Fashion-MNIST: a harder drop-in for MNIST

Posted 15 Oct 2026

70,000 grayscale 28x28 images of clothing in 10 classes (60k train, 10k test). It uses the same file format as MNIST, so code written for MNIST works unchanged.

MaintainerZalando Research
LicenseMIT
FormatGzipped IDX

Official page: github.com/zalandoresearch/fashion-mnist

SolxLab links to the official source and does not re-host this dataset. Follow the license and terms on the official page.

Filetrain-images-idx3-ubyte.gz (+3 files)
Size~30 MB total
DatasetsVision