Design comparison
Canva Ai vs Makifyai
Non-designers making social, presentation, and marketing assets · E-commerce sellers, small marketing teams and creators who turn existing product shots into listing images, ads, mockups and social graphics without a designer - one browser workspace over GPT Image 2.5/2.6, the Nano Banana 2.x family, Seedream 5.0 and FLUX 3, with 30 free credits on sign-up and one-time packs from $9.90. A sensible fit if you want per-image credit control instead of a fixed subscription and will read the refund rule before paying: 3 calendar days, 50 paid credits or fewer, minus a 2-10% processing fee. Not a fit if you need to know who the data controller is, how long uploaded product photos are kept, or that your outputs are licensed for commercial use before you upload client material - no privacy notice on the site names a controller, address or retention period, training use is never mentioned, and the Terms decline to guarantee commercial usability even though the marketing copy says a commercial licence is included.
| Decision point | Canva AI | Makify AI |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Non-designers making social, presentation, and marketing assets | E-commerce sellers, small marketing teams and creators who turn existing product shots into listing images, ads, mockups and social graphics without a designer - one browser workspace over GPT Image 2.5/2.6, the Nano Banana 2.x family, Seedream 5.0 and FLUX 3, with 30 free credits on sign-up and one-time packs from $9.90. A sensible fit if you want per-image credit control instead of a fixed subscription and will read the refund rule before paying: 3 calendar days, 50 paid credits or fewer, minus a 2-10% processing fee. Not a fit if you need to know who the data controller is, how long uploaded product photos are kept, or that your outputs are licensed for commercial use before you upload client material - no privacy notice on the site names a controller, address or retention period, training use is never mentioned, and the Terms decline to guarantee commercial usability even though the marketing copy says a commercial licence is included. |
| Category | Creative | Creative |
| Price | Free + paid plans | Free: 30 sign-up credits plus 7-day check-in credits, no card required. Starter Pass: 40 credits valid 7 days for $4.99. Subscriptions, monthly: Basic $11.90 (100 credits/month), Standard $29.90 (300), Pro slider $59.90 (750) up to $159.90 (2,300). Billed annually: Basic $118.80/year ($9.90/mo, 1,800 credits), Standard $238.80 ($19.90/mo, 4,800), Pro $358.80-$958.80/year ($29.90-$79.90/mo, 10,800-38,400). One-time packs, valid 6 months: 80 credits $9.90, 150 $19.90, 250 $29.90, 400 $39.90, 650 $59.90, 900 $79.90, 1,200 $99.90, 2,500 $199. Subscriber-only top-ups, valid 6 months: 300 $29.90, 1,500 $119, 4,500 $349, 8,500 $649, 12,500 $899. Per-generation cost is published per model on /pricing (GPT Image 2 3 credits/image, Nano Banana Pro 8, Seedance 2.0 Fast 50 credits per 5s, Seedance 2.5 125 per 5s, MiniMax H3 25 per 5s). Annual cards show 17%, 33% and 50% off the monthly equivalents and the site carries a standing '-50%' promo badge. USD. Verified 2026-11-10 on /pricing, /zh/pricing and the plan config shipped in the page. |
| AIToolsEssentials editorial score | 4.4/5 | 3.5/5 |
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The official US annual pricing view (checked 2026-10-01) lists Canva Free at US$0/year for one person, Canva Pro at US$144/year for one person, Canva Business at US$250/year per person, and Enterprise through sales; the page advertises saving from 16% on yearly billing. AI allowance as published on 2026-10-01: Canva Free gets up to 20 uses of Standard or Premium AI tools with no Ultra AI access; on paid plans Standard AI tools can be used abundantly and do not draw from the allowance, Premium AI tools draw up to 200 uses, and Ultra AI tools up to 20 uses, all against a single monthly allowance pooled across AI tools. Pro is described as 10x and Business as 20x the Canva Free AI allowance. An optional AI Pass add-on and AI top-ups are sold at extra cost on some plans. Allowances reset monthly.
Official sources checked 2026-10-01Open verification questions
- Canva prices are localized and may be personalized by billing region; the summary records the official US annual view observed on the verification date.
- The official pages do not translate the shared AI allowance into a guaranteed generation count because task complexity changes consumption.
- Canva does not guarantee that AI output is unique, copyrightable, accurate, or free of third-party rights.
- Commercial use of output containing Canva library content depends on the separate license for that content.
