Fooocus at a glance
Checked 15 Oct 2026Fooocus is a prompt-focused SDXL generator modelled on Midjourney: vary, upscale (1.5x/2x), inpaint, outpaint (pan), image prompt and face swap. It needs 4GB NVIDIA VRAM and 8GB RAM. Code is GPL-3.0; the default model is Juggernaut XL v8 (tagged CreativeML OpenRAIL-M). The project is in limited LTS, bug fixes only, with no plans to add newer architectures such as Flux. Last release v2.5.5 (2024-08-12); last commit 2025-09-02.
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RepoQuarry. “Fooocus.” Checked 15 Oct 2026. https://repoquarry.dev/projects/fooocusHow much of Midjourney does it replace?
4 of 4 jobs. Explicitly mirrors Midjourney's vary, upscale, pan and image-prompt features, but limited to SDXL models and no longer developed.
Partial: Text-to-image Partial replacement
Partial: Image editing (inpainting and outpainting) Partial replacement
Partial: Upscaling Partial replacement
Partial: Style and image reference Partial replacement
How much of Adobe Firefly does it replace?
3 of 3 jobs. Text-to-image, inpainting/outpainting and image prompt with SDXL models.
Partial: Text-to-image Partial replacement
Partial: Image editing (generative fill and expand) Partial replacement
Partial: Style and image reference Partial replacement
Facts, with sources
Every answer links to where we found it. We read the documentation; we did not install it.
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Runs on my machine? Confirmed: Yes, offline
The software is offline, open source, and freegithub.com · Fooocus#readme ↗ 1d ago
Model weights licence Partial: Default Juggernaut XL v8 is tagged CreativeML OpenRAIL-M (use restrictions)
license: creativeml-openrail-m. (Fooocus's default preset sets default_model juggernautXL_v8Rundiffusion.safetensors, downloaded from huggingface.co/lllyasviel/fav_models, which has no licence tag.)huggingface.co · Juggernaut-XL-v8 ↗ 1d ago
Commercial use Partial: GPL-3.0 code + OpenRAIL-M weights; README calls it non-commercial software
Fooocus is a 100% non-commercial offline open-source software.github.com · Fooocus#readme ↗ 1d ago
Paid services needed? Confirmed: None required
The software is offline, open source, and freegithub.com · Fooocus#readme ↗ 1d ago
Hardware Confirmed: 4GB NVIDIA VRAM + 8GB RAM; CPU-only needs 32GB RAM (~17x slower)
Note that the minimal requirement is 4GB Nvidia GPU memory (4GB VRAM) and 8GB system memory (8GB RAM).github.com · Fooocus#minimal-requirement ↗ 1d ago
Operating systems Confirmed: Windows, Linux; macOS unofficial and not intensively tested
Mac is not intensively tested. Below is an unofficial guideline for using Mac.github.com · Fooocus#mac ↗ 1d ago
Setup effort Confirmed: Easy on Windows, download 7z and run run.bat; models auto-download
After you download the file, please uncompress it and then run the "run.bat".github.com · Fooocus#windows ↗ 1d ago