Fraime

What it does

Open video models are free to download. Running one takes more — structuring prompts, managing the pipeline. Closed platforms hide that behind a paywall. Fraime does it for you: reads your hardware, picks a model that fits, structures the prompt, and generates the media — via a plain API or straight from your coding agents over MCP. Every model in the catalog is unconditionally free to use, no license traps. Open source. Video now, image and audio next.

Fraime detects your hardware and picks the best open source video model it can actually run — no token-metered paywall, no manual model wrangling.

AI video today is either hidden behind a paywall that gets more expensive the more you use it, or "free" in name only — the open models exist, but running one yourself means figuring out which model fits your hardware and wiring up the whole pipeline by hand. Fraime detects your hardware and picks the best open model it can actually run. It's the friction and hardware guesswork standing between you and using them. Video creation without AI is still a slow, manual process — and "free" open source models still take a systems engineer to actually run. And nobody should have to pay a token-metered paywall for something their own hardware can already do. Fraime's bet is that automatically…from fraimesmm.art

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