TL;DR:
Every image can now have a remix gallery. Post your remix, then open the image you built on and submit it there. Most images take a few free submissions too.
The Remix button is a menu now: edit the image, animate it, or reuse the prompt and resources when we have them.
Galleries are on by default, and the creator reviews every submission. No auto-approve, and you can switch galleries off entirely in settings. Get accepted and your work sits on their image page in front of their audience.
A decline isn't free for the submitter. The creator keeps 30% and the rest comes back. If they never review it, it expires after 48 hours and you get all of it back. You can have 10 submissions pending with any one creator.
Creators set the price, and get 100% of it. Starts at 50 Buzz, defaults to 100, with your ceiling set by your creator score and raised within your band by your membership tier. By default a submission can't exceed your image's rating.
Yellow and Green Buzz only. No Blue Buzz.
Why this exists
A remix used to mean borrowing a prompt. It doesn't anymore. Iterate on it, restyle it, edit it, build a video out of it: that's all building on somebody else's work, and no rule we could write would catch all of it without catching things that aren't remixes.
So we're not writing one. A remix gallery lets the creator decide. You built on their image, you say so, and they choose whether it belongs on their page.
This is the discovery half of the creator earning proposal we published a few weeks ago. For a newer creator, getting in front of an established creator's audience is worth more than another post that only your existing followers see. For the established creator, it's a gallery of what people made from their work, and they get paid for the slot.
The Remix button changed too
The old Remix button only turned up when we happened to know an image's prompt and resources, and all it did was hand them back. That taught everybody that a remix means reusing a prompt, which is a much smaller idea than what people actually make.
It's a menu now: Edit image, Animate, or Reuse prompt & resources when we have them. Edit and animate only need the image itself, so the button shows up on images where we don't know the prompt at all.
That's our honest answer to what counts as a remix. Not a rule we wrote down, but three real things you can do to somebody's image, and a creator deciding whether what you made belongs on their page.
How submitting works
Post your remix first, then open the image you built on and submit it to that gallery. You'll see the price before you commit.
Every submission goes to the creator for review. No auto-approve, on purpose: a gallery puts someone else's uploaded image on your page, and you should get to see it first. While you wait, your pending entry shows on the gallery so you know it's in the queue.
If your submission is declined, the creator keeps 30% and the rest comes back to you. All 30% of it reaches them, we don't take a cut of a decline either. The 30% is what keeps a creator's queue from being free to flood, and accepting pays them the whole amount, so nobody has a reason to decline something they'd otherwise keep. If they never review it, it expires after 48 hours and you're refunded in full. You can have up to 10 submissions pending with any one creator.
Free submissions
Not every submission costs Buzz. You can accept a set number of free ones per image, and that's on by default.
It's capacity, not an allowance. Set 4 free slots and that image takes 4 free submissions. They don't refill tomorrow.
Your ceiling comes from your creator score and tier, same as your price. The bottom band is 1, and Gold at the top band is up to 10. Set it to 0 if you'd rather everything was paid.
You get paid for accepting them. 20 Blue Buzz for each of the first 5 free submissions you accept in a day.
Free submissions still go through review, and they get their own notification you can switch off separately.
An accepted free entry holds its slot for the week it can't be removed in.
Free submissions are only offered for remixes we can verify were generated from that image on Civitai, which is the same signal behind the Verified remix badge below. Everything else is paid, because we can't tell it apart from any other upload.
If you're submitting rather than receiving: you get one free placement a day across the whole site, remix galleries and sticker placement together. Not one per creator. You'll see how many free slots are left and whether it lands instantly or goes to review, and your daily free is spent even if the creator declines. You can never submit free to the same image twice.
Why submitting costs anything
Posting a remix is free, and always will be. Post it, tag it, share it, and it costs you nothing. What costs something is putting it on someone else's image page, because that page is theirs, and only once their free slots are gone.
That price isn't a fee on remixing. It's the creator's income. Someone building on their work used to be worth nothing to them, and now it's worth something, which is the point of the whole feature.
The least obvious reason matters most to the creator. Every submission costs them attention. Three hundred submissions is three hundred decisions in a review queue, and they didn't choose to spend their evening there. A price keeps a gallery full of work people meant to submit.
If it's your image
In your creator settings:
Off or review each one. Turn galleries off and the section disappears from all your images.
Your price. Starts at 50 Buzz, defaults to 100, and the slider shows your own ceiling when you open it. That ceiling comes from your creator score, and your membership tier raises it within your score band. Score is the bigger lever, so most of your ceiling is earned rather than bought.
What people may submit. By default a submission can't exceed your image's rating, so a PG image doesn't collect explicit remixes. If you'd rather people take your work further, you can accept any rating.
The ceilings are the same ones sticker placement uses. Your creator score sets the band, your membership lifts you within it:
Score under 10,000: 100 Buzz on a free account, up to 500 on Gold.
10,000 and up: 250 free, up to 1,000 on Gold.
25,000 and up: 500 free, up to 2,500 on Gold.
100,000 and up: 1,000 free, up to 5,000 on Gold.
Bronze and Silver land between the two numbers in each band. Climbing a band is worth more than climbing a tier, and these are a first guess we'll move once we see what people actually charge.
Civitai takes no cut of a gallery submission.
You can pin up to four favorites and they'll always show first. Everything else rotates, so the rest of the gallery keeps getting time in the sun instead of the oldest four owning the page forever.
One rule worth knowing before you start accepting: once you accept a submission, you can't remove it for a week. Without that lock an entry could be accepted and deleted before anyone saw it, whether the submitter paid for it or used a free slot. Our mods aren't bound by the week, so anything that really needs to come down still can.
Verified remixes
When someone generates on Civitai using your image as an input, our generator records that. If they later submit the result to your gallery, you'll see a Verified remix badge on it while you're reviewing, which means we confirmed they really did generate from your image instead of taking their word for it.
Two things about that badge:
It's only for you, while you decide. Not on the public gallery, not on the image page, and the submitter never sees it.
No badge means we don't know, not that it isn't a remix. Anything made off-site can't carry one, so plenty of real remixes won't have it. Nothing is filtered, sorted, priced or blocked on it, and we're not building that.
The Blue Buzz question
Yellow and Green Buzz only, same as sticker placement.
Rewards pay out in Blue Buzz so they stay where they were earned. Paying another user directly is exactly the thing that would undo that, so Blue is out here.
Blue Buzz still spends on plenty: generation, the cosmetic shop, and models from creators who accept it. Those carry a platform fee and we can watch them. If that stays clean, more places may follow.
Tell us what you think
It's day one for this. Galleries are on by default with an opt-out in settings, and nothing appears on your page unless you accept it.
Do you want an accept-all option? We left it out on purpose, because what counts as a remix should be the creator's judgement and an accept-all hands that away. Tell us if you'd use one anyway. Does the rotation actually get you seen? And what would you want to submit that you can't yet? This came out of creator feedback on the earning proposal, so keep telling us where it's wrong.