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24 alternatives to Distillery

Open-source alternative to Midjourney

Distillery is an open-source Discord-based text-to-image generator built on Stable Diffusion technology. It uses larger AI models to train new models and offers users flexibility and a variety of artistic styles.… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Distillery launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Learn to create serious Generative Art

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Explore the frontiers of imagination

    2024 · midjourney.com · its alternatives →

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    Major step forward with photorealism and in-image text

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! Introducing Trickle Magic Canvas: the world’s first Agentic Canvas, where you can visually co-create apps and websites with AI, from idea to production. Why is a canvas better? Most AI tools today rely on linear chats or text prompts. We believe that limits creativity and clarity. Canvas changes the game. 1. Every version & page at a glance. Each page and sub-page lives on a timeline. You can quickly browse, edit, and preview progress like a living, visual document — no more digging through chat logs or scattered states. 2. The canvas is the context. Unlike linear chats, you can…

    2025 · trickle.so · its alternatives →

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    Zoo▲234

    A free, open-source playground for AI image models

    2023 · zoo.replicate.dev · its alternatives →

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    Create content faster than ever before through speech

    2023 · beta.whiskeyai.xyz · its alternatives →

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    The smartest, most beautiful, most coherent model

    2025 · midjourney.com · its alternatives →

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    Ocoya 2.0▲414

    Canva + Hootsuite + Copy.ai

    2021 · ocoya.com · its alternatives →

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    Canva▲435

    AI that creates with you, and connects to your world

    2013 · canva.com · its alternatives →

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    Unlock our creative potential

    2022 · brandstudio.com · its alternatives →

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    Distill▲200

    An interactive, visual journal for Machine Learning research

    2017 · distill.pub · its alternatives →

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    I wanted to share our new speech to text model, and the library to use them effectively. We're a small startup (six people, sub-$100k monthly GPU budget) so I'm proud of the work the team has done to create streaming STT models with lower word-error rates than OpenAI's largest Whisper model. Admittedly Large v3 is a couple of years old, but we're near the top the HF OpenASR leaderboard, even up against Nvidia's Parakeet family. Anyway, I'd love to get feedback on the models and software, and hear about what people might build with it.

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Design unique visuals with our Text to Image AI tool. Generate beautiful, custom images from your text prompts, with options for various styles.

    2022 · getimg.ai · its alternatives →

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    2021 · colab.research.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Evoke▲317

    Run open source AI models on the cloud with our APIs

    2023 · evoke-app.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I wanted to share a new project we've been working on for the last couple of months called ART (https://github.com/OpenPipe/ART). ART is a new open-source framework for training agents using reinforcement learning (RL). RL allows you to train an agent to perform better at any task whose outcome can be measured and quantified. There are many excellent projects focused on training LLMs with RL, such as GRPOTrainer (https://huggingface.co/docs/trl/main/en/grpo_trainer) and verl…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Helix▲153

    Train your own AI with open-source AI and your data

    2023 · helix.ml · its alternatives →

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    Freeflo▲138

    Reusable generative AI style prompts for better images

    2023 · freeflo.ai · its alternatives →

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    We recently used DeepSeek V4 Flash as a teacher for finance tasks with GPT-OSS-120B. Distillation works well on this problem. At a constrained 8k token budget, our self-distilled 120B scores 83.61% on FinanceReasoning, above Kimi K3 (81.93%) and Inkling (65.13%). We released the 20B open weights. With V4 as the teacher though, we realized it would be timely to measure if the censorship characteristic of it transferred to the distilled version of the base model. tl;dr it didn't, the teacher answered politically sensitive questions 7 SDs differently than expected, but the distilled model's…

    Jul 2026 · ctgt.ai · its alternatives →

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    Generate AI art for free

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Hey HackerNews, Today I'd like to share my open source project, Moonshine! Pretrained vision models are a popular way to reduce how much data you need and to speed up training, but for remote sensing (i.e. aerial, satellite) it can be a challenge to find good weights. Why use Moonshine? 1. Pretrained on multispectral data: Existing popular CV packages are nice to use but are trained on ImageNet or similar, meaning that not only is the domain of the pretraining different, but you may be restricted to only 3 channels. For remote sensing platforms with multispectral data, this might be a…

    2023 · moonshineai.readthedocs.io · its alternatives →

  24. 24FS

    Deploy and serve machine learnings models performantly, scalably, and cost-efficiently with Baseten.

    2022 · app.baseten.co · its alternatives →

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