AI tools for designers (80)

Generation, layout and motion — the AI surfaces that slot into a design workflow instead of replacing it.

80tools listed
73free or freemium
28with no paid plan at all
3sub-categories covered

Best AI Tools for Designers — straight answers

What are the best free AI tools for designers?

Flocci AI Tools lists 80 of them, ordered free tiers first: Bing Image Creator, Genmo (Mochi 1), Google Pomelli, MAGI-1 (Sand AI) and Meta Vibes. 73 of the 80 are free or have a free tier. Each entry states what it uniquely does rather than a score.

Which of these are completely free?

28 on this page are marked fully free with no paid plan at all: Bing Image Creator, Genmo (Mochi 1), Google Pomelli, MAGI-1 (Sand AI) and Meta Vibes. The remaining 52 are freemium, trial or paid, and each is labelled with its exact tier so nothing surprises you at sign-up.

How were these AI tools for designers chosen?

They are every catalog entry in 3 sub-categories that map to what designers actually do: explore visual directions, produce assets, lay out a deck, add motion. There is no sponsorship and no paid placement anywhere in the ordering.

Best AI Tools for Designers — quick picks

Which Best AI Tools for Designers work in a browser with no install?

Bing Image Creator, Genmo (Mochi 1), Google Pomelli, MAGI-1 (Sand AI) and Meta Vibes all work in a browser tab with no install needed — just open the site and go. 51 of the 73 free Best AI Tools for Designers listed here are browser-based.

Which Best AI Tools for Designers let you sign in with Google?

Google Pomelli, Qwen-Image, Canva Magic Studio, Eraser AI and Figma (Starter AI) support Google sign-in, so you can start without creating a new account. That's 17 of the 73 free Best AI Tools for Designers on this page.

Which Best AI Tools for Designers have a mobile app?

Meta Vibes, PicLumen, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly and Canva Magic Studio have an iOS or Android app. 14 of the 73 free Best AI Tools for Designers here can run on your phone.

Which Best AI Tools for Designers can you self-host or run offline?

CogVideoX (Zhipu), ComfyUI, FLUX.2 [klein], Fooocus and HiDream-I1 can be self-hosted or run locally without a browser — useful for privacy, air-gapped networks, or avoiding API rate limits. 16 of the 73 free Best AI Tools for Designers here run offline.

