Open source alternatives to Sora

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

What Sora does

  1. Generate video from a text promptcore
  2. Animate an image into videocore
  3. Remix and extend clips
  4. Choose length, aspect ratio and style
  5. Generated audio for clips
  6. Share and browse a feed of videos

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

ProjectCoversStarsCommits, 12 weeksLast releaseClosed vs openedSetupLicense
Open-Generative-AIOpen source AI image and video studio with many models, self-hostable Replaces it44%35k+1.4k
102
 6 months ago86% Needs a server MIT
Covers 1 of 2 core jobs. Partly: Animate an image into video; Generated audio for clips. Not shown: Remix and extend clips; Choose length, aspect ratio and style; Share and browse a feed of videos.See the evidence
  • Generate video from a text promptcoreYesGenerate AI images and videos using 600+ state-of-the-art models
  • Animate an image into videocorePartlyKling text-to-video, image-to-video, and motion control
  • Remix and extend clipsNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it.
  • Choose length, aspect ratio and styleNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it.
  • Generated audio for clipsPartlyImage, Video, Audio, Lip Sync
  • Share and browse a feed of videosNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it.

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