Today, we’ll look at the best free AI image generators that allow you to create any image using text prompts! These free AI image creators use advanced algorithms and machine learning models to generate images based on your text prompts.

Popular AI image generation tools like MidJourney have great results, but are also expensive, so we’re sharing free AI image generators with decent results. Here are some benefits of using AI image generators:

• Experimentation and exploration for everyone
• Concept visualization
• Creativity boost
• Faster workflow
• Cost-effective

Let’s look at our top 5 AI image generation tools now!

Totally Free AI Image Generators

The following 3 free AI image creators offer unlimited image generations, no credits needed! You can generate as many images as you want, all day long, and you will not be asked to wait for your credits to replenish or a subscription.

1. Free AI Image Creator from Microsoft Designer – Copilot

Image Creator from Microsoft Designer allows you to generate images through text prompts. You can further customize your generated images through additional prompts, until you get the perfect image. Remember to provide text descriptions related to location or style as well. The generated images can be used in various contexts, like social media posts, presentations, or blog articles.

Microsoft’s Image Creator comes with Microsoft Designer (now integrated with Microsoft Copilot). This AI image creator uses the same AI image generation engine (DALL-E 3) as the paid version of ChatGPT-4, so the results are very good. All you need is a free email account with Microsoft (@hotmail or @msn) and you get access to the best, paid features, for free!

Here’s an AI image we generated for free using Microsoft Image Creator. Text prompt: Draw a dragon trying to fly off a pirate ship. Make the image realistic.

2. Adobe Firefly AI Image Generator

Adobe Firefly if part of Adobe’s new set of AI tools, called Adobe Creative Cloud Suite (we discussed it here) and is available through their website, entirely free (all you need is a free account). This AI tool is also available through Adobe Photoshop.

Adobe Firefly allows users to generate high-resolution images for free using credits (free users get unlimited credits). This AI image creator allows you to create images based on descriptions you provide via text prompts. The more details you include, the better the AI can translate your vision into a visual format. In fact, you can even add a reference image to make sure you generate the perfect image. Adobe Firefly AI also allows you to choose from a variety of artistic styles to suit the creative direction of your concept. Users can also access to basic editing tools to refine the generated image, such as adjusting the color balance, lighting, aspect ratio, etc.

Here’s our dragon prompt tested through Adobe Firefly image generator.

3. Free AI Image Generator from Meta

Meta (owner of Facebook) offers a free AI image generator called “Imagine with Meta”. This AI tool is available through WhatsApp chat (using the search function) and through Meta AI’s website.

Type “/imagine” followed by your text prompt, or simply ask the AI model to create an image you want. Detailed prompts get better results, of course, and you can ask this AI image generator to create as many AI-powered images as you want. No limits! Within your text prompts, you can define the desired resolution, artistic style, scene, mood, and type (portraits, faces, abstract concepts). The coolest part of Meta’s AI image generator is that your image can be converted into a GIF-type video as well, for a bit of variation.

Here’s an AI image we generated for free using Meta’s AI image generator using the same text prompt: Draw a dragon trying to fly off a pirate ship. Make the image realistic.

Free AI Image Generator Tools That Limit Daily Usage

The following AI image creators are free to use but each image costs ‘credits’ to generate or modify. Your credits get reset every day, so if you manage your AI image creation demands, you can still use their cool features for free.

4. Leanardo AI Image Creator

Leonardo AI is a free AI image generation tool with high quality results. The free plan offers 150 tokens (credits) daily, and 1 image costs around 14 tokens.

You can choose between a variety of art styles, such as bokeh, cinematic, macro, minimalistic, and even choose between high-speed generation or high-quality generation. Under the free plan, each prompt generates 4 variations and you can change the dimension of the AI generated image, making the images suitable for use on social media or your website.

Here’s the image Leonardo AI generated using the same dragon prompt.

5. SeaArt AI Image Generator

SeaArt also allows you to generate images for free using text prompts. This platform uses open-source models so you can choose the one you like best. SeaArt AI comes with a variety of advanced tools that allow you to upscale generated images and convert them into GIFs.

This AI image creator also lets you create images based on other images using their Img2Img tool.

Each day you get 200 credits, for free, and you can use them however you like. Images cost around 4 credits, while GIF conversion costs around 30 credits.

Which is the best free AI image generator?

Based on the daily limits and image editing options available, we feel Adobe Firefly rises to the top. The tool is entirely free and offers basic image options, including the ability to use another image as a reference point.

In second place, we have a draw between Microsoft’s Image Creator and Meta AI’s image creator, for their ability to generate unlimited AI powered images. You can’t edit the image through in-built tools, but you can experiment with an infinite number of text prompts to get the desired AI powered image.

While Leonardo and SeaArt offer some cool editing features, the generated images missed the prompt instructions, which is not a good thing especially if you have a limited number of AI image generation credits to use daily.

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