By AdobeSan Jose, United States1 product across 1 category
Built for this. Trained on licensed material and sold with indemnification, which is the whole point if you ship client work. Sits inside Photoshop and Illustrator.
Free plan
Yes
Small monthly credit allowance
Month to month
$9.99/mo
Firefly Standard
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published
Watch out: Weakest as a standalone generator; its value is the integration and the legal cover. Full use needs a Creative Cloud plan.
By Google DeepMindLondon, United Kingdom6 products across 6 categories
Strong fit. Generous free access and good instruction-following for edits to photos you already have.
Free plan
Yes
Included in the free Gemini tier with generous limits
Month to month
$4.99/mo
Google AI Plus
Billed yearly
$4.17/mo
$49.99 a year, Google AI Plus plan −16%
Watch out: Editing precision still trails purpose-built photo tools. There is no separate image plan: more usage comes with a Google AI Plus, Pro or Ultra subscription.
All plans (4)
Plan
Price
What you get
Free
$0
Included in the free Gemini tier with generous limits
Google AI Plus
$4.99/mo
2x the usage limits and 400 GB of storage. Image generation is part of the plan, not sold separately
Google AI Pro
$19.99/mo
4x the usage limits, the Pro model and 5 TB of storage
Google AI Ultra
$99.99/mo
5x the Pro limits and 20 TB of storage. Introductory discounts on Plus and Pro were showing as this was checked
By OpenAISan Francisco, United States3 products across 8 categories
Strong fit. Best for iterating conversationally — describe a change in words rather than re-prompting from scratch.
Free plan
Yes
Included in the free ChatGPT tier with limited image creation
Month to month
$20/mo
ChatGPT Plus
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published
Watch out: Free tier generation limits are tight, and the free tier is ad supported. There is no separate image plan: you pay for ChatGPT Plus or a Business seat.
All plans (3)
Plan
Price
What you get
Free
$0
Included in the free ChatGPT tier with limited image creation
ChatGPT Plus
$20/mo
higher quality image creation is part of the plan, not sold separately
By Pixlr GroupStockholm, Sweden1 product across 1 category
Strong fit. A full photo editor in the browser with no install, now with generation and cleanup alongside the ordinary tools.
Free plan
Yes
Ad-supported
Month to month
$2.49/mo
Plus
Billed yearly
$1.99/mo
Plus plan −20%
Watch out: Predates this category and the AI is an addition rather than the foundation. The free tier is ad-supported.
All plans (4)
Plan
Price
What you get
Free
$0
Free tier, ad-supported
Plus
$2.49/mo · $1.99/mo yearly
ad-free, unlimited saves, 80 AI credits a month (960 a year on annual)
Premium
$9.99/mo · $7.99/mo yearly
all image, video and audio models, 4 concurrent generations, 1,000 AI credits a month (12,000 a year on annual), private mode
Ultra
$24.99/mo · $19.99/mo yearly
unlimited fast image generations, 8 concurrent generations, up to 10,000 AI credits a month (120,000 a year), priority queue. The $39.99 and $49.99 figures seen earlier are higher Ultra levels
By MagnificMalaga, Spain1 product across 1 category
Built for this. The upscaler that adds detail rather than smoothing it, and the one people use on a render that is right but too small.
Free plan
Yes
Free tier with a small daily credit allowance, which upscaling exhausts quickly
Month to month
$20/mo
Premium
Billed yearly
$14.50/mo
Premium plan −28%
Watch out: Adding detail means inventing it, so faces and text change. One subscription now covers generation and upscaling from a shared credit balance that upscaling drains fast.
All plans (6)
Plan
Price
What you get
Free
$0
Free tier with a small daily credit allowance, which upscaling exhausts quickly
Premium
$20/mo · $14.50/mo yearly
20,000 credits a month (240,000 a year with rollover on annual), about 133 images or 21 videos a month, Spaces and 250M stock assets
Premium+
$45/mo · $33.75/mo yearly
unlimited generations, 45,000 credits a month (600,000 a year on annual), about 300 images or 47 videos a month
Pro
$110/mo · $82.50/mo yearly
112,500 credits a month (1.5M a year on annual), with a 300,000-credit option that adds Nano Banana Pro
Business
$69/mo · $55/mo yearly
90,000 credits a month shared across the team (1.08M a year on annual), no training on your data
Two things separate these and both are on every card.
Fit
Whether a tool is built for this job, a strong fit for it, or
able to do it without that being its focus.
Free plan
Whether there is a tier you can keep using rather than a
trial that expires.
The order
Fit first, then a free plan, then alphabetical. There is
no score, no weighting we decline to publish, and nothing on this site a company can buy.
Questions
What is the best ai for photo editing?
There is no single answer, which is why this page lists 8 rather than one: Photoroom, Adobe Firefly, Canva Magic Studio, Gemini image generation, ChatGPT image generation, Pixlr, Clipdrop, Magnific. 3 of them are built for this kind of work rather than able to do it. Start with a free one.
Which of these have a free plan?
8 of the 8: Photoroom, Adobe Firefly, Canva Magic Studio, Gemini image generation, ChatGPT image generation, Pixlr, Clipdrop, Magnific. Free means a real free tier you can keep using, not a trial that expires.
How was this list chosen?
By hand, from the 750 products this site tracks, and it is checked against the catalogue on every build — a product renamed or removed breaks the build rather than quietly disappearing from here. Nothing on this site can be paid for: no listing, no position, no wording.
