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Canva

What Canvacosts, what you get without paying, and the limits, verified against the vendor’s own pages, plus the one-day projects it shows up in.

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Has a free tier · paid from EUR 110 per year · Verified August 2026 · No one-day test yet: these are verified facts, not a review.

What Canva actually is

  • The full design editor (social posts, presentations, docs) stays free. The AI features are the paywall
  • The Magic Studio suite (Magic Write, Magic Media, Dream Lab) is complete on Pro, with 500 credits per month
  • The largest template library in the category

Limits and catches

  • Canva's pricing page states the free AI allowance as 'Up to 200 Standard AI uses or 20 Premium AI uses', shared across AI tiers, but does not say over what period it resets
  • Higher-tier AI tools eat more of the same allowance, so premium generations run it down several times faster than standard ones
  • 5 GB of storage on Free against 1 TB on Pro

What does Canva cost?

Yes, a permanently free plan with no credit card: over 250,000 templates, 5 GB of storage, realtime collaboration and basic AI features. The premium AI is where it stops. Magic Media video runs on about 5 lifetime credits that never reset, Magic Media images on roughly 50 lifetime credits according to secondary sources, and Magic Write on a small number of prompts. Background Remover, Magic Eraser and Magic Expand are absent from Free entirely.

TierPricePeriod
FreeUp to 200 Standard AI uses or 20 Premium AI uses, on a shared allowanceEUR 0per year
ProFor one person. 10x more AI than Free, shared across Standard, Premium and Ultra AIEUR 110per year
BusinessPer person. Adds team admin, 100 Brand Kits, Leonardo.Ai and FlourishEUR 170per year

Prices verified August 2026, we re-check every 60 days.

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