diff --git a/src/diffusers/pipelines/controlnet/pipeline_controlnet.py b/src/diffusers/pipelines/controlnet/pipeline_controlnet.py
index 6bdc281ef8..6cd1658c59 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/pipelines/controlnet/pipeline_controlnet.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/pipelines/controlnet/pipeline_controlnet.py
@@ -603,15 +603,6 @@ class StableDiffusionControlNetPipeline(
                     f" {negative_prompt_embeds.shape}."
                 )
 
-        # `prompt` needs more sophisticated handling when there are multiple
-        # conditionings.
-        if isinstance(self.controlnet, MultiControlNetModel):
-            if isinstance(prompt, list):
-                logger.warning(
-                    f"You have {len(self.controlnet.nets)} ControlNets and you have passed {len(prompt)}"
-                    " prompts. The conditionings will be fixed across the prompts."
-                )
-
         # Check `image`
         is_compiled = hasattr(F, "scaled_dot_product_attention") and isinstance(
             self.controlnet, torch._dynamo.eval_frame.OptimizedModule
@@ -633,7 +624,13 @@ class StableDiffusionControlNetPipeline(
             # When `image` is a nested list:
             # (e.g. [[canny_image_1, pose_image_1], [canny_image_2, pose_image_2]])
             elif any(isinstance(i, list) for i in image):
-                raise ValueError("A single batch of multiple conditionings is not supported at the moment.")
+                transposed_image = [list(t) for t in zip(*image)]
+                if len(transposed_image) != len(self.controlnet.nets):
+                    raise ValueError(
+                        f"For multiple controlnets: if you pass`image` as a list of list, each sublist must have the same length as the number of controlnets, but the sublists in `image` got {len(transposed_image)} images and {len(self.controlnet.nets)} ControlNets."
+                    )
+                for image_ in transposed_image:
+                    self.check_image(image_, prompt, prompt_embeds)
             elif len(image) != len(self.controlnet.nets):
                 raise ValueError(
                     f"For multiple controlnets: `image` must have the same length as the number of controlnets, but got {len(image)} images and {len(self.controlnet.nets)} ControlNets."
@@ -659,7 +656,10 @@ class StableDiffusionControlNetPipeline(
         ):
             if isinstance(controlnet_conditioning_scale, list):
                 if any(isinstance(i, list) for i in controlnet_conditioning_scale):
-                    raise ValueError("A single batch of multiple conditionings is not supported at the moment.")
+                    raise ValueError(
+                        "A single batch of varying conditioning scale settings (e.g. [[1.0, 0.5], [0.2, 0.8]]) is not supported at the moment. "
+                        "The conditioning scale must be fixed across the batch."
+                    )
             elif isinstance(controlnet_conditioning_scale, list) and len(controlnet_conditioning_scale) != len(
                 self.controlnet.nets
             ):
@@ -906,7 +906,9 @@ class StableDiffusionControlNetPipeline(
                 accepted as an image. The dimensions of the output image defaults to `image`'s dimensions. If height
                 and/or width are passed, `image` is resized accordingly. If multiple ControlNets are specified in
                 `init`, images must be passed as a list such that each element of the list can be correctly batched for
-                input to a single ControlNet.
+                input to a single ControlNet. When `prompt` is a list, and if a list of images is passed for a single ControlNet,
+                each will be paired with each prompt in the `prompt` list. This also applies to multiple ControlNets,
+                where a list of image lists can be passed to batch for each prompt and each ControlNet.
             height (`int`, *optional*, defaults to `self.unet.config.sample_size * self.vae_scale_factor`):
                 The height in pixels of the generated image.
             width (`int`, *optional*, defaults to `self.unet.config.sample_size * self.vae_scale_factor`):
@@ -1105,6 +1107,11 @@ class StableDiffusionControlNetPipeline(
         elif isinstance(controlnet, MultiControlNetModel):
             images = []
 
+            # Nested lists as ControlNet condition
+            if isinstance(image[0], list):
+                # Transpose the nested image list
+                image = [list(t) for t in zip(*image)]
+
             for image_ in image:
                 image_ = self.prepare_image(
                     image=image_,
diff --git a/tests/pipelines/controlnet/test_controlnet.py b/tests/pipelines/controlnet/test_controlnet.py
index ce86933430..c034a9b68b 100644
--- a/tests/pipelines/controlnet/test_controlnet.py
+++ b/tests/pipelines/controlnet/test_controlnet.py
@@ -460,6 +460,33 @@ class StableDiffusionMultiControlNetPipelineFastTests(
             except NotImplementedError:
                 pass
 
+    def test_inference_multiple_prompt_input(self):
+        device = "cpu"
+
+        components = self.get_dummy_components()
+        sd_pipe = StableDiffusionControlNetPipeline(**components)
+        sd_pipe = sd_pipe.to(torch_device)
+        sd_pipe.set_progress_bar_config(disable=None)
+
+        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs(device)
+        inputs["prompt"] = [inputs["prompt"], inputs["prompt"]]
+        inputs["image"] = [inputs["image"], inputs["image"]]
+        output = sd_pipe(**inputs)
+        image = output.images
+
+        assert image.shape == (2, 64, 64, 3)
+
+        image_1, image_2 = image
+        # make sure that the outputs are different
+        assert np.sum(np.abs(image_1 - image_2)) > 1e-3
+
+        # multiple prompts, single image conditioning
+        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs(device)
+        inputs["prompt"] = [inputs["prompt"], inputs["prompt"]]
+        output_1 = sd_pipe(**inputs)
+
+        assert np.abs(image - output_1.images).max() < 1e-3
+
 
 class StableDiffusionMultiControlNetOneModelPipelineFastTests(
     PipelineTesterMixin, PipelineKarrasSchedulerTesterMixin, unittest.TestCase