InvokeAI

Why we included this project

Artists and creative teams who want to run Stable Diffusion on their own hardware will find Invoke one of the more complete self-hosted options. It serves a local web UI from a React front end, so generation happens on your machine rather than through a hosted API. The Unified Canvas is the part that stands out: inpainting, outpainting, and brush tools live in one editing surface, which makes refining AI output feel closer to working in a normal image editor. A node-based workflow system chains generation steps into reusable pipelines, handy when you need repeatable, production-style processes instead of one-off prompts. And it runs models beyond the original Stable Diffusion line, including Flux and Qwen Image, so you are not tied to a single checkpoint format.