Craiyon
Verified Oct 23, 2026 ActiveFree browser text-to-image generator requiring no account
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
The site returns a Cloudflare 403 to automated fetches, so no price was read from the vendor today. Third-party trackers in 2026 list Free, Supporter $10, Professional $20 and Ultra $70 per month; free generations on the older Lite model are watermarked and ad-supported, paid tiers are credit-metered.
Use tool ↗About Craiyon
Craiyon grew out of the open-source DALL-E mini demo and still turns a typed prompt into a grid of images straight in the browser, with no sign-up required on the free tier. Paid tiers route requests to stronger third-party models, strip the watermark and the ads, and add a monthly credit allowance for the better generators. It is one of the few image tools you can hand to someone who has neither an account nor a card.
- Platforms
- Web
- API
- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- Oct 23, 2026
Verified sources
- Home page and /pricing both answer HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) to automated clients, so vendor pricing could not be read directly (15 October 2026)craiyon.com ↗
- Official Google Play listing by developer Craiyon LLC describes the app as a free progressive web app wrapping the website, warning of copycat apps (15 October 2026)play.google.com ↗
- Third-party price tracker lists Free, Supporter $10/month, Professional $20/month and Ultra $70/month as of August 2026; not confirmed on the vendor page (15 October 2026)costbench.com ↗
Is Craiyon legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Jun 18, 2022 (4 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar Cloudflare, Inc., looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Dec 18, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 23, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 23, 2026The site answered, but turned our crawler away
- On the market since
- 2022The vendor's own material, read by us
- Operated by
- Craiyon LLCOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Craiyon
The zero-friction option: no account, no card, nine images from one prompt. Base output is a model generation or two behind anything current, so treat it as an idea sketchpad rather than a place to make finished assets.
Pros
- Free tier needs no account and imposes no hard generation cap
- Nine-image batch output surfaces prompt variance faster than single-image tools
- Paid tiers now dispatch to current third-party models rather than the original in-house one
- Commercial use is permitted on every tier under its terms
Cons
- Free output carries a watermark and the page is ad-supported
- No public API, plugins or batch tooling found
- The default free model is well behind current image generators on quality
- Cloudflare blocks automated access, so pricing is hard to verify without visiting manually
Best for
- Sketching a visual idea before committing credits on a paid generator
- Classroom and workshop demos where nobody can create accounts
- Casual meme, thumbnail and mood-board experiments
Not for
- Client deliverables or anything headed to print
- Precise prompt control, inpainting or consistent characters across images
Watch out: The 'unlimited' claim only covers the older watermarked Lite generator — the models worth using are credit-metered even on paid tiers.
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