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Kolors

Kuaishou

Kolors is an image generation model line from Kuaishou. The latest release is Kolors 2.1 (10 Jul 2025). This page tracks all 4 Kolors releases since 6 Jul 2024, with specs, licensing, and how to access each one. Official site →

Kolors 2.1

ClosedFreemiumOfficial APIConsumer app

Aesthetics, prompt adherence and text rendering upgrade; 180+ styles

License
Proprietary
Commercial use
Allowed
Availability
Official API, Consumer app

Date approximate - no primary English page found.

Kolors 2.0

ClosedFreemiumOfficial APIConsumer app

Launched alongside Kling 2.0; controllable editing and 60+ stylizations

License
Proprietary
Commercial use
Allowed
Availability
Official API, Consumer app

Kolors 1.5

ClosedFreemiumOfficial APIConsumer app

Image-quality and portrait upgrade; added virtual try-on (AI Model)

License
Proprietary
Commercial use
Allowed
Availability
Official API, Consumer app

Date approximate - only secondary PR coverage, no clean primary English page.

Kolors 1.0

Open weightsFreeCommunity APISelf-host

First standalone bilingual latent-diffusion T2I model; open weights

License
Kwai-Kolors License
Availability
Self-host, Community API

See Kolors in context on the image model timeline, or browse all model families.