Model · Talking presenters, Video

LivePortrait

A free, downloadable model from Kuaishou that animates a still portrait by copying the head movements and expressions from another video. It can also edit the face in an existing video. Runs on a home graphics card; needs some technical setup.

Go to LivePortrait’s website

At a glance

Open or closed: Fully open
Weights and code downloadable under a standard open licence
Weights page metadata says MIT. Bundled InsightFace face-detection files are listed but their licence is not stated on the pages read.
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Licence: MIT (Permissive (e.g. Apache 2.0, MIT))
Licence taken from the Hugging Face metadata tag; full text not shown there.
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Can I sell what I make?: Yes
MIT allows commercial use, but the bundled InsightFace detection models may carry separate non-commercial terms; check before commercial use.
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Cost: Free option: Free to download and run yourself
Plans below.
How you use it: On your own computer, Through another service
Weights on Hugging Face; official demo Space on Hugging Face. Intel Macs not supported.
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Skill needed: Technical
Our judgement: Python install; has a local Gradio web interface.
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Made by: Kuaishou Technology
Repo credits Kuaishou with USTC and Fudan University. No company address on the pages read, so no country.
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Status: Available
Last listed update July 2024; no deprecation notice.
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What you can make with it

A talking presenter, a talking version of a photo (main use)
A video, by copying movement from another video
A video, by bringing a photo to life

image to videovideo to video

Driven by a video of a face, not by audio; there is also an animals version.

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Plans and prices

No paid plans listed.

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Rights and safety

Real faces and voices: Copies a real face (animate any portrait), no consent step
Runs on any face image you supply; no consent step in self-run software.
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Where you can run it

Hugging Face

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About this entry

Facts last checked 12 Oct 2026 against the maker’s own pages (each fact links to its source). Entry status: draft. Plain-English summary written by Plainly.