Stability AI

About Stability AI

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Stability AI

All products by Stability AI reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

Stable DiffusionAI Design Tools

Open-source AI image generation from text prompts

From $50/mo7.7/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Stability AI

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Stability AI's product on their own terms. They landed within 0.9 points of each other, an unusually strong consensus.

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

Competitive Landscape

Who Stability AI competes with, and how they differ.

OpenAI7.9/10

Ships closed-weight image models (DALL-E) behind a consumer-first ChatGPT distribution channel, versus Stability's open-weight Stable Diffusion models that developers self-host or fine-tune.

2 products reviewed on TopReviewed

Midjourney5.5/10

Bootstrapped and profitable, sells polish and aesthetic quality through a closed Discord/web app with no API or open weights, targeting individual creators rather than Stability's developer/enterprise licensing model.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Black Forest Labs8.0/10

Founded in 2024 by former Stability AI researchers (creators of the original Stable Diffusion); its FLUX models compete directly for the open-weight image-generation developer audience Stability built.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Runway7.5/10

Focuses on video generation and editing tools for filmmakers (Gen-3/Gen-4), overlapping with Stability's video ambitions but with a narrower, higher-end production focus versus Stability's broad image/video/audio/3D model suite.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Adobe (Firefly)7.9/10

Embeds generative image/video models directly inside Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Premiere) with commercial-safe training data, competing for the same creative-professional audience Stability now targets via its WPP and entertainment-industry partnerships.

3 products reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Stability AI's history, with sources.

1. Aug 25, 2026Funding

   Closes $76M Series B backed by all three major music labels

   Stability AI closed a $76 million Series B strategic round with Universal Music Group, Sony Music Group, Warner Music Group and Electronic Arts as equity investors, making it the first AI company to receive equity investment from all three major music labels; the round brought total funding raised to $232 million.

   musicbusinessworldwide.com
2. Mar 5, 2025Partnership

   WPP invests and forms AI content-production partnership

   Advertising holding company WPP announced a strategic investment in Stability AI alongside a multi-year partnership to use Stability AI's image, video, 3D and audio models across WPP's advertising and entertainment production, integrating the tools into WPP's WPP Open AI system.

   wpp.com
3. Jun 25, 2024Funding

   Recapitalizes with new investor group, names Prem Akkaraju CEO

   Stability AI closed an approximately $80 million recapitalization round from Sean Parker, Eric Schmidt, Coatue Management, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greycroft and others; Prem Akkaraju, former CEO of Weta Digital, was named CEO and Sean Parker became Executive Chairman.

   completemusicupdate.com
4. Mar 23, 2024Milestone

   Founder and CEO Emad Mostaque resigns

   Founder and CEO Emad Mostaque resigned amid investor pressure and a wave of senior staff departures; COO Shan Shan Wong and CTO Christian Laforte became interim co-CEOs.

   fortune.com
5. Oct 17, 2022Funding

   Raises $101M at $1B valuation

   Stability AI raised $101 million led by Coatue Management and Lightspeed Venture Partners, valuing the company at $1 billion following the viral open-source release of Stable Diffusion.

   techcrunch.com