Tencent-Hunyuan/InstantCharacter

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1045 stars · 93 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

InstantCharacter is a tuning-free framework built on diffusion transformers that generates character-consistent images from a single reference photo, supporting style LoRAs and various downstream tasks. It is released by Tencent Hunyuan with checkpoints on Hugging Face and a ComfyUI wrapper.

Use cases

• generate images of the same character from one reference photo
• personalize a character without training or fine-tuning
• apply art styles like Ghibli to a character while keeping identity
• run character-preserving text-to-image generation locally
• use a custom character node in ComfyUI workflows

When to choose

• you need identity-consistent character generation from a single image without per-character training
• you want to combine character consistency with style LoRAs on Flux-class models
• you have a GPU (22GB VRAM with offloading) and want open checkpoints

When to avoid

• you need fast inference on low-VRAM consumer GPUs
• you want a polished end-user app rather than Python inference code
• you need a permissively licensed model for commercial use without checking the custom license

Facets

library · maturity active

image-processing machine-learning stable-diffusion deep-learning image-processing artificial-intelligence deep-learning python diffusion-transformer character-personalization tuning-free text-to-image flux comfyui gpu linux

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