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title: "Stable Video Diffusion XT: workflow fit, costs and terms"
description: "Short motion studies from an existing still"
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canonical: https://bestadultgames.io/en/developers/models/stable-video-diffusion-xt
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# Stable Video Diffusion XT

Short motion studies from an existing still

- **Availability**: legacy
- **Where it runs**: local
- **Costs**: Local GPU compute or rented GPU time, plus storage. Commercial license fees, where applicable, are separate.
- **Adult content policy**: restricted

Stable Video Diffusion XT is useful for trying a little movement in an existing still: a short camera drift or an atmospheric shot. It generates 25 frames at 576 × 1024, giving local experiments a clearly bounded target. Text prompts cannot direct the released model, movement may be minimal or absent, and faces can break down—poor foundations for character close-ups. Keep it as a comparison checkpoint or try it for brief non-explicit inserts, inspecting every frame before use. Dialogue, planned sequences and precise animation need other tools, and commercial use depends on the checkpoint’s license.

## Commercial use & license

The checkpoint uses Stability AI’s Community License. Commercial use is subject to registration and revenue conditions, and all use must follow its acceptable-use policy.

## Adult content rules

Stability’s September 30, 2026 acceptable-use policy prohibits content relating to sexual intercourse, sexual acts or sexual violence. It applies to self-hosted code and weights under Research, Community or Enterprise licenses, as well as use through third-party hosts.

[Read the policy](https://stability.ai/use-policy)

## What you need

A 576 × 1024 input still, the XT checkpoint and a compatible image-to-video pipeline. XT generates 25 frames at that resolution. GPU memory needs vary with the implementation and memory optimizations.

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

- [Stable Video Diffusion XT model card](https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-video-diffusion-img2vid-xt)
- [Stability current acceptable-use policy](https://stability.ai/use-policy)

Last checked 5 October 2026.

## Why consider it

- 25-frame image-to-video output at 576 × 1024
- Downloadable checkpoint for local experiments and comparisons
- Decoder finetuned for consistency between frames

## Tradeoffs to plan for

- Text cannot direct the model; motion may be slow or absent
- Short clips, unreliable faces and illegible text
- Commercial-use conditions and restrictions on sexually explicit content

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=stable-video-diffusion-xt)

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