Adobe Firefly vs Canva AI vs Lovart AI vs Microsoft Designer
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Adobe Firefly
Adobe's commercially-safe AI studio for image, video and audio
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Canva AI
AI design tools built into Canva — image gen, copy, and edits.
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Microsoft Designer
Free DALL·E design app wired into Microsoft 365
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.8 / 10 | 7 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 | 7.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Subscription | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | 25 generative credits per month via firefly.adobe.com | Limited AI generations on free Canva plan | Free plan: 500 welcome credits; 100 credits/day refresh; no watermark; personal use only | Free tier with daily AI-generation "boost" limits |
| Paid from | Standard $9.99/mo (2,000 credits); Pro $19.99/mo (4,000 credits); higher tiers to $139.91/mo | $120/year (Pro) | Starter ~$19.93/mo · Basic ~$39.95/mo · Pro ~$89.97/mo · Ultimate ~$159.99/mo (save 20% annual) | Bundled: Microsoft 365 Premium $19.99/mo; 365 Copilot $30/user/mo |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Users | ~41M Creative Cloud subscribers; Firefly used to generate 22B+ assets by April 2025 | 265m+ monthly active users (end of 2025), 31m paying | 800K+ verified beta users (70 countries, Jul 2025); 10M+ claimed by company (unaudited) | — |
| Founded | — | 2013 | 2024 | — |
| Maker | Adobe Inc. | Canva | LiblibAI (Resonate International Inc. — US entity) | — |
| Verdict | Firefly has grown from a cautious image generator into Adobe's whole AI studio: Image Model 5, video and audio generation, and partner models from Google, OpenAI, Runway and Black Forest Labs, all inside one credit syste... |
Canva AI is Magic Studio bundled into a design tool most SMBs and marketing teams already have open: Magic Design turns a text prompt into an editable template, Magic Write drafts on-page copy, and Dream Lab (built on Le... |
Lovart backs up its "AI design agent" pitch with real multi-step automation — the MCoT engine chains GPT-4o, Flux Kontext, Kling, Ideogram, and Veo 3 into a single brief-to-campaign workflow, not just one wrapped model.... |
A Canva-style app for people who don't think of themselves as designers. Describe a social post, invitation, or thumbnail and Designer builds it, with DALL·E 3 image generation, background removal, auto-crop, and a Resty... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.