Stable Horde

Stable Horde is a crowdsourced generation cluster that pools donated consumer hardware into one public queue. Volunteers run worker software on their own machines, and anyone else can submit a job from a browser with nothing to install: image generation, text generation, and what the project calls alchemy, a set of operations that interrogate and post process images. The site now presents itself under the broader name AI Horde, reflecting the move beyond image models alone. The service suits hobbyists who want to generate without buying a graphics card, and developers who want generation capacity sitting behind an application. A REST API reference is published alongside a list of community built tools and front ends, so the cluster can be driven programmatically rather than only through the hosted interface. A live status board on the home page reports, separately for image, text and alchemy work, how many workers are online, how deep the queue is and what throughput the cluster is sustaining, so the likely wait is visible before a request goes in. Generation is free. Contributors either run a worker or donate and earn kudos in return, the internal unit the horde uses to recognize what each participant has put in. No plans, tiers or prices are published anywhere on the site, and the usual pricing paths return nothing, so there is no commercial offering to compare: available capacity is simply whatever volunteers are supplying at that moment.