Canva states that allowance consumption depends on the tool, model, and task complexity; allowances reset monthly. Canva's privacy page says User Content is not used to improve AI-powered features unless consistent with the user's Privacy Settings, which users can review and change. The AI Product Terms say that, as between Canva and the user and to the maximum extent permitted by law, the user owns Output and may use it for any lawful purpose. Output that incorporates or modifies Canva Licensed Content remains subject to the applicable content license. Outputs may not be unique. Re-verified 2026-10-01: Canva Pro is now US$144/year for one person on the annual view, replacing the US$180/year recorded on 2026-08-25. The published AI allowance has also been restated: Free is now described as up to 20 Standard or Premium AI uses (previously recorded as 200 Standard / 20 Premium), and paid plans are expressed as multipliers of the Free allowance rather than fixed Standard/Premium/Ultra counts.
Free: 30 sign-up credits plus 7-day check-in credits, no card required. Starter Pass: 40 credits valid 7 days for $4.99. Subscriptions, monthly: Basic $11.90 (100 credits/month), Standard $29.90 (300), Pro slider $59.90 (750) up to $159.90 (2,300). Billed annually: Basic $118.80/year ($9.90/mo, 1,800 credits), Standard $238.80 ($19.90/mo, 4,800), Pro $358.80-$958.80/year ($29.90-$79.90/mo, 10,800-38,400). One-time packs, valid 6 months: 80 credits $9.90, 150 $19.90, 250 $29.90, 400 $39.90, 650 $59.90, 900 $79.90, 1,200 $99.90, 2,500 $199. Subscriber-only top-ups, valid 6 months: 300 $29.90, 1,500 $119, 4,500 $349, 8,500 $649, 12,500 $899. Per-generation cost is published per model on /pricing (GPT Image 2 3 credits/image, Nano Banana Pro 8, Seedance 2.0 Fast 50 credits per 5s, Seedance 2.5 125 per 5s, MiniMax H3 25 per 5s). Annual cards show 17%, 33% and 50% off the monthly equivalents and the site carries a standing '-50%' promo badge. USD. Verified 2026-11-10 on /pricing, /zh/pricing and the plan config shipped in the page.
Official sources checked 2026-11-10Submitted via form by vendor; editorial entry written independently. Prices read from the served /pricing HTML on 2026-11-10 and cross-checked against the plan config shipped inside that page: monthly Basic $11.90/100, Standard $29.90/300, Pro slider $59.90-$159.90 for 750-2,300 credits; annual Basic $118.80 ($9.90/mo, 1,800), Standard $238.80 ($19.90/mo, 4,800), Pro $358.80-$958.80 ($29.90-$79.90/mo, 10,800-38,400); one-time packs 80 cr $9.90, 150 $19.90, 250 $29.90, 400 $39.90, 650 $59.90, 900 $79.90, 1,200 $99.90, 2,500 $199 (183 days); subscriber top-ups 300 $29.90, 1,500 $119, 4,500 $349, 8,500 $649, 12,500 $899; Starter Pass 40 cr / 7 days / $4.99. The /zh/pricing mirror carries the same USD figures with a CNY column, and every annual figure equals 12 monthly payments less the badge shown (17/33/50%). Legal set read in full: /privacy-policy and /terms-of-service both 'Last updated Oct 11, 2026', /refund-policy Aug 14, 2026; /privacy, /terms, /about, /contact and /refund all return 404 (the in-app config still points its refund_url at /refund). Sitewide footer names the operator as ARKELUMA LLC; the policy itself names no controller, address or jurisdiction. Whole-word sweep for 'train' across all fetched pages: zero hits. Processors are named only by category. Browser check on a clean profile 2026-11-10: GA4 G-CDGZN0YSBE plus stats.g.doubleclick.net, Microsoft Clarity xtk49ey6wl, c.bing.com and static.cloudflareinsights.com all fired with no consent banner rendered; cookies _ga, _ga_CDGZN0YSBE, MUID, SRM_B, ANONCHK, CLID and localStorage keys device_fingerprint / attribution_session_id were written. MX is Cloudflare Email Routing and accepts every local part, so an SMTP RCPT probe confirms the domain receives mail but not that a human reads a given address; support@makifyai.com is the published contact. Domain registered 2026-04-08 (Cloudflare registrar, NS audrey/sid); the name market is unrelated - makify.com is a DIY/YouTube hobby site and makify.app does not resolve - so no name dispute is recorded. No hands-on test: entering the product requires creating an account, which is outside the scope of an editorial check.
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