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

Pick Draw Things if

• Fits if you want to generate images offline on an iPad, iPhone or Mac
• Works for people who would train a LoRA without uploading their pictures

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you use Windows, Android or a browser, as only Apple devices are listed
• Tight if your device is old, as local speed depends on the hardware doing the work
• Watch out: cloud compute limits for the free account and Draw Things+ are not published
• Watch out: Enterprise has no published price

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

Draw Things

• The download page and App Store badges cover iPhone, iPad and Mac only; no Windows, Android or browser version is listed.
• The pricing page does not state the cloud compute limits for the free account or for Draw Things+.
• Speed depends on the device doing the work, since generation is local by default.
• The Enterprise edition is sold through contact with the vendor and has no published price.

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.

Draw Things

On-device generation

Prompts are turned into images on the device itself, and the homepage says the app runs offline on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Infinite canvas

The canvas can be extended in any direction, with the app filling in new areas of the image.

Image-to-video

Short video clips can be made from a still image.

Local LoRA training

LoRAs are trained entirely on the device, so training images stay local.

Cloud compute option

A free account can offload generation to Draw Things' managed servers, with higher limits on Draw Things+.

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.

Draw Things

• Free Edition$0

  Local generation on your own device, model downloads, infinite canvas and local LoRA training.

• Community$0

  free account

  Everything in the Free Edition, plus free use of cloud compute on Draw Things' managed servers and access to Lab Hours.

• Draw Things+$8.99

  per month

  Higher cloud compute limits, custom LoRA uploads for cloud compute, on-demand limit boosts and Privacy Pass.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Organization-wide deployment, inference hosted on your own infrastructure, and integration of local or cloud inference into your own apps. Contact the vendor.

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.