Marketing & Content Creation · verified 4 September 2026

Best AI for Social Media

7 tools 7 with a free plan 5 built for this Prices verified 4 September 2026

The 7 that fit

Canva Magic Studio

By CanvaSydney, Australia2 products across 2 categories

Built for this. Gets a week of social assets done in an afternoon — templates, brand kit enforcement, copy and resizing in one place.

Free plan
Yes
Free forever for one person, with the editor, 1.6M templates and one three-colour Brand Kit
Month to month
$18/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
$15/mo
$180 a year, Pro plan −17%

Watch out: Templates mean your output looks like everyone else's unless you push against the defaults.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free forever for one person, with the editor, 1.6M templates and one three-colour Brand Kit
Pro$18/mo · $15/mo yearlypremium tools, 3.6M templates, 141M premium assets, free trial
Business$25/mo · $20.83/mo yearlyteam admin and collaboration tools, 100 Brand Kits with approvals, free trial
EnterpriseCustomSSO and SCIM, custom apps, 1,000 Brand Kits with tiered approvals
Open Canva Magic Studio Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

ChatGPT

By OpenAISan Francisco, United States3 products across 8 categories

Built for this. Fastest for volume — ad variants, subject lines, content calendars, scripts — with image generation in the same window.

Free plan
Yes
Ad supported; unlimited everyday text chats, limited image creation, memory and voice
Month to month
$8/mo
Go
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published

Watch out: Output has recognisable patterns that audiences increasingly clock. Edit before publishing.

All plans (6)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier, ad supported; unlimited everyday text chats, limited image creation, memory and voice
Go$8/mo
Plus$20/moadvanced models, higher quality image creation, Work agent, Codex, 20GB of storage
Pro$100/mo
Business standard seat$25/mo · $20/mo yearly
Business premium seat$125/mo · $100/mo yearly5x the usage and no five-hour limit
Open ChatGPT Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Opus Clip

By Opus ClipSanta Monica, United States1 product across 1 category

Built for this. Takes a long video and cuts vertical clips from it, picking moments and adding captions automatically.

Free plan
Yes
Free forever plan with 60 credits a month, 1080p clips with a watermark, no editing, and clips
Month to month
$29/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
$14.50/mo
$174 a year, Pro plan −50%

Watch out: Its idea of a good moment is not always yours, and the caption timing needs a pass.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free forever plan with 60 credits a month, 1080p clips with a watermark, no editing, and clips that stop being exportable after three days
Starter$15/mo150 credits a month, AI clipping, captions in 20+ languages, auto-posting, one brand template
Pro$29/mo · $14.50/mo yearly300 credits a month (3,600 a year on annual), two-seat team workspace, AI B-roll, scheduler, limited API access; extra credit packs sold on top
BusinessCustompriority processing, custom credits and seats, API and integrations, dedicated storage
Open Opus Clip Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

HeyGen

By HeyGenLos Angeles, United States1 product across 2 categories

Strong fit. Turns one script into localised video ads across many languages without a reshoot.

Free plan
Yes
Free plan with the AI Studio editor, videos up to one minute and no export; enough to test, not
Month to month
$29/mo
Creator
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published

Watch out: Synthetic presenters read as synthetic. Works better for performance ads than brand work.

All plans (5)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free plan with the AI Studio editor, videos up to one minute and no export; enough to test, not to publish
Creator$29/movideos up to 30 minutes, 1080p export, fast processing
Pro$49/movideos up to 30 minutes, 4K export, faster processing
Business$149/movideos up to 60 minutes, 4K export
EnterpriseCustomno duration cap, fastest processing. Usage is credit-based on every plan, so heavy editing costs more than the sticker
Open HeyGen Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Claude

By AnthropicSan Francisco, United States3 products across 7 categories

Built for this. Best of the general options at holding a specific brand voice across a long batch of copy rather than drifting.

Free plan
Yes
Free tier with daily caps
Month to month
$20/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
$17/mo
$200 a year, Pro plan −15%

Watch out: Give it real examples of your voice. Without them it defaults to a recognisable register.

All plans (6)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier with daily caps
Pro$20/mo · $17/mo yearly
Max$100/mo
Team standard seat$25/mo · $20/mo yearly
Team premium seat$125/mo · $100/mo yearly
Enterprise$20/mo
Open Claude Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Ideogram

By IdeogramToronto, Canada1 product across 1 category

Built for this. The one that renders readable text inside an image, which almost nothing else does reliably. That makes it the choice for anything with words in it.

Free plan
Yes
Free tier with a daily generation allowance
Month to month
$20/mo
Plus
Billed yearly
$15/mo
$180 a year, Plus plan −25%

Watch out: Narrower than the general generators once you move past typography. Its pricing page has refused or 404ed on three separate runs.

All plans (5)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier with a daily generation allowance
Plus$20/mo · $15/mo yearly1,000 credits a month, private generation, unlimited slow credits, priority top-ups at $4
Pro$60/mo · $42/mo yearly3,500 credits a month, batch generation, quality export
Team$30/mo · $20/mo yearly1,500 credits a user a month, central billing
EnterpriseCustomprivate custom models and API volume discounts. API usage is priced separately
Open Ideogram Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Pixlr

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)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier, ad-supported
Plus$2.49/mo · $1.99/mo yearlyad-free, unlimited saves, 80 AI credits a month (960 a year on annual)
Premium$9.99/mo · $7.99/mo yearlyall 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 yearlyunlimited 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
Open Pixlr Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

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Every tool in the category most of these come from.

Every AI tool we track

All 750 products, one page each.

How to read this list

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 social media?

There is no single answer, which is why this page lists 7 rather than one: Canva Magic Studio, ChatGPT, Opus Clip, HeyGen, Claude, Ideogram, Pixlr. 5 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?

7 of the 7: Canva Magic Studio, ChatGPT, Opus Clip, HeyGen, Claude, Ideogram, Pixlr. 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.