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Picsart
✓ verifiedFreemium
Full-featured AI creative platform used by 130M+ creators for photo/video editing, design templates, and 140+ AI models.
17M visits/mo2.6K saves
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Civitai
✓ verifiedFreemium
Community hub for sharing and generating AI art models, centered on Stable Diffusion, with paid memberships.
7.5M visits/mo
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Imgkits
✓ verifiedFreemium
All-in-one online AI image and video editor for background removal, restoration, upscaling and flyer/effect creation.
326K visits/mo2.4K saves
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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
Pricing
Free: $0
Pro: $15/month, or $126/year
Free trial available
No public pricing
Pro: $6/mo (billed yearly, 6,000 credits)
Pay-as-you-go: $5 (10 credits)
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Free AI design tools
- ✦Expert-crafted templates
- ✦Built-in asset libraries
- ✦Generative AI tools
- ✦Library of shared AI art models
- ✦On-site image, video, and 3D generation
- ✦Community galleries and challenges
- ✦Buzz credit system for generation
- ✦Creator memberships with extra perks
- ✦API access
- ✦AI background remover and replacer
- ✦Photo restoration and unblur
- ✦Black-and-white colorization
- ✦AI flyer design
- ✦Photo-to-art effects
- ✦Image resizing and enhancement
- ✦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
Use cases
- →Social media creators producing trending photo and video content
- →Marketers generating on-brand product ads at scale
- →Small businesses creating merchandise and print-on-demand designs
- →Designers building branded video and motion content
- →Downloading Stable Diffusion models
- →Generating AI art in the browser
- →Sharing and showcasing creations
- →Discovering community models and prompts
- →Removing or swapping image backgrounds
- →Restoring and enhancing old or blurry photos
- →Designing promotional flyers
- →Applying artistic effects to photos
- →Designers generating on-brand illustrations and product imagery
- →Marketing teams producing campaign visuals at scale
- →Developers embedding image generation into apps via the API
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