Local
Tools and models you run on your own machine, e.g. via ComfyUI, Forge, Pinokio or the CLI. 25 entries tagged local, newest first.
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- MiniMax H34
- ComfyUI3
- WanGP3
- Flick2
- Adobe Premiere Generative Media Tool1
- BACH 1.0 Pro1
- Beeble SwitchX 2.01
- Boreal1
- Bulbul V4 Flash1
- ChatGPT Images 2.51
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- Concat1
- drama3-h3-talking1
- Eleven v41
- ElevenLabs Instant Soundtracks1
- FastH3-Omni1
- Fish Audio Drama 31
- FLUX 3 Image Klein1
- Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS1
- Gnani Timbre v3.01
- Google Vids (Gemini Omni 1.1)1
- H3 Max1
- h3-metal1
- HeyGen Video1
- Kandinsky 6.0 Video1
- Kling 4.01
- Krea 31
- LipDub 2.01
- LTX-2.5 Layout to Render1
- Mago1
- MAI-Image-2.61
- MAI-Voice-2.11
- mflux1
- Mirelo SFX 2.01
- MOSS-Image1
- Nari Qwen3-TTS1
- Nvidia AI for Media1
- NVIDIA VFX Nodes1
- OpenShot 4.01
- Pika1
- Plenio Music Production System1
- Runway Plugins1
- SolarRenderer1
- Sync Lipsync v31
- Vidu Q41
- Whistle1
Use case: a music video made fully locally with MiniMax H3, YuE2 and HiDream O1
A creator made a three-minute music video using only open-weight models on their own machine: YuE2 for the song, HiDream O1 for character and world references, Qwen 3.8 27B to format prompts and MiniMax H3 for the video. The edit was done in DaVinci Resolve with only basic tools and no cloud AI.
mflux 0.23 runs FLUX 3 Image Klein locally on Apple Silicon
The open-source mflux tool now runs Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 Image Klein natively on Macs with MLX. Version 0.23 covers text-to-image, editing with up to ten reference images, LoRAs and 4, 6 or 8-bit quantization.
Open ComfyUI workflow turns text into a lip-synced talking video with Drama 3 and MiniMax H3
A free ComfyUI workflow from Skysay chains Fish Audio Drama 3 for expressive speech with MiniMax H3 for a lip-synced talking video, all on your own GPU. It ships as MIT-licensed graphs plus a script that runs both stages.
OpenMOSS releases MOSS-Image, an open text-to-image model with layout control
MOSS-Image is a new open-weight text-to-image family from OpenMOSS, with Base and SFT checkpoints under Apache 2.0. Besides plain prompts, it accepts tag lists and JSON layouts that place text and objects with bounding boxes.
Plenio 1.0 turns ComfyUI into a free local song studio
Plenio is a free, open-source ComfyUI node pack that goes from a song idea to a mastered track on your own machine. A local language model writes the lyrics, YuE2 or MiniMax Music 3 performs them, and version 1.0 adds a browser player and lyric videos.
Use case: a 22-second drone flight over Taiwan from a Blender blockout and MiniMax H3
A creator made a 22-second FPV-style flight past four Taiwanese landmarks without a drone, using a gray Blender blockout and MiniMax H3 running locally on one RTX 5090. The write-up shares every step, the render times and what still breaks.
WanGP v18.17 adds FLUX 3 Klein, Fish Audio Drama 3 and MOSS Image
WanGP v18.17 brings FLUX 3 Image Klein, Fish Audio Drama 3 dialogue with voice cloning and MOSS Image 5B to the low-VRAM local app. It also adds a lighter H3 video decoder, INT8 math kernels and a Deepy Prime agent that plans a one-minute video from a brief.
Black Forest Labs opens FLUX 3 Image Klein
FLUX 3 Image Klein is a 5.6B-parameter open-weights model for image generation, editing and multi-reference work with up to 10 images. It supports native 4K and bounding boxes to control where things go.
ComfyUI v0.41.0 adds FLUX.3 Image and MiniMax H3 LightVAE support
ComfyUI v0.41.0 adds native support for Black Forest Labs' FLUX.3 Image models, including the open FLUX 3 Image Klein, and for MiniMax H3's LightVAE. It also adds ImageSDRToHDR and ReferenceMultiLatent nodes.
Mago Local runs the Mago AI film studio on your own GPU
Mago released a Windows desktop version of its AI video studio that renders on your own NVIDIA GPU, so local renders don't use credits. It can connect to an existing ComfyUI install or set one up, and the cloud models are still available in the app.
SolarRenderer turns grey-box, skeleton or sketch video into finished shots with MiniMax H3
SolarRenderer is a pair of open LoRAs for MiniMax H3 that renders a structure video, such as a game-engine grey box, a skeleton or depth pass, or a pencil storyboard, into finished video in four sampling steps. The first frame and the prompt set the look, so the same blockout can come out photoreal, anime, pixel art or ink.
