AI Image Generators

AI image generators turn a written prompt, and often a reference image, into a new picture. The category now runs from free tools built into assistants and design apps to dedicated platforms with their own models, credit systems and editing features. For most people the hard part is not finding one. It is knowing what the free tier actually allows, whether you need an account, and what the terms say about using the results.

This hub collects our guides and tool lists on that question. Each list is built from the vendors’ own pricing pages, help centres and terms, read on a stated date, and each tool’s limits are recorded once and reused wherever the tool appears, so a change in price or allowance updates every page that mentions it.

What you will find here:

• Tool lists that compare a handful of generators on the things that change a decision: free allowance, sign-up, cheapest paid plan, commercial-use terms and platforms.
• Brand guides to individual generators, such as what Microsoft’s and Google’s image tools offer and how their free limits work.
• Explainers on realistic images, prompts and the settings that matter.

We say plainly which tools have been tested by hand and which have only been researched. We do not cover generators whose main purpose is explicit or “no restrictions” imagery.