Clipdrop vs Stability AI (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Clipdrop if

• Fits if you need a quick cutout, cleanup or upscale and would rather not open an editor
• Works for people who do a few photo fixes a day

Look elsewhere if

• Tight if you do more than 20 background removals or cleanups a day on free
• Skip it if you need an app, since every tool runs in the browser
• Pricey if you want a yearly deal, as Pro is month to month at $15 only
• Watch out: free upscaling stops at 2x, and API access is sold apart as the Jasper API

Pick Stability AI if

• Fits if you're a developer adding image generation and editing to your own app
• Works for teams who can run open image models on their own hardware or call them on Bedrock or Azure

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you just want to type a prompt and get a picture, as there's no app; Start creating leads to enterprise partnerships
• Not for you if your company makes over $1M a year, as that needs an Enterprise License priced by sales
• Too light for developers who want video by API, as the price list has none; Stable Video Diffusion is self-host only
• Watch out: the API is pay per use at a cent a credit, 2.5 to 8 credits an image and 60 for the Creative Upscaler
• Tight if you have no hardware of your own, as the free license means running the models yourself, and the API start is 25 credits

Clipdrop

• Pro is sold month to month at $15; the pricing page shows no yearly option.
• The free plan caps background removal, upscaling, cleanup and relight at 20 uses a day, and free upscaling stops at 2x.
• There are no mobile or desktop apps on the site; every tool runs in the browser.
• API access is now sold separately as the Jasper API, with usage-based pricing.

Stability AI

• The API is pay per use: 1 credit is $0.01, an image costs 2.5 to 8 credits, and the Creative Upscaler costs 60 credits per image.
• Organizations with more than $1M in yearly revenue need an Enterprise License, priced only through sales.
• The API price list has image, 3D and audio services but no video; Stable Video Diffusion is offered for self-hosting only.
• There is no image app sold to consumers: the image page's "Start creating" link leads to the enterprise partnerships page.

Clipdrop

Text to image

Generate images from a prompt with 15 style presets such as Photographic, Anime, Pixel Art and Line Art, in five aspect ratios from 21:9 to 9:16.

Background removal and replacement

Cut out the main subject of a photo up to 5000 x 5000 pixels, or place it into a new generated scene with Replace background.

Cleanup and text remover

Brush over objects, people, text or blemishes and have them filled in, or strip all text from an image.

Image upscaler

Enlarge and denoise an image at 2x on the free plan, and at up to 16x on Pro.

Uncrop and Universal Resizer

Extend a photo beyond its edges to fit a new format, or resize one image for different social media sizes.

Relight

Add new lights to an existing photo to change how it is lit, at high resolution on Pro.

Stability AI

Stable Diffusion 3.5 models

Large, Large Turbo and Medium versions of the image model to download and run yourself; Medium is designed to run on consumer hardware.

Image generation API

Stable Image Ultra, Stable Image Core, the Stable Diffusion 3.5 family and SDXL, each billed per image in credits.

Editing API

Erase objects, inpaint, outpaint, remove or replace a background and relight, and find an object by name to recolor or replace it.

Upscaling and control

Creative, Conservative and Fast upscalers, plus sketch, structure and style tools that guide a new image from one you supply.

Video and 3D models

Stable Video Diffusion turns text into short clips for self-hosting; Stable Fast 3D and SPAR3D make 3D assets from one image through the API.

Cloud partners

The models are also offered on Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, and in NVIDIA-optimized versions.

Clipdrop

• Free$0

  Text to image, uncrop and replace background, plus 20 uses a day of background removal, 2x upscaling, cleanup and relight.

• Pro$15

  per month, billed monthly

  1,000 uses a day per tool at high resolution, queue skipping for text to image and uncrop, and upscaling up to 16x.

Stability AI

• Community License$0

  Run Stable Diffusion 3.5, SDXL Turbo, Stable Fast 3D and Stable Audio 3.0 on your own hardware; for those under $1M in yearly revenue.

• Enterprise LicenseCustom

  Commercial use above $1M in yearly revenue, with implementation support; custom model training and consulting cost extra.