Fooocus

Spec sheet

Purpose

Fooocus is image-generating software based on Gradio.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Free plan

YesRead 19 Sep 2026 · github.com

Integrations

The README identifies Gradio as its base and describes using InsightFace for FaceSwap and Civitai SDXL models.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Security

GitHub reports that the repository has no security policy file and no published security advisories.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

API access

YesRead 19 Sep 2026 · github.com

Hardware limits

The project lists minimum local requirements that vary by platform and GPU, including 4 GB GPU memory and 8 GB system memory for some Nvidia configurations.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Hosted use

The project describes running Fooocus in Google Colab, with basic text-to-image available on Colab's free tier.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Image editing

Its listed functions include image variation and upscaling, inpainting, outpainting, and image prompts.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Linux and macOS

The README provides Linux installation instructions and an unofficial guide for Apple silicon Macs.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Models

Fooocus is built on Stable Diffusion XL and supports SDXL models from Civitai.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Network access

The UI can be exposed with a local listener or a Gradio share endpoint, and both are unauthenticated by default unless basic authentication is configured.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Offline and open source

The project describes Fooocus as offline, open-source, and free software.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Project support

Fooocus is in limited long-term support focused on bug fixes, with no current plans to migrate to newer model architectures.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Prompting

Fooocus includes an offline GPT-2-based prompt processing engine and is designed to work without much prompt engineering or parameter tuning.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Reference images

YesRead 19 Sep 2026 · github.com

Styles and controls

The interface includes styles, guidance, quality, image count, negative prompts, aspect ratios, and sampling controls.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Text-to-image

YesRead 19 Sep 2026 · github.com

Windows installation

The project provides a Windows download whose extracted folder is launched with run.bat.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Plans and prices

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