Image and video
Based Labs AI alternatives
2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.
The projects
AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui★164,432 GitHub starsAGPL-3.0 licenceLocal web application providing a full-featured Stable Diffusion image generation interface with prompt options and model management.Open on GitHub ↗Anil-matcha/Open-Generative-AI★25,740 GitHub starsMIT licenceSelf-hosted image and video generation studio offering many models and a ready-to-run generation interface.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- Access to the vendor's 50+ hosted models and proprietary/high-quality video models
- Credit-pack billing model and built-in top-up UX
- Integrated web-based video editor and social/tikTok-focused templates
- Scale and performance optimizations of a production media generation platform
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Based Labs AI, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.