Needs a GPU
15 projects tagged Needs a GPU, in the order of our ranking. Some replace a paid product; others are free tools people use alongside one.
Most often they replace Suno, Topaz Gigapixel or ElevenLabs. 15 of 15 run on your own machine. The most starred is vLLM, with 96k stars on GitHub.
| Compare | Project | Runs on my machine | Allowed at work | Paid services | Hardware | Setup | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vLLMOpen-source engine for serving LLMs at high throughput on your own GPUs, with an OpenAI-compatible API server; Apache-2.0. | Yes | YesApache-2.0 | None required | No graphics card needed | Medium | 96k+537 this week | |
| OBS StudioMature desktop app for recording and streaming screen, camera and audio with scene compositing; saves local files, no share links. | Yes | ConditionsGPL-2.0-or-later | None required | No graphics card needed | Easy | 79k+552 this week | |
| InvokeAILocal web UI for image generation with a unified canvas for inpainting and outpainting, node workflows and a model manager. | Yes | ConditionsApache-2.0 | Optional only | GPU, about 4 GB | Easy | 29k+92 this week | |
| UpscaylDesktop AI image upscaler for Windows, macOS and Linux, built on Real-ESRGAN models running through ncnn and Vulkan. | Yes | ConditionsAGPL-3.0 | None required | Needs a graphics card | Easy | 52k+539 this week | |
| FreeTokenApache-2.0 engine and desktop app for running very large open models on your own NVIDIA GPU, with OpenAI and Anthropic-compatible APIs. | Yes | YesApache-2.0 | None required | GPU, about 8 GB | Medium | 16k | |
| YuE2Open song model that writes an editable melody-and-chord score from lyrics and style, then sings it as a full song with accompaniment. | Yes | ConditionsApache-2.0 | None required | GPU, about 24 GB | Medium | 13k+252 this week | |
| JasnaDesktop app and CLI that finds mosaic-censored areas in videos and images and restores them with AI models on your own NVIDIA or AMD GPU. | Yes | ConditionsAGPL-3.0 | Optional only | See its page | See details | 4.3k+542 this week | |
| QualityScalerWindows app that upscales and denoises photos and videos with ONNX models on any DirectX 12 GPU. | Yes | ConditionsMIT | Optional only | GPU, about 4 GB | Medium | 3.2k+15 this week | |
| ACE-Step UISuno-style web interface for a local ACE-Step 1.5 install, with a song library, covers, repaint, stem extraction and an audio editor. | Yes | ConditionsMIT | None required | GPU, about 4 GB | Medium | 5.2k+40 this week | |
| AutoShorts (gameplay)Python tool that picks moments from long videos (gameplay first), crops to 9:16 and adds styled captions and optional AI voiceovers. NVIDIA GPU only. | Yes | YesApache-2.0 | Optional only | Needs a graphics card | Hard | 206+1 this week | |
| AudioCraft (MusicGen)Meta's research library for MusicGen, a text-to-music model for short instrumental clips, optionally guided by a hummed or played melody. | Yes | NoMIT | None required | Needs a graphics card | Medium | 24k+35 this week | |
| Dia1.6B-parameter English text-to-dialogue model from Nari Labs with two-speaker tags, non-verbal sounds and audio-prompt voice cloning. | Yes | YesApache-2.0 | None required | GPU, about 4.4 GB | Easy | 19k+2 this week | |
| Sesame CSMSesame's 1B Conversational Speech Model that generates speech from text plus optional conversational audio context. | Yes | ConditionsApache-2.0 | None required | See its page | Medium | 15k+5 this week | |
| SeedVR2 Video Upscaler (ComfyUI)ComfyUI nodes and standalone CLI for ByteDance's SeedVR2, a one-step diffusion upscaler for images and video. | Yes | YesApache-2.0 | None required | GPU, about 8 GB | Medium | 3.0k+13 this week | |
| DiffRhythmDiffusion model that generates full-length songs (up to 4m45s) from timed lyrics and a text or audio style reference. | Yes | ConditionsApache-2.0 | None required | GPU, about 8 GB | Medium | 2.4k+3 this week |
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