Leonardo AI - AI Image Generation and Editing
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Leonardo AI Brief Overview
Leonardo AI is an AI creative suite designed to help you generate and refine visual content quickly. It focuses on creating high-quality images from text prompts (text-to-image) and also supports transforming existing images using reference inputs (image-to-image). Beyond generating images, Leonardo.ai includes editing and enhancement tools—such as an AI canvas-style editor and an upscaler—so you can iterate on a design without starting from scratch.
Leonardo.ai is commonly used for concept art, character design, game assets, marketing creatives, product-style imagery, and other design workflows that benefit from fast visual exploration. It offers multiple models (including Leonardo-hosted models and community options), and higher-tier plans add more control, faster throughput, privacy options, and the ability to train personal models for consistent styles or subjects. It also supports video generation features (which can vary by model/tool availability) and provides a developer API for integrating generation into apps or pipelines.
Simple How-To-Use
- Create an account and open the web app
Start on Leonardo.ai and launch the app. New users can typically try core features on a free tier. - Choose what you want to create
- Use Image Generation for text-to-image.
- Use Image-to-Image or image guidance/reference images if you want outputs to follow an existing look or composition.
- Use AI Canvas if you want to edit, expand, or clean up parts of an image.
- Pick a model and set your basics
Select a model that matches your goal (photorealistic vs. illustrative styles), then set size/aspect ratio and quality options available in your plan. - Write a clear prompt
Describe the subject, style, environment, lighting, and mood. Generate a batch, then keep the strongest result. - Refine and export
Use Canvas-style editing to adjust areas, upscale for sharper detail, organize outputs into collections, then download for your project.
Key Features and Functions
- Text-to-image and image-to-image generation for rapid concepting and variation.
- Model choices including Leonardo-hosted models and community models for different aesthetics.
- AI Canvas editing to refine details, remove distractions, and adjust image dimensions in an editing workflow.
- Upscaling tools (e.g., a universal-style upscaler) to improve clarity and detail for final assets.
- Video generation features for turning ideas (or images) into short motion content, depending on available tools/models.
- 3D texture generation for creating textures from 3D assets (useful for game/dev and 3D workflows).
- Presets, elements, and guided workflows (often shown as presets/blueprints) to speed up common creation tasks.
- Model training / fine-tuning on paid plans to build more consistent outputs for a style, subject, or brand look.
- Privacy and organization features like private generations (paid tiers) and collections for managing assets.
- Developer API for programmatic image/video/model generation using monthly API credits.
Leonardo AI Pricing
Leonardo.ai uses a token/credit system: actions like generating, upscaling, or running higher-end features consume tokens. Higher plans increase your monthly “fast” token pool and may include relaxed/unlimited generation (typically for Leonardo-hosted models), where generations continue at a slower priority once fast tokens are used.
Individuals (Web App Plans)
- Free: $0/month. Includes 150 fast tokens daily, images are public, basic quality options, limited collections.
- Apprentice: $12/month (or $10/month billed annually). Includes 8,500 fast tokens monthly, private creations, token bank capacity, model training (up to 10 personal models), enhanced quality generation/upscaling.
- Artisan Unlimited: $30/month (or $24/month billed annually). Includes 25,000 fast tokens monthly, relaxed/unlimited image generation for eligible Leonardo-hosted models, larger token bank, more model training capacity.
- Maestro Unlimited: $60/month (or $48/month billed annually). Includes 60,000 fast tokens monthly, relaxed/unlimited image + video generation for eligible Leonardo-hosted models, the largest token bank, and the highest personal model training limits.
Teams
- Starter: $24/seat/month (example shown as $72 for 3 seats). Shared tokens and collaboration features.
- Growth: $48/seat/month (example shown as $144 for 3 seats). Higher shared tokens and collaboration capacity.
- Custom team plans are available.
API (Developer Plans)
- API Basic: $9/month for 3,500 API credits
- API Standard: $49/month for 25,000 API credits
- API Pro: $299/month for 200,000 API credits
API usage costs vary by generation settings (size, quantity, and features), and additional top-ups may be available.
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