Open Source AI Image Generators

Z-Image is an efficient, open-source image generation foundation model built to make high-quality image synthesis more accessible. With just 6 billion parameters — far fewer than many large-scale models — it uses a novel “single-stream diffusion Transformer” architecture to deliver photorealistic image generation, demonstrating that excellence does not always require extremely large model sizes. The project includes several variants: Z-Image-Turbo, a distilled version optimized for speed and low resource consumption; Z-Image-Base, the full-capacity foundation model; and Z-Image-Edit, fine-tuned for image editing tasks. Despite its compact size, Z-Image produces outputs that closely rival those from much larger models — including strong rendering of bilingual (English and Chinese) text inside images, accurate prompt adherence, and good layout and composition.

FLUX.2 is a state-of-the-art open-weight image generation and editing model released by Black Forest Labs aimed at bridging the gap between research-grade capabilities and production-ready workflows. The model offers both text-to-image generation and powerful image editing, including editing of multiple reference images, with fidelity, consistency, and realism that push the limits of what open-source generative models have achieved. It supports high-resolution output (up to ~4 megapixels), which allows for photography-quality images, detailed product shots, infographics or UI mockups rather than just low-resolution drafts. FLUX.2 is built with a modern architecture (a flow-matching transformer + a revamped VAE + a strong vision-language encoder), enabling strong prompt adherence, correct rendering of text/typography in images, reliable lighting, layout, and physical realism, and consistent style/character/product identity across multiple generations or edits.

Stable Diffusion Version 2. The Stable Diffusion project, developed by Stability AI, is a cutting-edge image synthesis model that utilizes latent diffusion techniques for high-resolution image generation. It offers an advanced method of generating images based on text input, making it highly flexible for various creative applications. The repository contains pretrained models, various checkpoints, and tools to facilitate image generation tasks, such as fine-tuning and modifying the models. Stability AI's approach to image synthesis has contributed to creating detailed, scalable images while maintaining efficiency.

HunyuanImage-3.0 is a powerful, native multimodal text-to-image generation model released by Tencent’s Hunyuan team. It unifies multimodal understanding and generation in a single autoregressive framework, combining text and image modalities seamlessly rather than relying on separate image-only diffusion components. It uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with many expert subnetworks to scale efficiently, deploying only a subset of experts per token, which allows large parameter counts without linear inference cost explosion. The model is intended to be competitive with closed-source image generation systems, aiming for high fidelity, prompt adherence, fine detail, and even “world knowledge” reasoning (i.e. leveraging context, semantics, or common sense in generation). The GitHub repo includes code, scripts, model loading instructions, inference utilities, prompt handling, and integration with standard ML tooling (e.g. Hugging Face / Transformers).

Stable Diffusion WebUI Docker is a Docker-based repository that simplifies running Stable Diffusion with rich user interfaces by packaging multiple popular web UIs into an easy-to-deploy containerized solution. It integrates leading community UIs like AUTOMATIC1111 and ComfyUI into a Docker Compose setup that can be started with a single command, abstracting away dependency installation and environment configuration. Users can choose which UI profile they want to run — for example, full feature AUTOMATIC1111, CPU-only automatic builds, or ComfyUI workflows — and launch them in a consistent, isolated container environment with automatic model and data caching. The project supports mounting data and output directories so generated images and configurations persist outside the container, and it lets developers customize UI behavior through Docker Compose override files.

FLUX.1 repository contains inference code and tooling for the FLUX.1 text-to-image diffusion models, enabling developers and researchers to generate and edit images from natural-language prompts using open-weight versions of the model on their own hardware or within custom applications. The project is part of a larger family of FLUX models developed by Black Forest Labs, designed to produce high-quality, detailed visuals from text descriptions with competitive prompt adherence and artistic fidelity. This repo focuses on running the open-source model variants efficiently, providing scripts, model loading logic, and examples for local installations, and supports integration with Python toolchains like PyTorch and popular generative pipelines. Users can launch CLI tools to generate images, experiment with different FLUX variants, and extend the base code for research-oriented applications.

GLM-Image is an open-source generative AI model designed to create high-fidelity images from text prompts using a hybrid architecture that combines autoregressive semantic understanding with diffusion-based detail refinement. It excels at generating images that include complex layouts and detailed text content, making it especially useful for posters, diagrams, info-graphics, social media graphics, and visual content that requires precise text placement and semantic alignment. Because it blends linguistic reasoning with image synthesis, GLM-Image produces visual outputs where semantic relationships and textual accuracy are prioritized alongside artistic style and realism, and its model structure enables it to handle dense visual knowledge tasks that challenge many pure diffusion models. The model’s design and weights are available under an open-source license that encourages experimentation, integration, and deployment across a range of creative workflows.

Hunyuan3D-1 is an earlier version in the same 3D generation line (the unified framework for text-to-3D and image-to-3D tasks) by Tencent Hunyuan. It provides a framework combining shape generation and texture synthesis, enabling users to create 3D assets from images or text conditions. While less advanced than version 2.1, it laid the foundations for the later PBR, higher resolution, and open-source enhancements. (Note: less detailed public documentation was found for Hunyuan3D-1 compared to 2.1.). Community and ecosystem support (e.g. usage via Blender addon for geometry/texture). Integration into user-friendly tools/platforms.

FLUX.1 Krea [dev] is an open-source 12-billion parameter image generation model developed collaboratively by Krea and Black Forest Labs, designed to deliver superior aesthetic control and high image quality. It is a rectified-flow model distilled from the original Krea 1, providing enhanced sampling efficiency through classifier-free guidance distillation. The model supports generation at resolutions between 1024 and 1280 pixels with recommended inference steps between 28 and 32 for optimal balance of speed and quality. FLUX.1 Krea is fully compatible with the FLUX.1 architecture, making it easy to integrate into existing workflows and pipelines. The repository offers easy-to-use inference scripts and a Jupyter Notebook example to facilitate quick experimentation and adoption. Users can run the model locally after downloading weights from Hugging Face and benefit from a live demo available on krea.ai.

AI Logo Generator is an open-source AI logo generator that lets you create professional-looking logos in seconds from a simple text prompt. It uses the Flux Pro 1.1 model hosted on Together AI to generate logos, so the heavy lifting is done by a state-of-the-art image model while the app focuses on UX and workflow. The project is built with Next.js and TypeScript, and it uses shadcn/ui plus Tailwind CSS for a modern, responsive interface that feels like a polished SaaS product rather than a demo. It integrates Clerk for authentication so users can sign in, save their logo history (planned via a dashboard), and potentially manage usage tied to their own API key. Upstash Redis is used for rate limiting, which is important for controlling API usage and preventing abuse when generating many images. Analytics and observability are baked in with Plausible and Helicone, so developers can monitor usage patterns and model behavior over time.