Automate Basics

Leonardo.Ai vs Midjourney vs Krea

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.

Written head to head: Midjourney vs Leonardo.Ai, with when to choose each side.

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Leonardo.Ai

Free plan · from $10/mo

Midjourney

From $8/mo

Krea

Free plan · from $5/mo

What it isAI image and video generation platform, part of Canva since 2024AI image and video generator sold as a monthly or yearly subscriptionAI suite for generating, editing and upscaling images, video and 3D
Free plan150 fast tokens a day (token bank of 150); creations are public; basic quality settings; 1 personal collectionNo100 compute units per day (refills daily); image concurrency 1 and video concurrency 0; LoRA training up to 50 images; upscaling up to 2K; community support via Discord
Cheapest paid plan$10/mo billed annually (Essential)Leonardo.Ai pricing$8/mo billed annually (Basic)Midjourney pricing$5/mo billed annually (Basic)Krea pricing
What it covers8,500 fast tokens per month; prices shown ex. tax.$96 billed yearly; 3.3 hours (200 minutes) of Fast GPU time per month.5,000 compute units per month.
Free trialNone statedLimited trial only in the niji·journey app (iOS and Android); none on Discord or midjourney.comNone stated
PlatformsWeb, iOS, Android, APIWebWeb, iOS, API
Integrations (vendor's figure)Not statedNot statedNot stated
Open sourceNoNoNo
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
  • Creating concept art and mood boards for a campaign or product idea
  • Producing illustrations for presentations, blog posts or social media
  • Generating short video clips for social media
  • Generating and editing images, then upscaling them for print or web
  • Trying several video models from one account
  • Training a LoRA on product or character photos for consistent results
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)
  • No free plan, and no free trial on Discord or midjourney.com
  • Stealth Mode (private images and videos) is only on Pro and Mega
  • Companies with more than $1,000,000 in gross annual revenue must buy Pro or Mega
  • Free plan: 100 compute units per day, 1 image job at a time and video concurrency listed as 0
  • Commercial licence is only on paid plans
  • Compute units on Basic, Pro and Max do not roll over
Made byLeonardo.Ai (part of Canva)MidjourneyKrea

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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