All 80 tools, free tiers first

Best AI Tools for Designers: pricing tier, category and the capability each tool is listed for.
ToolPricingTypeListed for
Bing Image CreatorFreeAI Image GenerationFree text-to-image with Microsoft MAI-Image-2.5-Flash and MAI-Image-2e
Genmo (Mochi 1)FreeAI Video GenerationFully open-source text-to-video model (Mochi 1) with downloadable weights
Google PomelliFreePresentations & DesignScans your website to build a Business DNA brand profile (tone, fonts, palette, imagery)
MAGI-1 (Sand AI)FreeAI Video GenerationApache-2.0 autoregressive video model generating chunk by chunk for text, image and video-to-video
Meta VibesFreeAI Video GenerationText-to-video and image-to-video generation with a remix feed
PenpotFreePresentations & DesignOpen-source (MPL-2.0) browser design and prototyping tool with real-time collaboration
PicLumenFreeAI Image GenerationGenuinely free image generation
PresentonFreePresentations & DesignOpen-source (Apache-2.0) AI presentation generator with desktop app and Docker deployment
Qwen-ImageFreeAI Image GenerationImage model family with strong in-image text rendering; Qwen-Image-2512 and Qwen-Image-2.1 (Sep 2026, 7B, transparent RGBA output)
CogVideoX (Zhipu)FreeAI Video GenerationOpen text-to-video and image-to-video models (2B under Apache-2.0, 5B under CogVideoX license)
ComfyUIFreeAI Image GenerationNode-graph interface for building image, video, audio and 3D generation workflows without code
FLUX.2 [klein]FreeAI Image Generation4B-parameter Apache-2.0 FLUX.2 variant for text-to-image and editing, released Jan 2026
FooocusFreeAI Image GenerationMidjourney-like prompt-only UI on top of SDXL with built-in prompt expansion
HiDream-I1FreeAI Image Generation17B-parameter MIT-licensed image model with Full, Dev and Fast variants
HiDream-O1-ImageFreeAI Image GenerationMIT-licensed unified model for text-to-image, image editing and subject personalization up to 2048x2048
Hunyuan Image (Tencent)FreeAI Image GenerationOpen-sourced 80B-parameter MoE text-to-image model (weights on Hugging Face)
HunyuanImage 3.0 (Tencent)FreeAI Image GenerationOpen-weights native multimodal image generation model
HunyuanVideo (Tencent)FreeAI Video GenerationOpen-weights text-to-video and image-to-video models from Tencent
HunyuanVideo 1.5FreeAI Video Generation8.3B-parameter open text-to-video and image-to-video model
InvokeAIFreeAI Image GenerationOpen-source web UI with unified canvas for generation, inpainting and outpainting
Kandinsky 5.0FreeAI Video GenerationMIT-licensed family: Video Pro (19B), Video Lite (2B) and Image Lite (6B)
LongCat-Image (Meituan)FreeAI Image Generation6B Apache-2.0 bilingual (Chinese-English) text-to-image and image editing model
LTX-2 (Lightricks)FreeAI Video GenerationOpen DiT audio-video model generating synchronized sound and video in one pass
Ming-Image (Ant Group)FreePresentations & DesignMIT-licensed 6B model that generates UI screens, infographics and posters with readable text
SANA (NVIDIA)FreeAI Image GenerationApache-2.0 linear-diffusion family for text-to-image up to 4K, with SANA-Sprint one-step generation
SkyReels V2FreeAI Video GenerationOpen-source autoregressive diffusion-forcing model for long video (up to 60s)
Stable Diffusion (Stability AI)FreeAI Image GenerationOpen-source, run locally for unlimited free use
Z-ImageFreeAI Image Generation6B-parameter Apache-2.0 model family: Z-Image, Z-Image-Turbo, editing variant
Adobe ExpressFreemiumPresentations & DesignFree web and mobile design app with Firefly-powered generate image, text effects and presentations
Adobe FireflyFreemiumAI Image GenerationCommercially safe, trained on licensed data
Canva Magic StudioFreemiumPresentations & DesignAI design across the whole Canva suite
CivitaiFreemiumAI Image GenerationLargest open Stable Diffusion/FLUX model, LoRA and checkpoint sharing hub
ColossyanFreemiumAI Video GenerationStock AI avatars with many voices and languages for training and explainer videos
CreatifyFreemiumAI Video GenerationAuto-generates performance ad videos from a product URL
D-IDFreemiumAI Video GenerationSeparate Studio (no-code) and API tracks for developers embedding avatars
Eraser AIFreemiumPresentations & DesignGenerates architecture/system diagrams directly from a text prompt
Excalidraw+FreemiumPresentations & DesignCore editor is fully free, open-source and runs locally in-browser with no signup
Figma (Starter AI)FreemiumPresentations & DesignFree Starter plan includes AI credits (150 per day, up to 500 per month per pricing page)
FLUX (Black Forest Labs)FreemiumAI Image GenerationOpen-weight models you can run locally for free
Framer AIFreemiumPresentations & DesignFree plan includes 500 AI 'Agent' credits (site localization, content tasks) to try before paying
Freepik AI (Magnific)FreemiumAI Image Generation30+ AI image/video/audio models unified behind one credit system
GammaFreemiumPresentations & DesignPolished decks from a prompt in under a minute
Google Veo (Flow)FreemiumAI Video GenerationVeo 3.1 video generation with native synchronized audio
Google VidsFreemiumAI Video GenerationAny Google account can generate AI video scenes with Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash at no cost
Hailuo AI (MiniMax)FreemiumAI Video GenerationMiniMax H3 is the current flagship model, with Hailuo 2.3 still available
HedraFreemiumAI Video GenerationCharacter-3 model animates a single image into an expressive talking/singing video from audio
HiggsfieldFreemiumAI Video GenerationCinematic camera-motion presets
IdeogramFreemiumAI Image GenerationBest-in-class legible text in images
Kling AIFreemiumAI Video GenerationKling 3.0 and newer 4.0 models for high-motion, physical scenes
KreaFreemiumAI Image GenerationReal-time generation as you draw
Leonardo AIFreemiumAI Image GenerationFine-grained control and custom models
Mage.spaceFreemiumAI Image GenerationMulti-model access (SD, FLUX, Krea 2, Z-Image) in one browser tool
Microsoft DesignerFreemiumPresentations & DesignFree AI image generation (DALL-E/Copilot-powered) bundled into templated social/poster/flyer design
Nano Banana (Google)FreemiumAI Image GenerationFree 4K generation via Gemini (watermarked)
Napkin AIFreemiumPresentations & DesignTurns your text into diagrams and visuals
NightCafeFreemiumAI Image GenerationFree daily credits across many models (FLUX, DALL-E 3, Ideogram) with no card required
OpenArtFreemiumAI Image GenerationSingle dashboard aggregating 100+ image/video/audio models (FLUX, Seedance, etc.)
PixVerseFreemiumAI Video GenerationNode-based Canvas for building multi-shot video workflows
Playground AIFreemiumAI Image Generation10 free image generations per rolling 3-hour window, no card required
RecraftFreemiumAI Image GenerationGenerates true SVG vectors, not just raster
RelumeFreemiumPresentations & DesignAI Site Builder generates full sitemaps and wireframes from a prompt
RunwayFreemiumAI Video GenerationGen-4.5 with fine camera and motion control
SeaArt AIFreemiumAI Image GenerationFree daily credits, no card required
Seedream (ByteDance)FreemiumAI Image GenerationHigh-end photorealism (Seedream 4.0)
SynthesiaFreemiumAI Video Generation160+ languages/voices with 240+ stock AI avatars on top tier
Tensor.ArtFreemiumAI Image GenerationFree daily credits across a large community model library
UizardFreemiumPresentations & DesignFree tier: 2 projects, 10 templates, 3 AI generations/month via Autodesigner
ViduFreemiumAI Image GenerationReference-to-video: turns a set of reference images into consistent-character video/image output
VisilyFreemiumPresentations & DesignFree Starter plan with 300 AI design credits/month
Wan (Alibaba)FreemiumAI Video GenerationOpen-weight Wan2.x video model family usable locally
DreaminaFreemiumAI Image GenerationFree daily credits for Seedream 5.0 Pro/Lite image generation
LiblibAIFreemiumAI Image GenerationChina's largest Stable Diffusion/FLUX model-sharing community (Civitai equivalent)
Tongyi WanxiangFreemiumAI Image GenerationWan 2.7 Standard/Pro tiers: 1K/2K unified text-to-image and multi-image editing, native 4K on Pro
Beautiful.aiTrialPresentations & DesignSlides that auto-arrange as you add content
Bria AITrialAI Image GenerationModels trained exclusively on licensed Getty/Alamy/Envato data with full IP indemnification
DecktopusPresentations & DesignGenerates a full structured slide deck (content + design) from a topic prompt
Luma Dream MachineAI Video GenerationFast, fluid text- and image-to-video
MidjourneyAI Image Generationv7 delivers the most artistic, cinematic images
Moonvalley (Marey)AI Video GenerationTrained exclusively on licensed cinematic footage (copyright-clean claim)
PikaAI Video GenerationPlayful video with 'Pikaffects'

