diff --git a/tests/model_tests/diffusion/diff_model_builders.py b/tests/model_tests/diffusion/diff_model_builders.py
index 14a0a0cff..6fe1897b9 100644
--- a/tests/model_tests/diffusion/diff_model_builders.py
+++ b/tests/model_tests/diffusion/diff_model_builders.py
@@ -278,6 +278,20 @@ def tiny_sd3_builder() -> str:
     )
 
 
+def tiny_sdxl_builder() -> str:
+    # The UNet's architecture (block_out_channels, transformer_layers_per_block, etc.)
+    # is hardcoded in SDXLUNet2DConditionModel rather than read from config, so it
+    # can't be shrunk here; only the two CLIP text encoders are reduced.
+    return build_tiny_from_configs(
+        "StableDiffusionXLPipeline",
+        "stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0",
+        transform={
+            "text_encoder": _shrink_flux_clip_text_encoder,
+            "text_encoder_2": _shrink_flux_clip_text_encoder,
+        },
+    )
+
+
 def tiny_flux2_builder() -> str:
     def shrink_text_encoder(config: dict) -> dict:
         config["tie_word_embeddings"] = False
diff --git a/tests/model_tests/diffusion/model_settings.py b/tests/model_tests/diffusion/model_settings.py
index 60e1e26bf..2223175e8 100644
--- a/tests/model_tests/diffusion/model_settings.py
+++ b/tests/model_tests/diffusion/model_settings.py
@@ -181,4 +181,10 @@ DIFFUSION_TEST_SETTINGS = {
         supported_tasks=[DiffusionTasks.TEXT_TO_IMAGE],
         model_type_marker=ModelTypeMarker.DIFFUSION,
     ),
+    "StableDiffusionXLPipeline": DiffusionModelTestOpts(
+        model="stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0",
+        builder=diff_model_builders.tiny_sdxl_builder,
+        supported_tasks=[DiffusionTasks.TEXT_TO_IMAGE],
+        extra_test_groups=[[DiffusionAccs.CPU_OFFLOAD]],
+    ),
 }
diff --git a/tests/model_tests/diffusion/test_alignment.py b/tests/model_tests/diffusion/test_alignment.py
index d3ef4fd12..e46cef84f 100644
--- a/tests/model_tests/diffusion/test_alignment.py
+++ b/tests/model_tests/diffusion/test_alignment.py
@@ -84,7 +84,6 @@ EXCLUDED_MODELS = [
     "HiDreamImagePipeline",
     "HiDreamO1ImagePipeline",
     "DreamZeroPipeline",
-    "StableDiffusionXLPipeline",
     "Gr00tN1d7Pipeline",
     "Pi0Pipeline",
     "Pi05Pipeline",