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Stable Diffusion

Name: Stable Diffusion
Author: Stability AI

Open-source image generation model that can be downloaded and self-hosted, or accessed through third-party hosted APIs. Requires real technical setup to match Midjourney's out-of-the-box aesthetic coherence.

Free to self-host (own compute cost); hosted APIs bill per image, typically fractions of a cent at scale

Source · verified 2026-08-23

Stable Diffusion in the news

Universal, Sony and Warner Music became investors in the company behind Stable Diffusion2026-08-25

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