Civitai vs SeaArt AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Civitai
Community hub for open image models, LoRAs and on-site generation
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SeaArt AI
International image-generation platform popular with Chinese diaspora
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.8 / 10 | 6.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free tier includes unlimited model browsing, unlimited public model downloads, community gallery access | Approximately 130 daily Stamina credits (renews daily, does not accumulate); watermarked outputs; no credit card required |
| Paid from | From $10/month (Bronze tier on Civitai.green, which grants 10,000 Green Buzz monthly plus ad-free | From $2.99/month (Beginner SVIP) up to $149.99/month (Master SVIP) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | Over 4 million registered users as of early 2024; approximately 19 million monthly visits as of | 30 million monthly active users; 50 million+ registered users as of January 2026 |
| Founded | 2022 | 2023 |
| Maker | — | STAR CLUSTER PTE. LTD. (Singapore; SUNRISEAI PTE. LTD. is the iOS App Store publisher entity) |
| Verdict | For open-model image generation there's still nowhere with Civitai's depth: checkpoints, LoRAs and embeddings for SD, SDXL and Flux, prompt metadata baked into every gallery image, plus on-site generation and LoRA traini... |
SeaArt is one of the most generous free entry points into Stable Diffusion-style image generation: a huge community library of checkpoints and LoRAs, cloud ComfyUI, ControlNet, and a daily free allowance worth around 20... |
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