Canva vs Ideogram

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Compared on	Canva Free plan · from $12/person/mo Visit Remove	Ideogram Free plan · from $15/mo Visit Remove
What it is	Online design tool with templates, stock media and AI features	AI image generator with credit-based plans and a developer API
Free plan	5GB cloud storage; up to 20 Standard or Premium AI uses (monthly allowance); 1 Brand Kit (3 colours only); 1.6M+ templates	30 credits a week for accounts that sign in with Google, Apple or Microsoft (none for email-and-password accounts); every generation uses credits; images are public; PNG downloads need a paid plan
Cheapest paid plan	$12/person/mo billed annually (Pro)Canva pricing	$15/mo billed annually (Plus)Ideogram pricing
What it covers	Published as US$144/year for one person (yearly billing); the monthly-billing price was not shown on the US pricing page as fetched.	$180 billed annually; 2,400 priority credits a month plus unlimited slow credits.
Free trial	Free trial offered for Pro and Business (length not stated on the pricing page)	None stated
Platforms	Web, iOS, Android, macOS, Windows	Web, API
Integrations (vendor's figure)	Not stated	Not stated
Open source	No	No
Good for	Making social media graphics and ads from templates Keeping team designs on brand with shared Brand Kits Scheduling social posts from the same tool used to design them	Designing posters, social graphics and other images from a text prompt Keeping a character consistent across a set of images Generating many design variations at once (batch generation on Pro)
Watch out for	Free plan: 5GB storage and up to 20 Standard or Premium AI uses per month Ultra AI tools and Design in bulk are not available on Free SSO and SCIM provisioning require the Enterprise plan	Free accounts cannot generate privately; images are published by default Unused subscription priority credits expire at the end of each billing cycle AI editing features (Edit with AI, Image Reference) need priority credits and are not available in the slow queue
Made by	Canva	Ideogram

Entry prices are the cheapest paid plan, as each vendor publishes it; “What it covers” says what that price is per (a user, a channel, a brand, a number of contacts). The sources are listed on each tool's page.

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