A node-graph GUI, API and backend for running diffusion models locally to generate images, video, audio and 3D content.
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AI video generation: 59 open-source projects (2026)
Turn text, images or a script into video, with models you can run yourself and pipelines that assemble finished clips.
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- 59
- This week
- +13.3K
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- 8 hours ago
How to choose
Start with the job you need done: running a video model yourself, or getting a finished clip with little effort. ComfyUI runs diffusion models locally through a node-graph GUI, so it suits people who want control and accept the setup. MoneyPrinterTurbo turns a topic into a short video with voiceover, subtitles and music, so it suits quick output. Wan2.2 offers text-to-video and image-to-video models if the model itself is what you want.
- ComfyUIBest for people who want to run diffusion models locally through a node graph and control the whole workflow themselves.
- MoneyPrinterTurboBest for anyone who wants to give a topic or keyword and get a finished short video, with script, voiceover, subtitles and music handled automatically.
- Wan2.2Best for people who want an open-source video model itself, for text-to-video, image-to-video or character animation.
Top projects compared
| Project | Stars | This week | License | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 145.6K | +1.2K | GPL-3.0 | 8 hours ago | |
| 140.7K | +3.8K | MIT | 21 hours ago | |
| 78.2K | +4.3K | AGPL-3.0 | 4 days ago | |
| 34.9K | +41 | Apache-2.0 | 12 hours ago | |
| 32.9K | +141 | MIT | 2 days ago | |
| 18.5K | +161 | Apache-2.0 | 2 months ago |
All projects
Turns a topic or keyword into a finished short video, handling script, voiceover, footage, subtitles and music automatically.
An open-source agentic video production system that turns an AI coding assistant into a pipeline-driven video studio for research, scripting, asset generation, editing and rendering.
A PyTorch library of pretrained diffusion models, noise schedulers and building blocks for image, video and audio generation.
Self-hostable Next.js and Electron studio for generating AI images, videos and lip-sync clips through the Muapi.ai API, with no content filters.
Open-source large-scale video generative models for text-to-video, image-to-video, speech-to-video and character animation.
Open-source full-stack platform that turns a novel or one-sentence idea into a short drama, automating script, character, storyboard and video generation with AI.
Open-source AI workspace for creators that combines video translation, downloading, image and video generation, voiceovers and scripting, built on Codex CLI.
Generates a talking-head video from a single portrait image and an audio clip, driven by 3D motion coefficients (CVPR 2023).
An open-source Diffusion model engine for image, video, and audio generation, with low-VRAM inference and training support.
Agentic video generation framework that turns a story idea, screenplay, or novel into a multi-shot video by coordinating script, storyboard, character, and video generation agents.
An open-source 13B-parameter video generation foundation model from Tencent that creates videos from text prompts.
Open world foundation models, datasets and tools from NVIDIA for building physical AI in robots, autonomous vehicles and smart infrastructure.
A one-stop local app for open-source generative models, running video, image, audio, speech, 3D and interactive world generation on consumer GPUs.
Open-source codebase for efficient high-resolution image and video generation using linear diffusion transformers, with training and inference pipelines.
Open-source research code that animates a portrait photo to speak in sync with a driving audio clip, producing an MP4 video.
A serving framework that extends vLLM to run omni-modality models producing text, image, audio, video and action outputs.
Open-source platform that turns a topic or script into finished AI short videos and AI comic dramas, from storyboard to rendered output.
An end-to-end production workspace for AI-generated short dramas, covering script breakdown, storyboarding, asset consistency, video generation and export.
Open-source Stable Diffusion-based tool for generating character-consistent comic images and long-range image-to-video sequences.
Self-hosted AI video workspace that turns novels, scripts or product material into characters, storyboards, video clips and CapCut-compatible drafts.
A desktop app for building AI digital humans, with lip-sync video synthesis, text-to-speech, voice cloning, and local AI model management.
Open-source generative AI platform offering a unified API for text, image, video, audio, 3D and embeddings generation.
Self-hosted AI agent that runs a YouTube channel end to end, from research and scripts to rendered videos, with your approval before upload.
Electron desktop app that turns a script into AI-generated film shots, with character consistency and batch image and video generation.
Mochi 1 is an open-weight 10B text-to-video diffusion model from Genmo, released under Apache 2.0.
A self-hosted desktop app for building AI image and video generation pipelines visually on an infinite node-based canvas, using your own kie.ai key.
Open-source interactive world model that renders playable game scenes from low-poly frames using streaming neural rendering.
NVIDIA research monorepo with four projects for long video generation, world models and robot world-action models, each in its own directory.
Local video generation app and ComfyUI plugin that runs MiniMax H3 on consumer GPUs with as little as 8 GB of VRAM.
FAQ
- How are these projects chosen?
- Every project on Repolode passes a quality screening before it is listed: it must be usable today, solve a concrete problem, be more than a thin wrapper and still be maintained. This page groups the listed projects by topic and ranks them by GitHub stars.
- Which project here is the most popular?
- Comfy-Org/ComfyUI, with 145.6K GitHub stars. Check each project's license and last commit before choosing.