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Fooocus vs InvokeAI: catalog facts
Fooocus	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
It deliberately removes the sampler, scheduler and weight settings that other front-ends surface, so the workflow is…	Unified canvas for inpainting and outpainting instead of regenerating whole images Node-based workflow editor for building reproducible generation pipelines
Upstream development has largely stopped, and the simplified interface gets in the way once you do want fine…	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: GPL-3.0	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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