Bing Image Creator

AI Image Generation
freeNew
  • Free text-to-image with Microsoft MAI-Image-2.5-Flash and MAI-Image-2e
  • 15 fast creations a day, then unlimited slower generations, up to 200 prompts per 24 hours
  • Image upload and edit mode on the 2.5-Flash model
  • Requires a personal Microsoft account

Genmo (Mochi 1)

AI Video Generation
free
  • Fully open-source text-to-video model (Mochi 1) with downloadable weights
  • Runnable locally / self-hostable, no vendor lock-in
  • Free browser playground for quick testing

Google Pomelli

Presentations & Design
freeNew
  • Scans your website to build a Business DNA brand profile (tone, fonts, palette, imagery)
  • Generates on-brand campaign ideas, social posts and ads
  • Photoshoot turns product images into studio-quality shots with Nano Banana
  • Brand books and one-click website design

MAGI-1 (Sand AI)

AI Video Generation
freeNew
  • Apache-2.0 autoregressive video model generating chunk by chunk for text, image and video-to-video
  • Chunk-wise prompting for controllable long videos
  • MAGI-1.1 weights released June 2026; web interface at magi.sand.ai

Meta Vibes

AI Video Generation
freeNew
  • Text-to-video and image-to-video generation with a remix feed
  • Free inside the Meta AI app and meta.ai
  • Share AI clips to Instagram and Facebook
  • Standalone Vibes app in limited test markets

