diff --git a/invokeai/backend/model_manager/config.py b/invokeai/backend/model_manager/config.py
index 8aa57066cb..e08d267a3c 100644
--- a/invokeai/backend/model_manager/config.py
+++ b/invokeai/backend/model_manager/config.py
@@ -95,6 +95,13 @@ class SubModelType(str, Enum):
     SafetyChecker = "safety_checker"
 
 
+class ClipVariantType(str, Enum):
+    """Variant type."""
+
+    L = "large"
+    G = "gigantic"
+
+
 class ModelVariantType(str, Enum):
     """Variant type."""
 
@@ -150,9 +157,13 @@ class ModelSourceType(str, Enum):
 DEFAULTS_PRECISION = Literal["fp16", "fp32"]
 
 
+AnyVariant: TypeAlias = Union[ModelRepoVariant, ClipVariantType, None]
+
+
 class SubmodelDefinition(BaseModel):
     path_or_prefix: str
     model_type: ModelType
+    variant: AnyVariant = None
 
 
 class MainModelDefaultSettings(BaseModel):
@@ -430,6 +441,7 @@ class CLIPEmbedDiffusersConfig(DiffusersConfigBase):
 
     type: Literal[ModelType.CLIPEmbed] = ModelType.CLIPEmbed
     format: Literal[ModelFormat.Diffusers] = ModelFormat.Diffusers
+    variant: ClipVariantType = ClipVariantType.L
 
     @staticmethod
     def get_tag() -> Tag:
diff --git a/invokeai/backend/model_manager/probe.py b/invokeai/backend/model_manager/probe.py
index 4471100441..e988ac0372 100644
--- a/invokeai/backend/model_manager/probe.py
+++ b/invokeai/backend/model_manager/probe.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import json
 import re
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Any, Dict, Literal, Optional, Union
+from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, Literal, Optional, Union
 
 import safetensors.torch
 import spandrel
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ from invokeai.backend.lora.conversions.flux_kohya_lora_conversion_utils import i
 from invokeai.backend.model_hash.model_hash import HASHING_ALGORITHMS
 from invokeai.backend.model_manager.config import (
     AnyModelConfig,
+    AnyVariant,
     BaseModelType,
     ControlAdapterDefaultSettings,
     InvalidModelConfigException,
@@ -37,7 +38,11 @@ from invokeai.backend.model_manager.config import (
     SubModelType,
 )
 from invokeai.backend.model_manager.load.model_loaders.generic_diffusers import ConfigLoader
-from invokeai.backend.model_manager.util.model_util import lora_token_vector_length, read_checkpoint_meta
+from invokeai.backend.model_manager.util.model_util import (
+    get_clip_variant_type,
+    lora_token_vector_length,
+    read_checkpoint_meta,
+)
 from invokeai.backend.quantization.gguf.ggml_tensor import GGMLTensor
 from invokeai.backend.quantization.gguf.loaders import gguf_sd_loader
 from invokeai.backend.spandrel_image_to_image_model import SpandrelImageToImageModel
@@ -130,6 +135,8 @@ class ModelProbe(object):
         "CLIPTextModelWithProjection": ModelType.CLIPEmbed,
     }
 
