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
80 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
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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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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
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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