License Guide

Adobe Firefly

Adobe's generative AI platform trained exclusively on licensed and public domain content. Integrated across Creative Cloud apps, it offers IP indemnification on paid plans - a standout among AI content tools.

ChatGPT

OpenAI's AI assistant with native image generation powered by GPT-4o. Users retain full usage rights to all generated images, including commercial use.

Descript

AI-powered audio and video editor that lets you edit recordings by editing text. Features include filler word removal, audio cleanup, auto captions, voice cloning (AI Speakers), and transcript-based editing.

ElevenLabs

Leading AI voice synthesis and text-to-speech platform offering realistic voice generation, voice cloning, and multilingual speech. Free tier available with limited characters, paid plans for commercial use.

Midjourney

AI image generation platform that creates high-quality artwork from text prompts. Paid subscribers own the rights to their generated images, while free/trial outputs fall under CC BY-NC 4.0.

Synthesia

Enterprise-focused AI avatar video platform supporting 140+ languages. Creates professional talking-head videos from text scripts using customizable AI presenters for training, marketing, and internal communications.

AdCreative.ai

AI-powered ad creative generator that produces conversion-optimized banners, social media posts, texts, and videos for advertising campaigns.

Civitai

Community platform for sharing, discovering, and using custom AI models (primarily Stable Diffusion). Features on-platform image generation and a creator marketplace. Each model carries its own license terms.

Fish Audio

AI text-to-speech and voice cloning platform offering realistic voice generation with support for multiple languages. Provides both a web interface and API access.

Flux by Black Forest Labs

Open-source AI image generation model by Black Forest Labs (founded by ex-Stability AI researchers). Available for free self-hosting, through community tools, or via a paid Pro API for commercial-scale generation.

getimg.ai

AI image and video generation platform offering access to multiple models (FLUX, Seedream, Stable Diffusion, etc.) with editing tools like upscaling, inpainting, and background removal.

Google Gemini Image Generation

Google's AI image generation capability built into Gemini, powered by Imagen. Creates images from text prompts integrated with the broader Google ecosystem. Governed by the main Google Terms of Service (updated May 22, 2024) — the previous Generative AI Additional Terms of Service are deprecated. Outputs include SynthID watermarks for AI content identification.

Grok Image Generation

AI image generation integrated into Grok (xAI's chatbot), available through the X (Twitter) platform and standalone Grok app. Uses the Aurora image model.

Hailuo AI

AI video generation platform by MiniMax that creates videos from text prompts and images. Known for the MiniMax video models with strong motion quality.

Haiper AI

AI video generation platform offering text-to-video and image-to-video capabilities. Provides a free tier with limited generations and paid plans for commercial use, higher resolution, and longer video output.

Hedra

AI video platform specializing in talking-head video generation from audio and images. Creates realistic character animations. Strong user ownership terms - Hedra does not claim ownership of inputs or outputs.

HeyGen

AI avatar video platform for creating professional talking-head videos with digital avatars and AI-powered translation. Used for marketing, training, and localization.

Higgsfield

AI content creation platform by Higgsfield, Inc. offering credit-based access to multiple AI models for video and image generation (Kling 3.0, Nano Banana, Flux.2 Pro, Seedream, GPT Image). Users own their inputs and outputs, and commercial use is explicitly unrestricted.

Ideogram

AI image generation platform known for industry-leading text rendering in images. Offers free tier with daily generations and paid plans for commercial use, higher resolution, and faster generation.

Immersity AI

AI-powered platform for converting 2D images and videos into 3D content with depth effects. Creates immersive 3D photos, videos, and spatial content from flat media.

Kaiber AI

AI-powered video and animation platform that transforms text, images, and audio into stylized video content. Known for artistic music video generation and creative animation styles across multiple paid tiers.

Kling AI

AI video generation platform by Kuaishou capable of producing videos up to 2 minutes long. Offers competitive generation quality with free and paid tiers.

