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stable-diffusion.cppInvokeAI
Free

Free and open source under the MIT licence.

 Freemium

The community edition is free and open source under Apache 2.0 and runs entirely on your…

Command line Windows, macOS, Linux, Self-hosted
  • No external dependencies and a small footprint
  • Quick support for new image and video models
  • Unified canvas for inpainting and outpainting instead of regenerating whole images
  • Node-based workflow editor for building reproducible generation pipelines
  • Command-line options change frequently
  • More technical to set up than graphical image generators
  • 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
No account needed No account needed
Works offline Works offline

Checked September 26, 2026

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