Civit AI, Inc.

About Civit AI, Inc.

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Civit AI, Inc.

All products by Civit AI, Inc. reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

CivitaiAI Image Generation

Community platform for sharing and discovering AI-generated images and models

From $10/mo7.3/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Civit AI, Inc.

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Civit AI, Inc.'s product on their own terms. They disagreed by 1.0 points — The Decision Maker was the hardest to convince, The Domain Practitioner the most positive.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Civit AI, Inc. competes with, and how they differ.

Hugging Face8.9/10

Hugging Face is a general-purpose open-model hub spanning text, audio, and vision models with enterprise APIs and Spaces hosting, versus Civitai's narrower but deeper focus on Stable Diffusion/Flux checkpoints, LoRAs, and an on-site image/video generator.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

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Tensor.Art7.0/10

Tensor.Art runs the same checkpoint/LoRA-sharing and on-site generation model as Civitai, including comparable tolerance for mature content, making it the closest like-for-like alternative when either platform tightens moderation.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Mage Space7.5/10

Mage Space offers community Stable Diffusion model hosting and on-site generation at smaller scale than Civitai, with a simpler creator-monetization model and no comparable bounty or licensing-fee system.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

OpenArt7.8/10

OpenArt centers on curated workflows, templates, and a smaller model library aimed at designers, versus Civitai's open marketplace where any creator can upload and monetize checkpoints and LoRAs.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Midjourney, Inc.5.5/10

Midjourney is closed-source and accessed via Discord/web app on a flat subscription with no user-uploadable model marketplace, competing for image-generation spend rather than for creator/model-hosting traffic.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Replicate8.0/10

Replicate is a developer-first API marketplace for running (not browsing or discovering) open models, including many also hosted on Civitai, competing for the builder audience rather than Civitai's hobbyist/creator community.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Civit AI, Inc.'s history, with sources.

1. Apr 15, 2026Milestone

   Platform splits into civitai.com (SFW) and civitai.red (NSFW)

   Civitai split its single site into two domains sharing one account system: civitai.com restricted to mainstream/SFW content to satisfy payment processors and advertisers, and civitai.red carrying mature content for opted-in users.

   civitai.com
2. May 23, 2025Milestone

   Credit card processor cuts off payments over adult-content policy

   Civitai's card processor ended support, pausing credit-card purchases of Buzz and memberships starting May 23, 2025, because it would not support a platform permitting AI-generated explicit content; Civitai shifted to cryptocurrency and ACH payments as stopgaps.

   404media.co
3. Dec 9, 2023Milestone

   Cloud compute partner OctoML ends relationship over CSAM concerns

   OctoML said it was terminating its business relationship with Civitai after 404 Media reported internal communications showing OctoML staff had flagged some generated content as potentially categorizable as child sexual abuse material.

   engadget.com
4. Nov 27, 2023Funding

   Seed round — $5.1M led by Andreessen Horowitz

   Civitai raised a $5.1 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, its only disclosed funding round to date.

   voicebot.ai
5. Nov 13, 2023Milestone

   "Bounties" feature launch draws scrutiny for enabling deepfake requests

   A new bounties feature let users pay the community in Buzz to build AI models replicating the likeness of specific real people, most of them women, including at least one private individual with no public profile.

   404media.co
6. November 2022Founded

   Civitai launches as a Stable Diffusion model-sharing platform

   Justin Maier launched Civitai in November 2022 as a hub for sharing Stable Diffusion checkpoints and LoRAs.

   venturebeat.com