Leonardo.ai

AI-powered creative platform for generating images and videos, operated by Leonardo Interactive Pty Ltd (Australia, a Canva company). Paid subscribers own all IP in their outputs. Free subscribers' output IP is owned by Leonardo — a critical distinction for commercial use.

Luma Dream Machine

AI video and image generation platform by Luma AI, Inc., powered by the Ray3 model. Credit-based system with free tier (non-commercial, watermarked) and paid plans. Customer owns outputs, but commercial use requires Plus ($29.99/mo) or higher. Free users grant Luma a much broader content license than paid users.

Magic Hour

AI video creation platform offering text-to-video, image-to-video, face swap, and video-to-video transformation tools.

Magnific AI

AI-powered image upscaling and enhancement platform. Specializes in dramatically increasing image resolution while adding realistic detail through AI hallucination. Not an image generator - it enhances and upscales existing images.

Microsoft Copilot Image Creator

Microsoft's AI image generation tool powered by DALL-E, integrated into Copilot and Bing. Free to use with a Microsoft account, with faster generation and additional features available through Copilot Pro subscriptions.

Monica AI

AI-powered browser extension and app providing chat, writing, translation, and image generation capabilities. Aggregates multiple AI models including GPT-4 and DALL-E.

MyEdit by CyberLink

Browser-based AI image generation and editing tool by CyberLink. Offers 24+ artistic styles for AI image creation, along with photo editing, background removal, and enhancement tools. Free tier with limited features and Premium for full access.

NightCafe

Multi-model AI art generation platform supporting FLUX, Stable Diffusion, and other models. Credit-based system with free daily credits and paid top-ups. Features a community gallery and various artistic style options.

Pika Labs

AI video generation platform known for fast generation and creative video effects. Offers free tier with limited generations and paid plans for commercial use and higher quality output.

Playground AI

AI image generation platform with a canvas editor supporting multiple AI models. Free tier allows limited daily generations for personal use, while Pro unlocks commercial rights, higher resolution, and more generations.

QuillBot AI Image

Primarily an AI writing and paraphrasing tool (owned by Learneo) that has expanded to include AI image generation. Image generation is a secondary feature within the broader QuillBot platform.

Recraft

AI design and illustration platform with industry-leading vector output capabilities. Generates images, illustrations, icons, and vector graphics from text prompts. Strong focus on design-ready outputs with style control and brand consistency.

Reve AI

AI image generation platform featuring Reve Flow for conversational image editing and cloud-based collaboration. Offers free tier with limited generations and Pro tier with full commercial rights.

Revid AI

AI-powered short-form video creation tool that generates viral-style social media videos for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts from text prompts.

Runway ML

AI creative suite specializing in video generation and editing, including Gen-2 and Gen-3 models. Offers text-to-video, image-to-video, and advanced video editing tools for filmmakers and content creators.

Seedance

AI video generation model by ByteDance (TikTok's parent company), known for strong motion quality and physics understanding. Available directly and through third-party platforms like getimg.ai and Hedra.

Sora 2 by OpenAI

OpenAI's AI video generation model (Sora 2) that creates realistic videos with synchronised audio from text and images. Uses per-second billing via API ($0.10–$0.50/sec) or is accessible through ChatGPT Pro subscription. OpenAI assigns all right, title, and interest in outputs to the user.

Stable Diffusion

AI image and video generation platform by Stability AI. Offers a free tier with limited daily credits and paid plans with advanced models, higher limits, and commercial licensing. The Max plan is required for commercial use and private generations.

Stockimg.ai

AI-powered stock image generator that creates custom images, logos, posters, book covers, UI mockups, and more from text prompts. Designed for quick commercial asset creation without traditional stock photo licensing.

Tensor.Art

AI image generation platform offering access to community-shared models with a cloud-based interface. Similar to Civitai, commercial rights depend on the individual model's license.