How to Get the Open Source Higgsfield AI (Free)

Okay, so today I'm going to show you

guys how to get the open-source

Higgsfield. There are several ways you

can do it, but this is kind of how it

looks when you get it going. This is the

whole system right here. It's pretty

cool. What you can do Okay, so this is

where it all comes from. It's comes from

a Neil Matcha. The jet It's called The

project is called open- generative-ai,

and you have all of the files right

here. So, if you want, you can download

it yourself, and you can edit it however

you want. There are some parts that

don't work perfectly, and that's because

it's an open-source project. That's kind

of how this works. It's like generated

by some person, and they made it for

free, and they're giving this out for

you to use and try. Okay, so there's two

ways that you can use this open-source

Higgsfield. So, we have the pay-per-use

version and the free version. I'll walk

through both of them, and I'll give you

the benefits and the drawbacks. Let's do

this. Okay, so first I'm going to show

you the paid version. So, basically the

paid version is super easy to get. All

you have to do is you go to the hosted

version, which is this website right

here on my screen. You click on that,

and it brings you straight to this thing

that I was showing you earlier. Then

from there, this allows you to use every

single model in existence I can think

of. I I'm sure there's more models out

there, but there's just a ton on here,

and there's lots of options, and it runs

really well because it's running on

their server. But, basically what you do

for this one is it is the paid version,

but it is a lot cheaper than using

something like Higgsfield. Like this is

the open-source version, so this is kind

of like you have like the tiers of

Higgsfield AI is very expensive, then

you have middle, which is kind of middle

of the road, which is this one, then you

have the fully open-source where you

download on your own computer, and that

is free, basically. So, I'll show you

how the middle tier works, and then

we'll get into the free one. Okay,

middle tier, what you're going to want

to do is you will have to generate an

API key. This is a Mu API. I don't know

how to pronounce this properly.

Basically, what you're going to do is

generate an API key in here, and it's

like a mega API key. And so, it covers

every single model you can think in

existence. A lot of them are cheaper

than doing it through the actual

company. So, that's nice. But, you have

access to tons and tons of models. So,

if you get really good with a certain

model that's super cheap, you can

generate a ton of stuff for a lot

cheaper than it would be if you were to

generate it like with Midjourney or or

other companies that host it on their

servers. So, it's a lot cheaper in that

way. So, it's not completely free, but

it is a lot cheaper, which is pretty

nice. But, basically you have all these

options and how it works is it connects

with this API key. You just generate the

API key. I I loaded $10 on there and

I've been generating a ton of stuff. And

that's when you have this section right

here. So, you're able to basically

generate anything through Nana Banana,

Flex Dev, and there's tons of options,

too. You can generate four at a time.

You can change the aspect ratio. You can

add reference images. There's just a ton

of things that you can do. That's for

the image stuff. Same thing with the

video. You have all the options. You

have like a bajillion options. And you

can even download do the open-source

models. They do host them on their own

server, but the thing I'll show you

later is you can host these models also

on your own computer and these videos

for free. I'll get to that. I'll get to

that. Um there also are several models

that you cannot host on your own

computer, and that's like Seedance and

Kling and VEO. These are all hosted on

big fat servers cuz they take a lot to

generate video. But, you're able to do

all those at a more affordable price

here in the video section. So, you can

change the aspect ratio, change the

time. You can change the quality, add

other images. Like, there's a lot of

stuff you can do. You also have this lip

sync section where you can make it so it

matches up with the voice of a face and

you can throw an audio. Pretty simple.

Then, you have Cinema Studio. This is

where you can generate frame-by-frame

and kind of like build the stuff

together. And then, you have Marketing

Studio, which is where you can build out

ads for it. This is also much more

affordable cuz you can choose the model

and you can choose the variant how you

want it to look, the avatar. Like,

there's a ton of cool options in here.

Then, also in here you do have workflows

where you can do certain things which

are like more specialized. So, you do

social media, e-commerce, fashion,

featured, featured social media, like

all these things are are things that can

help you like build better things and

you can build your own workflows as well

and community stuff which is generated

from the community, which is cool. I

like that it's all kind of centralized

into one system. It's like basically the

community building their own version of

Higgsfield that's kind of all combined

here. So, you don't have to pay for

Higgsfield prices. So, you just pay like

the base price and then everybody

contributes to everybody. It's It's a

pretty cool little system. It's not

perfect though. It's not perfect. I'm

not going to act like this is completely

free cuz it's not. There is a free way

to do it. It's not this one exactly.

But, this is the open-source version.

So, like I guess in the sense of

open-source, like anybody can contribute

to this platform right here and help

build it to make it better, which is

pretty cool. You also do have agents

right here where you can literally just

like like look at this. This is crazy.