Penpot

Presentations & Design
freeNew
  • Open-source (MPL-2.0) browser design and prototyping tool with real-time collaboration
  • Built-in MCP server and plugin API for AI design-to-code workflows
  • Free cloud or self-hosted; design tokens support

PicLumen

AI Image Generation
free
  • Genuinely free image generation
  • No watermarks on outputs
  • Multiple art and realism models
  • Simple, fast interface

Presenton

Presentations & Design
freeNew
  • Open-source (Apache-2.0) AI presentation generator with desktop app and Docker deployment
  • Editable PPTX and PDF export from prompts, documents or your own template
  • Works with local models via Ollama/LM Studio or your own API keys; built-in MCP server

Qwen-Image

AI Image Generation
freeNew
  • Image model family with strong in-image text rendering; Qwen-Image-2512 and Qwen-Image-2.1 (Sep 2026, 7B, transparent RGBA output)
  • Qwen-Image-Edit does instruction-based editing; 2509 and 2511 versions add multi-image and consistency
  • Free to use in the web app at chat.qwen.ai (Image Generation / Editing) or self-host weights

CogVideoX (Zhipu)

AI Video Generation
freeNew
  • Open text-to-video and image-to-video models (2B under Apache-2.0, 5B under CogVideoX license)
  • CogKit toolkit for fine-tuning CogVideoX and CogView4
  • Free Hugging Face and ModelScope Space demos

ComfyUI

AI Image Generation
freeNew
  • Node-graph interface for building image, video, audio and 3D generation workflows without code
  • Free open-source desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux; runs models locally
  • Supports FLUX, Qwen-Image, Wan and LTX models via community and official nodes

FLUX.2 [klein]

AI Image Generation
freeNew
  • 4B-parameter Apache-2.0 FLUX.2 variant for text-to-image and editing, released Jan 2026
  • Runs on consumer GPUs; 9B klein variant also ranks on open-weights editing leaderboard
  • FLUX.2 [dev] (Nov 2025) is free for non-commercial use

Fooocus

AI Image Generation
freeNew
  • Midjourney-like prompt-only UI on top of SDXL with built-in prompt expansion
  • Inpaint, outpaint, image prompt and upscale tools
  • Free GPL-3.0; runs on 4GB VRAM+

HiDream-I1

AI Image Generation
freeNew
  • 17B-parameter MIT-licensed image model with Full, Dev and Fast variants
  • Runs via Diffusers, ComfyUI and Gradio demo
  • Free weights on Hugging Face

HiDream-O1-Image

AI Image Generation
freeNew
  • MIT-licensed unified model for text-to-image, image editing and subject personalization up to 2048x2048
  • Pixel-space transformer with no separate VAE or text encoder
  • Free Hugging Face Spaces demos; native ComfyUI support; Dev-2604 variant for text-to-image

Hunyuan Image (Tencent)

AI Image Generation
free
  • Open-sourced 80B-parameter MoE text-to-image model (weights on Hugging Face)
  • Watermark-free output with long-prompt support and strong world-knowledge grounding
  • Released/open-sourced Jan 2026, actively maintained by Tencent

HunyuanImage 3.0 (Tencent)

AI Image Generation
freeNew
  • Open-weights native multimodal image generation model
  • Strong text rendering and prompt following
  • Weights on Hugging Face
  • Self-host on multi-GPU or use hosted demos

HunyuanVideo (Tencent)

AI Video Generation
freeNew
  • Open-weights text-to-video and image-to-video models from Tencent
  • Runs locally with ComfyUI or diffusers on high-VRAM GPUs
  • Also available through Tencent's Hunyuan apps
  • Community LoRAs widely available

HunyuanVideo 1.5

AI Video Generation
freeNew
  • 8.3B-parameter open text-to-video and image-to-video model
  • Runs on consumer GPUs; fp8 inference added Dec 2025
  • Free weights on GitHub and Hugging Face

InvokeAI

AI Image Generation
freeNew
  • Open-source web UI with unified canvas for generation, inpainting and outpainting
  • Node-based workflows; supports SD, SDXL and FLUX models
  • Free community edition, runs locally

Kandinsky 5.0

AI Video Generation
freeNew
  • MIT-licensed family: Video Pro (19B), Video Lite (2B) and Image Lite (6B)
  • Video Pro ranked top open-source text-to-video on LMArena (Dec 2025)
  • ComfyUI and Diffusers integrations

LongCat-Image (Meituan)

