AI Face Swap Battle: PuLID vs InstantID vs FaceID

🚀 AI Face-Swapping Showdown: PuLID vs. InstantID vs. IP-Adapter's FaceID-V2! 🎭

Hey everyone, my name is Wei! Welcome to my channel. In this exciting tutorial, we're diving deep into a comparison of three cutting-edge AI face-swapping technologies: PuLID, InstantID, and IP-Adapter's FaceID-V2. Using a ComfyUI workflow, we'll analyze their performance and effectiveness, helping you decide which one suits your needs best.

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📌 Chapters:

0:00 - Getting started
1:14 - Introduction to the workflow
2:12 - How to use this workflow
6:48 - Comparing results

[tsentenari]

My (subjective) take-aways, judging by your examples:
PuLID cannot compare to the other two.
InstantID wins on integrating the face into the environment, and making it look realistic.
FaceID wins on capturing the essence of face, if you don't worry about photorealistic shading too much.

Great work! Super useful to see all three of them in action with the same parameters, and be able to judge the result.
thx!!!!

[tsentenari]

LOVE your eplanation of the workflow logic of the comfyui workflow, makes it super easy to understand what's going on <3<3<3.

Also, it sets a perfect example for "how to calmly deal with problems that may arise, that stop you comfy workflow from excecuting, without panicking" :)

[Seany]

The sad thing is none of them (or the underlying tech insight face) get the 'details' of the face like moles and other unique features, in a1111 you can just use faceswaplab/reactor which essentially does the modelling in what I think is the simplest and best way as it is done post... but what would be great is if a developer can find a way to accuarely mimic the intricacies, i've played a bit with faceid and ipadapter plus face and they are a mixed bag, it is more immersive than faceswaplab since they alike your examples generate within the picture but then they are muddled with what the model thinks

[vesper]

wish you had included execution time in your analysis. I've also found that InstantiD is best but also slowest. I wonder if it's possible to beat it with a combination of faceid and upscaling/face detailer approach

[SachinVerma-sk]

Please make a tutorial on how to install PuLID on your computer.

[KellyBlairBrooksBB]

I would honestly probably just stick with LoRAs for now because all three of them were not consistent and showed some weaknesses.

[AnNguyen-pdxi]

Great video! Can you make a video about how to install PulID? I've downloaded all the files and always fail. Can't figure out what step is missed.

[sinuva]

mate, this type of videos are soo good ! comparing similar models! u should make more and more !!! XD

[flyingdogsoft]

I wrote it to other videos as well - the license is the problem here but it is good that you point it out that user needs a license for commercial use. So far I know this is very expensive one. That means those three ones are quite useless at the moment. The InstantID team wanted to retrain without using Insightface. But that was 4 months ago and so far no progress. The only alternatives I know are: 1) IP Adapter using Face model (not Face-ID) or StableIdentity (It does not have ComfyUI nodes and is using weird SD 2.1 model). Any other alternatives out there?

[GES]

I would love to see a video that compares models and loras, and a chart of which ones are best at which things.. some models suck at accurate face swap

[ryan_cha]

I agree with you. InstantID is the best at similarity and detail.

[yzflmfg]

Wow, I did not expect PulID to come last.

[WallyMahar]

Can you incorporate a move2Move workflow?

[GES]

Which one will apply a straight forward face to a side facing face the best?

[amitjangra]

I never got the PuLID working on my workstation. Always CUDA or devices errors.

[diggydretv]

InstantID looks the best but FaceID contains sharper details but seems more cartoonish for some reason. InstantID seems to at least try to keep some of the skin texture. I'm not chomping at the bit to get my hands on PuLID after seeing this. Thanks :)

[kocy]

Scarlet really likes others using her likeness for ai so i herd ;) 😂 thanks for the comparsion video, really interesting.

[aminesoulaymani]

I find InstantID far, very far better than the others, there is a weird thing with it: it excels to extract face features even from a "bad" picture. faceID is just good and pullID project should be closed, the most recent one yet laughably useless

[NeonSparks]

I'm getting so many python conflicts after getting pulid working. It's been an absolute nightmare fixing it

[ywueeee]

good job, just saw pulid repo has add v1.1 examples