Colormind vs Huemint vs Coolors vs Khroma
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
| CM Colormind Deep-learning palettes with a free public API and no account required Visit | HU Huemint Generates colours by the job each one does in the design, not as a fla... Visit | CO Coolors The default palette generator, with AI credits bolted onto a $3/month... Visit |
Khroma
Free AI color-palette generator that learns your taste in-browser
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.9 / 10 | 7.3 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 | 6.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Free | Free | Freemium | Free |
| Free tier | Free, including API access with no account | Free to use | Free — generate freely, save up to 10 palettes | — |
| Paid from | — | — | $3/mo billed annually | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
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| Verdict | Colormind is infrastructure disguised as a design tool. The free, keyless public API is the whole point: if you need palette generation inside a product, nothing else in this category lets you ship without an account or... |
Huemint is the palette generator that understands a palette is relative to a layout. Generating by role — background, text, accent — against a template, rather than producing five unassigned swatches, is a genuinely bett... |
Coolors is the fast one. The spacebar loop remains the quickest way to browse colour, and the surrounding tools — image extraction, contrast checking, colour-blindness previews, exports — cover the practical work. The AI... |
Khroma is a one-person side project, built by product designer George Hastings, that solves a narrow, real problem well: picking a color palette when you're starting from nothing. You train it by liking or blocking 50 co... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.