AI Image Generation
freeNew
  • 6B Apache-2.0 bilingual (Chinese-English) text-to-image and image editing model
  • Strong Chinese character rendering
  • Full training toolchain released; weights on Hugging Face and ModelScope

LTX-2 (Lightricks)

AI Video Generation
freeNew
  • Open DiT audio-video model generating synchronized sound and video in one pass
  • Native 4K up to 50 fps, multi-keyframe conditioning, LoRA fine-tuning
  • Repo under Apache-2.0 (LTX-Video lineage); runs locally and in ComfyUI

Ming-Image (Ant Group)

Presentations & Design
freeNew
  • MIT-licensed 6B model that generates UI screens, infographics and posters with readable text
  • Ming-Image-0.1-Design-Layer splits flattened designs into editable transparent layers
  • Free Hugging Face Spaces demos; RGBA output

SANA (NVIDIA)

AI Image Generation
freeNew
  • Apache-2.0 linear-diffusion family for text-to-image up to 4K, with SANA-Sprint one-step generation
  • SANA-Video 2.0 (5B/14B) for 720p text-to-video (Aug 2026)
  • Free public demo at nv-sana.mit.edu and Hugging Face Spaces

SkyReels V2

AI Video Generation
freeNew
  • Open-source autoregressive diffusion-forcing model for long video (up to 60s)
  • Text-to-video, image-to-video and video extension in 1.3B, 5B and 14B sizes
  • 540P/720P; playground at skyreels.ai
free
  • Open-source, run locally for unlimited free use
  • Huge ecosystem of models and LoRAs
  • ControlNet for precise composition
  • Foundation of countless AI art tools

Z-Image

AI Image Generation
freeNew
  • 6B-parameter Apache-2.0 model family: Z-Image, Z-Image-Turbo, editing variant
  • Turbo variant reported #1 open-source on Artificial Analysis text-to-image leaderboard
  • Runs on 16GB consumer GPUs; free demos on Hugging Face Spaces and ModelScope

Adobe Express

Presentations & Design
freemiumNew
  • Free web and mobile design app with Firefly-powered generate image, text effects and presentations
  • Some AI features (text effects, generate presentation, clip maker) consume no credits
  • Free plan includes monthly generative credits and templates
  • Video translation and captions on free plan with limits

Adobe Firefly

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Commercially safe, trained on licensed data
  • Generative fill inside Photoshop
  • Image, video and vector models
  • Free monthly generative credits

Canva Magic Studio

Presentations & Design
freemium
  • AI design across the whole Canva suite
  • Magic Write, Design, Edit and Media
  • Brand kits and templates
  • Free plan available

Civitai

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Largest open Stable Diffusion/FLUX model, LoRA and checkpoint sharing hub
  • Free on-platform generation funded by daily-earned 'Blue Buzz' credits
  • Creator monetization program for model authors

Colossyan

AI Video Generation
freemium
  • Stock AI avatars with many voices and languages for training and explainer videos
  • Interactive video and quiz features on paid plans
  • 14-day no-card trial, then paid plans
  • Brand kit and auto-translation tools

Creatify

AI Video Generation
freemium
  • Auto-generates performance ad videos from a product URL
  • 1,500+ AI actor library aimed at UGC-style ads
  • Built-in ad performance tracking and script writing

D-ID

AI Video Generation
freemium
  • Separate Studio (no-code) and API tracks for developers embedding avatars
  • Watermarked free trial plan to test before paying
  • Real-time streaming avatar API for live agent use cases

Eraser AI

Presentations & Design
freemium
  • Generates architecture/system diagrams directly from a text prompt
  • Perpetual free plan (3 files, 3 AI diagrams, 7-day history)
  • Diagram-as-code editing plus GitHub/Notion/Confluence/VS Code integrations

Excalidraw+

Presentations & Design
freemium
  • Core editor is fully free, open-source and runs locally in-browser with no signup
  • AI Wireframe-to-Code turns a hand-drawn wireframe into working HTML/CSS
  • Paid Excalidraw+ adds cloud sync, unlimited scenes and the extended AI set

Figma (Starter AI)

Presentations & Design
freemiumNew
  • Free Starter plan includes AI credits (150 per day, up to 500 per month per pricing page)
  • AI image tools, layer renaming and first-draft generation inside the design editor
  • Figma Make prompt-to-app is not on the free plan

FLUX (Black Forest Labs)

