Image Generators
AI Image Generators
Comfy.icu
Comfy.ICU is a serverless cloud platform specifically designed for running ComfyUI workflows, allowing users to share, run, and deploy AI-powered creative tools without downloads or installations.
The service operates on a pay-per-use model where customers are billed only for active GPU usage rather than idle time, eliminating wasteful spending on unused resources.
With access to powerful Nvidia H100 and A100 GPUs with up to 80GB of memory, users can run parallel workflows to experiment faster and avoid "CUDA out of memory" errors.
The platform offers ready-to-use workflows for various AI applications including video-to-video, text-to-video, image-to-video conversions, upscaling, and style transfer, all powered by technologies like Animatediff, IPAdapter, and ControlNet.
Comfy Additionally, Comfy.ICU provides a REST API for developers to integrate custom ComfyUI workflows into their applications, with automatic scaling capabilities to handle increased traffic demands.
Dreamina
DreamINA is an AI-powered image generator developed by CapCut that enables users to create visuals from text prompts or existing images.
The platform features a text-to-image function that transforms written descriptions into artistic visuals, employing advanced semantic understanding to accurately interpret user prompts and convert abstract thoughts into visual artwork.
Its image-to-image capabilities allow users to transform existing photos by customizing key characteristics, replacing backgrounds, and applying different artistic styles.
DreamINA also offers a canvas feature with powerful tools including inpainting for adding elements, expansion capabilities to continue images beyond their original frames, and removal functions to erase unwanted elements.
The platform serves multiple creative purposes including character design, fashion and beauty illustrations, game asset creation, marketing visuals, content creation, and product photography, making it accessible to both beginners and professionals.
FAL.ai
Fal.ai is a generative media platform specifically designed for developers, offering what they claim is the world's fastest inference engine for diffusion models—capable of running FLUX models up to 400% faster than alternatives.
The platform provides a comprehensive suite of tools for AI-powered image and video generation, including pre-trained models like Fal AI Flux for high-resolution media creation. With its lightning-fast inference capabilities, fal.ai enables developers to optimize performance when running diffusion models, making it ideal for real-time AI applications.
The company has established partnerships with numerous AI providers including MiniMax, CassetteAI, Topaz Labs, Vidu, ElevenLabs, and BRIA AI to expand their model offerings.
Developers can easily integrate fal.ai into their applications using client libraries, with a cost structure that adapts to usage—only charging for computing power actually consumed.
The platform offers popular models such as Flux Realism, Flux Lora Training, SDXL Finetunes, Stable Video Diffusion, ControlNets, and Whisper as ready-to-use APIs for simple integration into applications.
Image-Fx
ImageFX is a text-to-image generation tool from Google Labs powered by Imagen 2, Google DeepMind's advanced text-to-image model designed to produce high-quality images from simple text prompts.
The tool features an innovative "expressive chips" interface that allows users to quickly experiment with variations of their initial ideas, encouraging creative exploration and iteration.
The user-friendly interface includes basic controls for customization such as seed number selection, aspect ratio options, and various artistic style presets.
Recently, Google has upgraded the service to use Imagen 3, which generates "brighter, better composed images" with improved ability to render diverse art styles ranging from photorealism to impressionism and anime, while more faithfully following prompts and rendering richer details and textures.
All images generated with ImageFX are marked with SynthID, an imperceptible digital watermark developed by Google DeepMind, and include IPTC metadata to identify AI-generated content.
Available for free with a Google account, ImageFX is part of Google's broader creative AI ecosystem that also includes VideoFX for video creation and MusicFX for audio generation.
Midjourney
Midjourney is an independent, self-funded research lab focused on "exploring new mediums of thought and expanding the imaginative powers of the human species" through AI-powered image generation technology.
The platform is renowned for its distinctive stylized and artistic image outputs, allowing users to transform text prompts into high-quality digital renders ranging from photorealistic imagery to artistic interpretations in various styles.
While primarily accessed through Discord, Midjourney also offers a web interface where users can create, edit, and organize their AI-generated images through subscription plans that range from the Basic tier at $10/month with 200 generations to the Pro plan at $60/month with more extensive capabilities.