Like a veggie talk creator. Like there's

a ton of different agents they can use

to make content, which is pretty cool.

All of these are you will have to pay

for the the tokens, but then you also

have apps where you can literally just

build out your own template and create

your own, I guess, wrapper in the sense

of like you can create your own AI video

studio and sell that to other people,

which is pretty cool. And this one you

can just like straight-up go to the

GitHub and do it from there and build it

out. And this is completely free. You

would have to pay for the tokens, but if

you're charging somebody like twice as

much for the tokens, then it can make

sense and it can be an actual business,

which is pretty cool. All these GitHubs

are right there and you can grab the

templates and just download them and

create your own AI business just like

that. It's pretty gnarly how quick and

easy it is. That is the main stuff on

the hosted version, all right? Now, I

know you guys didn't come here for the

hosted version. I just want to show that

this is kind of what the creator is

making. It's like a cheaper and

open-source alternative to doing

Higgsfield, but there is like the other

part where you can just host it on your

own computer. So, let me show you kind

of what that looks like. So, you're

going to go into here, right? Go back to

the main GitHub where I was. And this is

where you can get the fully unrestricted

open-source version of the open-source

Higgsfield. So, so you won't want to go

to this hosted version. You'll want to

download one of these. So, there's

several ways you can do this. For one,

you can just hit this DMG file, which

literally just downloads it like an app.

Like literally just click the button. I

already downloaded it. I don't want to

download it again. It is a decent amount

of memory, but you just hit this button

right here and you just base it on which

type of computer you have. So, I have a

M3 chip, so you just hit this and it'll

download it. Or you have Mac OS,

Windows, um Linux. So, all these things,

these are different versions you'll

click on. Or you can also install it

from the terminal. You'll just run these

prompts in the terminal and it downloads

it. Super quick and easy. Or you can do

the way which I did and I went on the

GitHub desktop app and I just cloned the

repository. Um literally, it's super

simple. You just go on the app, paste

the link and say clone it. And then now

I am editing it in Visual Studio Code

cuz there are some bugs that I wanted to

fix myself that I've been fixing for

certain models. And so, I've been

running it myself. I edited the parts I

wanted to fix in Visual Studio Code so I

can make it better. So, I made my own

little branch. So, you can do that as

well. Um it's a little more technical

and I have Claude Code helping it. So, I

don't know actually crap. I'm not very

technical at all, but Claude Code knows

it and I just tell it like, "Hey, fix

this part. Fix the loading part. Hey,

the open source model's not working

properly. Fix this." So, there's some

things that I did have to fix and I had

to cater it to my computer in order for

it to work properly. So, once I did

that, I'm running it now and it's in

this app Electron right here. And here

is the fully open source version of

that. Okay? So, now there is an option

to run the API key um or you can do the

local models. As you can see, it is a

little bit more laggy, but here are the

models that I'm running right now. So, I

have Z image turbo, which is a image

generator. I've done a downloaded

Dreamshaper and there's a couple other

ones I haven't downloaded yet. When I

When I do with my variations that I did

in Visual Studio Code, it depends on

what computer you have if you want

certain models to work. So, the only

ones that worked on my computer were

these two. So, they're not perfect, but

um they're pretty low-weight models

because my computer's not the highest

end. So, I downloaded these models and I

was able to generate videos, which is

pretty cool. I'll kind of show you what

I generated, but these are the models

I'm running and literally all you do is

you just hit download and this is how

you download them. Some of them don't

work fully and these have to be debugged

and this is just comes with open-source

stuff. It just does. I hate to say it.

So, yeah, image stuff, if you want to go

to your local image generator, hit this

button right here and it'll pick Z image

turbo. You can also change which one you

want and so I have DreamShaper image

turbo. These are all the ones that you

can download on your computer, the

open-source ones, or you can go back to

the API ones and this is charges it to

that same API. But we don't want that,

obviously. We want the free version. So,

we're going to hit this button and we'll

generate images. Now, it does take

anywhere from like maybe like 1 to 3

minutes to generate an image. So, I

pre-generated a bunch of them to show

you kind of what they look like. So,

this is one right here. This is just

like a backyard that I had it generate

super quickly. This is a car in space.

This is some dude in a fake Iron Man

suit. Um this is Elon Musk in space,

which is um it's not bad. And then this

is a ripped frog. This one actually

didn't work. Um and then this one is a

cat on Mount Everest. So, these are ones

that you can generate with your

open-source Higgs field version. Super

simple. Hit this button, type in your

prompt, then you hit generate and it'll

take a couple seconds to load. Now, I'm

not going to generate one right now

because it is pretty intensive and since

I'm screen recording and doing all this

at once, my computer has 18 gigs of RAM

and it'll probably start getting laggy.

I just want to be cleaner for the demo.

