Deep Dream Generator vs SD.Next

Deep Dream Generator is a web service for creating images from text, working with reference images, and editing images. Commercial use is included. It has a free plan, where image generation is available and energy and storage depend on user level. Paid monthly plans start at $9/mo: Basic costs $9 a month and includes 750 energy, 150 AI images, 10 AI videos, and 10GB of storage. Advanced is $19 a month, Professional is $39 a month, and Ultra is $99 a month, each with larger listed energy, image, video, and storage allowances. One-time Energy Packs are also offered, from $3.99 a month for 120 energy, 30 images, and two videos to $299 a month for 22,000 energy, 5,500 images, and 367 videos. Deep Dream Generator was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Sofia, Bulgaria.

SD.Next is an open-source server application and web interface for generating, editing, captioning, upscaling and processing AI images and videos. Workflows include text-to-image, image-to-image, text-to-video, image-to-video, inpainting and outpainting, with PNG and JPG output. The project supports dozens of models and can automatically download selected reference models. Guidance features include LoRA, ControlNet, IPAdapters and Prompt Enhance. Image processing tools cover captioning, tagging, upscaling, interpolation, colorization, filtering and color correction. SDNQ quantization is described as reducing VRAM use by up to 4x; Balanced Offload balances CPU and GPU memory for larger models on limited hardware. Listed hardware options include CUDA, ROCm, ZLUDA, Intel IPEX XPU, OpenVINO, DirectML, Apple M1/M2 MPS, ONNX/Olive and CPU-only execution. SD.Next runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and provides API access. The project describes desktop and mobile interfaces and localization in about 15 languages. Its security policy says it does not send or share data externally, track user or system data, store inputs or results, or use analytics services. The repository identifies Apache-2.0 as its license.