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AUTOMATIC1111 Stable Diffusion WebUI

1Browser 2based 3interface 4for 5Stable 6Diffusion

the six Ws · specification

W1 Who

Artists, hobbyists and researchers generating and editing images with Stable Diffusion models.

W2 What

A full featured web UI for Stable Diffusion offering txt2img, img2img, inpainting and a large extension ecosystem.

W3 Where

Self-hosted, runs as a local Gradio web app on the user's own or a cloud GPU.

W4 When

Launched in 2022 shortly after Stable Diffusion's public release and still widely used in 2026.

W5 Why

Became the de facto standard local UI for experimenting with Stable Diffusion checkpoints and community extensions.

W6 With

Built on Python, PyTorch and Gradio, requiring a Stable Diffusion checkpoint and a capable GPU.

W7 Watch

Open source under AGPL-3.0, self-hosted, no account needed, one of the most starred image-gen repos with over 160k stars.

stable-diffusiongradio-uiimage-generationextensionsself-hosted

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