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Kandinsky

Kandinsky is a family of open-source diffusion models for video and image generation, developed by Kandinsky Lab (Sber AI, Russia). The models support both English and Russian text prompts.

Model Variants

Kandinsky 5.0 Video Pro (19B)

  • HD video at 1280x768, 24fps (5 or 10 seconds)
  • Controllable camera motion via LoRA
  • Top-1 open-source T2V model on LMArena

Kandinsky 5.0 Video Lite (2B)

  • Lightweight model, #1 among open-source in its class
  • CFG-distilled (2x faster) and diffusion-distilled (6x faster) variants
  • Best Russian concept understanding in open source

Kandinsky 5.0 Image Lite (6B)

  • HD image output (1280x768, 1024x1024)
  • Strong text rendering; image editing variant available

Key Features

  • Bilingual support (English and Russian prompts)
  • Flow Matching architecture with MIT license
  • Camera control via trained LoRAs
  • Hanzo Studio and Diffusers integration
  • MagCache acceleration for faster inference

Hardware Requirements

  • Video Lite: 12GB VRAM minimum with optimizations
  • Video Pro: 24GB+ VRAM recommended
  • NF4 quantization and FlashAttention 2/3 or SDPA supported

Common Use Cases

  • Open-source video generation research
  • Russian and English bilingual content creation
  • Camera-controlled video synthesis
  • Image generation with text rendering
  • Fine-tuning with custom LoRAs

Key Parameters

  • prompt: Text description in English or Russian
  • num_frames: Number of output frames (5s or 10s)
  • resolution: Output resolution (up to 1280x768)
  • steps: Inference steps (varies by distillation level)