SD WebUI Forge
The faster A1111 fork — stale since July 2025.
About
Forge (lllyasviel/stable-diffusion-webui-forge, AGPL-3.0, ~13k stars) was the faster, more memory-efficient fork of the A1111 WebUI.
Caveat: stale since July 2025 with a high open-issue count (1,160) — the project served its purpose in the SD 1.5/XL era but isn't where development happens now. Historical record.
What it can do
- Fast SD UI (historical)
- Memory-efficient (historical)
- STALE since Jul 2025
Setup
Not recommended for new setups — stale since Jul 2025. Use Invoke or ComfyUI instead.
Prerequisites
None — stale project.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 6/10
Scored 6/10 (metrics tier). Historically useful (~13k stars) but stale since July 2025 with 1,160 open issues — maintenance scores 2.1. Kept as a historical record with a do-not-use warning. Metrics tier.
★ 13,059 GitHub stars
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 7.8/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 2.1/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 9.1/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 6.0/10
- · 13,059 GitHub stars (log-scaled vs catalog peers)
- · last push 439d ago; 0 releases/12mo; 1160 open issues
- · manual review: SD WebUI Forge — faster A1111 fork; stale since Jul 2025; high issue count; license: AGPL-3.0 (copyleft)
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