Getting an image is easy; being allowed to use it is the hard part. Some tools publish your free output to a public gallery, some withhold a commercial licence, and some still cannot spell a word on a poster. The filter sorts on that, not on style.
Many models in one window, with a generous free tier
Fifty free credits a day with no watermark — the most open entry in a job where the rest either stamp the image or charge at the door
4K and above · Face and portrait work · Legible text in the image · Has a free tier · Paid under $12/mo
A backdrop for a product shot on a phone
Drops a phone-shot product into a generated scene and processes a whole catalogue export at once rather than card by card
Background removal and replace · Batch processing · Face and portrait work · Phone app · Has an API
The most recognisable look in the field, and not one free prompt
The only service in the top ten with no free tier at all, and still the highest-grossing image generator of the lot
4K and above · Face and portrait work · No free tier · Paid under $12/mo
A generator that hands back SVG, not a bitmap
Produces real vectors: an icon or logo opens in an editor and is edited by nodes instead of being redrawn
Vector SVG output · Legible text in the image · 4K and above · Batch processing · Has an API
Upscaling and restoration that runs on your own machine
Processes on your own machine rather than someone’s server, so the originals never leave — the only service here that does
Upscale and restore · 4K and above · Batch processing · Face and portrait work · Desktop app
Text in the image that you do not have to redo
Renders legible words and whole signs inside an image — the task every generator before it stumbled on
Legible text in the image · 4K and above · Batch processing · Has an API · Allowance expires and does not renew
Face swapping out of a Kyiv lab
Grew out of a Kyiv research team and was first to put face swapping into a mass-market app, long before every editor had the feature
Face and portrait work · Phone app · Watermark on the output · Has a free tier
Retouching an entire shoot in one pass
Copies one frame’s retouching settings across a whole shoot, so an eight-hundred-shot wedding goes through in a batch
Batch processing · Face and portrait work · Background removal and replace · Desktop app · No free tier
The oldest mass-market app for editing a face
Shipping since 2017 and still on the revenue list — a rare case of a mobile app outliving two waves of industry fashion
Face and portrait work · Phone app · Watermark on the output · Has a free tier
