Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
NVIDIA
image generation

SANA 1.6B

Larger SANA text-to-image model at 1024px.

NVIDIANVIDIAUSASANAFamily
Figure from the SANA paper: chart of how SANA design choices reduce 4096 by 4096 image generation latency.
Levelvariant
Classimage generation
Parameters1.6B
Contextnot in the notes
Released14 Oct 2024
Opennessopen weights permissive
Runs onconsumer GPU
Statusactive

R&D Topics

Text-to-image foundation models (diffusion and flow transformers)produced byEfficiency architectures (MoE, sparse attention, long context)produced by

Identity

Developer
NVIDIA
Family
SANA
Released
14 Oct 2024 sourcesannouncement page
Weights published
4 Nov 2024
Record checked
12 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.

Architecture and Size

Architecture
diffusion Linear diffusion transformer
Total parameters
1.6B sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
Note
1.6B from the model name.
Context length
not in the notes
Input
text
Output
image
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).

Openness and Access

Openness
open weights permissive
Licence
Apache License 2.0 sources
Access routes
open weights download, API
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
consumer GPU
Footprint
not in the notes
Runtimes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.

Indonesia

Indonesian support
not stated
Regional languages
not in the notes
Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.

Benchmark Results

The notes record no benchmark result for this model.

Lineage

The notes record no lineage for this model.

Industry Use Cases

No industry use case links this model.

Sources

  1. arxiv.org/abs/2410.10629 https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.10629
  2. huggingface.co/Efficient-Large-Model/Sana_1600M_1024px https://huggingface.co/Efficient-Large-Model/Sana_1600M_1024px
  3. replicate.com/nvidia/sana https://replicate.com/nvidia/sana

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "SANA 1.6B", https://aurion.semai.id/models/nvidia-sana-1600m/, records of October 2026.