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Open-weight models you can run locally for free
  • Near-photographic quality in seconds
  • FLUX Kontext for precise editing
  • Powers many third-party apps

Framer AI

Presentations & Design
freemium
  • Free plan includes 500 AI 'Agent' credits (site localization, content tasks) to try before paying
  • AI website generation from a text prompt built directly into the no-code site builder
  • Publishing, hosting and CMS bundled with the design tool

Freepik AI (Magnific)

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • 30+ AI image/video/audio models unified behind one credit system
  • Bundles the Magnific upscaler/relight tools with 250M+ stock library
  • Mockup, icon and designer tools alongside generation

Gamma

Presentations & Design
freemium
  • Polished decks from a prompt in under a minute
  • Also makes docs, websites and social posts
  • No design skills needed
  • Free tier with credits

Google Veo (Flow)

AI Video Generation
freemium
  • Veo 3.1 video generation with native synchronized audio
  • Free daily credits for signed-in Google users, no card needed
  • Flow also covers image generation (ImageFX and Whisk merged in)
  • Scene builder and camera controls for multi-shot storytelling

Google Vids

AI Video Generation
freemiumNew
  • Any Google account can generate AI video scenes with Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash at no cost
  • Scene extension, clip duration and 1080p output controls
  • Storyboard-style editor with templates and voiceover
  • Personal accounts capped at a handful of AI videos per month

Hailuo AI (MiniMax)

AI Video Generation
freemium
  • MiniMax H3 is the current flagship model, with Hailuo 2.3 still available
  • Realistic motion and camera moves
  • Free tier with daily credits and signup bonus
  • Watermarked, limited-resolution output on free plan

Hedra

AI Video Generation
freemium
  • Character-3 model animates a single image into an expressive talking/singing video from audio
  • Unified credit system spans video, image and audio generation
  • Studio + API access for embedding in products

Higgsfield

AI Video Generation
freemium
  • Cinematic camera-motion presets
  • Character and product consistency
  • Popular for ad-style content
  • Free starter credits

Ideogram

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Best-in-class legible text in images
  • Great for posters, logos and mockups
  • Magic Prompt and style controls
  • Free weekly credits

Kling AI

AI Video Generation
freemium
  • Kling 3.0 and newer 4.0 models for high-motion, physical scenes
  • Longer clips with storyboard flow
  • Elements to lock characters and props
  • Free daily credits when you log in

Krea

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Real-time generation as you draw
  • Runs many top models in one canvas
  • Upscale and enhance tools
  • Free tier available

Leonardo AI

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Fine-grained control and custom models
  • Great for game and product assets
  • Canvas editing and upscaling
  • Free daily tokens

Mage.space

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Multi-model access (SD, FLUX, Krea 2, Z-Image) in one browser tool
  • 300-Gem signup bonus with ongoing free-tier access, no forced subscription
  • Built-in face swap, inpainting and video-editing apps alongside generation

Microsoft Designer

Presentations & Design
freemium
  • Free AI image generation (DALL-E/Copilot-powered) bundled into templated social/poster/flyer design
  • Deep Microsoft 365/Copilot ecosystem integration
  • One-click resize across social platform formats

Nano Banana (Google)

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Free 4K generation via Gemini (watermarked)
  • Physics-aware, photorealistic rendering
  • Best-in-class in-image text
  • Conversational, multi-turn editing

Napkin AI

Presentations & Design
freemium
  • Turns your text into diagrams and visuals
  • Great for docs, decks and posts
  • Editable, on-brand graphics
  • Free while in growth

NightCafe

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Free daily credits across many models (FLUX, DALL-E 3, Ideogram) with no card required
  • 30M+ user community with daily themed art challenges and chat rooms
  • Consistent-character tools alongside standard text-to-image

OpenArt

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Single dashboard aggregating 100+ image/video/audio models (FLUX, Seedance, etc.)
  • One-click Story Creation for multi-shot narrative sequences
  • 40 free trial credits at signup plus daily free generations on basic models

PixVerse

AI Video Generation
freemium
  • Node-based Canvas for building multi-shot video workflows
  • Character/lip-sync consistency across generations
  • Per-minute API pricing alongside the consumer app

Playground AI

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • 10 free image generations per rolling 3-hour window, no card required
  • Canvas-based design workspace layering generation with manual editing
  • Unlimited free design files alongside metered generations

Recraft

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Generates true SVG vectors, not just raster
  • Ideal for logos, icons and brand kits
  • Consistent style sets
  • Free daily credits

