High-aesthetic stills from a prompt on Create or Discord. / Why: no public free plan; Basic is $10/mo.
Paid only$10/mo
No public free planChecked 2026-10-19·docs.midjourney.com/hc/en-us/articles
vs LeonardoImages
63 tools. Most people should start with one of the three below: Midjourney’s look, a web UI with a free daily allowance, or Firefly next to the apps you already pay for.
OUR TAKE
Start with Midjourney for a high-aesthetic still, Leonardo if you want a free daily bucket and more knobs, or Adobe Firefly on a Creative Cloud bill.
Good fit
Art directors and marketers who will pay for GPU time or tokens
Poor fit
Editors who need Gen-4.5 video — see Runway
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Image studio with a free daily bucket and more model knobs. / Why: Free exists; Essential / Premium / Ultimate raise tokens.
Free· paid from$12/mo
Fast tokens run outChecked 2026-10-19·leonardo.ai/pricing
vs Midjourney
Firefly web composer on a Creative Cloud bill. / Why: see the Adobe Firefly page for the live Standard / Pro cards.
Paid only$9.99/mo
Credits and model mix changeChecked 2026-10-20·adobe.com/products/firefly/plans.html
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NightCafe is a hosted image (and video) creator with a prompt editor: the official help still (see the cover: TEXT PROMPT / Type…
Free· paid from$7.49
$7.49 / $12.49 / $24.99 are monthly listChecked 2026-10-21·help.nightcafe.studio/portal/en/kb
vs Midjourney
PhotoRoom is a product-photo editor: the signed-out Background Remover (see the cover: checkerboard drop zone, Start from a photo) is the…
Free· paid from$7.50
Max/Ultra dollars were hiddenChecked 2026-10-21·photoroom.com/pricing
vs Cleanup.pictures
remove.bg is a signed-out background remover: the official editor still (see the cover: cutout result plus Add background / Erase/Restore…
Paid only$3
The website is shutting down 1 December 2026Checked 2026-10-21·remove.bg/pricing
vs Canva
Canva is a browser design suite with a signed-out AI Image Generator: type a prompt, hit Generate AI Images, and get a picture in a chosen…
Free· paid from$144/yr
Free is not ProChecked 2026-10-20·canva.com/pricing
vs Adobe Firefly
Figma AI (this listing) is Figma Make plus the shared AI-credit pool: a signed-out prompt (“What do you want to make?”) that turns a…
Paid only$16/mo
Make is credit-meteredChecked 2026-10-20·figma.com/pricing
vs Canva
Ideogram is a hosted image (and now video) studio: the official Create Image still (see the cover) shows Model, Prompt, reference slots,…
Free· paid from$8/mo
Credits, not unlimited imagesChecked 2026-10-20·docs.ideogram.ai/plans-and-billing/available-plans
vs Midjourney
InvokeAI is a local diffusion studio: a canvas with layers, regional guidance, ControlNet, and a prompt sidecar so you can generate and…
Free· open source,Apache-2.0
The hosted Invoke meter is gone after the Cloud shutdownChecked 2026-10-20·github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI
vs ComfyUI
Playground is a signed-out design canvas: open playground.com/design, skip the tutorial, and pick a job (Logo, T-shirt, Social Media Post,…
Free· paid from$12/mo yearly
Free is a dripChecked 2026-10-20·playground.com/pricing
vs Midjourney
Recraft is a hosted image and vector design studio: the signed-out Community grid (see the cover) is the product library — sidebar (Home /…
Free· paid from$12/yr
Free images are Recraft-owned and publicChecked 2026-10-20·recraft.ai/pricing
vs Ideogram
Stable Diffusion (this listing) is Stability AI’s open text-to-image model family, shown here as the official SD 3.5 Large Hugging Face…
Free· paid from$0.065
Community License is not Apache-2.0Checked 2026-10-20·platform.stability.ai/pricing
vs Stable Diffusion Web UI
ComfyUI is a node graph for image (and now video) generation: Load Checkpoint → CLIP prompt → KSampler → VAE Decode → Save Image
Paid only$16/mo yearly
You bring the GPUChecked 2026-10-19·comfy.org/pricing
vs Stable Diffusion Web UI
AUTOMATIC1111 Stable Diffusion Web UI is a browser form for local diffusion: txt2img prompt, negative prompt, sampler, steps, and Generate
Free· open source,AGPL
You install Python, CUDA, and modelsChecked 2026-10-19·github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui
vs ComfyUIStill deciding? Put them side by side
Facets: Run it yourself · Free only