InstantCharacter: Personalize Any Characters with a Scalable Diffusion Transformer Framework

InstantCharacter is an innovative, tuning-free method designed to achieve character-preserving generation from a single image, supporting a variety of downstream tasks.

Release

• [2025/04/18] 🔥 We release the demo checkpoints and code.

• [2025/04/02] 🔥 We launch the project page.

Download

You can directly download the model from Huggingface.

huggingface-cli download --resume-download Tencent/InstantCharacter --local-dir checkpoints --local-dir-use-symlinks False

If you cannot access to Huggingface, you can use hf-mirror to download models.

export HF_ENDPOINT=https://hf-mirror.com
huggingface-cli download --resume-download Tencent/InstantCharacter --local-dir checkpoints --local-dir-use-symlinks False