+    TYPE2VARIANT: Dict[ModelType, Callable[[str], Optional[AnyVariant]]] = {ModelType.CLIPEmbed: get_clip_variant_type}
+
     @classmethod
     def register_probe(
         cls, format: Literal["diffusers", "checkpoint", "onnx"], model_type: ModelType, probe_class: type[ProbeBase]
@@ -176,7 +183,10 @@ class ModelProbe(object):
         fields["path"] = model_path.as_posix()
         fields["type"] = fields.get("type") or model_type
         fields["base"] = fields.get("base") or probe.get_base_type()
-        fields["variant"] = fields.get("variant") or probe.get_variant_type()
+        variant_func = cls.TYPE2VARIANT.get(fields["type"], None)
+        fields["variant"] = (
+            fields.get("variant") or (variant_func and variant_func(model_path.as_posix())) or probe.get_variant_type()
+        )
         fields["prediction_type"] = fields.get("prediction_type") or probe.get_scheduler_prediction_type()
         fields["image_encoder_model_id"] = fields.get("image_encoder_model_id") or probe.get_image_encoder_model_id()
         fields["name"] = fields.get("name") or cls.get_model_name(model_path)
@@ -803,9 +813,11 @@ class PipelineFolderProbe(FolderProbeBase):
                 continue
             model_loader = str(value[1])
             if model_type := ModelProbe.CLASS2TYPE.get(model_loader):
+                variant_func = ModelProbe.TYPE2VARIANT.get(model_type, None)
                 submodels[SubModelType(key)] = SubmodelDefinition(
                     path_or_prefix=(self.model_path / key).resolve().as_posix(),
                     model_type=model_type,
+                    variant=variant_func and variant_func((self.model_path / key).as_posix()),
                 )
 
         return submodels
diff --git a/invokeai/backend/model_manager/util/model_util.py b/invokeai/backend/model_manager/util/model_util.py
index fec59a60f8..d4efdeb0ae 100644
--- a/invokeai/backend/model_manager/util/model_util.py
+++ b/invokeai/backend/model_manager/util/model_util.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import safetensors
 import torch
 from picklescan.scanner import scan_file_path
 
+from invokeai.backend.model_manager.config import ClipVariantType
 from invokeai.backend.quantization.gguf.loaders import gguf_sd_loader
 
 
@@ -165,3 +166,20 @@ def convert_bundle_to_flux_transformer_checkpoint(
         del transformer_state_dict[k]
 
     return original_state_dict
+
+
+def get_clip_variant_type(location: str) -> Optional[ClipVariantType]:
+    path = Path(location)
+    config_path = path / "config.json"
+    if not config_path.exists():
+        return None
+    with open(config_path) as file:
+        clip_conf = json.load(file)
+        hidden_size = clip_conf.get("hidden_size", -1)
+        match hidden_size:
+            case 1280:
+                return ClipVariantType.G
+            case 768:
+                return ClipVariantType.L
+            case _:
+                return None
diff --git a/invokeai/frontend/web/src/services/api/schema.ts b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/services/api/schema.ts
index 5818e3a4fc..c8a679c0ba 100644
--- a/invokeai/frontend/web/src/services/api/schema.ts
+++ b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/services/api/schema.ts
@@ -2711,6 +2711,8 @@ export type components = {
              * @enum {string}
              */
             type: "clip_embed";
+            /** @default large */
+            variant?: components["schemas"]["ClipVariantType"];
         };
         /** CLIPField */
         CLIPField: {
@@ -3515,6 +3517,12 @@ export type components = {
              */
             deleted: number;
         };
+        /**
+         * ClipVariantType
+         * @description Variant type.
+         * @enum {string}
+         */
+        ClipVariantType: "large" | "gigantic";
         /**
          * CollectInvocation
          * @description Collects values into a collection
@@ -14216,7 +14224,7 @@ export type components = {
             /**
              * CFG Scale
              * @description Classifier-Free Guidance scale
-             * @default 7
+             * @default 3.5
              */
             cfg_scale?: number | number[];
             /**
@@ -16259,6 +16267,8 @@ export type components = {
             /** Path Or Prefix */
             path_or_prefix: string;
             model_type: components["schemas"]["ModelType"];
+            /** Variant */
+            variant?: components["schemas"]["ModelRepoVariant"] | components["schemas"]["ClipVariantType"] | null;
         };
         /**
          * Subtract Integers
diff --git a/invokeai/frontend/web/src/services/api/types.ts b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/services/api/types.ts
index 1e486acb7e..4815c61125 100644
--- a/invokeai/frontend/web/src/services/api/types.ts
+++ b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/services/api/types.ts
@@ -75,21 +75,25 @@ export type AnyModelConfig =
   | MainModelConfig
   | CLIPVisionDiffusersConfig;
 
