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Best free & open-weight tools

Open-source engines (ComfyUI, A1111), local LLM runners (Ollama, llama.cpp), and open-weight diffusion models (Flux, Wan 2.2, Hunyuan). Filter by VRAM, compute location, or Apple Silicon support.

Hardware:
86 tools

ComfyUI

The nodal workflow engine for serious diffusion.

Open Source 6–16 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
6 GB
GPU class
Mid GPU
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Wan 2.2

Open-weight video diffusion from Alibaba.

Open Source 12–48 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
12 GB
GPU class
Workstation GPU
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Ollama

One-command local LLM runtime.

Open SourceCPU-capable
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FLUX.1 [dev]

12B parameter open-weight diffusion model.

Open Source 8–24 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
8 GB
GPU class
High-end GPU
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Cline

Agentic coding in VS Code — reads, writes, runs, browses.

Open Source☁ Cloud · no GPU
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HunyuanVideo

13B open-weight cinematic text-to-video.

Open Source 24–48 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
24 GB
GPU class
Workstation GPU
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vLLM

High-throughput LLM serving for GPUs.

Open Source 24–80 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
24 GB
GPU class
Datacenter GPU
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Open WebUI

Self-hosted ChatGPT-style frontend for Ollama / OpenAI.

Open Sourcevia ollama
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Browser Use

Give your agent a real browser.

FreemiumCPU-capable
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LM Studio

Desktop GUI for running local LLMs.

FreemiumCPU-capable
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F5-TTS

Zero-shot voice cloning TTS — 15 s of audio is enough.

Open Source 8–12 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
8 GB
GPU class
Mid GPU
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ComfyUI-Manager

Install, update, and govern ComfyUI custom nodes.

Open Sourcevia comfyui
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Hunyuan3D-2

Tencent's open 3D generator — multi-view, PBR, ready-to-use meshes.

Open Source 12–16 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
12 GB
GPU class
High-end GPU
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AI-Toolkit (Ostris)

Modern training framework — Flux, SDXL, SD3 LoRAs in YAML.

Open Source 16–24 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
16 GB
GPU class
High-end GPU
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CrewAI

Role-playing agents working as a crew.

FreemiumCPU-capable
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KJNodes for ComfyUI

Cutting-edge video & advanced sampling nodes by Kijai.

Open Sourcevia comfyui
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llama.cpp

The C++ inference engine powering most local LLMs.

Open SourceCPU-capable
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Modal

Serverless Python for GPU workloads.

Freemium 16–80 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
16 GB
GPU class
Datacenter GPU
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Continue

Open-source Copilot — VS Code & JetBrains, any model.

Open SourceCPU-capable
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LobeChat

Beautifully designed chat UI with plugins and image generation.

Open SourceCPU-capable
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Mochi 1

Genmo's 10-B open-weight T2V — the first 'genuinely fluid' OSS video model.

Open Source 24–60 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
24 GB
GPU class
Workstation GPU
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Jan

Open-source ChatGPT desktop — runs models locally or via API.

Open SourceCPU-capable
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ComfyUI IPAdapter Plus

Reference-image conditioning for ComfyUI.

Open Source 8–12 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
8 GB
GPU class
Mid GPU
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LangGraph

Stateful, cyclic agent graphs for production.

FreemiumCPU-capable
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FluxGym

Dead-simple Flux LoRA training in a Gradio UI.

Open Source 12–20 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
12 GB
GPU class
Mid GPU
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faster-whisper

Whisper, 4× faster, same accuracy. CTranslate2 backend.

Open Source 2–6 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
2 GB
GPU class
Entry GPU
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Flux.1 Schnell

Black Forest Labs' 4-step distilled Flux.

Open Source 8–16 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
8 GB
GPU class
Mid GPU
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ComfyUI Impact Pack

Detection, segmentation, and detailers — the canonical face/hand fix pack.

Open Sourcevia comfyui
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LTX-Video

Real-time-ish open video diffusion from Lightricks.

Open Source 12–16 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
12 GB
GPU class
High-end GPU
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Msty

Polished local-LLM client with split chats and knowledge stacks.

Freemium · from $4.16/moCPU-capable
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smolagents

Hugging Face's minimal code-writing agent library.

Open SourceCPU-capable
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Kohya_ss

The standard SDXL/Flux LoRA training UI.

Open Source 12–24 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
12 GB
GPU class
High-end GPU
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Transformers

The library every LLM ships against first.

Open Source 2–24 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
2 GB
GPU class
Entry GPU
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Diffusers

Hugging Face's go-to library for every diffusion model.

Open Source 4–12 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
4 GB
GPU class
Entry GPU
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Stable Diffusion XL

The workhorse open-weight image model.

Open Source 6–12 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
6 GB
GPU class
Mid GPU
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Magi-1

Autoregressive video diffusion at 24 GB.

Open Source 24–48 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
24 GB
GPU class
Workstation GPU
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Aider

Terminal-native AI pair programmer with git awareness.

Open SourceCPU-capable
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TRELLIS

Microsoft Research's structured 3D representation model.

Open Source 16–24 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
16 GB
GPU class
High-end GPU
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AnythingLLM

RAG-first local LLM workspace with workspaces and agents.

Open SourceCPU-capable
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Agno

High-performance multimodal agents.

FreemiumCPU-capable
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Stable Diffusion WebUI Forge

Optimized A1111 fork for low-VRAM cards.

Open Source 4–8 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
4 GB
GPU class
Entry GPU
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ComfyUI ControlNet Auxiliary

All the ControlNet preprocessors in one node pack.

Open Source 6–12 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
6 GB
GPU class
Mid GPU
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OpenAI Whisper

The reference open-source speech-to-text model.

