Product
Kohya's GUI
Kohya's GUI is an open-source AI app, launched in 2022, made for developers.
A desktop GUI for training LoRA and fine-tuning Stable Diffusion, SDXL and FLUX models.
Main jobs: Fine-tuning. It is open source and free to use. You can use it on your own server, offline on your own machine, in the terminal and in the browser.
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At a glance
- Type
- Product
- Launched
- 2022
- Galaxy
- Image
- Pricing
- Open source, free
- Open source
- Yes · Apache-2.0
- Source code
- github.com/bmaltais/kohya_ss
- GitHub stars
- 12,598
- How you run it
- Self-host · Runs offline · Terminal · Web
- Made for
- Developers
- Website
- github.com
- Also known as
- kohya_ss
What it can do
Fine-tuningmain jobunconfirmed
“Support for LoRA, LoHa, LoKr, Dreambooth, fine-tuning, and Textual Inversion training.”— github.com, 2026-09-24
Model trainingsupportedunconfirmed
“This is a GUI and CLI for training diffusion models.”— github.com, 2026-09-24
unconfirmedproposed by a machine, awaiting calibration
Alternatives
- nanoGPTOpen source, freeAlso does: Fine-tuning, Model training
- LlamaFactoryOpen source, freeAlso does: Fine-tuning, Model training
- TRLOpen source, freeAlso does: Fine-tuning, Model training
- UnslothOpen source, freeAlso does: Fine-tuning, Model training
- AxolotlOpen source, freeAlso does: Fine-tuning
- MLXOpen source, freeAlso does: Model training, Fine-tuning
- PEFTOpen source, freeAlso does: Fine-tuning
- Hugging FaceFree plan + paid upgradesAlso does: Fine-tuning, Model training
- ModelScopeOpen source, freeAlso does: Fine-tuning, Model training
- Sentence TransformersOpen source, freeAlso does: Fine-tuning, Model training
- Together AIPaidAlso does: Fine-tuning, Model training
- ModalPaidAlso does: Fine-tuning, Model training
Connections
- Applies
- LoRA
Questions
What is Kohya's GUI?
Kohya's GUI is an open-source AI app, launched in 2022, made for developers. A desktop GUI for training LoRA and fine-tuning Stable Diffusion, SDXL and FLUX models.
Is Kohya's GUI free?
Yes. Kohya's GUI is open source (Apache-2.0) and free to use.
Is Kohya's GUI open source?
Yes, under the Apache-2.0 license. The source code is at https://github.com/bmaltais/kohya_ss.
Can Kohya's GUI run locally?
Yes. Kohya's GUI can run offline on your own machine. It can also be self-hosted on your own server.
What can Kohya's GUI do?
Main jobs: Fine-tuning. It can also do: Model training.
What are open-source alternatives to Kohya's GUI?
Open-source ones: nanoGPT, LlamaFactory, TRL, Unsloth, Axolotl, MLX, PEFT and ModelScope. Others: Hugging Face, Together AI and Modal.
Sources
- github.com/bmaltais/kohya_sschecked 2026-09-24