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Midjourney
Check siteA strong still image from a prompt.
Image generator known for style and composition from a text prompt.
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Best AI tools for image and video
Ranked for people who need a picture, a short shot, or a design file, not a research paper about the model.
New and worth a look, not ranked: TBC Mischief 1 is an image-to-video model on fal and OpenRouter. It is not open weights.
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FLUX
Check siteCalling a frontier image model from your own code.
Image and video models from Black Forest Labs, with a playground, an API, and some open weights.
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Krea
Free and paidTrying many image and video models in one place.
One workspace for image, video, and 3D models, plus editing and upscaling.
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A labeled placement on Image and video rankings. It does not change any rank.
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Kling AI
Check siteVideo up to 30 seconds in one pass, with reference and keyframe control.
Generates video and images, including motion from a prompt or a still.
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Runway
Check siteGenerated video plus tools to edit the shot.
Video generation and video editing in the same product.
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Ideogram
Check siteImages that have to include real words.
Image generator people use when the picture needs readable text.
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Recraft
Check siteIcons, vectors, and on-brand design images.
Image generator for design work, including icons, vectors, and brand styles.
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Adobe Firefly
Check siteImage generation next to Photoshop.
Adobe image and video generator, meant to sit beside Photoshop and other Adobe apps.
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Leonardo
Check siteStylized images and concept sets.
Image generator used for concept art, characters, and style-matched sets.
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Viggle JST-2
Check siteA 3D scene you can move around, not a flat image.
Viggle 3D world model for scenes, rigged characters, and motion in one space.
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HyperFrames
FreeRendering a video from HTML, including from a coding agent.
Open-source framework from HeyGen that turns HTML, CSS, media, and seekable animations into deterministic MP4 video.
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Ideogram Vector
Check siteAn editable SVG from a prompt or from an image.
Ideogram's first vector model. It makes an editable SVG from a text prompt, or converts an image into an SVG.
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Hi3D
Check siteHigh-resolution 3D geometry from a coarse mesh and a reference image.
Open release of Hi3D v1.0, formerly Sparc3D, for refining a coarse 3D mesh into high-resolution geometry.
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Hy-Nomas
FreeInteractive video, segment by segment, from text and camera control.
Tencent Hunyuan's open interactive video world model. It builds a world segment by segment from text and camera control.
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Canva Craft
Check siteImage generation inside Canva, including the public API.
Canva's first in-house image generation model, available in Dream Lab and the Canva API.