diff --git a/invokeai/backend/model_manager/config.py b/invokeai/backend/model_manager/config.py
index 964cc19f19..b4685caf10 100644
--- a/invokeai/backend/model_manager/config.py
+++ b/invokeai/backend/model_manager/config.py
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ class _DiffusersConfig(ModelConfigBase):
     """Model config for diffusers-style models."""
 
     format: Literal[ModelFormat.Diffusers] = ModelFormat.Diffusers
-
+    repo_variant: Optional[ModelRepoVariant] = ModelRepoVariant.DEFAULT
 
 class LoRAConfig(ModelConfigBase):
     """Model config for LoRA/Lycoris models."""
@@ -179,7 +179,6 @@ class ControlNetDiffusersConfig(_DiffusersConfig):
     type: Literal[ModelType.ControlNet] = ModelType.ControlNet
     format: Literal[ModelFormat.Diffusers] = ModelFormat.Diffusers
 
-
 class ControlNetCheckpointConfig(_CheckpointConfig):
     """Model config for ControlNet models (diffusers version)."""
 
@@ -215,7 +214,6 @@ class MainDiffusersConfig(_DiffusersConfig, _MainConfig):
     prediction_type: SchedulerPredictionType = SchedulerPredictionType.Epsilon
     upcast_attention: bool = False
 
-
 class ONNXSD1Config(_MainConfig):
     """Model config for ONNX format models based on sd-1."""
 
diff --git a/invokeai/backend/model_manager/probe.py b/invokeai/backend/model_manager/probe.py
index cd048d2fe7..ba3ac3dd0c 100644
--- a/invokeai/backend/model_manager/probe.py
+++ b/invokeai/backend/model_manager/probe.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ from .config import (
     ModelFormat,
     ModelType,
     ModelVariantType,
+    ModelRepoVariant,
     SchedulerPredictionType,
 )
 from .hash import FastModelHash
@@ -155,6 +156,9 @@ class ModelProbe(object):
         fields["original_hash"] = fields.get("original_hash") or hash
         fields["current_hash"] = fields.get("current_hash") or hash
 
+        if format_type == ModelFormat.Diffusers:
+            fields["repo_variant"] = fields.get("repo_variant") or probe.get_repo_variant()
+
         # additional fields needed for main and controlnet models
         if fields["type"] in [ModelType.Main, ModelType.ControlNet] and fields["format"] == ModelFormat.Checkpoint:
             fields["config"] = cls._get_checkpoint_config_path(
@@ -477,6 +481,20 @@ class FolderProbeBase(ProbeBase):
     def get_format(self) -> ModelFormat:
         return ModelFormat("diffusers")
 
+    def get_repo_variant(self) -> ModelRepoVariant:
+        # get all files ending in .bin or .safetensors
+        weight_files = list(self.model_path.glob('**/*.safetensors'))
+        weight_files.extend(list(self.model_path.glob('**/*.bin')))
+        for x in weight_files:
+            if ".fp16" in x.suffixes:
+                return ModelRepoVariant.FP16
+            if "openvino_model" in x.name:
+                return ModelRepoVariant.OPENVINO
+            if "flax_model" in x.name:
+                return ModelRepoVariant.FLAX
+            if x.suffix == ".onnx":
+                return ModelRepoVariant.ONNX
+        return ModelRepoVariant.DEFAULT
 
 class PipelineFolderProbe(FolderProbeBase):
     def get_base_type(self) -> BaseModelType:
@@ -522,6 +540,7 @@ class PipelineFolderProbe(FolderProbeBase):
         except Exception:
             pass
         return ModelVariantType.Normal
+        
 
 
 class VaeFolderProbe(FolderProbeBase):
diff --git a/tests/test_model_probe.py b/tests/test_model_probe.py
index 248b7d602f..415559a64c 100644
--- a/tests/test_model_probe.py
+++ b/tests/test_model_probe.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ from pathlib import Path
 import pytest
 
 from invokeai.backend import BaseModelType
-from invokeai.backend.model_management.model_probe import VaeFolderProbe
+from invokeai.backend.model_manager.probe import VaeFolderProbe
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
@@ -20,3 +20,10 @@ def test_get_base_type(vae_path: str, expected_type: BaseModelType, datadir: Pat
     probe = VaeFolderProbe(sd1_vae_path)
     base_type = probe.get_base_type()
     assert base_type == expected_type
+    repo_variant = probe.get_repo_variant()
+    assert repo_variant == 'default'
+
+def test_repo_variant(datadir: Path):
+    probe = VaeFolderProbe(datadir / "vae" / "taesdxl-fp16")
+    repo_variant = probe.get_repo_variant()
+    assert repo_variant == 'fp16'
diff --git a/tests/test_model_probe/vae/taesdxl-fp16/config.json b/tests/test_model_probe/vae/taesdxl-fp16/config.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..62f01c3eb4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_model_probe/vae/taesdxl-fp16/config.json
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+{
+  "_class_name": "AutoencoderTiny",
+  "_diffusers_version": "0.20.0.dev0",
+  "act_fn": "relu",
+  "decoder_block_out_channels": [
+    64,
+    64,
+    64,
+    64
+  ],
+  "encoder_block_out_channels": [
+    64,
+    64,
+    64,
+    64
+  ],
+  "force_upcast": false,
+  "in_channels": 3,
+  "latent_channels": 4,
+  "latent_magnitude": 3,
+  "latent_shift": 0.5,
+  "num_decoder_blocks": [
+    3,
+    3,
+    3,
+    1
+  ],
+  "num_encoder_blocks": [
+    1,
+    3,
+    3,
+    3
+  ],
+  "out_channels": 3,
+  "scaling_factor": 1.0,
+  "upsampling_scaling_factor": 2
+}
diff --git a/tests/test_model_probe/vae/taesdxl-fp16/diffusion_pytorch_model.fp16.safetensors b/tests/test_model_probe/vae/taesdxl-fp16/diffusion_pytorch_model.fp16.safetensors
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e69de29bb2