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RANKED #17 OF 30 VIDEO · OVERALL #254 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 6.2 · 155 VOICES ·
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LivePortrait on Hugging Face (image to video). 8,844 downloads. Open weights for local or hosted use.
HAPPY10.0
38 mentions
SAD5.0
12 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 23 voices in this window
TOO QUIET
Not enough weekly voices to call a trend yet.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download LivePortrait once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
Implicit keypoint and stitching pipeline consisting of multiple lightweight modules totaling around 2 GB to 4 GB in model weights
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
6 GB VRAM
~$280Full FP16 pipeline at 512x512 resolution, takes about 0.08s of compute per second of video
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$530Full FP16 pipeline with real-time driving video playback, takes about 0.04s of compute per second of video
- FULL POWER
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$1800Full FP16 pipeline and TensorRT optimization at 70+ fps, takes about 0.013s of compute per second of video
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN LIVEPORTRAIT?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long LivePortrait takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB | SWEET SPOTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12GB | FULL POWERNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make a video clipfive seconds of footage | UNDER A SECOND★★★★★ | UNDER A SECOND★★★★★ | UNDER A SECOND★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
People are mostly happy with LivePortrait. Biggest praise: how results look.
122 POSTS · 33 COMMENTS · GITHUB · DEV FORUMS · HACKER NEWS · LEMMY · REDDIT
PEOPLE LOVE
- Results look great (3 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- How results lookPEOPLE LOVE THIS
3 thumbs up · 0 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM REDDIT >
“Testing my realistic facial animation system in VR ( made with Stable Diffusion and using liveportrait ) on the Quest 3 locally, the performance is really good, and I can run multiple characters simultaneously with this system.”
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Other models the crowd has fully reviewed, starting with video models like this one.
Grok Imagine
Runway Gen 4 Turbo
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LTX 2.3> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2025-03-17 · 1319 UPVOTESReCamMaster - LivePortrait creator has created another winner, it lets you changed the camera angle of any video.
ReCamMaster - LivePortrait creator has created another winner, it lets you changed the camera angle of any video.
- REDDIT · 2025-05-24 · 1088 UPVOTESOne Year Later
One Year Later
- REDDIT · 2024-07-11 · 764 UPVOTESAnimateDiff and LivePortrait (First real test)
AnimateDiff and LivePortrait (First real test)
- REDDIT · 2024-07-04 · 610 UPVOTES😲 LivePortrait: Efficient Portrait Animation with Stitching and Retargeting Control 🤯 Jupyter Notebook 🥳
😲 LivePortrait: Efficient Portrait Animation with Stitching and Retargeting Control 🤯 Jupyter Notebook 🥳
- REDDIT · 2024-07-10 · 451 UPVOTESLivePortrait Test in ComfyUI with GTX 1060 6GB
LivePortrait Test in ComfyUI with GTX 1060 6GB
- REDDIT · 2024-07-16 · 327 UPVOTESFirst Test with LivePortrait
First Test with LivePortrait
- REDDIT · 2026-05-17 · 258 UPVOTESA lot of major updates on Flux Real-Time pipeline
A lot of major updates on Flux Real-Time pipeline
- REDDIT · 2024-07-09 · 246 UPVOTESLivePortrait is literally mind blowing - High quality - Blazing fast - Very low GPU demand - Have very good Gradio standalone APP
LivePortrait is literally mind blowing - High quality - Blazing fast - Very low GPU demand - Have very good Gradio standalone APP
- REDDIT · 2024-07-08 · 210 UPVOTESLivePortrait is fun, but this particular sample vid it comes with only creates cursed videos :)
LivePortrait is fun, but this particular sample vid it comes with only creates cursed videos :)
- REDDIT · 2024-09-03 · 199 UPVOTESTested out some new tools. FLUX -> Runway Gen-3 -> LivePortrait -> Edit
Tested out some new tools. FLUX -> Runway Gen-3 -> LivePortrait -> Edit
- REDDIT · 2024-08-27 · 169 UPVOTESHard Fork podcast guys asked for someone to make video of Abe Lincoln endorsing them. This is FLUX images > Runway Gen-3 video > face…
Hard Fork podcast guys asked for someone to make video of Abe Lincoln endorsing them. This is FLUX images > Runway Gen-3 video > face animation transfer with LivePortrait (voice via speech to speech with ElevenLabs, After Effects for phone comp). More info in…
- REDDIT · 2024-07-23 · 158 UPVOTESLivePortrait Official Repo's Gradio Now Has Video to Video Feature
LivePortrait Official Repo's Gradio Now Has Video to Video Feature