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Epic Diffusion

8967°
Epic Diffusion
Created by
johnslegers
on Civitai
Epic Diffusion by johnslegers. A general purpose model based on Stable Diffusion 1.x intended to replace the official SD releases as your default model. It is focused on providing high quality output in a wide range of different styles, with support for NFSW content.
Creator notes
DETAILS Epîc Diffusion is a general purpose model based on Stable Diffusion 1.x intended to replace the official SD releases as your default model. It is focused on providing high quality output in a wide range of different styles, with support for NFSW content. Epîc Diffusion is a heavily calibrated merge of SD 1.4, SD 1.5, Analog Diffusion, Wavy Diffusion, Redshift Diffusion, Openjourney Diffusion, Samdoesarts Ultramerge, Elldreth's Dream, postapocalypse, Inkpunk Diffusion, Ghibli Diffusion, Mo Di Diffusion, Archer Diffusion, Classic Animation Diffusion, Arcane Diffusion, Van Gogh Diffusion, 3DKX, HASDX, Flexible Diffusion, Cinematic Diffusion, Shady Art, dvMJv4, dvAuto & mj-v4-look + some dreambooth trained models of my own, blended and reblended multiple times until I got the quality & consistency I was looking for... MORE INFO More example prompts & the diffusers version of Epic Diffusion can be found at the Huggingface repos ( -) If you like my work, feel free to .
11,859 downloads · 1,622 likes on Civitai
SHA256
0466AE65A0F74293BDD5FA110229515B6A102ED3EC8CFB710B52FFF463F9BBAF
Epic Diffusion Popularity Trend
Heat score, last 12 months
Heat score
8,967°
This week
▼
0.6%
8,970° then, 8,967° now
This month
▼
2.4%
8,979° then, 8,967° now
Past year
▼
28.9%
9,114° then, 8,967° now
Epic Diffusion: Heat score, last 12 months7,000°7,721°8,443°9,164°9,885°Oct 2025Jan 2026Mar 2026May 2026Aug 2026Oct 20268,967°ModelTrends.ai
7,000°
Floor
The scale runs from 0° to 9,999°. Everything below 7,000° is kept for models no source reports on yet, which carry a stand-in number there so lists stay complete. 7,000° is where measured data begins: a model with real data but almost no downloads sits at the floor, and the measurements fill the degrees above it. The floor says nothing about the model; only the degrees above it do, and they are what separates one model from another.
+19°
Civitai downloads
11,859 downloads of this exact version on Civitai. Downloads are the heaviest ingredient and are counted on a log scale: ten times the downloads adds the same 300°, so a model with a million downloads is not a thousand times hotter than one with a thousand. The six download sources share that one term, split between them in proportion to their counts.
+1,798°
AI Horde images
1,123,818 images the volunteer AI Horde has generated with this model. Each image counts as one download in the download term: usage weighs like a download.
+482°
Likes
1,622 likes and thumbs up across the sources. A like weighs half a download, on the same log scale.
+127°
Adoption rate
About 49 downloads a day, measured between two readings of the sources, never guessed from a lifetime average. Speed weighs a quarter of the download term, so a fresh surge shows without letting a one-day spike outrank years of use.
+150°
Full model
+150° because this is a full model: a checkpoint, the weights themselves. A LoRA or an embedding is an add-on to someone else's weights and does not outrank a checkpoint of equal popularity.
−609°
Age
−609° because the SD15 weights came out in 2022. Every model inherits the age of the weights it is built on: 150° a year, up to 750°, and it keeps growing until then. Without it the top of the list would be 2022 and 2023 checkpoints on the strength of downloads that had years to pile up.
Show detailed breakdown
Every number on this site can be checked. This model's heat score is 8,967°, and here it is built one ingredient at a time, with the running total after each: the floor, the degrees each source adds, the bonus for the kind of model and what the age of its weights takes away. The colors are the bands of the chart above. The glossary at the end defines every term.
  1. 1
    Start at the floor.
    Why 7,000° and not zero: the scale runs from 0° to 9,999°, and the part below 7,000° is reserved for models no source reports on yet, which carry a stand-in number there so the lists stay complete and never outrank a model with data. 7,000° is where measured data begins. A model with real data but almost no downloads sits here; everything that follows is measurement, and the room above the floor holds ten tenfold steps in downloads at 300° each. The floor is the same for every model, so it decides nothing; the degrees above it do.
