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Civitai

Infrastructure

Open-source platform for sharing generative image, video and 3D models — the platform's own code is Apache 2.0; the models it hosts carry their own licences.

Total funding$5.1M

Valuation—

Employees—

Founded2022

HeadquartersSan Francisco, USA

StatusPrivate

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Civitai Platform Sold on its own

  Site where people publish, browse and run open image-generation models and the images made with them.

Inside Civitai

• Civitai API API service Included with the parent

  Programmatic access to the model catalogue and on-site image generation.

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both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (private).2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRRecraftPrivate · $42M raisedCivitai API and Recraft API do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; same layer and the same scale band (early-stage private).1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareCCrusoePrivate · $10BCivitai API and Crusoe Managed Inference do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (private).2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFAFireworks AIPrivate · $17.5BCivitai API and Fireworks Inference do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (private).2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTATogether AIPrivate · $8.3BCivitai API and Together Batch Inference both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (private).2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLLLuma LabsPrivate · $3.9BCivitai API and Luma API do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; similar scale (private).1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMModalPrivate · $466M raisedCivitai API and Modal Inference do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (private); ships developer tool and infrastructure service rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareOOllamaPrivate · $88M raisedCivitai API and Ollama Cloud do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (private); ships infrastructure service and model API rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareW&Weights & BiasesAcquiredCivitai API and W&B Serverless Inference do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Weights & Biases is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNGNebius GroupPublic · $61.6BCivitai API and Nebius Token Factory do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (public); ships developer tool, infrastructure service and 1 more rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareKEKakao EnterprisePrivateCivitai and Kubeflow both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Kakao Enterprise's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareVVMwareAcquiredCivitai API and VMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale; ships infrastructure service rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareMModularAcquired ($3.1B deal)Civitai API and Modular Cloud do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Modular is acquired, with no independent scale; ships developer tool and infrastructure service rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareHCHuawei CloudPrivateCivitai and Huawei HiLens both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Huawei Cloud's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHeliconeAcquiredCivitai API and Helicone AI Gateway do comparable work on model hosting; Helicone is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareIIdeogramPrivateCivitai and Ideogram 4.0 do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; Ideogram's scale not recorded; ships application rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareEElasticPublic · $10.2BCivitai API and Elastic Inference Service do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; 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Leonardo.Ai is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAApplePublic · $4.6TCivitai and Image Playground do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; similar scale (public); ships application and developer tool rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareSStepFunPrivate · $10BCivitai API and Step Plan both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (private).2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeComparePPhotoroomPrivate · $500MCivitai API and Photoroom API both serve buyers who need to create images and video; similar scale (private).1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeComparePLPika LabsPrivate · $470MCivitai API and Pika API do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; similar scale (private).1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBFBlack Forest LabsPrivate · $3.3BCivitai and Playground do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; similar scale (private); ships application, infrastructure service and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAAArtisse AIPrivate · $6.7M raisedCivitai and Artisse do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; ships application rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerSame scale bandCompareYYandexPublicCivitai API and Yandex Cloud AI Studio do comparable work on image generation and model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video and serve a model in production; Yandex's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLLightricksPrivate · $335M raisedCivitai and Photoleap do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; similar scale (private); ships application rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareXxAIAcquired ($230B deal)Civitai API and Grok Imagine API do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; xAI is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFFigmaPublic · $14.4BCivitai and Figma Weave do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; similar scale (public); ships application rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareMMidjourneyPrivate · $0 raisedCivitai and Midjourney do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; Midjourney's scale not recorded; ships application rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAAlphabet (Google)Public · $4.2TCivitai and Dreambeans do comparable work on image generation; similar scale (public).2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAlibabaPublic · $273.4BCivitai and ModelScope both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (public).3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSAStability AIPrivate · $495.9MCivitai and Brand Studio do comparable work on image generation; 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both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; similar scale (private).1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTTencentPublic · $510.1BCivitai and Tencent Cloud TI Platform both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (public).2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCanvaPrivate · $42BCivitai and Dream Lab do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; similar scale (private); ships application rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareLSLM StudioPrivateCivitai API and LM Studio do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded; ships AI agent and application rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareNNVIDIAPublic · $5.1TCivitai and NVIDIA TensorRT both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (public).2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareQQualcommPublic · $174.9BCivitai and Qualcomm AI Inference Suite both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; 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both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; Typeface's scale not recorded; ships AI agent, agent platform and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareGGitLabPublic · $8.3BCivitai and GitLab Duo Agent Platform Self-Hosted both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (public).2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKKlaviyoPublic · $5.5BCivitai and Klaviyo Image Remix do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; similar scale (public); ships AI agent and application rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareBByteDancePrivateCivitai and Doubao (豆包) both serve buyers who need to create images and video; ByteDance's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareUUniphorePrivate · $2.5BCivitai and Uniphore Model Layer both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (private).1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareJJasperPrivateCivitai and Jasper do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; Jasper's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOOpenAIPrivate · $852BCivitai API and OpenAI API do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; similar scale (private); ships AI agent, agent platform and 2 more rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareUUnslothPrivateCivitai and Unsloth both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Unsloth's scale not recorded; ships developer tool rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareOOpenRouterPrivate · $1.3BCivitai and OpenRouter both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (private); ships developer tool and model API rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareZZ.ai (Zhipu AI)Public · $58.6BCivitai API and Z.ai Model API do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; similar scale (public); ships AI agent, application and 2 more rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareNRNous ResearchPrivate · $70M raisedCivitai API and Hermes Cloud do comparable work on model hosting; similar scale (private).2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare

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Sources

Total funding

Company disclosure · 14 Nov 2023

Civitai's own blog post: "we've raised $5.1M in seed funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz" (2023-11-14). Only disclosed round to date.

Employees

Checked — none published

Checked 2026-08-27 and no citable figure found. Four sweeps were run and all came back empty for this company: (1) its own /about, /about-us, /company, /careers, /jobs and /team pages, pattern-matched for a self-published headcount; (2) stockanalysis.com's private-company page, which footnotes each figure to its source; (3) its Forbes company profile, which states a headcount and the month it is as of; (4) a targeted web search. Everything the search returned was a LinkedIn-scraping aggregator, and those disagree with each other by wide margins and cite nothing, so they are not used here. The field is null rather than carrying the round guess it held before.

Founded

Wikipedia · 27 Aug 2026

Wikipedia infobox "founded" field, read 2026-08-27.

Description

Official documentation · 6 Sep 2026

The flag was that "open-source" might read as a blanket claim over the hosted models. It holds for the PLATFORM — the codebase is published under Apache License 2.0 — so the licence is now attached to the thing it is true of. The homepage also shows videos and 3D models beside images, so "Stable Diffusion and image models" was narrower than the catalogue.

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