The job
Image generation
Create an original image from a written brief.
General-purpose text-to-image. The differences that matter in practice are aesthetic ceiling, prompt control, and how commercially safe the training data is.
Freepik AI Suite
FreemiumOne subscription covering generation, upscaling, video and stock
Midjourney
PaidReach the highest aesthetic ceiling on stylised imagery
Recraft
FreemiumGenerate genuinely editable vector artwork
Ideogram
FreemiumGet typography right inside a generated image
Adobe Firefly
FreemiumGenerate commercially safe assets inside an existing Adobe workflow
Krea
FreemiumIterate on an image in real time while you sketch
Leonardo AI
FreemiumProduce large volumes of on-model assets from a trained style
ComfyUI
FreeBuild a repeatable, node-based image pipeline you control
FLUX (Black Forest Labs)
FreemiumRun a top-tier open image model in your own pipeline
Stable Diffusion
FreeGenerate images locally with full control and no per-image cost