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Civitai

Community hub for open image models — discover, share, and generate.

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Jun 7, 2026

The largest community platform for open generative-image models, hosting thousands of Stable Diffusion and Flux checkpoints, LoRAs, and embeddings. Creators upload models with sample galleries, and on-site generation lets you run them in the browser. Every shared image is paired with the model, prompt, and settings used to create it.

Capabilities 4

What it actually does — grouped by capability family.

  • Fine-tuning / training (secondary capability)
  • Text-to-image (primary capability)
  • Text-to-video (secondary capability)
  • Image-to-video (secondary capability)

Pros & cons

  • Thousands of SD/Flux checkpoints and LoRAs
  • On-site browser generation
  • Sample galleries on every model
  • Platform code is Apache-2.0 open source
  • Uneven content moderation
  • Model quality varies widely
  • NSFW-heavy community reputation

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