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Krita AI Diffusion vs InvokeAI: catalog facts
Krita AI Diffusion	InvokeAI
Free Free plugin downloaded from the public repository.	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
Works directly inside Krita layers and selections Inpaint and outpaint with an optional prompt	Unified canvas for inpainting and outpainting instead of regenerating whole images Node-based workflow editor for building reproducible generation pipelines
Requires Krita and a model backend Local generation needs a capable GPU	Needs a reasonably capable GPU; CPU generation is impractically slow Models are large downloads you manage yourself
Downloadable app	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	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 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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