Local or online: your graphics card or Cloud GPU
See the featureSince 0.9.0, tendre.AI opens the same full app for everyone, Studio, on Windows and Mac: consistent characters, Create an image, Create a video, editing and chat. What changes from one machine to another is where the render runs: on your own graphics card (local) or on our servers (Cloud GPU).
The former Starter mode, a single prompt field, has left the computer. A profile that was in Starter opens in Studio, on Create a video, in Cloud GPU, with a banner that says so. On a phone, the Starter screen stays the app's screen.
Local generation
Local generation uses your NVIDIA graphics card (RTX 20 series or newer, 8 GB of video memory at least) to create images for free, with no per-image cost and no licence needed. Video runs on a separate local engine: install it from Settings > Components (about 36 GB with the voice pack; it keeps downloading in the background while you use the app), also free, for unlimited 5 to 20 second clips with sound. Until you install it, video renders online.
On a Mac, image creation and editing can run locally; video and character training always run online.
Online generation (Cloud GPU)
Without a graphics card able to generate locally, or when you choose Cloud GPU, everything renders on tendre.AI's servers, and the local-only tools stay greyed out. Without a licence, 5 images and 1 video are free every day; beyond that, and with a licence, online renders use credits. The Ultra video mode, with its references, styles, outfits and motions, runs online only.
Setup
The setup no longer asks for a mode. Without a graphics card able to generate locally, it no longer asks about roleplay either: chat with characters is on by default, and you can turn it off in the settings. Settings > Components adds the local engines skipped during setup: the image files, editing, the video engine, the voice pack and the character training workshop. See Installation.
Buying credits
A licence comes with cloud credits. Extra credits are sold in packs on the tendre.ai website and stay valid for 12 months. See License and activation for how the licence itself works, separate from credits.
| Included with | Credits |
|---|---|
| The license | 200 |
| The Pro license | 500 |
In Quality, a cloud video is priced per clip, whatever its length. 480p without sound costs 2 credits, and 5 with references in Create a video or with Enhanced consistency.
| Cloud render | Credits | With sound |
|---|---|---|
| Image | 1 | |
| Video, 480p | 2 | 10 |
| Video, 720p | 10 | 20 |
| Video, 1080p | 15 | 30 |
In Ultra, the price depends on the duration and the resolution, sound included, and shows before you render (see Quality or Ultra).
These amounts are read live from the price grid, so they follow any change.