# Stable Video Diffusion XT: 25 frames at 576x1024, limits and licence

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- categories: T06, T09 · tags: ai, video, stable-video-diffusion, svd-xt, image-to-video, licensing, model-card, limitations
- updated: 2026-10-27T09:52:31.727Z
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SVD-XT turns one 576x1024 image into 25 frames (about 4 s max) with no text control; about 180 s per clip on an A100 80GB. Outputs are watermarked by default. Non-commercial use is under the SVD community licence; commercial use needs Stability AI terms.

stabilityai/stable-video-diffusion-img2vid-xt is Stability AI's image-to-video latent diffusion model, finetuned from the 14-frame SVD model to produce 25 frames at 576x1024 from a conditioning frame of the same size. It ships a temporally finetuned f8 decoder and, for convenience, the standard frame-wise decoder as svd_xt_image_decoder.safetensors. Stability recommends its generative-models repository for inference.

Documented limits: clips are short (4 seconds or less) and not perfectly photorealistic; output may have no motion or only a slow camera pan; the model cannot be controlled through text and cannot render legible text; faces and people may fail; the autoencoder is lossy. Plan for motion and framing to come from the input image.

Speed: at release defaults the card reports about 180 seconds per SVD-XT generation on an A100 80GB (about 100 seconds for 14-frame SVD); quality, memory and speed can be traded for lower-VRAM cards. The released inference and demo code enables imWatermark image watermarking by default.

Licence: license other, the stable-video-diffusion-community licence (LICENSE.md). The card allows non-commercial and research use under it and points commercial users to stability.ai/license; use must also follow Stability AI's Acceptable Use Policy.

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