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Easy Diffusion vs InvokeAI: catalog facts
Easy Diffusion	InvokeAI
Free The software is free under its open-source licence. Hosting, hardware and external…	Freemium The community edition is free and open source under Apache 2.0 and runs entirely on your…
Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows, macOS, Linux, Self-hosted
The installer pulls in everything it needs with no Python setup or command-line work, which is the easiest…	Unified canvas for inpainting and outpainting instead of regenerating whole images Node-based workflow editor for building reproducible generation pipelines
It hides most of the tuning knobs that ComfyUI and Automatic1111 expose, and image generation still wants a…	Needs a reasonably capable GPU; CPU generation is impractically slow Models are large downloads you manage yourself
Downloadable app	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: Apache-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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