-const check_submodel_model_type = (submodels: AnyModelConfig['submodels'], model_type: string): boolean => {
+const check_submodel = (submodels: AnyModelConfig['submodels'], check_str: string): boolean => {
   for (const submodel in submodels) {
-    if (submodel && submodels[submodel] && submodels[submodel].model_type === model_type) {
+    if (
+      submodel &&
+      submodels[submodel] &&
+      (submodels[submodel].model_type === check_str || submodels[submodel].variant === check_str)
+    ) {
       return true;
     }
   }
   return false;
 };
 
-const check_submodels = (indentifier: string, config: AnyModelConfig): boolean => {
-  return (
-    (config.type === 'main' &&
+const check_submodels = (indentifiers: string[], config: AnyModelConfig): boolean => {
+  return indentifiers.every(
+    (indentifier) =>
+      config.type === 'main' &&
       config.submodels &&
-      (indentifier in config.submodels || check_submodel_model_type(config.submodels, indentifier))) ||
-    false
+      (indentifier in config.submodels || check_submodel(config.submodels, indentifier))
   );
 };
 
@@ -98,15 +102,15 @@ export const isLoRAModelConfig = (config: AnyModelConfig): config is LoRAModelCo
 };
 
 export const isVAEModelConfig = (config: AnyModelConfig): config is VAEModelConfig | MainModelConfig => {
-  return config.type === 'vae' || check_submodels('vae', config);
+  return config.type === 'vae' || check_submodels(['vae'], config);
 };
 
 export const isNonFluxVAEModelConfig = (config: AnyModelConfig): config is VAEModelConfig | MainModelConfig => {
-  return (config.type === 'vae' || check_submodels('vae', config)) && config.base !== 'flux';
+  return (config.type === 'vae' || check_submodels(['vae'], config)) && config.base !== 'flux';
 };
 
 export const isFluxVAEModelConfig = (config: AnyModelConfig): config is VAEModelConfig | MainModelConfig => {
-  return (config.type === 'vae' || check_submodels('vae', config)) && config.base === 'flux';
+  return (config.type === 'vae' || check_submodels(['vae'], config)) && config.base === 'flux';
 };
 
 export const isControlNetModelConfig = (config: AnyModelConfig): config is ControlNetModelConfig => {
@@ -128,11 +132,23 @@ export const isT2IAdapterModelConfig = (config: AnyModelConfig): config is T2IAd
 export const isT5EncoderModelConfig = (
   config: AnyModelConfig
 ): config is T5EncoderModelConfig | T5EncoderBnbQuantizedLlmInt8bModelConfig | MainModelConfig => {
-  return config.type === 't5_encoder' || check_submodels('t5_encoder', config);
+  return config.type === 't5_encoder' || check_submodels(['t5_encoder'], config);
 };
 
 export const isCLIPEmbedModelConfig = (config: AnyModelConfig): config is CLIPEmbedModelConfig | MainModelConfig => {
-  return config.type === 'clip_embed' || check_submodels('clip_embed', config);
+  return config.type === 'clip_embed' || check_submodels(['clip_embed'], config);
+};
+
+export const isCLIPLEmbedModelConfig = (config: AnyModelConfig): config is CLIPEmbedModelConfig | MainModelConfig => {
+  return (
+    (config.type === 'clip_embed' && config.variant === 'large') || check_submodels(['clip_embed', 'gigantic'], config)
+  );
+};
+
+export const isCLIPGEmbedModelConfig = (config: AnyModelConfig): config is CLIPEmbedModelConfig | MainModelConfig => {
+  return (
+    (config.type === 'clip_embed' && config.variant === 'gigantic') || check_submodels(['clip_embed', 'large'], config)
+  );
 };
 
 export const isSpandrelImageToImageModelConfig = (