Equal or better quality? I suppose it depends on what you are trying to create, but that hasn't been my experience at all.
Agreed; SD barely follows prompts at all.
> Agreed; SD barely follows prompts at all.
I would heartily disagree - I've generated ~6.5k images using SD locally and most of them could be linked to the prompt they came from.
Have you seen a decent tutorial for setting up SD locally? I've been using it through huggingface, but that seems pretty limited.
Official repo is straightforward: https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion
Have to admit just started looking into it, mb there are better options