Chroma is uncensored Flux trained on 5M curated images. A review of its licence, architecture, photoreal and anime output, VRAM profile and prompt settings.
A review of Lustify V5 Endgame covering its DARE merge lineage, prompt style, sampler picks, anatomy limits, LoRA pairings and where the model falls short.
Two SDXL photoreal checkpoints compared on training lineage, skin, anatomy, hands, samplers and VRAM, plus a prompt grid you can run on your own hardware.
Pony V6 XL and Illustrious XL compared on score tags, prompt style, anatomy, LoRA ecosystems and VRAM, with a decision rule for picking one as your base.