ComfyUI v0.40.0 adds camera-angle nodes and LoRA stack loaders
ComfyUI v0.40.0 adds CameraAngle and CreateCameraInfo nodes for defining camera parameters inside a workflow, plus native LoRA stack loaders. It also changes MiniMax H3 image decoding and fixes EXR and half-float file handling.
Concat is a free, open-source CapCut alternative that runs its AI locally
Concat is an open-source video editor for macOS, Windows, Linux and Android with auto-captions, text-to-speech with voice cloning and background removal that run on your own machine. It's in beta, has no watermark or account, and scripts or AI agents can drive it through a JSON-RPC API.
Fish Audio releases Drama 3 emotive TTS
Drama 3 is an expressive text-to-speech model in 83 languages that you direct with plain-language cues. It is available in the Fish Audio app and API, and as open weights under a community license.
NVIDIA VFX nodes bring local upscaling, frame generation and HDR to ComfyUI
NVIDIA's RTX video effects now run inside ComfyUI as custom nodes on your own RTX GPU. They cover video upscaling up to 4×, frame generation from 2× to 16×, and SDR-to-HDR conversion.
WanGP v18 adds Kandinsky 6.0 and much faster video VAEs
WanGP v18.00 rewrites the LTX 2, Wan and HunyuanVideo VAEs to be 2 to 3.5 times faster and lighter on VRAM. It also adds the Kandinsky 6.0 audio-video model, Wan 2.2 Prism Video and Wan 2.1 camera control.
Kandinsky 6.0 Video released as open audio-video model
Kandinsky 6.0 Video generates five-second clips with matching sound, including lip-synced speech, from text or an image. The Lite and Pro models, code and weights are released under the MIT license.
WanGP v17 runs 15 s of MiniMax H3 at 1080p in 11 GB of VRAM
WanGP, a free local app for open video, image and audio models, rebuilt its memory engine (MMGP v4) in v17. The developer says 15 seconds of MiniMax H3 at 1080p now needs 11 GB of VRAM instead of 25 GB, and 480p fits in 5-6 GB.
Whistle: on-device speech to text in 16.9 MB
Whistle is an open speech recognition model from Cactus that fits in a single 16.9 MB file and runs on a CPU without dependencies. It transcribes seven languages with word timestamps, which is handy for captions, and audio never leaves the device.
LTX-2.5 Layout to Render turns a 3D blockout into a finished shot
Lightricks released an open IC-LoRA for its LTX-2.5 22B video model that turns a grey clay viewport or blocky playblast from Blender or Unreal into a finished shot. The layout sets the camera, motion and object placement, and an art-directed first frame sets the look.
Use case: a family sci-fi short made with MiniMax H3 on a home PC
Chris Beach made a short space film starring his family, with every shot generated locally by MiniMax H3 in ComfyUI on one RTX 5090. He published the full workflow, render times and electricity cost.
ComfyUI v0.36.0 adds Video Concatenate and native FastH3
ComfyUI v0.36.0 adds a Video Concatenate node that joins up to 100 clips in a graph, and brings the 8-step FastH3 version of MiniMax H3 into the core build. It also adds Marigold V2 depth, normal and albedo workflows and YuE2 music generation.
OpenShot 4.0 adds color grading and ML subject isolation
OpenShot 4.0 is a major update to the free open-source video editor, adding color wheels, curves, LUTs and video scopes plus built-in screen and webcam recording. It can also isolate subjects using machine learning models that run locally.
h3-metal: MiniMax H3 running natively on Apple Silicon
h3-metal (antirez/h3.c) is an open-source C and Metal inference engine that runs MiniMax H3 on Mac computers. It supports prompt-to-video with audio, first and last frames, and image, video and audio references.
MiniMax H3 open weights run locally in ComfyUI
MiniMax H3 is MiniMax's first open-weights video model, making clips with stereo sound up to 2K and 15 seconds. ComfyUI supported it on day one with pruned, quantized files that can run on a 12 GB RTX 3060.
Questions and answers
What do I need to run AI video locally?
Our entries show a range: MiniMax H3 runs on a 12 GB RTX 3060 with plenty of system RAM, and WanGP v17 reports 480p in 5-6 GB VRAM. On a Mac, h3-metal runs H3 on Apple Silicon.
Which apps let me run open AI video models on my own PC?
Among the entries here, ComfyUI and WanGP are the main free local apps. OpenShot 4.0 is a free local editor with on-device AI masks.
Can I run AI video on a Mac?
h3-metal is an open-source C and Metal engine that runs MiniMax H3 on Apple Silicon. Its README reports renders of about 75 seconds on a 128 GB M5 Max but gives no minimum spec.
Is there an AI film studio app that runs on my own GPU?
Mago Local is a Windows app that takes an idea or script to a finished film, or restyles your footage, on an NVIDIA GPU with 16 GB+ VRAM, and local renders don't use credits. WanGP v18.17 adds a Deepy Prime agent that plans a one-minute video from a brief.