Image and video

Ideogram 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.

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The projects

AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui164,432AGPL-3.0A full-featured web UI to run and manage image-generation models with many inference options and comparisons.Open on GitHub mudler/LocalAI48,300MITA self-hosted inference engine that runs a variety of LLM and vision models locally via an API.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Ideogram-hosted app conveniences (gallery, community, moderation, UI polish)
Hosted API SLA, enterprise support, and managed scaling
Proprietary hosting optimizations, telemetry, and any closed-source full-precision weights/features

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Ideogram, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.