Leonardo AI

Leonardo.ai is a professional AI image generation platform built for game developers, concept artists, and visual content creators who need both high creative quality and precise control over outputs. Where some AI image tools prioritize ease of use, Leonardo targets users who want to go deep — with fine-grained model selection, image weighting, and a suite of professional features that go far beyond text-to-image.

The platform runs multiple specialized models alongside Stable Diffusion variants: Leonardo Phoenix delivers photorealistic portraits and environments, Leonardo Diffusion XL excels at stylized illustration, and Anime XL is optimized for anime and manga aesthetics. You can also train your own custom models on a dataset of your images, creating a personalized engine that generates in your specific art style or captures a recurring character’s appearance.

Canvas is the AI image editor: lay out compositions, paint over specific regions with new prompts (inpainting), extend images beyond their borders (outpainting), and apply consistent changes across multiple images. 3D Texture Generation takes a mesh file and generates seamless PBR-ready textures for game assets directly.

The Motion feature generates short video clips from still images, useful for presenting concept art in pitch decks or creating animated social content. Real-time image generation lets you sketch roughly and see AI results update live.

Leonardo offers 150 free tokens daily on its free tier. Apprentice ($12/month), Artisan ($30/month), and Maestro ($60/month) plans scale up tokens, storage, and private generation.