Realistic Vision — AI image generator

A photoreal community checkpoint at the cheapest tier.

Realistic Vision is a long-standing community fine-tune aimed squarely at photographic output — portraits, interiors, ordinary scenes that read as taken rather than made. It costs 26 credits, the same as base SDXL, and accepts LoRAs.

It will not match Seedream v4 on skin or light. What it offers is photoreal output at roughly a tenth of Seedream's price, which changes what is affordable when you need eighty images rather than eight.

What Realistic Vision is good for

Worth knowing before you spend credits

Skin and lighting are clearly a step below Seedream v4, and it inherits SDXL's weak prompt adherence. Budget option, not the quality option.

Realistic Vision specifications

Price26 credits — about 2c
TypeImage
Providerfal
Aspect ratios (13)1:1, 4:3, 16:9, 3:2, 19.5:9, 20:9, 2:1, 3:4, 9:16, 2:3, 9:19.5, 9:20, 1:2
Resolutions1k, 2k
LoRAYes — Hugging Face or CivitAI adapter URLs

Credit prices are the live studio rates. Cash equivalents are approximate at starter-pack rates and improve on the larger packs — see pricing.

Questions

What is the cheapest photorealistic AI image model here?
Realistic Vision, at 26 credits. Seedream v4 is substantially better at skin and light for roughly ten times the price.

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