Deep Live Cam

Open-source real-time face-swap and one-click video deepfake from a single source image.

Freemium· Free open-source build on GitHub; paid pre-built Windows package on deeplivecam.netVideoinswapper_128 + GFPGANv1.4

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Best for

Pick Deep Live Cam if you want a local, free, real-time face-swap engine for streaming or content work and you have a decent GPU to run it on.

Skip if

Skip it if you need a hosted API, an enterprise compliance story, or you cannot guarantee consent from the people whose faces you are using.

Deep Live Cam is an AGPL-licensed face-swapping tool that performs live deepfakes on a webcam feed using only one source photo, no training run, no dataset, no per-identity fine-tune. Under the hood it stitches together InsightFace's inswapper_128 ONNX model for the swap and GFPGANv1.4 for restoration, with hardware acceleration paths for NVIDIA CUDA, AMD DirectML, Intel OpenVINO, and Apple CoreML. Features include a mouth mask that preserves the driver's actual lip movement, multi-face mapping so different identities can be pinned to different subjects in the same frame, and a basic three-step UI (pick face, pick camera, go live).

It is aimed squarely at streamers, VTubers, prank-video creators, and ML hobbyists who want a working real-time deepfake stack without paying SaaS rates or wiring up their own pipeline. The GitHub repo (94k+ stars) is free; deeplivecam.net packages a pre-built Windows binary for users who don't want to install Python 3.11, CUDA, and the model weights themselves. There is no hosted API, no cloud rendering, no subscription, everything runs locally on your GPU.

The project ships content filters that block obvious NSFW and CSAM material, and the maintainers are explicit about consent and ethical use, but this is still a deepfake engine and the obvious abuse surface (impersonation, non-consensual imagery, fraud) is on you. Treat it as a power tool, not a toy.

Editor's take

This is the de-facto open-source real-time deepfake stack right now, and that is a double-edged thing. The engineering is solid for what it is, the install story is rougher than the marketing site suggests, and the ethical surface is entirely on the operator. Use it for cosplay and VTubing, not for impersonating your CFO on a Zoom call.

— The AI Tool Bible editorial team