What Is Stable Image Ultra?
If you already work the local Stable Diffusion way — negative prompts, CFG tuning, step counts — this is the lowest-friction move to a hosted model. The classic parameter set is intact and you no longer manage checkpoints or a GPU.
What Is Stable Image Ultra Best For?
- People fluent in the classic parameters
- Work that needs negative prompts to exclude elements
- Fine-grained image-to-image control
- Stylised illustration
How to Use Stable Image Ultra
- Select Stable Image Ultra.
- Write the positive prompt, then open Advanced for the negative prompt.
- Fix the seed and change one parameter at a time.
- Upscale to the delivery size.
Stable Image Ultra Settings Explained
Guidance
The classic CFG. 4 is a reasonable starting point.
Steps
30 covers most cases; returns fall off quickly after that.
Negative Prompt
Excluding unwanted elements is one of this model’s most effective controls.
The panel above shows only the parameters Stable Image Ultra actually supports. Switch versions and unsupported controls disappear rather than sitting there doing nothing.
Stable Image Ultra Prompt Examples
With a negative prompt
Fantasy forest path at dusk, volumetric light, painterly
Negative Prompt: blurry, watermark, text.
Image to image
Repaint this sketch as a finished digital illustration, keep the composition
Set Strength around 0.5.
Stable Image Ultra Test Results
Testing in progress
Every model runs the same eight-category prompt set — portrait, product, poster text, anime character, interior, multi-reference, image editing and character consistency — recording generation time, success rate, text accuracy and identity retention. That run has not finished for Stable Image Ultra, so this page shows no scores. We do not publish numbers we have not measured.
Stable Image Ultra Limitations
- 2K ceiling
- Weak in-image text
- Less realistic by default than FLUX.2
Stable Image Ultra Pricing and Credits
Credits scale with resolution and image count. The Generate button always shows what this run costs.
1K
2 credits / image
2K
3 credits / image
Failed generations cost 0 credits.
Commercial Use and Image Rights
Commercial use is subject to Stability AI's licence terms.
- Model used: Stable Image Ultra (stable-image-ultra)
- Called through: the stability API
- Input images stored: yes
- Retention: 7 days
- Used for training: no
- You can delete any generation from your history at any time
Frequently Asked Questions
Do the parameters match local SD?+
Conceptually yes: Guidance maps to CFG, Steps to sampling steps, Strength to denoising strength.
Is LoRA supported?+
Custom LoRAs are not exposed in this integration.
Model Updates and Changelog
- 2025-09-18 —— Stable Image Ultra integrated.
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