Playground AI Review: Our Insider Tips and Verdict [2023]

PlaygroundAI’s free AI image generation tool lets you write a prompt and have an image created from it. You can select from some of the best image generation models on the market, like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E 2. Most usefully, you can specify lots of options, including what the image size should be, which details should be excluded and even share an inspirational drawing or image.

Using the platform is straight forward enough: Add your prompt on the left-most column, tweak the details on the right-most column, and your image will be generated by the AI in the centre column.

Playground requires a signup to use the platform, but you can create a staggering 1,000 images per day and even use them commercially entirely for free. Pricing starts at $15/month if you want faster image generation, bigger images or to remove limits on quality and detail. There’s also a $10/month addon option if you want to use the DALL-E 2 model, although frankly I prefer the quality of output from Stable Diffusion, so I wouldn’t recommend paying for this addon.

Playground has a slightly more complicated editor called Canvas, which lets you go beyond just prompting an image: you can edit items out of the image, work on multiple images at onn a canvas and even give editing instructions straight to the AI. This is powerful enough to be a standalone platform, and made even better by the ability to do real-time collaboration on image editing with your friends and colleagues.