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title: "Kolors: workflow fit, costs and terms"
description: "Chinese/English prompt comparisons and established local Kolors workflows."
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model · Documentation reviewed · 5 October 2026

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# Kolors

Chinese/English prompt comparisons and established local Kolors workflows.

- **Availability**: legacy
- **Where it runs**: local
- **Costs**: Local compute and storage; hosted-provider charges depend on the service.
- **Adult content policy**: unverified

Kolors is Kuaishou’s older local text-to-image model, worth keeping for Chinese/English prompt comparisons and projects already built around its pipeline. Give it the same asset brief as your other candidates, then compare prompt handling, the revisions needed for a usable character image, and the compute cost of that workflow. Confirm adapter support before importing an SDXL setup. Commercial deployment needs care: the model’s custom license has conflicting English and Chinese wording, while the model card asks commercial users to register. Get those terms clarified before building a release around it.

## Commercial use & license

Code is Apache-2.0; model weights also carry MODEL_LICENSE. English terms require permission for cloud vendors or licensees above the stated 100-million monthly-active-user threshold; Chinese terms require permission for commercial use generally. Resolve this discrepancy before relying on a commercial grant.

## Adult content rules

The model card does not establish permission to generate explicit adult content. Local use still has license obligations; hosted services have separate content rules.

[Read the policy](https://huggingface.co/Kwai-Kolors/Kolors)

## What you need

Original setup lists Python 3.8+, PyTorch 1.13.1+ and Transformers 4.26.1+, with CUDA 11.7+ recommended. Allow storage for the model components; measure GPU memory with your chosen workflow.

Ranks are recommendations for the task described, based on reviewed documentation. Model ranks cover non-explicit development work. We have not run practical benchmarks. Check content policies and commercial terms separately. [How the ranks work](https://bestadultgames.io/en/developers/methodology.md)

### Sources & further reading

- [Official Kolors model card](https://huggingface.co/Kwai-Kolors/Kolors)
- [Actual Kolors MODEL_LICENSE](https://huggingface.co/Kwai-Kolors/Kolors/blob/main/MODEL_LICENSE)

Last checked 5 October 2026.

## Why consider it

- Chinese and English prompting.
- Official downloadable model and sample pipeline.
- A baseline for comparing older local workflows.

## Tradeoffs to plan for

- Custom model license alongside Apache-2.0 code.
- Commercial-use clauses differ; English terms single out large services and cloud vendors.
- Compatibility with ordinary SDXL adapters needs confirmation.

The tier reflects documented fit for the workflow described here and availability. No numeric score or hands-on performance results are provided.

[Compare with other models](https://bestadultgames.io/en/developers/compare?model=kolors)

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