Open source alternatives to Midjourney

3 projects on starwire do the same job. Ranked by how much of what Midjourney does each one covers, read from its README and website. Ties go to the most active.

What Midjourney does

Generate images from text promptscore
Variations and upscalingcore
Style and image references
Edit and inpaint parts of an image
Aspect ratio and parameters
Gallery of past images
Short video from images

Each dot in the table is one job, in this order. Square dots are core jobs and count double. Full means yes, half means partly. "See the evidence" under a project shows the line behind each one. Coverage is what a project documents, not how well it works or how hard it is to move to. How we score this

Project	Covers	Stars	Commits, 12 weeks	Last release	Closed vs opened	Setup	License
InvokeAICreative engine and UI for generating and editing images with Stable Diffusion	Replaces it78%	29k+75	3,030	11 days ago	100%	Install like an app	Apache-2.0
Covers all 2 core jobs. Partly: Style and image references; Short video from images. Not shown: Aspect ratio and parameters.See the evidence Generate images from text promptscoreYesGenerate, refine, iterate on images, and build workflows Variations and upscalingcoreYesbatch generation, prompt wildcards, and high-resolution upscaling Style and image referencesPartlyguide generations with depth maps, edges, poses Edit and inpaint parts of an imageYesin/out-painting, brush tools, and more Aspect ratio and parametersNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it. Gallery of past imagesYesorganized gallery system for easily storing, accessing, and remixing Short video from imagesPartlyWan (API Only)
ZPixLocal image generator and editor that runs open image models on your machine	Replaces it78%	163+5	129	6 days ago	44%	Install like an app	GPL-3.0
Covers 1 of 2 core jobs. Partly: Variations and upscaling. Not shown: Short video from images.See the evidence Generate images from text promptscoreYesWrite a prompt and click on "Generate Image" Variations and upscalingcorePartlyEnhance patch quality with the bundled hi-res fix Style and image referencesYesbased on a prompt and/or reference images Edit and inpaint parts of an imageYesselect an area with tools, then prompt for precise changes Aspect ratio and parametersYes1:1, 16:9, 9:16, 4:3 Gallery of past imagesYesAdd or drag references from the in-app gallery Short video from imagesNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it.
Open-Generative-AIOpen source AI image and video studio with many models, self-hostable	Replaces it39%	35k+1.4k	102	6 months ago	86%	Needs a server	MIT
Covers 1 of 2 core jobs. Partly: Edit and inpaint parts of an image. Not shown: Variations and upscaling; Style and image references; Aspect ratio and parameters; Gallery of past images.See the evidence Generate images from text promptscoreYesGenerate AI images and videos using 600+ state-of-the-art models Variations and upscalingcoreNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it. Style and image referencesNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it. Edit and inpaint parts of an imagePartlyQwen image generation, editing, and LoRA workflows Aspect ratio and parametersNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it. Gallery of past imagesNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it. Short video from imagesYesGenerate AI images and videos

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