# Claid.ai review (2026): is it worth $9 a month, billed yearly? > AI product photography, editing and upscaling Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Claid.ai is a web suite for generating, editing and enhancing product images. It covers AI photoshoots, generated backgrounds, AI fashion models, background removal, upscaling and image-to-video, and every operation draws on one monthly credit balance. A separate API sold on its own plans serves developers. - **Category:** AI Image & Video Generators - **Made by:** Let's Enhance, Inc. - **Website:** https://claid.ai - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want a free plan, as it is a one-off trial of 50 credits. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Claid.ai is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $9 per month for 500 credits, billed annually. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** Free trial: 50 credits to use on any operation, plus 50 API credits. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Essentials | $9 per month for 500 credits, billed annually | 500 credits a month on all Standard tools at up to 2K resolution. The monthly-billing price was not shown. | | Pro | $35 per month for 2,000 credits, billed annually | 2,000 credits a month, 2K and 4K generation, batch processing, longer history and uploads up to 64 MP. | | Business | Custom | Custom credits, advanced API workflows, custom SLAs, dedicated support and early access to beta tools. | Read from https://claid.ai/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Claid.ai before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Yearly billing saves up to $120** (Annual discount): The pricing page toggle marks yearly billing as saving $120, and its default view shows the yearly-billed rates. Source: https://claid.ai/pricing ## Key features - **AI photoshoot and backgrounds:** Generates product scenes and template-based backgrounds. An AI Photoshoot costs 4 credits at Standard Quality and 10 at Studio Quality. - **AI fashion models:** Puts clothing on generated models, with a models library and a virtual try-on for your own garments. - **Enhance and upscale:** An enhancer and upscaler costs 2 to 8 credits per operation. Related tools expand images, relight them and remove objects or people. - **Background remover:** Removes backgrounds at 1 credit per image and exports to formats such as Instagram stories and Shopify products. - **Image-to-video:** Animates a still image into a short clip. A 5-second video costs 60 credits and is not part of the free trial. - **Developer API:** The same operations are available by API, sold on separate API plans, and a Zapier connection is listed. ## Good for - Online stores producing product and fashion images at volume - Teams that want one credit balance across editing, generation and upscaling - Developers adding background removal or upscaling through an API ## Worth knowing - Prices shown are the yearly-billed monthly rates; the monthly-billing prices could not be read. - Credits are spent unevenly: 4 for a photoshoot image and 60 for a 5-second video. - 4K output, batch processing and longer history start on Pro. - The help center says refunds are limited to 50% of the latest charge. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Claid.ai runs product photoshoots, fashion models, upscaling, background removal and image-to-video from one credit balance, with an API on separate plans. The shown prices are yearly-billed rates, 4K and batch need Pro at $35, and refunds are capped at 50% of the latest charge. - **Value for money: C.** Essentials is $9 a month for 500 credits on yearly billing, a little above the cheaper quarter's $8.33. The monthly-billing price was not shown. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A free trial of 50 credits, and the listing does not say whether a card is needed. There is no ongoing free plan. - **Features: B.** Photoshoots, AI fashion models, enhance and upscale, background removal and video, plus an API. The listing names no gap in the core job, though 4K and batch need Pro. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating is on record. It is a web app where you work out which operation costs how many credits. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with an API, Zapier and Shopify. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Claid.ai's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among AI image and video generators - Claid.ai's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 106 of the 168 other AI image and video generators we grade, and level with 25. - It stands best on features (B, above 104 of 168) and worst on ease of use (C, above 12). - Its paid plans start at $9 a month, against a middle price of $11.88 for the category: 37 of the 120 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 6 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-images ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Claid.ai 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 costs $108 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: It plugs into other products, Zapier and Shopify among them, and has an API. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, 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. ## Works with Zapier, Shopify **Tags:** Image generation, AI features, Public API, Video generation ## Alternatives - [Photoroom](https://toolgpa.com/tools/photoroom): AI product photo editor for e-commerce sellers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/claid-ai-vs-photoroom) - [Pebblely](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pebblely): AI backgrounds for product photos. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/claid-ai-vs-pebblely) - [Pixelcut](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pixelcut): AI photo and video editor for product images and ads. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/claid-ai-vs-pixelcut) - [Let's Enhance](https://toolgpa.com/tools/lets-enhance): Browser image enhancer and upscaler sold by monthly credits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/claid-ai-vs-lets-enhance) - [PicWish](https://toolgpa.com/tools/picwish): Photo cleanup, background removal and enhancement. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/claid-ai-vs-picwish) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://claid.ai/pricing - https://help.claid.ai/en/category/billing-6nsob4/ - https://help.claid.ai/en/article/claidai-refund-policy-1t79ppd/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/claid-ai Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).