Open Source 2–10 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
2 GB
GPU class
Entry GPU
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Krita AI Diffusion

Stable Diffusion baked into a real painting app.

Open Source 6–12 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
6 GB
GPU class
Entry GPU
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MMAudio

Generate synchronized audio for any silent video.

Open Source 8–12 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
8 GB
GPU class
Entry GPU
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AutoGPT

The first viral autonomous-agent project.

FreemiumCPU-capable
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Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large

Stability's MMDiT flagship at 8B params.

Open Source 12–24 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
12 GB
GPU class
Mid GPU
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WhisperX

Whisper + speaker diarisation + word-level timestamps.

Open Source 4–8 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
4 GB
GPU class
Entry GPU
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SwarmUI

Power-user front-end that wraps ComfyUI.

Open Source 8–24 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
8 GB
GPU class
High-end GPU
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WAS Node Suite

200+ utility nodes — image ops, text logic, file I/O.

Open Sourcevia comfyui
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CogVideoX 5B

Open-source text-to-video diffusion from THUDM.

Open Source 12–24 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
12 GB
GPU class
High-end GPU
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AutoGen

Microsoft's multi-agent conversation framework.

Open SourceCPU-capable
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Text Generation WebUI

The "A1111 for LLMs" — multi-loader local chat UI.

Open Source 6–24 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
6 GB
GPU class
High-end GPU
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Tabby

Self-hosted, GPU-accelerated coding autocompletion.

Freemium · from $19/mo 4–8 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
4 GB
GPU class
Entry GPU
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TripoSR

Single-image to 3D mesh in under a second on a 4090.

Open Source 6–8 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
6 GB
GPU class
Entry GPU
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Nerfstudio

The open framework for NeRF and Gaussian Splatting research.

Open Source 8–24 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
8 GB
GPU class
Mid GPU
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sd-scripts (Kohya)

The underlying scripts powering Kohya & most LoRA trainers.

Open Source 8–12 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
8 GB
GPU class
Mid GPU
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OneTrainer

Modern alternative trainer for SD/SDXL/Flux.

Open Source 12–24 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
12 GB
GPU class
High-end GPU
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AnimateDiff

Add motion to any SD checkpoint via a motion module.

Open Source 8–12 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
8 GB
GPU class
Mid GPU
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FaceFusion

The most active open face-swap toolkit.

Open Source 2–8 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
2 GB
GPU class
Entry GPU
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Draw Things

Stable Diffusion as a native Mac & iOS app.

FreeCPU-capable
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NVIDIA Cosmos

World-foundation models for physical AI.

Open Source 24–80 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
24 GB
GPU class
Datacenter GPU
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ComfyUI-AnimateDiff-Evolved

Animation motion modules for ComfyUI.

Open Source 10–16 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
10 GB
GPU class
High-end GPU
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InvokeAI

Production-leaning SD studio with canvas & batch.

Open Source 8–16 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
8 GB
GPU class
Mid GPU
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XTTS v2 (Coqui)

Multilingual voice cloning in 6 seconds.

Open Source 4–6 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
4 GB
GPU class
Entry GPU
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Inspire Pack

Regional prompting, segs, and the Lora-Block-Weight system.

Open Sourcevia comfyui
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Fooocus

Stable Diffusion XL, dialed to one button.

Open Source 4–8 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
4 GB
GPU class
Entry GPU
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Open Interpreter

Natural-language code execution on your machine.

Open SourceCPU-capable
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Stable Audio Open

Open-weight text-to-audio — 47-second sound effects and music.

Open Source 6–8 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
6 GB
GPU class
Entry GPU
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rgthree-comfy

Quality-of-life nodes for ComfyUI power users.

Open Sourcevia comfyui
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3D Gaussian Splatting

The INRIA original — train your own splats.

Open Source 12–24 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
12 GB
GPU class
Mid GPU
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SUPIR

Diffusion-based photorealistic upscaler.

Open Source 12–24 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
12 GB
GPU class
Mid GPU
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Pyramid Flow

Memory-efficient T2V via pyramidal flow matching.

Open Source 16–24 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
16 GB
GPU class
High-end GPU
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Flowframes

Free RIFE-based frame interpolation.

Free 4–8 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
4 GB
GPU class
Entry GPU
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Bark

Suno's expressive transformer-based TTS.

Open Source 8–12 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
8 GB
GPU class
Entry GPU
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Efficiency Nodes

Collapsible mega-nodes that shrink 20-node workflows to 3.

Open Sourcevia comfyui
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AudioCraft (MusicGen)

Meta's text-to-music & sound-effect model family.

Open Source 8–16 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
8 GB
GPU class
Entry GPU
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Stable Zero123

Novel-view synthesis — generate any angle from a single image.

Open Source 6–8 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
6 GB
GPU class
Entry GPU
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DiffusionBee

One-click Stable Diffusion for macOS.

Open SourceCPU-capable
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Stable Video Diffusion

Image-to-video diffusion — 25 frames, 14 or 25 steps.

Open Source 12–16 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
12 GB
GPU class
High-end GPU
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BabyAGI

Minimal task-driven autonomous agent.

Open SourceCPU-capable
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Instant-NGP

NVIDIA's seconds-to-train hash-grid NeRF.

Open Source 8–12 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
8 GB
GPU class
Entry GPU
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Real-ESRGAN

The default OSS upscaler, still.

Open Source 2–6 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
2 GB
GPU class
Entry GPU
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Tortoise TTS

Slow, but the quality is worth the wait.

Open Source 4–8 GB VRAM
Min VRAM
4 GB
GPU class
Entry GPU
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