OpenArt is an AI image generator with video and story tools for creators and marketers, running many third-party models on one credit balance billed per seat.
OpenArt turns a written prompt or an uploaded picture into finished images, short videos and illustrated stories inside one browser workspace. OpenArt, Inc., an independent company headquartered in San Francisco, builds and runs it. Its founders, Coco Mao and John Qiao, left Google in 2022 to start it. Every model on offer, from GPT Image and Flux to Kling, Veo and Seedance, spends the same monthly pool of credits. A creator can therefore choose a different model for each job without opening a second account. The AI Text to Image Generator returns several images per run and lets the user set the aspect ratio and output resolution first. Its image editing suite expands, restyles, swaps backgrounds and upscales a picture on one canvas, while the Image Upscaler offers Precise, Refined and Creative modes. Style Reference and a Brand Kit steer the look toward a supplied image or a company's visual identity. Model training builds a custom style, character, face or object model, and AI Character holds one likeness across scenes. Those characters carry into video, where Director and One-Click Story Creation assemble clips and stories. Independent creators, social media marketers and small creative teams who want many image and video models behind one login are the core users. Brand teams that need on-brand visuals or one recurring character across a campaign fit as well. Each seat is billed monthly or annually and comes with a monthly allowance of credits that every generation draws from. Newcomers can start on a trial plan with daily credits and no card, and companies have a separate set of Business plans. Typical jobs are concept art and mood boards, product shots and ad imagery, short social videos and campaigns built around a recurring character. A designer can rough out a mood board, widen the frame of a chosen image and cut out the subject for a layout without leaving the canvas. Through the OpenArt MCP server, a writer drafting in Claude or ChatGPT, or a developer in Cursor, can generate images without switching to the browser. OpenArt suits creative work where the picture comes first and the best model for it changes from one brief to the next.
Pricing
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Free trial plan
Free
- Trial plan with daily credits and no credit card required
- Output may include a visible OpenArt watermark
- Private creations of accounts that never subscribed are kept for 7 days
- No commercial use rights; those start on Plus
- Model training needs a subscription plan
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Starter
$14 per month
$13 a seat a month billed annually as a limited-time offer, renewal price not stated; $14 billed monthly
- 4,000 credits a month, up to about 4,000 images or about 50 videos (Director excluded)
- Access to Director and OpenArt MCP; watermark-free output
- Image cost varies by model, for example 5 credits for a 1K image on GPT Image 2.5 or Flux Kontext Pro and 40 on Nano Banana Pro
- No commercial use rights; those start on Plus
- No extra credits; the Extra Credit add-on needs Plus or above
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Plus
$34 per month
$27 a seat a month billed annually as a limited-time offer, renewal price not stated; $34 billed monthly
- 12,000 credits a month, up to about 12,000 images or about 150 videos (Director excluded)
- Commercial use rights and watermark-free output
- One-Click Story Creation, the image editing suite, Director and OpenArt MCP
- Extra credits can be added through the Extra Credit add-on
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Pro
$56 per month
$44 a seat a month billed annually as a limited-time offer, renewal price not stated; $56 billed monthly
- 24,000 credits a month, up to about 24,000 images or about 300 videos (Director excluded)
- Commercial use rights and watermark-free output
- Extra credits can be added through the Extra Credit add-on
Features
- Included: Text-to-image generation
- Included: Image-to-image transformation
- Not included: Inpainting and generative fill
- Included: Outpainting canvas extension
- Included: Image upscaling and enhancement
- Included: Background removal
- Not included: Negative prompt control
- Not included: Seed and reproducibility control
- Included: Style presets and reference images
- Included: Custom model or LoRA training
- Included: Batch image generation
- Included: Commercial use rights on paid plans
- Not included: Content credentials or watermarking
- Included: Aspect ratio and resolution presets
- Included: Image generation API
- Included: Prompt history and asset gallery
- Included: Face and character consistency
- Not included: Adult content filtering
Additional Features
- AI Text to Image Generator
- Up to four images per generation
- Aspect ratio and output resolution settings up to 4K
- Image editing suite on one canvas
- AI Image Extender outpainting
- Image Upscaler with Precise, Refined and Creative modes
- Background Remover with transparent PNG output
- Style Reference from an uploaded image
Best for
- Independent creators producing images and short videos
- Social media marketers making campaign visuals
- Brand teams keeping generated visuals on brand
- Storytellers who need one character across many scenes
- Creators who want many image and video models behind one login
- Teams already working in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
- Buyers comfortable with credit metering rather than a fixed image count
Use cases
- Building concept art and mood boards
- Producing product shots and ad imagery
- Making short videos for social channels
- Running a campaign around one recurring character
- Extending a photo beyond its original frame
- Upscaling a low-resolution image
- Cutting a product out of its background
- Restyling a photo to match a reference image
- Training a model on a product, face or style
- Generating images from inside Claude or Cursor
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