmniGen2

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Emu3.5-Image

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Kandinsky-5.0-T2I-Lite-SFT

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Kandinsky-5.0-T2I-Lite-Pretrain

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. NextStep-1.1

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Boogu-Image-0.1-Base

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Boogu-Image-0.1-Turbo

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. SANA-1.5 4.8B 1024px

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Sana-Sprint 0.6B 1024px

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Sana-Sprint 1.6B 1024px

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Chroma1-HD

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Chroma1-Flash

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. AuraFlow v0.3

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. PixArt-Sigma-XL-2-1024-MS

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Lumina-Image 2.0

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. HART-0.7B-1024px

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Janus-Pro-1B

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Janus-Pro-7B

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Show-o2-1.5B-HQ

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Kandinsky 3.1

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Anima Base v1.0

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Krea 2 Raw

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. HunyuanImage 3.0

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct Distil

SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px vs. Z-Image Base

All specifications

Architecture

Parameters: 1.6B; Source: Parameters

Licence and access

Weights: Open weights; Source: Weights
Access: Local; Source: Access

Further details

Checkpoint: Efficient-Large-Model/SANA1.5_1.6B_1024px_diffusers; Source: Checkpoint
Local inference: NVlabs documents direct Diffusers T2I inference and a 1,024-pixel model.; Source: Local inference
License and text encoder: Apache-2.0; the model card also applies Google's Gemma 2 2B IT Terms of Use and Gemma Prohibited Use Policy.; Source: License and text encoder
Intended use: The model card describes the intended use as research.; Source: Intended use

Sources and data date

Type	Evidence and data date
Additional source	NVIDIA Research (retrieved November 1, 2026)
Additional source	NVIDIA Research (retrieved November 1, 2026) · NVIDIA Research · Editorial description reviewed November 1, 2026
Additional source	OpenRouter: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0
Additional source	Vercel AI Gateway: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0
Additional source	Ollama: cumulative downloads for the popularity index
Additional source	Replicate: cumulative runs for the popularity index
Additional source	Google Trending Now: limited feed selection for Germany and the US
Additional source	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0