    7,000°
    running total
  2. 2
    Add the downloads.
    1,135,677 download-equivalents in all, from Civitai downloads, AI Horde images. Ten times the downloads adds the same 300°, so size matters but never runs away with the score.
    +19° Civitai downloads
    +1,798° AI Horde images
    +1,817°
    8,817°
    running total
  3. 3
    Add the likes.
    1,622 likes and thumbs up, at half the weight of a download.
    +482°
    9,299°
    running total
  4. 4
    Add the adoption rate.
    About 49 downloads a day right now, measured between two readings, at a quarter of the weight.
    +127°
    9,426°
    running total
  5. 5
    Bonus for a full model.
    A checkpoint carries the weights themselves; add-ons do not outrank one of equal popularity.
    +150°
    9,576°
    running total
  6. 6
    Take off the age.
    The SD15 weights came out in 2022: 150° a year, up to 750°, growing until then.
    −609°
    8,967°
    running total
  7. =
    The heat score.
    Where this model stands on every list of this site. Nothing else adjusts it.
    8,967°
Glossary: the terms used here
Heat score
One number for how much a model is used and wanted right now, from 0° to 9,999°. Every list on this site that says hottest is sorted by it and nothing else.
Floor
The 7,000° every model with real data starts from. The scale runs from 0° to 9,999°; the part below the floor is reserved for stand-ins (models without data), so that a model with data always ranks above one without. The floor is the same for everyone and decides nothing; the degrees above it are the measurement.
Download-equivalents
Everything the score treats as a download, added up: downloads themselves, each torrent seeder as 1,000, each AI Horde image and each run on a generation site as one.
Log scale
Counting by tens, not by ones: going from 1,000 to 10,000 downloads adds the same degrees as going from 10,000 to 100,000. It keeps giants from crowding out everything else.
Likes
Thumbs up and likes from every source, worth half a download each on the log scale.
Adoption rate
How many downloads a day a model gets right now, from the difference between two readings of a source. A quarter of the weight of the download term.
Measured and estimated
Measured means two readings of a source exist and the difference is real. Estimated means only today's total is known and the past is spread over the model's life; the site says which one it is showing.
Seeder
Someone who keeps a copy of the weights online for others to download over a torrent, or a hosted mirror doing the same. Each one counts as 1,000 downloads.
AI Horde
A volunteer network that generates images for free on donated computers. The number of images it has made with a model is public, and each counts as one download.
Generation sites
Sites that host their own copies of a model and let people generate with it, such as PixAI, SeaArt and Yodayo. Their downloads count like Civitai's and each generation run as one download.
OpenRouter tokens
A text model served through an API, such as Claude or GPT, has no weights to download, so its usage is measured in tokens: the pieces of text it read and wrote through OpenRouter, a gateway many apps use, over the last 30 days. Every 10,000,000 tokens count as one download. Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), CC BY 4.0.
Full model (checkpoint)
The weights themselves, the file that generates on its own. It gets a bonus because add-ons depend on it.
LoRA and embedding
Small add-on files that steer someone else's weights toward a style, a character or a concept. They cannot run alone.
Family and weights
The base a model is built on, such as SD 1.5, SDXL, Flux or Wan. Every model inherits the release date of its family's weights.
Age
Degrees taken off for how long ago the family's weights came out: 150° a year, up to 750°. It keeps old downloads that had years to pile up from freezing the top of the list.
Family boost
A small, bounded nudge for LoRAs of a family this site is pushing forward right now, always listed in the breakdown.
Stand-in score
A stable number below the floor given to a model no source reports on yet, so lists stay complete. It never ranks above a model with data.
New! (grace period)
A model less than 7 days old shows New! instead of a score and holds no place in the rankings. Its score is computed from day one, but a model one day old grows faster than anything, so without the wait the week's #1 would always be whatever came out yesterday rather than what held up for a week.
Trend
How a model's growth over a period compares with the typical model's growth over the same period. Faster than typical reads as a rise, slower as a fall.
Typical model
The middle of the catalog: half the models with a figure grew faster over the period, half slower.
How this model's popularity has moved against the rest of the catalog: its growth in downloads, likes and usage over each period, measured against the typical model's growth over the same period, with its heat score at the time. Above the typical growth reads as a rise, below it as a fall. The past is reconstructed from today's totals, the model's first day and its measured download speed where two readings exist; a model that did not exist at the start of a period shows n/a.
