InstantID

Community · 2024 · Image Generation · Open-source/community

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A · App: No
B · Built By: Community
C · CEO & Politics: [UNKNOWN]
D · Date: 2024
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Images
H · Deployment: Cloud + Local (open weights)
I · Inputs: Text→Image
J · Jurisdiction: Open-source/community
K · Key Staffers: Qixun Wang (Lead author), Haofan Wang (Corresponding author)
L · Languages: English-primary
M · Model Type: Image Generation
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Yes — open weights
P · Pricing: Free (code Apache 2.0; released checkpoints for research use only)
Q · AIDb Rating: [UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special: InstantID, a tuning-free method from the InstantX team and Xiaohongshu that generates identity-preserving images from a single face photo in seconds and supports various downstream tasks; its pipeline was merged into diffusers and works with LCM acceleration and multiple ControlNets.
S · Stock / Status: Research / open-source project
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: Downloadable
X · X Handle: [UNKNOWN]
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Open-weights Image Generation from Community, released 2024.

Data completeness 77% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗

“InstantID.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/instantid.html