What are the leading alternatives? (Open source or otherwise)
You have to be specific. What's more important to you?
- uncensored output (SD + LoRa)
- Overall speed of generation (midjourney)
- Image quality (probably midjourney, or an SDXL checkpoint + upscaler)
- Prompt adherence (flux, DALL-E 3)
EDIT: This is strictly around image generation. The main video competitors are Kling, Hailuo, and Runway.
Minimax (from China) and Kling 1.5 from China. Recently Tencent launched its own.
You can see more model samples heee https://youtu.be/bCAV_9O1ioc
FLUX
MidJourney (commercial), Standard Diffusion XL
You have to be specific. What's more important to you?
- uncensored output (SD + LoRa)
- Overall speed of generation (midjourney)
- Image quality (probably midjourney, or an SDXL checkpoint + upscaler)
- Prompt adherence (flux, DALL-E 3)
EDIT: This is strictly around image generation. The main video competitors are Kling, Hailuo, and Runway.