Introducing Onlyface: Real-Time Face Swap Without a GPU
We built Onlyface because we believe real-time face swapping should be accessible to every creator — not just those with expensive hardware. Here's our story.
Real-time face swap has, until now, been a hardware problem. The best open-source face-swap models demand a modern NVIDIA GPU, a careful driver setup, a native application to host the pipeline, and a willingness to debug when any one of those pieces breaks. Creators with a laptop, a tablet, or an older desktop were simply out of the conversation.
Onlyface starts from a different assumption: if the model runs on a server, none of the hardware problem belongs to the creator. We run the face-swap pipeline on a GPU cloud, stream frames to your browser over WebRTC, and composite the swapped face onto the outgoing video track. Your device sees only a webcam feed going in and a swapped video feed coming out.
In practice this means the onboarding is the entire setup: open the site, grant camera access, pick an avatar, and you're live. There is no application to install, no driver to update, and no virtualenv to maintain. On a mobile browser the experience is identical to desktop because the heavy work never touches your CPU.
WebRTC is the piece that makes this feel live rather than cloudy. Frames leave your camera, hit our GPU, and return to your browser on the order of tens of milliseconds — within the same budget that remote video calls already tolerate. The result is that the swapped face stays in lockstep with your voice and motion, not a half-second behind it.
Pricing follows the same accessibility principle. Onlyface gives you a free 30-minute HD trial, then three options sized for different use patterns: a $7.99 Day Pass for 24h unlimited, $19.99/mo Pro Monthly, or $179/yr Pro Annual (~$14.92/mo equivalent). Pay for what fits — episodic use stays a one-shot, regular use scales to subscription.
This is the product we wished existed when we first tried to put a digital face on a live stream: no GPU, no driver, no install. Just a browser, a camera, and a face you want to borrow for an hour.