Automate Basics

Leonardo.Ai vs Ideogram

Pick up to 4 tools and see their free plans, entry prices, platforms and limits in one table. Every fact comes from each vendor's own pages, checked 16 October 2026.

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Leonardo.Ai

Free plan · from $10/mo

Ideogram

Free plan · from $15/mo

What it isAI image and video generation platform, part of Canva since 2024AI image generator with credit-based plans and a developer API
Free plan150 fast tokens a day (token bank of 150); creations are public; basic quality settings; 1 personal collection30 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$10/mo billed annually (Essential)Leonardo.Ai pricing$15/mo billed annually (Plus)Ideogram pricing
What it covers8,500 fast tokens per month; prices shown ex. tax.$180 billed annually; 2,400 priority credits a month plus unlimited slow credits.
Free trialNone statedNone stated
PlatformsWeb, iOS, Android, APIWeb, API
Integrations (vendor's figure)Not statedNot stated
Open sourceNoNo
Good for
  • Generating product shots, concept art and marketing images
  • Creating short videos from prompts with selected video models
  • Training a personal model on a consistent style or character
  • 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: 150 fast tokens per day and creations are public
  • Unlimited relaxed generation is only on Premium and Ultimate, for selected models
  • Team plans are priced per seat ($24 or $48 per seat per month)
  • 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 byLeonardo.Ai (part of 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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