Artbreeder is a prompt-based AI art platform built around mixing and breeding images together rather than typing a single prompt from scratch, plus a shape-and-text Collage tool and a public community built on daily contests and remix parties. What decides whether it suits you is its licensing: every image made on Artbreeder, free or paid, must be released under Creative Commons CC0, open for anyone to use, including commercially.
What is Artbreeder?
Artbreeder is made by Morphogen, Inc., headquartered in the United States. It runs on the web only.
It builds its own models on the BigGAN and StyleGAN architectures rather than reselling another company's model.
What you can make with Artbreeder
Generation centers on Splicer, which mixes two or more images and lets you adjust their genes with sliders, and Splicer2, a fuller interface for mixing, branching and editing. Collage builds a generation out of shapes, an image and text that you arrange yourself, acting as a layout or structure control. There is no dedicated outpainting, upscaling or background-removal tool, and no option to train a model on your own images.
Free accounts get unlimited use of base Splicer generation and slow, queued Collager generation without spending credits. Paid tiers add credits, spent on faster and higher-resolution generation.
Artbreeder has a public community feed for following creators and sharing work, daily-theme Contests you enter and vote on, and Remix Parties for mixing images with other creators. There is no official iOS or Android app.
Working with other people
Artbreeder offers a minimal open-source code release rather than a hosted API. Support runs through email, plus a Discord community server.
Artbreeder pricing: what each plan gives
The free plan costs nothing and gives unlimited base Splicer generation and slow Collager generation without credits.
Starter costs $8.99 a month ($7.49 a month billed yearly) and gives 100 credits a month, roughly 1,000 SDXL images by Artbreeder's own estimate. Advanced costs $18.99 a month ($15.99 a month billed yearly) and gives 275 credits a month. Champion costs $38.99 a month ($30.99 a month billed yearly) and gives 700 credits a month. All three paid tiers include unlimited generation in Composer, a 2048px high-resolution download upscaled from the 512px base image, and Private Mode, which makes images private instead of public.
Rights and privacy
Each image is owned by the person who creates it, but Artbreeder requires every image, on any plan, to be licensed under Creative Commons CC0, releasing it into the public domain so anyone may use it for any purpose, with or without attribution, including commercially. Artbreeder's terms only bind the user to indemnify Morphogen, not the other way round.
Private Mode, which keeps individual images or an entire account private instead of public, is a paid-tier feature.
Who Artbreeder suits
Artbreeder suits people who enjoy mixing and breeding images together rather than prompting from scratch, want a community built around daily contests and remixing other creators' work, and are comfortable with everything they make, including on a paid plan, being released as public domain CC0.
It suits less well anyone who needs to keep their work exclusive, since CC0 lets anyone else reuse any image made on the platform, or anyone who wants a mobile app, video generation, or a way to train a model on their own pictures, none of which Artbreeder offers.
How Artbreeder compares
Artbreeder scores 7.3 out of 10 among the AI art platforms we rate. These three do the same job and are the closest to it, compared on what each vendor publishes.
Dream
Artbreeder's cheapest plan is $8.99 a month against Dream's $19.99, and every Artbreeder image is released as CC0, so you and anyone else can resell it. Dream generates video and ships a full iOS and Android app, both of which Artbreeder lacks. Artbreeder instead has a public gallery, challenges and image remixing built in, plus a daily free allowance like Dream's.
Pick Dream if you want video generation and a native phone app.
Pick Artbreeder if you want commercial rights built in and a community gallery.
Playform
Artbreeder costs $8.99 a month against Playform's $10, and both let you keep generations private and own what you make. Playform trains a private model on your own images, upscales, and keeps a character consistent across images, none of which Artbreeder offers. Artbreeder instead has a public gallery, challenges and remixing that Playform's Studio exhibition does not replace.
Pick Playform if you need to train a private model or keep characters consistent.
Pick Artbreeder if you want a public gallery, challenges and remixing built in.
NightCafe Creator
NightCafe costs $12.49 a month against Artbreeder's $8.99, and both keep a public gallery with daily challenges. NightCafe generates video, upscales images and keeps a character consistent across generations, none of which Artbreeder does. Artbreeder instead releases every image as CC0, so you and anyone else can sell it, without NightCafe's plan-gated privacy.
Pick NightCafe Creator if you want video, upscaling and consistent characters across generations.
Pick Artbreeder if you want CC0 rights and a lower monthly price.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does Artbreeder cost?
Artbreeder has a free plan with unlimited base Splicer and slow Collager generation. Paid plans start at Starter for $8.99 a month ($7.49 a month billed yearly) and rise through Advanced to Champion at $38.99 a month ($30.99 a month billed yearly).
What is the Contests feature on Artbreeder?
Contests let you enter and vote on images made to a daily theme, part of Artbreeder's public community alongside Remix Parties for mixing images with other creators.
What does the Collage tool do?
Collage builds a generation from shapes, an image and text that you arrange yourself, acting as a layout or structure control on the result.
Can I sell images I make on Artbreeder?
Yes, but every image, on any plan, is owned by its creator and simultaneously released under Creative Commons CC0, so anyone else may also use, including commercially, that same image.
