Civitai
Community hub for sharing, discovering, and downloading AI image generation models
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Civitai is the largest community platform for sharing AI image generation models, LoRAs (Low-Rank Adaptations), textual inversions, and other AI art assets. Since its launch in 2022, it has become the central hub of the open-source AI art ecosystem — hosting hundreds of thousands of models contributed by the community for every style, subject, and use case imaginable.
The platform enables AI artists and developers to share fine-tuned Stable Diffusion models, LoRA adaptations for specific characters or styles, embeddings for consistent object generation, and hypernetworks for style transfer. Each model page includes sample images, usage notes, and community reviews — providing the context needed to decide whether a model fits a particular creative need.
Civitai has fostered an incredibly productive creative community: model creators build on each other's work, artists share techniques, and the collective knowledge of millions of users has dramatically accelerated progress in AI image generation capabilities. The platform's image generation service also allows users to generate directly on the site using any hosted model without local installation.
The platform enables AI artists and developers to share fine-tuned Stable Diffusion models, LoRA adaptations for specific characters or styles, embeddings for consistent object generation, and hypernetworks for style transfer. Each model page includes sample images, usage notes, and community reviews — providing the context needed to decide whether a model fits a particular creative need.
Civitai has fostered an incredibly productive creative community: model creators build on each other's work, artists share techniques, and the collective knowledge of millions of users has dramatically accelerated progress in AI image generation capabilities. The platform's image generation service also allows users to generate directly on the site using any hosted model without local installation.
Product Features
- 100,000+ AI models, LoRAs, and embeddings
- Stable Diffusion checkpoint models
- LoRA library for characters, styles, and concepts
- Online generation with any hosted model
- Community ratings and reviews for models
- Sample images with prompts for each model
- Model creator profiles and portfolios
- Search by style, content, and model type
- NSFW filtering and age verification
- API for programmatic model access
- Stable Diffusion checkpoint models
- LoRA library for characters, styles, and concepts
- Online generation with any hosted model
- Community ratings and reviews for models
- Sample images with prompts for each model
- Model creator profiles and portfolios
- Search by style, content, and model type
- NSFW filtering and age verification
- API for programmatic model access
About the Publisher
Civitai was founded in 2022 by Justin Maier in San Francisco. The platform emerged from the needs of the Stable Diffusion community for a centralized, well-organized resource for sharing model files. Civitai has grown to become one of the most important platforms in the AI art ecosystem, hosting models that power millions of daily image generations worldwide. The company has raised funding and continues to develop the platform as the definitive resource for the open-source AI image generation community.