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Leonardo.ai

Leonardo.ai is an AI image and video generation platform owned by Canva. It offers its own Lucid and Phoenix image models alongside partner models such as Veo 3, plus custom model training, editing and upscaling. Game artists, designers and content creators use it, and remove.bg's API moves to Leonardo.Ai on December 1, 2026.

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Quick facts

VendorCanva
CategoryImage & design
PlatformsWebiOSAndroidAPI
Free planYes
Pricing from$12/month
Last reviewed

Best for

  • Game and concept artists
  • Creators training custom styles
  • Print-on-demand designers
  • Developers needing an image API

Key features

Lucid and Phoenix models

Leonardo's own image models, including Lucid Origin, Lucid Realism and Phoenix 1.0, sit alongside partner models such as Veo 3.

Custom model training

Train personal AI models on your own images, with 10, 20 or 50 models allowed depending on the paid plan.

Omni editing

Edits details inside an image with text prompts while keeping characters, composition and style intact.

Blueprints

Pre-designed templates that give structured starting points for common workflows and keep outputs consistent.

Universal Upscaler

Raises resolution and clarity so assets are ready for print, high-resolution displays and professional delivery.

Relaxed unlimited generation

Premium and Ultimate generate images with selected models at a relaxed pace without spending tokens; Ultimate adds relaxed video.

Developer API

Pay-as-you-go API with up to 10 concurrent generations, non-expiring credit and remove.bg background removal endpoints.

Use cases

  • Train a custom model on your game's art style and generate consistent characters and items.
  • Design print-on-demand artwork with Lucid Origin, then upscale it for large-format printing.
  • Animate a still illustration into a short clip with Leonardo's image-to-video tools.
  • Check your remove.bg API integration ahead of its move to Leonardo.Ai on December 1, 2026.

Pricing

Pricing from
$12/month

Free gives 150 fast tokens a day with public creations. Essential is $12/month, Premium $30/month and Ultimate $60/month, or $10, $24 and $48 a month billed yearly; prices exclude tax.

Plans and prices

PlanBilled monthlyBilled annually
Free$0/month—
150 fast tokens a day and public creations. Free users cannot use the rollover bank.
Essential$12/month$10/month$120/year
8,500 fast tokens a month, with a rollover bank of up to 25,500 tokens.
Premium$30/month$24/month$288/year
25,000 fast tokens a month, with a rollover bank of up to 75,000 tokens.
Ultimate$60/month$48/month$576/year
60,000 fast tokens a month, with a rollover bank of up to 180,000 tokens.

Ways to save

  • Yearly billing takes up to 20% off: Essential drops from $12 to $10 a month and Ultimate from $60 to $48.
  • Unused paid tokens roll into a bank holding up to 3 months' worth, such as 25,500 tokens on Essential.
  • The free plan refreshes 150 fast tokens every day, which covers light experimenting before you pay.
  • Premium's unlimited relaxed image generation on selected models saves fast tokens for final renders.
Prices checked on Oct 27, 2026

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What is Leonardo.ai?

Leonardo.ai is a web platform and mobile app for generating, editing and upscaling images and video. Usage runs on tokens: paid plans get a monthly allowance, from 8,500 fast tokens on Essential to 60,000 on Ultimate.

It is part of Canva and also serves teams through Starter and Growth plans, and developers through a pay-as-you-go API. Canva Business no longer includes Leonardo.ai Essential: new subscribers from September 1, 2026 do not get it, and existing ones lost it on October 11, 2026. Essential is still sold as its own subscription.

What stands out

  • Consistency tools: custom model training, consistent characters and Blueprints keep a style steady across a project.
  • Relaxed generation on paid tiers covers selected models such as Lucid Origin, Phoenix 1.0, Motion 2.0 and Hailuo 2.3.
  • Higher tiers raise concurrency, from 2 simultaneous generations on Essential to 6 on Ultimate.

Limitations

  • Free-plan creations are always public; private generation needs a paid plan.
  • Relaxed generations cover only selected models and may slow down when demand is high.
  • Downgrading a plan expires any banked tokens above the new plan’s limit.
  • Prices exclude tax.

Leonardo.ai FAQ

Yes. The free plan gives 150 fast tokens a day, basic quality settings and one personal collection. Everything made on it is public, free users face stricter content filtering, and paid plans have no free trial.

Yes, on free and paid plans. Paid users generating privately keep full ownership and copyright, while images made public, including all free-plan images, give Leonardo worldwide perpetual rights to use them.

Yes, Leonardo.ai is part of Canva, which also owns remove.bg. Starting December 1, 2026, remove.bg's background removal moves to Canva and its API access to Leonardo.Ai.

On active paid plans, yes. Unused tokens collect in a Rollover Bank of up to 3 months' worth: 25,500 on Essential, 75,000 on Premium and 180,000 on Ultimate. Free users can't use the bank.

Yes. Leonardo.ai has apps for iOS and Android, and Leonardo sells one subscription that works across the web app and its mobile apps.

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