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123RF
✓ verifiedPaid
Royalty-free stock photo, video, and audio library paired with an AI suite for generating, upscaling, and editing images.
5.9M visits/mo
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Recraft
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI image and vector generation platform for designers and teams needing art-directed illustrations, photorealistic images, and an API.
1.7M visits/mo9.2K saves
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Napkin AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
Turns written text into editable business visuals—diagrams, flowcharts, mind maps and charts—without prompting.
1.8M visits/mo63K saves
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Pixlr
✓ verifiedFreemium
Established browser-based photo and design editor with AI image, video, and audio generation tools.
10M visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
Free trial available
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No public pricing
Free: $0
Plus: $2.49/month, or $1.99/month billed yearly
Premium: $9.99/month, or $7.99/month billed yearly
Ultra: From $24.99/month, or from $19.99/month billed yearly
Ultra Max: $49.99/month, or $39.99/month billed yearly
Core features
- ✦293M+ royalty-free stock assets
- ✦Photos, vectors, video, audio, and fonts
- ✦AI image generator and upscaler
- ✦Generative fill and background tools
- ✦Search by image
- ✦Commercially safe licensing
- ✦Multiple generation models (V2 through V4.1) with strong prompt fidelity
- ✦Vector and raster image generation and editing
- ✦Background removal, inpainting, and outpainting
- ✦Batch and asynchronous processing via API
- ✦Community gallery on the free tier vs. private images on paid plans
- ✦Top-up credits for usage beyond monthly plan limits
- ✦Text-to-visual generation without prompts
- ✦Editable diagrams, charts and mind maps
- ✦Full color and element customization
- ✦Export to PPT, PNG, PDF, SVG
- ✦Team collaboration and real-time editing
- ✦60+ languages
- ✦Browser-based photo editor (Pixlr Express and Editor)
- ✦AI text-to-image and text-to-video generation
- ✦Generative fill, expand, and object removal
- ✦AI face swap for photos and video
- ✦AI background remover and photo collage maker
- ✦Text-to-speech and speech-to-text audio tools
Use cases
- →Licensing stock media for marketing and design
- →Generating and editing images with AI
- →Sourcing commercially safe visuals in one place
- →Upscaling or extending existing images
- →Designers generating on-brand illustrations and product imagery
- →Marketing teams producing campaign visuals at scale
- →Developers embedding image generation into apps via the API
- →Building presentation slides
- →Illustrating blog posts and docs
- →Creating social media graphics
- →Visualizing concepts for teaching
- →Editing and enhancing photos without installing software
- →Generating marketing images or short video clips from prompts
- →Removing objects or backgrounds from photos
- →Creating photo collages or swapping faces for fun content
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