Guide · Best Automatic1111 and Fooocus alternatives (2026)

The best Automatic1111 and Fooocus alternatives in 2026.

Automatic1111 and Fooocus made local AI images easy, but neither keeps up with the newest models any more. If you want Krea 2, FLUX.2 and AI video without moving to ComfyUI's node graphs, here are the options, starting with ours.

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Short answer

The Automatic1111 and Fooocus alternative for people who want newer models without ComfyUI nodes is Cubric Studio: free, local, open source. Prefer the old layout with Flux? Forge. Want every setting? SwarmUI. All compared below.

Why people look for an Automatic1111 or Fooocus alternative

Fooocus is built only on SDXL, and its own page says it now gets bug fixes only.
Automatic1111's last release, v1.10.1, was in February 2025.
The newest models (Krea 2, FLUX.2, Qwen, Wan video) need something newer, and the usual advice is "move to ComfyUI", which means node graphs.

Most newer apps hide the nodes but keep the knobs: sampler, scheduler, CFG, steps, VAE. Cubric Studio tunes those for every model it ships and shows you only the few settings that matter: a prompt box and real editing tools on top, a tested ComfyUI engine underneath, and every model installed for you in one click.

What you get with Cubric Studio

Settings tuned for you: every model ships with its sampler, steps and CFG already set, so you write a prompt and press Cue.
Newer image models: Krea 2, FLUX.2 Klein, Qwen Image Edit and Chroma, alongside SDXL, Illustrious and Pony.
The tools you used in A1111: inpaint, image to image, pose, depth and edge control, detail and upscale.
Edits by sentence: say what should change and only that changes.
Video and sound in the same app: Wan 2.2, LTX 2.3, speech, music and sound effects.
Projects that keep every picture and video with its full history, in folders on your disk.
Your own LoRAs and upscalers.

Automatic1111 vs Fooocus vs ComfyUI vs Cubric Studio

	Cubric Studio	Automatic1111	Fooocus	ComfyUI
Interface	Prompt box and tools	Tabs and settings	Prompt box	Node graph
Settings you tune	A few; the rest tuned per model	Sampler, CFG, steps, size and more	Few (styles, presets)	Every node
Krea 2, FLUX.2	Yes, one click	Not built in	No, SDXL only	Yes, you wire it
AI video	Yes	Via extensions	No	Yes, you wire it
Price	Free	Free	Free	Free

What Automatic1111 and Fooocus still do well

Automatic1111: every setting in reach, and the biggest library of extensions for Stable Diffusion.
Fooocus: great SDXL pictures with almost no tweaking, even on a 6GB laptop graphics card.

If those cover what you make, there is no need to move.

Other Automatic1111 and Fooocus alternatives

Stable Diffusion WebUI Forge

A free (AGPL-3.0) Automatic1111-style interface that added Flux. Its last code change on GitHub was in July 2025.

Best for: Automatic1111 users who want Flux in a familiar layout.
Price: Free

SwarmUI

A free, open-source (MIT) web interface with a simple Generate tab and the full ComfyUI graph one tab away. It supports Krea 2, Flux and Stable Diffusion, video models such as Wan, LTX-2 and MiniMax H3, and some audio models.

Best for: People who want ComfyUI's full power behind a friendlier front page, and are happy to install from a script.
Price: Free

InvokeAI

A free local web app (Apache-2.0) built around a Unified Canvas for painting, inpainting and outpainting, with node workflows for advanced users. Focused on images.

Best for: Artists who want to paint and compose on a canvas.
Price: Free

Krita AI Diffusion

A free plugin (GPL-3.0) that brings AI generation into the Krita painting app: live painting, inpaint and outpaint, with Flux 2, Z-Image, SDXL and Illustrious. Runs locally on NVIDIA, AMD, Intel or Apple silicon.

Best for: Digital painters who already work in Krita.
Price: Free; cloud generation is also offered

Stability Matrix

Not a generator itself: a free (AGPL-3.0) package manager that installs and updates ComfyUI, Forge, Automatic1111 and others for you, with a shared model folder.

Best for: People who want to try several of these interfaces without setting each one up by hand.
Price: Free

Facts from each project's own GitHub page, checked 13 October 2026.

Moving over from Automatic1111 or Fooocus

Cubric Studio runs a curated lineup instead of loading any checkpoint, so your old checkpoint files do not carry over; the models install themselves instead. Your own LoRAs and upscalers do. Projects keep their full history in folders on your disk. Comparing directly? Automatic1111 vs ComfyUI and Fooocus vs ComfyUI.

Automatic1111 and Fooocus alternatives: questions

What is the best Automatic1111 alternative in 2026?

If you want newer models and video without node graphs, Cubric Studio: free, local and open source, with Krea 2, FLUX.2, Wan 2.2 and LTX 2.3 installed in one click. If you want the same layout with Flux, Forge. If you want every setting, SwarmUI.

What is a good Fooocus alternative?

Cubric Studio keeps Fooocus's simple prompt box but adds Krea 2, FLUX.2, edits by sentence, video and sound.

Is Fooocus still updated?

Its own GitHub page says Fooocus is in limited long-term support with bug fixes only, and it is built only on SDXL.

Is Automatic1111 still updated?

Its last release, v1.10.1, came out in February 2025.

Can I use my Automatic1111 checkpoints?

Not in Cubric Studio, which runs a curated model lineup that installs itself. You can add your own LoRAs and upscalers.