Krea
✓ ChampionAI creative suite for images, video and 3D with a free daily allowance, word-based image editing, style references, upscaling and a REST API.
- ✓Image editing
- ✓Reference images
- ✓Upscaling
- ✓Commercial use
- ✓API
Text-to-image models and image studios, compared on what each maker publishes: free access, starting price and five image features.
AI creative suite for images, video and 3D with a free daily allowance, word-based image editing, style references, upscaling and a REST API.
Adobe's generative image, video and audio app with a free plan of daily generations and paid tiers from US$9.99/mo; also offered as the Firefly API.
Browser photo editor with an AI image generator, generative fill, image extender and upscaler; Plus starts at $1.99/month billed yearly.
Image and video generation app with a Canvas editor for inpainting and outpainting, up to 6 reference images, a Pro Upscaler and a separate API.
AI image and video design tool with generative fill, consistent characters and an API; free plan available and Beginner is $7/mo billed annually.
Gemini app image generation and editing with Nano Banana models; the free plan includes both, and Google AI Plus is $4.99/month.
AI image and video studio with 100+ models, a canvas for erasing, expanding and 4K upscaling, and reference images that hold likeness across edits.
Image generator with a weekly free allowance, mask-based inpainting, reference images, 2x-8x upscaling and an API; Plus is $15/month billed yearly.
Photo and video editor with an AI image generator offering 65 models, multi-reference editing and an enterprise GenAI API.
AI tools site with an image generator, photo editor and documented APIs; free tier at $0 and Pro at $7.50/month billed annually.
OpenAI's GPT Image models in ChatGPT (free tier with limited image creation) and in the API, which edits images with masks and reference images.
Multi-model AI image and video studio with inpainting, reference-guided image-to-image, upscaling and a separate pay-as-you-go API.
Image and video generator with unlimited generations on paid plans, inpainting, a commercial license on every plan and a public API.
Microsoft's free image creator in Bing; signed-in users get 10 free Fast-mode creations, unlimited Standard mode, and image remix tools.
AI design tool for logos, T-shirts and social posts with a free tier of 10 images every 3 hours; Pro is $12/month billed annually.
Subscription-only image and video generator with four tiers from Basic to Mega; commercial use is allowed once you have subscribed.
Photo editor and multi-model AI image generator that works from text or reference images, with an image extender, 4x upscaler and API.
Freepik's AI suite, rebranded Magnific, bundling image, video and audio models with 250M+ stock assets, an image upscaler and credit-based API access.
ByteDance/CapCut image and video generator (Seedream, Seedance, Nano Banana) with a free image upscaler; Basic is USD 15.00/month.
Raster and vector image generator with a free plan, paid plans that grant commercial rights, and an API for generation, inpainting and outpainting.
AI creative community for images, video, model training and AI tools; free daily stamina covers image and video tries, with paid plans and coins.
Stable Diffusion maker selling its image models through a credit-based API (1 credit = $0.01) with generate, edit, upscale and control services.
AI video and image platform with a free tier of 125 one-time credits, Gen-4 Image and partner models, and a developer API.
Image tool suite with text to image, uncrop, cleanup, relight and an upscaler; a free tier with daily limits and a usage-based API.
Maker of the FLUX image models, sold pay-as-you-go through its API (no subscriptions or seat fees) plus self-hosting licences.
AI image, headshot and photo-editing tools sold by credit packs, from 1,000 credits for $12 as a one-time payment.
Mobile and web AI image generator with daily free images without watermarks, full ownership of creations, 1000+ styles and an upscaler.
xAI's Imagine API for image and video generation; images are a flat $0.04 each and can be edited with up to 5 reference images.
| # | Product | Score | Free plan | Trial | Paid from | Image editing | Reference images | Upscaling | Commercial use | API |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Krea | 9.8 | ✓Yes | Not published | $5/mo · yearly | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 2 | Adobe Firefly | 9.3 | ✓Yes | Not published | $9.99/mo | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 3 | Pixlr | 9.0 | ✓Yes | Not published | $1.99/mo · yearly | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – |
| 4 | Leonardo.Ai | 8.9 | ✓Yes | No | $12/mo | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 5 | Dzine | 8.6 | ✓Yes | Not published | $7/mo · yearly | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| 6 | Google Gemini (Nano Banana) | 7.9 | ✓Yes | Not published | $4.99/mo | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | ✓ |
| 7 | OpenArt | 7.8 | ✓Yes | Not published | $13/mo · yearly | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – |
| 8 | Ideogram | 7.6 | ✓Yes | Not published | $15/mo · yearly | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ |
| 9 | Picsart | 7.5 | –Not published | Not published | $10.50/mo · yearly | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 10 | DeepAI | 7.5 | ✓Yes | Not published | $89.99/yr | ✓ | – | ✓ | – | ✓ |
| 11 | ChatGPT Images (OpenAI) | 7.4 | ✓Yes | Not published | $8/mo | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | ✓ |
| 12 | getimg.ai | 7.1 | –Not published | Not published | $15/mo · yearly | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 13 | Mage | 7.1 | ✓Yes | Not published | $10/mo | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| 14 | Bing Image Creator (Microsoft) | 7.0 | ✓Yes | Not published | Free | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – |
| 15 | Playground | 6.9 | ✓Yes | Not published | $12/mo · yearly | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ |
| 16 | Midjourney | 6.6 | ✕No | Not published | $10/mo | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – |
| 17 | Fotor | 6.5 | ✓Yes | Not published | Not published | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 18 | Magnific (formerly Freepik) | 6.0 | –Not published | Not published | $20/mo | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 19 | Dreamina (CapCut) | 5.6 | ✓Yes | Not published | $15/mo | ✓ | – | ✓ | – | – |
| 20 | Recraft | 5.5 | ✓Yes | Not published | Not published | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 21 | SeaArt | 5.5 | ✓Yes | Not published | Not published | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – |
| 22 | Stability AI | 5.0 | –Not published | Not published | Not published | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 23 | Runway | 4.9 | ✓Yes | Not published | $12/mo · yearly | – | – | – | – | ✓ |
| 24 | Clipdrop | 4.5 | ✓Yes | Not published | Not published | ✓ | – | ✓ | – | ✓ |
| 25 | Black Forest Labs (FLUX) | 4.0 | –Not published | Not published | Not published | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| 26 | Hotpot.ai | 4.0 | –Not published | Not published | $12 one-time | ✓ | – | ✓ | – | – |
| 27 | starryai | 3.5 | ✓Yes | Not published | Not published | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – |
| 28 | Grok Imagine (xAI) | 3.0 | –Not published | Not published | Not published | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | ✓ |
✓ the maker says yes · ✕ the maker's page shows it is not offered · – not published
Every fact on this page was read from the maker's own pricing, feature and help pages on Oct 24, 2026 and links to the page it came from. One formula scores every product out of 10; anything a maker does not publish earns nothing, so a hidden price or an unstated limit costs points.