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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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Wan AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
Alibaba's Wan AI platform for generating video and images from text or reference images, part of the Tongyi generative AI family.
3.1M visits/mo49K saves
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Kling AI
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Kling AI turns text or images into cinematic AI video, plus image and sound generation, for creators and studios.
3.0M visits/mo91K saves
Pricing
Free: Free
Image Plan: $4 /Month
Image Pro Plan: $7 /Month
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Core features
- ✦AI Image Generation (from text, layout, fusion, replacement)
- ✦AI Video Creation (Image to Video, Text to Video)
- ✦AI Audio Tools (Speech to Text, Text to Speech, Vocal Remover)
- ✦AI-powered Photo Editing (Enhancement, Background Removal, Portrait tools)
- ✦AI-powered Video Enhancement (Upscaling, Denoising)
- ✦AI-powered Audio Enhancement (Denoise, Speech 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
- ✦Text-to-video generation
- ✦Image-to-video generation
- ✦Text-to-image and image editing
- ✦Open-source model releases for developers
- ✦Part of Alibaba's broader Tongyi AI ecosystem
- ✦AI video generation from text and images
- ✦AI image generation
- ✦Reference-based multimodal creation
- ✦Single creative studio
Use cases
- →Creating business headshots for resumes or social media
- →Generating templates with AI using text prompts
- →Perfecting podcasts with smart audio editing
- →Transforming photos into videos (e.g., kissing videos, product videos)
- →Generating custom AI artwork
- →Removing watermarks or changing backgrounds for e-commerce
- →Creating social media profile pictures and posts
- →Transcribing audio for subtitles or podcasts
- →Designers generating on-brand illustrations and product imagery
- →Marketing teams producing campaign visuals at scale
- →Developers embedding image generation into apps via the API
- →Content creators generating short AI video clips
- →Developers building on open-source Wan model weights
- →Marketers producing quick visual content
- →Researchers experimenting with video diffusion models
- →Short-form and social video creation
- →Storyboarding and previz
- →Advertising and brand clips
- →Animating still images
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