Luminar Neo vs Adobe Firefly vs Luminar AI vs Topaz Labs
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Luminar Neo
Skylum's AI photo editor — one-time licence, sky and portrait tools
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Adobe Firefly
Adobe's commercially-safe AI studio for image, video and audio
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Luminar AI
Skylum's discontinued AI editor — superseded by Luminar Neo
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Topaz Labs
AI-powered photo and video enhancement — upscale, denoise, and sharpen...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 | 6 / 10 | 7.2 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Paid | Subscription | Paid | Paid |
| Free tier | 7-day free trial | 25 generative credits per month via firefly.adobe.com | 30-day free trial | Free 30-day trial |
| Paid from | $79/year | Standard $9.99/mo (2,000 credits); Pro $19.99/mo (4,000 credits); higher tiers to $139.91/mo | $79/year (Luminar Neo) | $119/year (DeNoise AI) |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | 1m+ photographers | ~41M Creative Cloud subscribers; Firefly used to generate 22B+ assets by April 2025 | 5m+ photographers | 500k+ professional users |
| Founded | 2021 | 2023 | 2008 | 2014 |
| Maker | Skylum | Adobe Inc. | Skylum | Eric Yang |
| Verdict | Luminar Neo remains the shortcut editor: depth-aware relighting, sky replacement, portrait retouching, and generative object removal that get hobbyists and prosumers to a finished image far faster than Lightroom. Skylum... |
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... |
Note: Luminar AI (the standalone product reviewed here) was discontinued in October 2022, superseded by Luminar Neo.Skylum stopped selling Luminar AI on 3 October 2022 and it no longer receives updates of any kind — exis... |
Topaz Labs makes a well-regarded suite of specialised enhancement apps -- Photo AI, Video AI, Gigapixel, plus newer entries like Bloom and Astra -- each a deeply-tuned model for one job (upscaling, denoising, sharpening)... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.