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

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