diff --git a/demo/mmagic_inference_demo.py b/demo/mmagic_inference_demo.py
index 26b08a10da..0c3a17ce12 100644
--- a/demo/mmagic_inference_demo.py
+++ b/demo/mmagic_inference_demo.py
@@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ def parse_args():
         type=int,
         default=None,
         help='Pretrained mmagic algorithm setting')
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '--config-name',
+        type=str,
+        default=None,
+        help='Pretrained mmagic algorithm config name')
     parser.add_argument(
         '--model-config',
         type=str,
diff --git a/demo/mmagic_inference_tutorial.ipynb b/demo/mmagic_inference_tutorial.ipynb
index 7ca106d4e0..fa29d2654d 100644
--- a/demo/mmagic_inference_tutorial.ipynb
+++ b/demo/mmagic_inference_tutorial.ipynb
@@ -404,9 +404,13 @@
     "\n",
     "There are some different configs and checkpoints for one model.\n",
     "\n",
+    "You could configure different settings by passing 'model_setting' to 'MMagicInferencer'. Every model's default setting is 0.\n",
+    "\n",
     "Take conditional GAN model 'biggan' as an example. We have pretrained model for Cifar and Imagenet, and all pretrained models of 'biggan' are listed in its [metafile.yaml](../configs/biggan/metafile.yml)\n",
     "\n",
-    "You could configure different settings by passing 'model_setting' to 'MMagicInferencer'. Every model's default setting is 0."
+    "There are six settings in this metafile. If you choose setting 1, then the config 'configs/biggan/biggan_ajbrock-sn_8xb32-1500kiters_imagenet1k-128x128.py' will be used. If 'model_setting' is not passed to 'MMagicInferencer', the config ‘configs/biggan/biggan_2xb25-500kiters_cifar10-32x32.py’ will be used by default.\n",
+    "\n",
+    "And you could also use 'config_name' to replace 'model_setting'. For example, you can init a MMagicInferencer with 'MMagicInferencer('biggan', config_name='biggan_2xb25-500kiters_cifar10-32x32')', which is the same with 'MMagicInferencer('biggan', model_setting=0)'."
    ]
   },
   {
diff --git a/mmagic/apis/mmagic_inferencer.py b/mmagic/apis/mmagic_inferencer.py
index bad7e82df0..11392c32f1 100644
--- a/mmagic/apis/mmagic_inferencer.py
+++ b/mmagic/apis/mmagic_inferencer.py
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ class MMagicInferencer:
     def __init__(self,
                  model_name: str = None,
                  model_setting: int = None,
+                 config_name: int = None,
                  model_config: str = None,
                  model_ckpt: str = None,
                  device: torch.device = None,
@@ -141,13 +142,14 @@ def __init__(self,
         inferencer_kwargs = {}
         inferencer_kwargs.update(
             self._get_inferencer_kwargs(model_name, model_setting,
-                                        model_config, model_ckpt,
-                                        extra_parameters))
+                                        config_name, model_config,
+                                        model_ckpt, extra_parameters))
         self.inferencer = Inferencers(
             device=device, seed=seed, **inferencer_kwargs)
 
     def _get_inferencer_kwargs(self, model_name: Optional[str],
                                model_setting: Optional[int],
+                               config_name: Optional[int],
                                model_config: Optional[str],
                                model_ckpt: Optional[str],
                                extra_parameters: Optional[Dict]) -> Dict:
@@ -161,6 +163,11 @@ def _get_inferencer_kwargs(self, model_name: Optional[str],
             if model_setting:
                 setting_to_use = model_setting
             config_dir = cfgs['settings'][setting_to_use]['Config']
+            if config_name:
+                for setting in cfgs['settings']:
+                    if setting['Name'] == config_name:
+                        config_dir = setting['Config']
+                        break
             config_dir = config_dir[config_dir.find('configs'):]
             if osp.exists(
                     osp.join(osp.dirname(__file__), '..', '..', config_dir)):