AI avatars on your own servers
On your own Mac or Linux machines, on-premises or in your cloud account. A standard Linux PC needs no GPU.

How it runs
- Where it renders
- On your own Mac or Linux machines, on-premises or in your cloud account; a standard Linux PC needs no GPU
- Where the conversation runs
- Your choice: the CLI's local conversation brain, your own speech and language services, or bitHuman's
- What reaches bitHuman
- A credential check when a session starts, the avatar download, and usage reports with no audio, video or conversation text
- Internet
- To start a session; rendering continues through a network drop of up to 5 minutes
- Models
- Essence 2 and Expression 2; Essence 1 on the CLI and Python
- Best for
- On-premises, data-center and private-cloud deployments
Usage reports contain no audio, video, images or conversation text. Self-hosted and on-device sessions store no transcript at bitHuman.
Creating an avatar from a portrait always happens in the bitHuman cloud. Once created, its model file downloads to your machines and runs there.



