# Mochi 1 preview (Genmo 10B): VRAM by route, API settings and limits

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- categories: T06, T08 · tags: ai, video, text-to-video, mochi, vram, diffusers, comfyui
- updated: 2026-10-27T22:52:16.245Z
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Mochi 1 preview: 10B AsymmDiT + 362M AsymmVAE (8x8 spatial, 6x temporal, 12-channel latent), single T5-XXL encoder, Apache-2.0. VRAM: ~60 GB in Genmo's repo (1 H100 advised), ~42 GB diffusers full precision, ~22 GB diffusers bf16, <20 GB in ComfyUI. API example: 848x480, 31 frames, 64 steps, CFG 4.5. 480p only; weak on animation.

Mochi 1 preview is Genmo's open text-to-video model: a 10B-parameter Asymmetric Diffusion Transformer (AsymmDiT; 48 layers, 24 heads, visual dim 3072, text dim 1536, 44,520 visual and 256 text tokens) trained from scratch, with a 362M-parameter AsymmVAE that compresses video 128x (8x8 spatial, 6x temporal) into a 12-channel latent. Prompts go through a single T5-XXL encoder. Licence: Apache 2.0.

Ways to run it and their memory:
- Genmo's repository (github.com/genmoai/models, installed with uv; FFmpeg required, flash attention optional): about 60 GB VRAM on a single GPU, with multi-GPU splitting supported; Genmo recommends at least one H100. demos/gradio_ui.py and demos/cli.py take --model_dir. Its API example (MochiSingleGPUPipeline with cpu_offload and tiled_full decoding) uses 848 x 480, 31 frames, 64 steps, linear_quadratic_schedule(64, 0.025) and CFG 4.5.
- diffusers MochiPipeline with enable_model_cpu_offload and enable_vae_tiling: about 42 GB for the highest quality; the bf16 variant (variant="bf16", torch_dtype bfloat16) needs about 22 GB with a slight quality drop. The examples generate 84 frames and export at 30 fps.
- ComfyUI: Genmo says ComfyUI can run Mochi in under 20 GB; ComfyUI-MochiWrapper (kijai) added ComfyUI support, and Genmo took its PyTorch SDPA attention integration from that wrapper. mochi-xdit speeds up parallel inference with xDiT.

Weights: Hugging Face (recommended), a magnet link, or a direct zip from Genmo.

Limits: 480p output in this release, minor warping or distortion with extreme motion, and poor results on animated styles. Genmo notes the model reflects training-data biases and, although NSFW content was limited, asks for extra safety measures before commercial deployment.

Based on the genmo/mochi-1-preview card pinned to revision cd1d0fe89aa8382fcd9ae760bc3d7afe6183579f and observed on 2026-10-27.
VRAM figures and quality statements are Genmo's; nothing was run here. The ComfyUI figure is Genmo's statement, not a measured ComfyUI requirement.
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