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ImageStability AI Ltd

Stability AI

Open-weight generative models for image, video, audio, and 3D.

Category
Image
Pricing
FREEMIUM
Source
Proprietary
Hosting
Hybrid
Platforms
WebAPI
Models
Self-contained (on-device)
Verified
Jun 13, 2026

Stability AI is the company behind Stable Diffusion and a family of open and proprietary generative models spanning image (Stable Diffusion, Stable Image), video (Stable Video), audio (Stable Audio), and 3D. Its models can be self-hosted under Stability's licensing, called through the Platform API, or used in the DreamStudio web app, giving builders an open alternative to closed image-generation endpoints.

Capabilities 4

What it actually does — grouped by capability family.

  • Model inference / serving (secondary capability)
  • Music generation (secondary capability)
  • Text-to-image (primary capability)
  • Image editing (secondary capability)

Pros & cons

  • Self-host or call via API
  • Spans image, video, audio, and 3D
  • API, DreamStudio, and on-prem licensing
  • Catalyzed the open image-gen ecosystem
  • Quality trails closed leaders on some tasks
  • Community licenses aren't OSI open source
  • Past leadership and funding turbulence

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