Open-source alternatives to DALL-E

DALL-E in the AI category. These are the open alternatives we recommend looking at.

Diffusers

Python library from Hugging Face for running and training diffusion models for images, video and audio.

Apache-2.0Permissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

GitHub stars
34.6k
Deployment
Library

SwarmUI

Modular web interface for image generation with Stable Diffusion and similar models.

MITPermissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

GitHub stars
4.6k
Deployment
Desktop

FLUX.1-schnell

Fast model from Black Forest Labs that generates images from text in few steps.

Apache-2.0Permissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

Deployment
diffusers

Qwen-Image

Image generation model from Qwen that is good at rendering text in images and can edit images.

Apache-2.0Permissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

Deployment
diffusers

HiDream-I1-Full

Large image generation model from HiDream that creates images from text descriptions.

MITPermissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

Deployment
diffusers

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