SimpleTuner

Fine-tuning toolkit covering image, video, and audio diffusion models, with LoRA, full training, and a web UI.

Open SourceSelf HostedOffline CapableGPU Required (12GB+ VRAM)
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Maintained by bghira and the Terminus Research Group, SimpleTuner trains LoRA, LyCORIS, and full fine-tunes for many generative models: image models such as SDXL, FLUX.1, FLUX.2, Qwen Image, HiDream, and Sana, video models including Wan, LTX Video, Hunyuan Video, and LongCat, and audio models like ACE-Step. It caches embeddings to disk, buckets data by aspect ratio, supports masked loss, EMA, and TREAD token dropout, and can stream datasets from S3-compatible storage. Multi-GPU and multi-node runs go through Accelerate with DeepSpeed or FSDP2 sharding, and int8, fp8, or nf4 quantization cuts memory. It runs from config files on the command line or from a web UI with a job queue, SSO, role-based access, and quotas for shared GPU clusters. It installs with pip and runs on NVIDIA cards from the RTX 3080 class up, AMD 7900 XTX or MI300X, and Apple M3 Max machines with 24 GB or more; LoRA on 12B-plus models wants 24 GB of VRAM or more. AGPL-3.0 permits commercial use but requires releasing source for modified versions offered over a network, and each base model's license still governs the trained weights.

Should you use SimpleTuner?

Pick it when

Pick it when you fine-tune SDXL, SD3, FLUX, or PixArt across multiple GPUs with multi-resolution datasets, value readable training code, and have at least 12 GB of VRAM per card.

Look elsewhere when

The AGPL-3.0 license and 12 GB VRAM floor rule it out for some teams and smaller cards. On an 8 GB card OneTrainer or kohya-ss are more forgiving, and kohya-ss has the larger pool of community presets.

Alternatives to SimpleTuner

  • Kohya-ss

    Apache-2.0, runs from 8 GB of VRAM, and has the widest community presets, but it is CLI scripts rather than a web UI.

  • OneTrainer

    Desktop GUI covering LoRA, DreamBooth, and embeddings from 8 GB of VRAM, under the same AGPL-3.0 license.

  • finetrainers

    Apache-2.0 Diffusers toolkit with FSDP2 and context parallelism, aimed mainly at video models plus Flux and CogView4.

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Details

Price
Free
Platform
Local/Desktop
Difficulty
Intermediate (3/5)
License
AGPL-3.0
Minimum VRAM
12 GB
Added
Apr 3, 2026

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