Civitai
by Civitai
At a glance
Community platform for sharing and discovering open image-generation models, LoRAs, and generated art.
model-hub image-generation community
- Licence
- Not recorded
- Category
- Platforms & Infrastructure
- Business model
- Freemium
- Availability
- Global
- Launched
- 2022-11
Overview
Civitai is a community platform for sharing and discovering open image-generation models, LoRAs, and generated art, centered on the Stable Diffusion and related ecosystems. Users can download and publish fine-tuned models, browse community images with their generation settings, and generate or train directly on the site. Browsing is free, while on-site generation and training use a paid credit system called Buzz.
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Key features
- Repository of community checkpoints, LoRAs, and embeddings
- On-site image generation with community models
- LoRA and model training tools
- Image galleries showing prompts and generation metadata
Use cases
- Finding fine-tuned models for specific art styles
- Publishing and versioning your own trained models
- Generating images without a local GPU
Pricing
Browsing and downloads are free; on-site generation and training consume Buzz credits, available through memberships or one-off purchases.
Record details
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Links, dates and provenance
- Record updated
- 2026-09-10
- Founded
- 2022
- Headquarters
- US
- Canonical URL
- https://globalaiproductindex.com/products/civitai/
Selection profile
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- Tasks it fits
- Running models yourself
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- Web app
Hosted product with no desktop/CLI tag in the record; assumed web-delivered.
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- Web
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- Vendor cloud
Vendor-hosted product; no self-hosted option is recorded.
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- Not recorded
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- Global
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- proprietary
Commercial product; no source licence is published in the record.
Suggest a correction - Commercial use
- Not recorded
Commercial product; the terms reviewed here do not state a non-commercial restriction, but that was not verified.
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- Not recorded
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- Subscription Free allowance: Limited Subscription required: No
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Where each value comes from
- Tasks it fits
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- How you use it
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- Where it runs
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- Works offline
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- Official service region
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- Public API
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- Licence
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- Commercial use
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- Interface languages
- Unknown
Frequently asked questions
What is Civitai?
Civitai is a community hub for sharing open image-generation models and LoRAs, with on-site generation and training tools.
Is Civitai free?
Browsing and downloading models is free; generating and training on the platform uses paid Buzz credits.
What models does Civitai host?
Civitai hosts community-created checkpoints, LoRAs, and embeddings for open ecosystems such as Stable Diffusion and Flux.
What does Civitai not record?
No documentation or pricing URL is recorded, because Civitai joined the guide after that fetch round, so its licence terms, service regions and supported languages are not established.
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This record was last reviewed on 2026-09-10.
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