Relume

Presentations & Design
freemium
  • AI Site Builder generates full sitemaps and wireframes from a prompt
  • Free tier includes 30 components and a full wireframe page, no card required
  • Exports directly into Webflow, Figma or React component libraries

Runway

AI Video Generation
freemium
  • Gen-4.5 with fine camera and motion control
  • Generative editing and VFX tools
  • Act-One performance capture
  • Free trial credits

SeaArt AI

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Free daily credits, no card required
  • Large community model/LoRA library skewed toward anime and illustration styles
  • Private creation and commercial-use options on paid tiers

Seedream (ByteDance)

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • High-end photorealism (Seedream 4.0)
  • Strong prompt adherence and editing
  • Bilingual text rendering
  • Free tier to try

Synthesia

AI Video Generation
freemium
  • 160+ languages/voices with 240+ stock AI avatars on top tier
  • Personal avatar cloning from a few minutes of footage
  • Interactive video and SCORM-style features for enterprise L&D

Tensor.Art

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Free daily credits across a large community model library
  • Cloud model hosting so no local GPU needed to run checkpoints
  • Standalone credit packs with no forced subscription

Uizard

Presentations & Design
freemium
  • Free tier: 2 projects, 10 templates, 3 AI generations/month via Autodesigner
  • Scans hand-drawn wireframes or screenshots into editable mockups
  • Generates full UI designs from a text prompt (Autodesigner 2.0)

Vidu

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Reference-to-video: turns a set of reference images into consistent-character video/image output
  • Free tier with 40 monthly credits, no card required
  • Alibaba-backed Chinese video-generation lab (Shengshu)

Visily

Presentations & Design
freemium
  • Free Starter plan with 300 AI design credits/month
  • AI-powered wireframe/prototype generation from prompts or screenshots
  • Direct export to Figma and code, plus Notion/Jira/Slack integrations

Wan (Alibaba)

AI Video Generation
freemium
  • Open-weight Wan2.x video model family usable locally
  • Also does text/image-to-image and image editing on one platform
  • Backed by Alibaba Cloud infra for fast generation

Dreamina

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Free daily credits for Seedream 5.0 Pro/Lite image generation
  • Multi-layer canvas editor for restyle/remix/upscale
  • Built-in logo, poster and meme generator tools

LiblibAI

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • China's largest Stable Diffusion/FLUX model-sharing community (Civitai equivalent)
  • Free daily generation credits on a refreshing quota
  • In-browser LoRA training and model hosting

Tongyi Wanxiang

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Wan 2.7 Standard/Pro tiers: 1K/2K unified text-to-image and multi-image editing, native 4K on Pro
  • Free daily tier plus low-cost pay-as-you-go image pricing
  • Backs Alibaba's broader Wan open video/image model family

Beautiful.ai

Presentations & Design
trial
  • Slides that auto-arrange as you add content
  • DesignerBot generates full decks
  • Team branding and libraries
  • Free trial

Bria AI

AI Image Generation
trial
  • Models trained exclusively on licensed Getty/Alamy/Envato data with full IP indemnification
  • Structured JSON 'Visual Generative Language' for reproducible camera/lighting control instead of prompts
  • Free API trial across every service, including the fine-tuning playground

Decktopus

Presentations & Design
  • Generates a full structured slide deck (content + design) from a topic prompt
  • 'Loop' AI presentation coach gives real-time delivery feedback
  • Credit-based pricing (5 credits/slide) with no forced subscription, plus auto-branding for teams

Luma Dream Machine

AI Video Generation
  • Fast, fluid text- and image-to-video
  • Ray-series models with strong motion
  • Keyframes and looping
  • Paid plans only; there is no free plan or recurring free credits.

Midjourney

AI Image Generation
  • v7 delivers the most artistic, cinematic images
  • Web app with editor and mood boards
  • Draft mode for fast iteration
  • Personalization to your taste

Moonvalley (Marey)

AI Video Generation
  • Trained exclusively on licensed cinematic footage (copyright-clean claim)
  • Frame-perfect camera, pose and motion transfer controls
  • Distributed via Fal.ai and ComfyUI in addition to own app

Pika

AI Video Generation
  • Playful video with 'Pikaffects'
  • Great for short social clips
  • Add/replace objects in scenes
  • The free plan includes no monthly credits; generating requires a paid pack.

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