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Piktochart AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
An AI-assisted design platform for building infographics, reports and presentations without needing graphic design skills.
920K visits/mo17K saves
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Beautiful AI
✓ verifiedFree trial
Cloud presentation maker with 300+ auto-aligning Smart Slide templates and AI deck generation, aimed at business teams.
1.1M visits/mo17K 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 (2 PNG downloads, 60 AI credits, 1GB storage)
Pro: $10/member/month billed annually or $15/month (500 AI credits, unlimited PNG downloads, 100GB storage)
Business: $17/member/month billed annually or $20/month (1000 AI credits, brand kit, 250GB storage)
Education: $39/member billed annually
Pro: $12/mo (individual, billed annually)
Team: $40/user/mo (2-20 seats, billed annually)
Single presentation: $45 (one-time)
Free trial available
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦AI Design Generator for infographics, reports and presentations
- ✦Large library of templates across dozens of visual formats
- ✦Brand kit with custom colors, fonts and logos on higher plans
- ✦Video tools including screen recording and video-to-text
- ✦Solutions tailored for education, HR, healthcare and marketing teams
- ✦300+ auto-aligning Smart Slide layouts
- ✦AI deck generation from a prompt or outline
- ✦Brand controls and shared themes
- ✦Data-linked charts and visualizations
- ✦Viewer analytics and secure sharing
- ✦PDF and PowerPoint export
- ✦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
- →Creating business infographics and reports without a designer
- →Building branded presentations and pitch decks for teams
- →Producing educational posters and classroom materials
- →Designing marketing social media graphics and newsletters
- →Building sales and marketing decks
- →Creating startup pitch presentations
- →Standardizing team presentation quality
- →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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