IC Light AI

What is IC Light AI?

Relight a photo with a text prompt or a background image.

Who is IC Light AI best for?

IC Light AI is best for photographers and designers who want to relight a photo's subject from a prompt or background image.

• Relighting portraits and product shots

  You describe the light you want, such as a sunset over the sea or a neon city street, and the text model relights the foreground subject to match.

• Placing a subject on a new background

  The background-conditioned model takes a background image and lights the subject to fit it, and it works with short, simple prompts.

• Developers and researchers

  The code and models are open under Apache-2.0 and run locally with Python, with the model files downloaded automatically on first run.

• Trying it without installing

  The authors run an official demo of the text model on Hugging Face, so it can be tested in the browser first.

How much does IC Light AI cost?

IC Light AI, the IC-Light project on GitHub, is free and open source, with no paid tier.

IC-Light is released only as open-source code and models on GitHub, with an official demo on Hugging Face, and nothing on the maker's pages is for sale. The bundled background remover, BRIA RMBG 1.4, is for non-commercial use, so the authors say to swap it for another one in commercial projects. Full pricing on github.com. We checked these prices on 28 Sep 2026.

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Is IC Light AI open source?

Yes. IC Light AI's code is public under the Apache 2.0 licence, so you can run it on your own server.

What are the best IC Light AI alternatives?

IC Light AI is an open source alternative to Clipdrop.

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