Example renders
Prompts and settings shared by the people who made these renders on Civitai. Pick a render to see how it was made.
Settings
Sampler
Euler a
Steps
100
Guidance
7
Seed
292144198
Size
512x512
Prompt
princess, detailed portrait, hyperdetailed, detailed faces, irakli nadar, magali villeneuve, Assassin's Creed, Tim Hildebrandt, Ilya Kuvshinov, artgem, greg kadel, dynamic lighting, delicate, unreal engine, octane render, 8k
Settings
Sampler
Euler a
Steps
30
Guidance
5.5
Seed
4188314610
Size
512x704
Clip skip
2
Prompt
1girl, (KuomintangFemaleSpies:1.7) in an imperial star destroyer, (star wars:1.3), <lora:NationalistKuomintang_v10-[KuomintangFemaleSpies]:0.8>, 8k uhd, bluray, upscaled, remastered, masterpiece, ultradetailed, high detail, (star destroyer interior), (sci-fi), (film still from thx 1138:1.3), wide angle, (art by Jim Burns:1.3), looking out into the galaxy, sleek modern white interior, (mechanical turbine), storm troopers in background, (overexposed film), depth of field, shallow focus, bokeh
Negative prompt
easynegative, text, document, excel, microsoft, icon
Settings
Sampler
Euler a
Steps
20
Guidance
7
Seed
1939159486
Size
512x512
Prompt
temple, fantasy, sharp focus, intricate, elegant, digital painting, matte, highly detailed, concept art, illustration, ambient lighting, in the style of Simon and ilya kuvshinov and Wlop and artgerm and alphonse mucha and Chie Yoshii and greg rutkowski and Grand Theft Auto V and artstation and pixiv and Luis Royo
Settings
Sampler
DPM++ SDE Karras
Steps
26
Guidance
7.5
Seed
2388736888
Size
768x1024
Prompt
dark and gloomy full body 8k unity render, female teen cyborg, Blue yonder hair, wearing broken battle armor, at cluttered and messy shack , action shot, tattered torn shirt, porcelain cracked skin, skin pores, detailed intricate iris, very dark lighting, heavy shadows, detailed, detailed face, (vibrant, photo realistic, realistic, dramatic, dark, sharp focus, 8k)
Negative prompt
nude, Asian, black and white, close up, cartoon, 3d, denim, (disfigured), (deformed), (poorly drawn), (extra limbs), blurry, boring, sketch, lackluster, signature, letters, watermark, low res , horrific , mutated , artifacts , bad art , gross , b&w , poor quality , low quality , cropped
Settings
Sampler
Euler a
Steps
20
Guidance
7
Seed
1939159486
Size
512x512
Prompt
temple, fantasy, sharp focus, intricate, elegant, digital painting, matte, highly detailed, concept art, illustration, ambient lighting, in the style of Simon Stålenhag and ilya kuvshinov and Wlop and artgerm and alphonse mucha and Chie Yoshii and greg rutkowski and Grand Theft Auto V and artstation and pixiv and Luis Royo
Settings
Sampler
Euler a
Steps
20
Guidance
7
Seed
568457118
Size
512x512
Prompt
cemetary, pen and ink, in the style of gustave dore highly detailed, octane render, 8k, trending on artstation, sharp focus, studio photo, intricate details, highly detailed, by greg rutkowski
Settings
Sampler
Euler a
Steps
20
Guidance
7
Seed
684194789
Size
512x512
Prompt
Lisa Lisa Joestar from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, smizing, long black hair, wearing a crop top and a red scarf, ripped jeans, sunrise, hands in pockets, by Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Artgerm and Karol Bak, Vogue, digital painting, photorealism, evocative, Intricate detail, cgsociety, masterpiece [gloves, sleeves, cuffs]
Negative prompt
[photo:0.3], out of frame, duplicate, watermark, signature, text, ugly, morbid, mutated, deformed, blurry, bad anatomy, bad proportions, cloned face, disfigured, fused fingers, fused limbs, too many fingers, long neck
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epicDiffusion_11.safetensors
1.99 GB · SafeTensor · fp16 · full
epicDiffusion_11.ckpt
1.99 GB · PickleTensor · fp16 · full
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