Usage limits on your account
Where to see how much of each daily or hourly limit you have used on Civitai, what the limit banner means, and what to do when you hit one.
Civitai Education
Civitai’s Guide to Model Gift Links
How a creator can give free access to a paid or early-access model with a gift link, how to claim one, and the monthly and per-link limits.
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The path most people take from first visit to first trained LoRA.
Using Civitai – A Beginner’s GuideHow to Get Started with Civitai! This guide focuses on the Basics – Creating & Configuring an account, navigating the Home Page, & Discovering content.
The On-Site Image GeneratorExplaining the Civitai on-site Image Generation Service! Get started making your own AI art – no PC required!
Civitai’s Guide to Training StudioTrain a LoRA on Civitai with Training Studio: pick a base model, label your data, set steps, pay with Buzz, then watch each epoch arrive and publish the best one.
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EverythingCivitai's Guide to Storylines
Storylines are branching stories told in posts. Learn how to read one, pick a path, write the next chapter, start your own and manage who continues it.
Civitai's Guide to Publishing an Article
Write, save, schedule, publish and edit an article on Civitai: the editor, the cover image, categories and tags, image scanning, and daily limits.
Civitai's Guide to Collections
How to save things into collections, create and share your own, follow other people's, and let other people add to yours.
Civitai's Guide to Creator Score and the Leaderboard
What Creator Score is, where to see yours, what it unlocks, and how the Civitai leaderboards rank creators.
Civitai's Guide to 3D Models
How to browse, view, download and share 3D models on Civitai, and how to generate your own with PolyGen (Meshy), Tripo and Hunyuan3D.
Civitai's Guide to Comics
How to find, read and follow comics on Civitai, and how to make and publish your own comic with the Comic Creator, including references, panels and early access.
Audio and Music on Civitai
How to make music and sound effects in the Civitai generator with ACE Audio, MiniMax Music 3, YuE2 and Sonilo: what each engine takes, how long a track can be, what it costs in Buzz, and how to train your own audio LoRA in Training Studio.
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- LoRA
- A small add-on file that teaches a model one style, character or concept.
- Checkpoint
- The full base model that every image starts from.
- CFG scale
- How strictly the image follows your prompt.
- Sampler
- The method that turns noise into an image, step by step.
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Every guide here works with the generator and trainer on civitai.com.