Design comparison
Retouchia vs Tarotai Chat
Ecommerce sellers, creators and small marketing teams who need occasional one-off photo edits - background removal, object removal, upscaling, old-photo restoration, colourising - and would rather buy a $9.99 credit pack than add another monthly AI subscription. Not a fit for anyone who needs a named legal counterparty, a contractual jurisdiction, or a guarantee about which specific model runs their image. · Drawing and interpreting tarot spreads in a chat interface, with follow-up questions inside a reading
| Decision point | Retouchia | TAROTAI.CHAT |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Ecommerce sellers, creators and small marketing teams who need occasional one-off photo edits - background removal, object removal, upscaling, old-photo restoration, colourising - and would rather buy a $9.99 credit pack than add another monthly AI subscription. Not a fit for anyone who needs a named legal counterparty, a contractual jurisdiction, or a guarantee about which specific model runs their image. | Drawing and interpreting tarot spreads in a chat interface, with follow-up questions inside a reading |
| Category | Creative | Creative |
| Price | Free: 5 credits on sign-up (~1 image), no card required, full-resolution downloads. One-time packs only, no subscription: Basic $9.99 (shown against a $12 anchor, "Save 16%", 350 credits, advertised as ~70 images), Pro $29.99 (anchor $39.90, "Save 24%", 1,200 credits, ~240 images). Paid credits expire 365 days after purchase. Payment is processed by Waffo Pancake. | Packs $2.99-$10.99 (one-time); subscriptions $3.99/mo and $9.90/mo |
| AIToolsEssentials editorial score | 3.6/5 | 4.0/5 |
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Free: 5 credits on sign-up, advertised as ~1 image, no card required, full-resolution downloads on the free tier. Paid: two one-time packs only, no subscription - Basic $9.99 for 350 credits (shown against a $12 anchor, "Save 16%") and Pro $29.99 for 1,200 credits (against a $39.90 anchor, "Save 24%"). The cards advertise ~70 images from 350 credits and ~240 from 1,200, i.e. 5 credits per image, while the Terms state "Each public output costs 4 credits". Paid credits are valid 365 days from purchase (Terms section 6, Refund Policy section 1, and the "Credits valid for 1 year" line on each card); the Terms state no coded expiry reminder is sent. No monthly or yearly plan is sold. Payment card data is processed by Waffo Pancake. Prices in USD and identical on /pricing, /zh/pricing, /zh-tw/pricing and llms.txt.
Official sources checked 2026-10-22Submitted via form by the vendor 2026-10-23 00:11 UTC (2026-10-22 17:11 PDT); editorial entry written independently from live pages on the site's Pacific working date 2026-10-22. Submitted summary and category (Creative) were broadly accurate, though the site is a multi-model photo editor rather than only a background-removal/upscale tool. Prices read from the rendered /pricing cards and the SKU data in the pricing chunk (basic_one_time, pro_one_time, currency usd) and cross-checked against the /zh/pricing and /zh-tw/pricing mirrors and llms.txt - all three agree on $9.99/350 and $29.99/1,200, on the $12 and $39.90 anchors, and on 1-year credit validity, and the stated 16% and 24% discounts match those anchors. The ~70 and ~240 image figures are hardcoded display strings in the pricing bundle, not computed, and they imply 5 credits per output while the Terms state 4. Purchasability confirmed without transacting: Waffo checkout reports enabled in the public config endpoint (/api/config/public returns waffo_enabled true, app_name Retouchia, google_analytics_id G-G107GQMKL9, email_verification_enabled false, password_reset_enabled false), and the packs carry Product/Offer JSON-LD with price, currency, SKU and seller. Operator identity, jurisdiction and governing law are absent by the vendor's own statement rather than by omission - this website does not publish a legal entity name, registered office or postal address. Legal set verified live: /privacy-policy, /terms-of-service, /acceptable-use, /refund-policy and /cookie-policy all 200 and versioned by date. Model provenance is the unresolved item: the sitewide navigation and /gpt-image-2-5 advertise GPT Image 2.5 as "OpenAI's" model, while Terms section 2.1, the AUP and the Privacy Policy name only SparkPix and Nano Banana 2, and the strings GPT and OpenAI appear in no legal page; no non-affiliation statement exists anywhere on the site. Contact probe: contact@retouchia.com returned 250 against route1.mx.cloudflare.net with a random local part at 550 5.1.1 (real mailbox, not catch-all). Domain registered 2026-08-30 via Cloudflare, nameservers dayana/seth.ns.cloudflare.com. Name checked for collisions: no other product trades as Retouchia; directory listings exist on FutureTools, tinylaunch and a wiretensors review dated 2026-09-27 which notes public adoption appears minimal - relevant to the site's unverified 200K+ users / 10M+ images claims.
One-time packs that never expire: $2.99 for 120 credits, $5.99 for 360, $10.99 for 900. Monthly subscriptions: $3.99 for 800 credits, $9.90 for 3,000 (no rollover, cancel anytime). Credit cost per action is published: single card 10, three-card 20, two-paths 30, Celtic Cross 40, first follow-up free and later follow-ups 5. Stripe is named as the processor.
Official sources checked 2026-10-21Submitted via form by the vendor 2026-10-20 (14:22 UTC), category 'Creative' (accurate). Editorial entry written independently. One of four products from the same operator, confirmed in writing 2026-10-20 15:34 UTC; the same reply supplied the inference path (WaveSpeed, google/gemini-3.7-flash) and the session-record retention mechanics. Held on an unnamed contracting party and a GA4 claim that does not match its configuration. Re-verified live 2026-10-21: /privacy-policy (dated 2026-09-27) still reads 'We use self-hosted Umami and Google Analytics 4 ... load by default without requiring click consent', no G- measurement ID appears in any served page, and the shipped config carries an empty gaId. PUBLISHED 2026-10-21 with 'no registered company, trading name, postal address or controller identity' and the GA4/gaId mismatch recorded as stated limitations in cons rather than as a gate. Governing law (Hong Kong) and the provider/model disclosure are credited in pros.
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