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Leonardo.Ai review
7.9/10★★★★★Canva-owned creative studio with its own and partner image and video models
- Best for
- Creators making game, product and marketing assets who want lots of control
- Price
- Freemium · from $12/month
Free: 150 tokens a day; free images are public and not licensed for commercial use - Platforms
- Web, iOS, Android, API
- Made by
- Leonardo Interactive (Canva), Sydney, Australia · since 2022
- App store ratings
- iOS 4.8★ (11K) · Android 4.7★ (114K)
What it is
Leonardo.Ai is an image and video platform owned by Canva since 2024. Alongside its own Lucid models it offers partner models such as GPT Image, Nano Banana 2 and FLUX.2, plus editing, upscaling, custom model training and video generation.
What the AI does
- Lucid Origin and Lucid Realism models
- Partner models including GPT Image, Nano Banana 2 and FLUX.2
- Canvas editing and upscaling
- Custom model training
- Video generation
Pros and cons
- Many models and controls in one place
- Daily free tokens
- Strong for product photography
- Full mobile apps
- Busy interface with many decisions
- Token costs are hard to predict
- Faces and eyes can need retouching
How it scores
Its own Lucid Origin model ranks low on Arena, but partner models raise the ceiling; the interface is complex.
Feature checklist · 7 of 9
- Edit an uploaded image with text instructions (no)
- Reliable text rendering inside images (no)
- Style or character references, or custom style training (yes)
- Edit selected regions (inpaint, outpaint or expand) (yes)
- Upscaling or 2K+ output (yes)
- Free plan for generating images (yes)
- Commercial use allowed on a paid plan (yes)
- iOS and Android apps (yes)
- Developer API (yes)
Alternatives
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- ChatGPT Images 9.2/10Anyone who wants the best all-round results just by describing what they want
- Gemini (Nano Banana) 8.9/10Editing your own photos and anyone already using Google's apps
- Grok Imagine 8.2/10Grok and X users who want strong photorealism and editing
- Adobe Firefly 8.0/10Designers working in Photoshop and businesses that need commercially safe images
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