stable-diffusion-webui
by AUTOMATIC1111
A web interface for running Stable Diffusion image generation models on your own machine. It lets you create and edit pictures from text prompts or existing images, and upscale or repair them.
- Stars
- 165.2k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
- Runs on
- Your computer, with a GPU
- Setup
- Moderate
- Language
- Python
- Age
- 1528 days
What you can do with it
- Generate images from text prompts, with negative prompts and saved styles
- Edit existing pictures with inpainting, outpainting and image-to-image
- Upscale images and repair faces, or train custom styles with embeddings and LoRAs
Make money with it
You could sell custom AI-generated artwork, textures or branded image sets, or offer image restoration and upscaling as a freelance service.
An idea, not financial advice. Check the licence before charging for anything built on it.
Ways a business could use it
- Produce product mockups, social media graphics and blog illustrations in-house instead of paying for stock images or a subscription
- Offer batch image upscaling and touch-up to clients using the batch and upscaler tools
Can you use it commercially?
Free to use. Anything you distribute that includes it must be open-sourced under the same licence. Running it as an online service also counts, so a hosted version must offer its source.
Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.
Getting it running
You install Python and Git, then run the provided launch script; Nvidia, AMD and Intel setups each have their own wiki instructions.
Follow the official instructions in the project README.
Things to check
- AGPL-3.0 licence has obligations if you offer it as a network service
- Needs a reasonably capable graphics card for practical use
- Model checkpoints are downloaded separately and each has its own licence terms
- Community extensions are unvetted and can run arbitrary code
Who's talking about it
- FindARepo: 30 Best AI Image Generator GitHub Repos (October 2026) — Open-Source & Local Featured in a roundup
Checked 28 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.
