# Adobe Firefly

> Adobe's image, video and audio generator, with partner models

Adobe Firefly generates and edits images, video, audio and vector graphics from prompts, using Adobe's own models, which Adobe says are trained on licensed and public-domain content, alongside partner models from Google, OpenAI and others. It is sold on its own and is also part of Creative Cloud, and its monthly generative credits also work in Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere and Adobe Express.

- **Category:** AI Image & Video Generators
- **Made by:** Adobe
- **Website:** https://www.adobe.com/products/firefly.html
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026

## Pricing

Adobe Firefly has a free plan. Paid plans start at $9.99 per month for 2,000 credits, billed monthly.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Free daily generations across image, video and audio without a plan, including models such as Nano Banana and Luma Ray3.14. Limits refresh every day.
- **Free trial:** 7-day free trial of Standard, Pro and Pro Plus.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | A daily allowance of image, video and audio generations that refreshes each day. |
| Firefly Standard | $9.99 per month for 2,000 credits, billed monthly | Unlimited standard image and vector features; credits cover up to 20 five-second videos or 100 minutes of music. |
| Firefly Pro | $19.99 per month for 4,000 credits, billed monthly | Up to 40 five-second videos, plus Photoshop on web and mobile and Adobe Express Premium. |
| Firefly Pro Plus | $49.99 per month for 10,000 credits, billed monthly | Up to 100 five-second videos, 33 minutes of video translation and 500 minutes of music a month. |
| Firefly Premium | $199.99 per month for 50,000 credits, billed monthly | Unlimited use of the Firefly Video Model, plus credits for partner models and audio. |
| Creative Cloud Pro | $69.99 per month, billed annually | The Creative Cloud suite of 20+ apps, which includes Firefly with 4,000 credits a month. |

Read from https://www.adobe.com/products/firefly/plans.html on Oct 17, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Adobe Firefly before buying.

## Key features

- **Image generation and editing:** Generate Image, Generative Fill and Generative Expand add, remove or extend content, and are unlimited on every paid plan.
- **Video generation and editing:** Make clips from text or images, add or remove objects and swap backgrounds in existing video, and upscale footage with Topaz Astra.
- **Audio tools:** Generate sound effects, music and speech, and translate audio or video into more than 20 languages.
- **Partner models:** Models from Google, OpenAI, Flux, Luma, Runway and others run inside Firefly and draw on the same monthly credits.
- **Firefly Boards:** Mood board and storyboard tools combine generated images, uploads, colors and fonts; paid plans include unlimited use of Firefly Boards.
- **Credits across Adobe apps:** The same generative credits work in Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom and Adobe Express as well as the Firefly web and mobile apps.

## Good for

- Creative Cloud users who want generation inside the apps they already use
- Commercial work where the origin of training data matters
- Teams that need image, video and audio generation from one vendor

## Worth knowing

- Monthly credits reset on the billing date and do not roll over; video, audio and partner models all draw on them.
- Team versions of Pro, Pro Plus and Premium cost the same per license but need an annual commitment, billed monthly.
- Adobe's commercial-use assurance covers its own models; you are responsible for partner-model output, and IP indemnity is for enterprise plans.
- The iOS app is listed for iPhone only, not iPad.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 3.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. Adobe Firefly makes images, video, audio and vectors, and its credits also work inside Photoshop, Premiere and Illustrator. Standard is $9.99 a month, with unlimited standard image features and enough credits for about 20 short clips. Video is where credits run out, and partner-model output isn't covered by Adobe's commercial assurance.

- **Value for money: B.** Standard is $9.99 a month for 2,000 credits, right on this category's cheaper quarter. Standard image and vector features are unlimited, and the credits cover up to 20 five-second videos or 100 minutes of music.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** A free daily allowance of image, video and audio generations, with models such as Nano Banana, that refreshes every day. The listing doesn't say how much it is. Paid plans also have a 7-day free trial.
- **Features: A.** Images, video, audio and vectors: Generative Fill, object removal in video, music, speech, translation into 20+ languages and partner models. What rivals don't match is the same credits working in Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere, and Adobe's own models trained on licensed content.
- **Ease of use: B.** 4.69 from about 10,800 App Store ratings, a hair under the 4.7 that earns an A. There's a lot on offer across image, video and audio, but nothing to set up.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android, and the credits also work in Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom and Express. No Firefly desktop app of its own, and the iPhone app isn't listed for iPad.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Adobe's own pages on 17 October 2026, and its App Store rating. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among AI image and video generators

- Adobe Firefly's GPA of 3.0 is higher than 19 of the 21 other AI image and video generators we grade, and level with 2.
- It stands best on features (A, above 20 of 21) and worst on free plan and trial (C, above 3).
- Its paid plans start at $9.99 a month, against a middle price of $12 for the category: 4 of the 16 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 3.3 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-images

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Adobe Firefly you would be making an image model, which you can rent by the picture but not make. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 3.0 is higher than 19 of the 21 other AI image and video generators we grade. It costs $119.88 a year.

- You could not: An image model, which you can rent by the picture but not make.
- You could not: A video model, which you can rent by the second but not make.
- You could not: A video editor.
- You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Premiere among them.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features A, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## What people say

- **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.7 out of 5 from 10,765 ratings in the United States, read Oct 17, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6742595426

## Works with

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Express

**Tags:** Image generation, Video generation, AI features, Video editing

## Alternatives

- [Midjourney](https://toolgpa.com/tools/midjourney): Image and short-video generator run on monthly GPU time. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/adobe-firefly-vs-midjourney)
- [Canva](https://toolgpa.com/tools/canva): Template-based design platform for slides, graphics and video. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/adobe-firefly-vs-canva)
- [Magnific](https://toolgpa.com/tools/freepik): Formerly Freepik: AI image, video and audio tools plus stock library. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/adobe-firefly-vs-freepik)
- [Leonardo.Ai](https://toolgpa.com/tools/leonardo-ai): Image, video and 3D generator with its own and partner models. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/adobe-firefly-vs-leonardo-ai)
- [Krea](https://toolgpa.com/tools/krea): Image, video and 3D generation with real-time canvas and plugins. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/adobe-firefly-vs-krea)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 17, 2026:

- https://www.adobe.com/products/firefly/plans.html
- https://www.adobe.com/cc-shared/fragments/products/firefly/plans/mini-compare/individual/default.plain.html
- https://www.adobe.com/cc-shared/fragments/products/firefly/plans/mini-compare/business/default.plain.html
- https://www.adobe.com/cc-shared/fragments/products/firefly/plans/faq.plain.html
- https://www.adobe.com/cc-shared/fragments/products/firefly/plans/ready-to-buy.plain.html
- https://www.adobe.com/products/firefly.html
- https://www.adobe.com/cc-shared/fragments/products/firefly/features/video.plain.html
- https://www.adobe.com/cc-shared/fragments/products/firefly/features/ideation.plain.html
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adobe-firefly-ai-video-photo/id6742595426
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adobe.firefly

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