# LivePortrait Review

> LivePortrait review: Fast, actively-maintained portrait-driving model backing production features at major Chinese video platforms; used for.

Fast, actively-maintained portrait-driving model backing production features at major Chinese video platforms; used for reenactment/animation rather than lip-sync-only or audio-driven generation.

See pricing · Open source · facts verified Aug 24, 2026

## What we know about LivePortrait

LivePortrait sits in the ai avatar video category, where it is fast, actively-maintained portrait-driving model backing production features at major Chinese video platforms; used for reenactment/animation rather than lip-sync-only or audio-driven generation. We keep this LivePortrait profile grounded in primary sources, each fact dated to when we last confirmed it.

LivePortrait does not publish a public per-minute rate we have been able to verify, so the price figure here stays blank until we can confirm one. We would rather show nothing than a guessed number; if you have a current LivePortrait quote, it is the fastest way for us to close that gap.

On capabilities, LivePortrait covers self-hostable. Each of those is verified against LivePortrait's own docs or dashboard, not marketing copy.

In total we track 4 verified facts for LivePortrait today, each linking the primary source it came from so you can check our work - and vendor claims we have not measured ourselves are labeled as such on the LivePortrait fact sheet below.

## Fact sheet

### Compliance & trust

| Fact | Value | Verified | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| License | MIT | Aug 24 | [source](https://github.com/KwaiVGI/LivePortrait/blob/main/LICENSE) |
| Self-hostable | ✓  Yes | Aug 24 | [source](https://github.com/KwaiVGI/LivePortrait#readme) |

### Commercial

| Fact | Value | Verified | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| GitHub stars | 19,000 | Aug 24 | [source](https://github.com/KwaiVGI/LivePortrait) |
| Hardware to self-host | NVIDIA GPU recommended (validated on RTX 4090) | Aug 24 | [source](https://github.com/KwaiVGI/LivePortrait#readme) |

Source: https://www.versusref.com/avatar-video/tools/liveportrait/