Then, we have the video section. So, the

video section is a little more heavy

than the image section. So, since like I

told you earlier, the only ones that my

computer can actually run are has all

these options, as you can see. Oh, it's

lagging. Um is these two, the LTX video

and the Cog video X2B. And it can make

like maybe 2 to 5-second videos, but

here's some of the results that that I

got from what we were dealing with. So,

like this is the type of stuff that you

could generate, depending on how good

your computer is. Like this one's This

one's pretty cool, not going to lie.

Dang, look at that. Car scene. We have

an elephant jumping into some water.

This one's low resolution, so it's a

little bit easier to generate. This is

another car. Looks like it's going to

jump off of a cliff.

Oh, there it goes. And this is a Looks

like a knife on a rock. This is a ninja

right here.

Okay. This is a car through space. So,

like all these are things that you can

generate. The problem with the

open-source models is like basically

what it means is you are running this AI

model on your computer. And that's how

it's free. It's using your hardware and

not somebody else's hardware. If you're

generating with tokens, you're borrowing

their hardware to generate your video.

And that's why you have to pay a little

bit for it. So, um I was doing a bunch

of research and trying to figure out

which models you can run on which type

of hardware. And I built this graphic

that helped me.

Um so, these are all the main

open-source models, and they're pretty

good. They can make pretty good results.

They're definitely not like as perfect

as like the VO models or the Sora

models. But, these ones are pretty good

that you can run. And this is kind of

how it breaks out. So, you got 1 2.1, 1

2.2, High and Video, High and Video 1.5,

um LTX Video, Cog Video, and Cog Video

5B. So, I have an M3 Pro right here. And

so, the two that I'm mainly running are

the LTX Video and the Cog Video X2B. And

so, I could run them. It's not perfect.

Um I haven't tried the 1 ones. Um

they're a little bit bigger, so I was a

little more reluctant. But, depending on

like if you have a basic laptop, I'm I

hate to break it to you, it's just not

going to be Your Your Your computer's

not going to have enough processing

power to be able to run an open-source

model. An Intel Mac, neither, cuz those

are kind of old. M1, you possibly could

do it. My version, I can run it. It's

not perfect, but you can do it. M4 Mac

Pro, if you get a new one, yeah, you

should be able to run these ones pretty

well. And if you have like the top-tier

Macs, you should be able to do most of

them pretty easily. Then we go to the

Windows side. This is kind of like the

GPU you'll need and also the memory. And

one thing that's nice about the Windows

side of things, they're a lot more

optimized for models like this, which is

pretty nice. So, looks like the lowest

end you can run a couple of them, but

you there's a few that you can't. And

yeah, as you see we go up in obviously

price and just performance, this is how

you'll be able to run these things. So,

you'll need like the minimum of this

amount of RAM and this type of processor

if you want to run every single one of

these. The cool part though is if you

have this, you can run all these

completely free and locally, which is

awesome. What you'd basically do is you

would just go in here

and you pick your model, like I pick

mine, and then you just prompt it. And

then from there it's literally the same

thing and you're able to generate all

these same videos with that same model.

Now, I'm I am limited to the lower-end

models because I don't have as powerful

of a computer. And that's just how it

goes with working with ups and

open-source models. You also do have the

lip-sync function, same thing. You have

the cinema studio, this one where you

can like build out frames and use these

to generate cinema cinema quality videos

that you can add into the video function

and the image function.

Unfortunately, the workflows and the

agent functions do not work on the host

the self-hosted version yet, but this is

one thing that you could go into your

Visual Studio Code and edit yourself.

And then you have the MCP 2. This is the

full open-source Higgs Field. It's

definitely not a perfect solution if you

have a lower-end computer, but if you

have a decently powerful computer, you

can run all these things without a

problem. You can run the higher-end

models like I showed you on here. So,

yeah, if you have a higher-end computer,

like one with this type of processing

power, you're you're able to run these

higher-end video models, but if you have

somewhere on the lower end, it's just

it's just not viable. Your computer

simply just cannot handle a model like

this. and I and I hate to say it but

it's just the truth of the matter. And

so if you were in this area down here,

I would probably there's lots of like

technically paid softwares that have

free video credits. So you can do maybe

one or two videos free every single day.

I know Google does it, Gemini chat does

it, Grok does it. There's lots of models

that you can create free video. You just

can't do unlimited and there's certain

limitations. But that would be more than

trying to use an open source model

because you just you simply can't. It's

just your computer is just not powerful

enough. And so that's just how it works

with open source models and this is the

reality of the situation. But if you

want to try out this open source model

for yourself, you have those the ability

to do it. By all means go and do it and

it'll be completely free. But yeah,

anyways, this is the open source Higgs

Field. If you have questions leave them

in the comments, but um yeah.