Kroma: An MIT-Licensed Text-to-Image Model for ComfyUI

Lodestones has published Kroma, an open text-to-image model now available on Hugging Face. The initial 1.0 release arrives under a permissive MIT license, making it one of the more freely usable image generators to surface in recent weeks.

According to the release, Kroma is built on the Krea 2 lineage and packaged with ComfyUI in mind — the node-based interface that has become the default playground for the open image-generation community. That framing suggests the model is meant to slot directly into existing pipelines rather than ship as a standalone application.

Why it matters

Licensing remains one of the biggest friction points for people building on open image models, where restrictive terms often limit commercial use. An MIT license removes much of that ambiguity:

• Free to use, modify, and redistribute, including in commercial projects
• Compatible with the ComfyUI ecosystem many creators already rely on
• A clean starting point for fine-tunes and derivative workflows

The record leaves several technical details unstated — there is no published parameter count or benchmark data yet — so the practical quality of Kroma will be judged by the community as people put it through real ComfyUI graphs. For now, its clear license and familiar tooling make it an easy model to try, with the specifics available on the project's Hugging Face page.