InvokeAI

A polished, professional-feeling image studio with a unified canvas. The one to show someone who bounced off the others.

Hybrid
Active
Allowed adult content
Freemium

Website Source

At a glance

Where it runs: HybridBoth: run it yourself, or use the hosted version.
Adult content: AllowedAdult content is permitted within the published rules.
Trains on your content: NoYour content is not used to train models.
Status: ActiveMaintained and working today.
Account needed: No
Licence: Apache-2.0
Cost: Open-source edition free; a paid hosted and enterprise edition exists.
What it keeps: Local only in the self-hosted edition.

What it takes to run

Graphics memory: 6 GB VRAM, 12 GB recommended
System memory: 8 GB, 16 GB recommended
Disk: about 15 GB
Runs on: Linux, macOS, Windows

Find what fits your machine on the tools page — pick your hardware from the first menu.

InvokeAI treats image generation as a canvas you paint on rather than a form you submit. Generating, inpainting and outpainting happen in the same space, which makes iterating on one image far less awkward than it is elsewhere.

The project is run by a company that sells a commercial edition, and the open-source core is genuinely maintained rather than a demo for the paid one.

Worth knowing before you start

Fewer community extensions The extension culture settled on AUTOMATIC1111 and ComfyUI instead.

What it does

Unified canvas
Workflow editor
Model manager
Multi-user support

Models it runs

Signs of life

Checked automatically. These are the only figures on this page a machine wrote, and they say when they were taken.

Last answered: Yes, 3 hours ago Its website responded when we asked.
Stars on GitHub: 28,224 2,970 forks.
Last commit: 18 hours ago2026-09-15 12:27 UTC
Latest release: v6.14.1
Archived copy: Wayback Machine A snapshot, in case this one stops answering.