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LTX Video

Lightricks

Open source★ #23 in Video Generation

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The open-source real-time video model: LTX generates frames faster than playback on consumer GPUs. No lifecycle review is recorded for this listing. Its inclusion in the directory does not confirm current availability; check the vendor before relying on it.

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Preview of LTX Video

Overview

LTX Video here means Lightricks' first-generation open video model, the one whose weights and inference code live in the Lightricks/LTX-Video repository. The vendor now calls it LTXV and presents it as the opening generation of a family that continues through LTX-2, LTX-2.3 and LTX-2.5, so the name on this entry is a generation marker rather than the current model. On the vendor's own model page LTXV is described as the foundation of the line: fast inference with strong temporal consistency for text-to-video and image-to-video, motion and depth control, LoRA and IC-LoRA support, built to run on high-end and consumer GPUs alike, and video-only with no integrated audio. The newer generations are the ones carrying native audio, portrait output and multi-shot consistency.

It suits people who want a video model running on their own hardware, whose own fine-tunes or ComfyUI workflows matter more than a leaderboard, and who are content to move with the releases. It suits less well anyone who needs synced audio, the strongest prompt adherence or the current quality ceiling, because those belong to the later models in the family, and it suits less well a team that will not track releases: the repository's last push was 2026-01-05, months before this writing, while the vendor's line has continued past it. Treat the local install as a starting point that will need replacing rather than a fixed asset.

Not verified: no model was run and no video was generated here, so the speed and fidelity claims are the vendor's and the project's, not results reproduced for this entry. The repository's code is Apache-2.0, but the weights on Hugging Face are marked License: other and link a separate LTX-Video Open Weights License, so the code and the weights are not under one licence; as read through the GitHub API on 2026-10-12, 11,074 stars for a project created 2024-11-20 with its most recent push on 2026-01-05; how much the current code differs from the release this entry describes was not read. The vendor's model page describes a licensing split for the newest generation with a revenue threshold below which it is free and a commercial licence above it, but the terms themselves were not read in full here and no figures are quoted. The site's older /ltxv path returned a 403 to this fetch, so the content above comes from the current model page and the GitHub API; whether LTXV is still maintained at all, and whether it is still offered in the vendor's studio product, were not confirmed.

Sources

The factual claims in this review were read from the pages below. Each date is when an editor last opened the source, not when the product changed.

Pros / Cons

Pros

  • Faster than real-time on consumer GPUs
  • Open weights for full control
  • ComfyUI integration day one
  • Free forever

Cons

  • Quality ceiling below closed models
  • Shorter clips than enterprise tools
  • Newer, less battle-tested

Who it's for

01

Local video generation on gaming GPUs

02

ComfyUI video workflows

03

Real-time iteration for directors

04

Open research on video models

Bottom line

The first-generation open model, not the current one: LTXV is the entry point to a family that has since moved to LTX-2.5, so check which generation you are actually pinning before you build on it.

Key Features

Real-time generation speed
Open weights, ComfyUI native
Consumer GPU friendly
Image-to-video and text-to-video
Free

Tags

VideoOpen sourceReal-time

Frequently asked questions

Is LTX Video currently available?

No lifecycle review is recorded for this listing. Its inclusion in the directory does not confirm current availability; check the vendor before relying on it.

What is LTX Video?

LTX Video is a Video Generation tool developed by Lightricks. It was introduced in 2024, and its developer is headquartered in Haifa, Israel. The open-source real-time video model: LTX generates frames faster than playback on consumer GPUs.

Is LTX Video free?

Yes — LTX Video is free to use.

Is LTX Video open source?

Yes — LTX Video is open source. The source code is publicly available at https://github.com/Lightricks/LTX-Video.

What are the best alternatives to LTX Video?

Notable Video Generation alternatives include Runway, HeyGen, Pika. Browse all 58 tools in our Video Generation category for a full overview.

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Basic Info

Pricing
Free
Editorial score
★ 4.4 / 5 How we score
Platforms
Open sourceComfyUIAPI
Launched
2024
Headquarters
Haifa, Israel
Last verified
Not recorded