HartsyInference.Vulkan 2.0.0-alpha.16

HartsyInference

Run Flux, Qwen-Image, Wan, Whisper, Llama and 100+ other models from C#. No Python. No venv. No subprocess.

A complete AI inference engine written entirely in C#. It loads .safetensors, .gguf and PyTorch checkpoints directly and runs them on CUDA, Vulkan or CPU — as NuGet packages you reference from a .NET app. Nothing to install beyond your GPU driver.

Not a wrapper: the CUDA kernels are hand-written PTX loaded through the Driver API, the Vulkan kernels are SPIR-V, the CPU kernels are AVX2/AVX-512/NEON intrinsics.

⚠️ Alpha

Verified across a wide model set and in daily use, but public APIs still change between releases. Pin an exact version. Some models are built but not yet verified end-to-end, and video performance is still being optimized. Status is tracked openly — see the links at the bottom.

Install

dotnet add package HartsyInference             # everything
dotnet add package HartsyInference.Diffusion   # or just the modality you need

Generate an image

InferenceEngine is the facade — it owns model loading, caching and generation for every modality.

using HartsyInference.Engine;
using HartsyInference.Engine.Dispatch;
using HartsyInference.Engine.Requests;

using var engine = new InferenceEngine("cuda");   // "cpu", "vulkan", "cuda:1", "auto"

ImageResult image = await engine.Images.GenerateAsync(
    new ModelSpec { Requested = "sdxl", Modality = Modality.Image, LocalPath = "sdxl.safetensors" },
    new ImageRequest { Prompt = "a castle on a mountain at sunset, oil painting", Steps = 25 });

// image.Rgb is RGB24 bytes, image.Width × image.Height

Stream tokens from a local LLM

var spec = new ModelSpec { Requested = "qwen3", Modality = Modality.Text, LocalPath = "Qwen3-4B-Q4_K_M.gguf" };
var request = new TextRequest
{
    Messages = [new TextMessage { Role = TextRole.User, Content = "Explain flow matching." }],
};

await foreach (TextChunk chunk in engine.Text.StreamAsync(spec, request))
    if (chunk.Kind == TextChunkKind.Chunk)
        Console.Write(chunk.Text);

Every modality follows the same shape: engine.Images, engine.Text, engine.Video, engine.Speech, engine.Transcribe, engine.Music, engine.Vision, engine.Mesh, engine.World, engine.Restore, engine.VoiceConversion, engine.Fx, engine.Embeddings.

Performance

Faster than ComfyUI on the models most people run — same GPU, same checkpoint, same steps (RTX 4090): Flux-Schnell 2.4 s vs 3.8 s, Krea2-Turbo 4.5 s vs 6.5 s, Qwen-Image 20B 40.6 s vs 58.2 s, Flux-Dev 9.5 s vs 12.5 s. SDXL and Lumina 2 still trail; most video DiTs still trail.

Text decode beats llama.cpp at matched GGUF and quant on a 12 GB RTX 3060: Qwen2.5-0.5B 435.6 vs 328.9 tok/s, Gemma-3-1B 251.3 vs 196.8, Llama-3.2-1B 213.7 vs 192.0.

Full tables, including the losses, are in the repo under benchmarks/scoreboards/.

What it can run

• Image — SD1.5, SDXL, Flux.1/.2, SD3.5, Qwen-Image (+Edit), Chroma, Krea 2, Z-Image, HiDream, AuraFlow, Lumina 2, Kandinsky 5, OmniGen 2, Ideogram 4. ControlNet, IP-Adapter (incl. FaceID), LoRA, img2img and inpaint.
• Video — Wan 2.1/2.2, HunyuanVideo 13B, LTX-Video + LTX-2.3, MiniMax-H3, Kandinsky 5, plus SeedVR2 video/image restoration.
• LLM — Llama, Qwen2/3, Gemma 2/3/4, Phi, Mistral, MoE giants, Mamba/RWKV, VLMs, embeddings and rerankers. GGUF quantized throughout, device-resident KV cache, chat templates.
• Audio — Whisper and Moonshine (STT); Kokoro, Piper, StyleTTS2, F5-TTS, CosyVoice, VibeVoice, Bark (TTS); ACE-Step, MusicGen, YuE (music); 9 neural codecs; voice conversion, stem separation, enhancement.
• Vision — CLIP / SigLIP / DINOv2, YOLOv8/11, RT-DETR, Grounding DINO, SAM 2, Depth-Anything-V2.
• 3D — TripoSR, Hunyuan3D-2 (image → mesh, glTF/OBJ/PLY).
• World — Oasis, DIAMOND (action-conditioned real-time frame generation).

Beyond one GPU

Memory-mapped weights run models far larger than VRAM — MiniMax-H3's 66 GB bf16 DiT is verified end-to-end on a 12 GB RTX 3060, loading at 943 MB RSS. One model can also be split across several GPUs with the VRAM pooled, over plain PCIe with no NVLink or P2P required: LLM layer splits, DiT block sharding, text-encoder/VAE placement, and CFG-parallel branches.

Packages

HartsyInference is a meta-package pulling in the core, all three backends and every modality. Reference individually if you only need one:

Core · ModelAssets (+ .Tokenizers) · Cpu · Cuda · Vulkan · LLM · Diffusion · Audio (+ .Phonemizer) · Vision · Video · ThreeD · World

Dependencies flow one way and GPU code stays behind IBackend, so a CPU-only package never drags in CUDA or Vulkan.

Requirements

.NET 8 or .NET 10. For CUDA: an NVIDIA GPU with compute capability 8.0+ and CUDA 12.x/13.x userspace libraries (FP8 paths need 8.9+; cuDNN 9.21+ optional for fused flash attention). For Vulkan: a Vulkan 1.3+ runtime and FP16 compute — most discrete GPUs from 2019+. The CPU backend needs nothing.

Links

GitHub · SwarmUI backend extension · Model status · Benchmarks · Roadmap

Prefer a UI? The SwarmUI backend extension registers HartsyInference as a pure-C# alternative to the ComfyUI backend — full generation UI, model browser and parameter controls, with no Python environment.

License

MIT