AUTOMATIC1111 Web UI
Feature-rich web UI for Stable Diffusion with extensive extension ecosystem.
About
The AUTOMATIC1111 Stable Diffusion Web UI is a Gradio-based browser front end that became one of the most widely used ways to run Stable Diffusion locally. It covers text-to-image, image-to-image, inpainting, and outpainting, with prompt attention syntax, prompt editing mid-generation, negative prompts, batch processing, checkpoint merging, and upscaling through multiple neural networks. Generation parameters are stored inside output PNG or JPEG files, keeping images reproducible. It supports Stable Diffusion 1.x and 2.0 plus dedicated inpainting models, integrates helpers like the CLIP interrogator and DeepDanbooru tagging, exposes an API, and hosts a very large ecosystem of community extensions and custom scripts. Low-VRAM modes let it run on 4GB graphics cards, with reports of 2GB working. Installation targets Windows with a one-click installer, Linux, and Apple Silicon, generally on Python 3.10. The project is open source under the AGPL-3.0 license and is used by hobbyists, artists, and researchers alike.
Should you use AUTOMATIC1111 Web UI?
Pick it when
You want a mature local Stable Diffusion UI with the largest catalogue of community extensions and scripts, and you mainly run SD 1.x and 2.x checkpoints with inpainting, batch jobs, and checkpoint merging on a 4GB or larger GPU.
Look elsewhere when
You want Flux or other newer model families, or lower VRAM use: Forge keeps the same interface with Flux support and rewritten memory handling, and SwarmUI covers newer image and video models through ComfyUI.
Alternatives to AUTOMATIC1111 Web UI
- Forge
Same A1111 layout and many extensions carry over, with lower VRAM use and Flux support that upstream lacks; same AGPL-3.0 license.
- SwarmUI
MIT licensed and backed by ComfyUI, so it runs Flux, Qwen Image, and Wan video, but A1111 extensions and custom scripts do not carry over.
- Krita AI Diffusion
Inpainting and region prompts on real Krita layers suit painters better, but it is a plugin inside Krita rather than a standalone generation hub.
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Details
- Category
- AI Image/Video Editing
- Price
- Free
- Platform
- Local/Desktop
- Difficulty
- Easy (2/5)
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Minimum VRAM
- 4 GB
- Added
- Apr 3, 2026