Stable Diffusion WebUI (A1111)
The original Stable Diffusion web UI — ~165k stars.
About
The A1111 WebUI (AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui, AGPL-3.0, ~165k stars) started the local image-generation revolution: the original feature-rich browser UI for Stable Diffusion.
Caveats: quiet since March 2026 (no releases/12mo) and AGPL-3.0 copyleft. Historically monumental; for active development, look at Invoke, Forge, or ComfyUI. Included as the historical standard.
What it can do
- Feature-rich SD UI
- Extensions ecosystem
- Textual inversion/LoRA
- AGPL-3.0
- ~165k stars (historical)
Setup
- Clone and run webui.sh/bat per README.
- Place models in the models folder.
- Note: check for maintained forks for new features.
Prerequisites
GPU; Python.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 8/10
Scored 8/10 (verified tier). ~165k stars — historically the biggest image-AI repo. Docked for going quiet since Mar 2026 (maintenance 4.3) and AGPL copyleft. Verified tier on adoption.
★ 165,033 GitHub stars
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 9.6/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 4.3/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 9.4/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 7.0/10
- · 165,033 GitHub stars (log-scaled vs catalog peers)
- · last push 225d ago; 0 releases/12mo; 2510 open issues
- · manual review: A1111 — the original SD web UI (~165k stars); quiet since Mar 2026; AGPL copyleft; license: AGPL-3.0 (copyleft)
Sources
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