The company recently released V7, their first new AI image model in nearly a year, described as "the smartest, most beautiful, most coherent model yet" with improved text prompt understanding and image quality featuring "beautiful textures, and bodies, hands, and objects of all kinds have significantly better coherence."
Midjourney provides users with various tools to refine and customize their creations, including upscaling, variations, draft mode for rapid iterations, and even a personalization system that learns users' preferences through image ratings.
The company is led by founder David Holz (previously of Leap Motion) and comprises a small team of 11 full-time staff supported by high-profile advisors including Jim Keller (former lead silicon engineer at Apple, AMD, and Tesla) and Nat Friedman (former CEO of GitHub).
OpenArt.ai
OpenArt is a comprehensive AI-powered art platform that enables users to create, edit, and customize images using advanced generative AI technologies, offering both free and premium subscription options for varying levels of functionality.
The platform provides access to over 100 models and styles for creating AI-generated artwork through various methods including text-to-image, image-to-image, sketch-to-image, inpainting, outpainting, and even image-to-video conversions.
What distinguishes OpenArt from other AI art generators is its focus on high-quality art creation and comprehensive support for both amateur and professional users, offering features like high-resolution image generation, AI image editing tools, and the ability to fine-tune models to specific artistic visions.
Founded by former Google employees based in San Francisco, the platform was created by "a group of people who love generative art" with the mission of building "a new platform for AI artists and enthusiasts" that allows everyone to create amazing works of art.
The free plan includes basic models that can generate images up to 512 x 512 pixels with up to 25 steps, while new users receive bonus credits to explore premium features and can earn additional credits by joining the OpenArt Discord community.
To support users in maximizing the platform's capabilities, OpenArt provides educational resources like a Prompt Book, Model Training Book, and YouTube tutorials designed to enhance understanding of AI-driven art creation.
Runwayml
Runway is a global AI research and media company that builds "foundational AI research models and creative tools that are empowering a new production paradigm" for storytelling and media creation.
The platform is best known for its series of powerful AI video generation models, including Gen-2, Gen-3, and the latest Gen-4, which provide users with the ability to create consistent characters, scenes, and objects across multiple frames while maintaining coherent visual styles.
These tools enable users to generate videos from text descriptions, transform static images into animated sequences, and modify existing videos with AI-driven effects, making high-quality content creation accessible to both amateurs and professionals.
Runway offers various subscription plans ranging from a limited free tier to premium options with advanced features such as higher resolution exports, more storage, and access to their most sophisticated AI models.
Beyond its consumer-facing tools, Runway works with "the world's top film studios, production companies, agencies and brands" and has established an entertainment arm called Runway Studios dedicated to producing films, documentaries, and other media.
The company showcases its technology's capabilities through a collection of short films and music videos created entirely with their AI models, demonstrating how users can "cast characters, scout locations, block scenes and generate videos all from right inside" their platform.
Sora
Sora is an advanced text-to-video AI model developed by OpenAI that can "create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions," generating videos up to a minute long while maintaining high visual quality and adherence to user prompts.
The model employs a diffusion-based transformer architecture that starts with static noise and gradually transforms it by removing the noise over many steps, representing videos and images as collections of smaller data units called patches.
Initially released to a small "red team" for adversarial testing and select creative professionals for feedback, Sora was eventually made available to ChatGPT Plus and ChatGPT Pro users in December 2024.
Sora demonstrates impressive capabilities such as generating complex scenes with multiple characters, specific motion types, and accurate subject and background details, while also being able to animate still images and extend existing videos.
Despite its strengths, OpenAI acknowledges that the model may struggle "with accurately simulating the physics of a complex scene, and may not understand specific instances of cause and effect" or reliably interpret precise descriptions of temporal events.
To address potential misuse, OpenAI has implemented safety measures including detection classifiers to identify AI-generated content, plans to include C2PA metadata in future deployments, and leverages existing safety methods from their other products to reject prompts that violate usage policies.