Leonardo AI
Image generation with game-asset and concept-art focus
Overview
Leonardo AI generates game assets and concept art — character sheets, environments, style-locked across fine-tuned and custom-trained models. Canva-owned since 2024, it rebranded in February 2026 and sells API access alongside the app; 150 free tokens a day plus paid plans from $10 a month billed annually.
Pricing
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- 150 tokens/day
- Core models
- 8,500 tokens/mo
- 25,000 tokens/mo
- Personal AI models
- 60,000 tokens/mo
- Shared workspace
Use cases
What you can produce with Leonardo AI
- A full set of consistent game character sprites (different poses, same face/style) using custom model training for a mobile or indie game
- A batch of on-brand social media visuals and ad graphics for a marketing campaign, using a trained style model to enforce brand identity across all outputs
- Photorealistic product concept renders from text prompts — e.g. packaging mockups, furniture visualisations, or industrial design previews — ready for client presentations
- An animated short clip or motion graphic from a static AI-generated image using the Motion 2.0 / video generation feature
- High-resolution digital illustration or concept art (fantasy, sci-fi, architectural) upscaled via Universal Upscaler to print or portfolio quality
- In-game 3D texture maps and environment assets (terrain, props, UI elements) for Unity or Unreal workflows generated via the 3D Texture Generation tool
- An edited composite image built on the AI Canvas — e.g. inpainting a product into a lifestyle scene, removing backgrounds, or blending multiple AI generations into a single polished layout (paid tier)
Leonardo AI's strength is production pipelines rather than one-off art: character sheets, environments, and UI mockups stay consistent across a session thanks to custom model training and its fine-tuned models. Canva bought it in 2024 and kept it running as its own product, rebranding it in February 2026, and a pay-as-you-go API lets teams export a generation's exact settings as code. The free allowance of 150 tokens a day is genuinely usable before you hit a paywall. Where it struggles: credits drain fast on premium features and upscaling, character consistency across poses is still hit-or-miss, and it's fighting Midjourney and Adobe Firefly on raw image quality. Good value for teams that need repeatable outputs, not the top pick for one perfect hero image.
What we found
Trustpilot rates Leonardo AI 4.6 out of 5 across 1,488 reviews, 86% of them five stars, on a claimed profile; Trustpilot labels the reviews unprompted and records no recent history of the company asking for them, though many do name the support agent who helped. G2 shows 4.5 from 32 reviews and Capterra 4.6 from 16 — thin samples both.
What users actually praise, consistently: fast generation without a Discord bot, custom model training that keeps a brand's look consistent across a shoot, and a free tier generous enough to test the product before paying. The no-Discord web interface in particular gets called out — Midjourney users switching over describe it as a real workflow upgrade.
The complaints cluster around money and control. Credits burn quickly on premium features and upscaling — Leonardo itself now calls its Alchemy mode a legacy feature; character consistency across different poses in the same set still slips; and the built-in upscaler sometimes alters fine details users didn't ask it to touch. Refunds are assessed manually: the policy excludes a simple change of mind and offers nothing beyond Australian consumer law, though recent reviews report refunds granted after wrong-plan purchases.
Since Canva's 2024 acquisition, Leonardo has kept operating as its own product rather than folding into Canva's editor, and the February 2026 rebrand to "Yours to Create" — alongside a new API page that exports the settings behind a generation as ready-to-run code — suggests Canva is investing rather than winding it down; the "Creative Engine API" name for it comes from press, not from Leonardo. For repeatable, professional image work it remains a credible Midjourney alternative; for one-off hero shots, expect some retries.
The plans have been renamed and repriced. After the free 150 daily tokens, Essential is $12 a month or $10 annually, Premium $30 or $24, and Ultimate $60 or $48, with team plans at $24 and $48 a seat; the old Apprentice, Artisan and Maestro names are gone.
Compiled by RECATOOLS from public sources: vendor documentation and pricing, code repositories and published reporting.
Notable facts
- Leonardo AI was founded in Sydney, Australia, making it the most widely adopted AI creative tool to emerge from APAC.
- The platform's fine-tuning feature requires only 10-20 reference images to create a custom model — compared to hundreds required by traditional ML pipelines.
- Leonardo's game asset pipeline can produce 100 consistent character variations in the time it would take a human concept artist to sketch one.
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About this listing
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