Animagine XL

Animagine XL is an anime-focused Stable Diffusion XL model series by Cagliostro Research Lab. The current main line is 4.0 (Anim4gine), rebuilt from SDXL 1.0 with approximately 8.4 million anime-style images and about 2,650 GPU hours. It delivers more artistic and prompt-following results than 3.1, with extra quality, score, year, and rating controls. Excels at anime characters, detailed illustrations, and recent series knowledge. Recommended settings: Euler a, 25-28 steps, CFG 4-7 (often 5), standard SDXL resolutions. Early 3.x versions refined hands and knowledge. Public under CreativeML Open RAIL++-M license. Free to try via browser playgrounds on the website.