Magnific (formerly Freepik)

Freepik changed its name to Magnific on 28 April 2026. It is the same company, accounts and library: more than 250 million stock photos, vectors, icons, videos and templates, plus an AI suite that lets you generate images, video, voice, music and sound effects with most of the big models (Google's Nano Banana, Kling, Seedance, Veo, FLUX and its own Magnific One). It also includes the Magnific upscaler that made the name famous, a shared canvas called Spaces, and an MCP connection so Claude can use it.

The appeal is one bill instead of five. A marketer can grab a stock photo, generate a variation, animate it into a short clip and upscale the result without leaving the site. Pick it over Higgsfield when you also want a stock library, and over Canva when generation matters more than templates and layout.

The catch is the fine print. 'Unlimited' on Premium+ covers selected image models only, slows down after fair-use limits and changes as models rotate in and out. Prices are shown in your local currency, and recent Reddit and Trustpilot posts complain about billing glitches and slow, AI-first support.

• Marketers
• Social media managers
• Agencies
• Designers
• Content creators

Marketers, social media managers and small agencies who want stock assets and AI generation in one subscription.

• Stock library

  More than 250 million photos, vectors, icons, PSDs, videos, mockups and fonts, with a commercial licence on paid plans.

• Many models, one place

  Generate images and video with Nano Banana, Kling, Seedance, Veo, FLUX, GPT Image and Magnific's own Magnific One, all from one credit pool.

• Magnific upscalers

  The upscaler Freepik bought in 2024, for sharpening and adding detail to images and now video.

• Spaces

  A shared canvas where you chain tools into a workflow, such as product photo to lifestyle shot to video, and share it with a team.

• Audio

  Music, voice-over and sound effects generation, so a short ad can be made start to finish.

• MCP, API and plugins

  Connect it to Claude or ChatGPT, call it from code, or use it inside ComfyUI.

• Free

  Free

  Grabbing the odd free stock asset and testing the AI tools.

  • Free stock assets with attribution
  • A small daily allowance of AI generations
  • Personal use only for AI output

• Premium

  $20/mo, or $14.50/mo billed yearly

  Stock-heavy users who generate now and then.

  • All premium stock, up to 100 downloads a day
  • 20,000 AI credits a month (240,000 a year on annual)
  • Commercial licence, no attribution
  • No extra credit top-ups
• Our pick

  Premium+

  $45/mo, or $33.75/mo billed yearly

  Marketers generating images most days.

  • 45,000 credits a month (600,000 a year on annual)
  • Unlimited generations on selected image models, subject to fair use
  • Topaz upscaler and music rights
  • Can buy extra credits

• Pro Starter

  $110/mo, or $82.50/mo billed yearly

  Agencies and heavy video users.

  • 112,500 credits a month (1.5 million a year on annual)
  • Higher fair-use limits on unlimited models
  • Everything in Premium+

• Pro

  $280/mo, or $210/mo billed yearly

  Studios producing video at volume.

  • 300,000 credits a month (4 million a year on annual)
  • Unlimited Nano Banana Pro on top of Premium+ models
  • Everything in Pro Starter

Prices in USD unless noted, checked 21 October 2026. Vendors change plans often, so confirm on their site before you buy.

Ways Magnific (formerly Freepik) can slot into your week.

1. 1

   A week of social posts from stock and AI

   Start from a stock photo, generate on-brand variations with Nano Banana, then animate the best one into a short Reel.

2. 2

   Ad creative testing

   Generate a dozen versions of a product shot across different models and backgrounds, then keep the winners.

3. 3

   Rescue low-res images

   Run old product photos or client-supplied images through the Magnific upscaler before they go on a website or into print.

4. 4

   Repeatable workflows in Spaces

   Build a product photo to lifestyle shot to video chain once, then reuse it for every new product.

5. 5

   Let Claude drive it

   Connect the Magnific MCP and ask Claude for images or clips in chat, billed to your credits.

Magnific sits alongside Canva rather than replacing it: generate and source assets here, lay them out in Canva or Figma, and schedule elsewhere. The MCP and API let Claude or ChatGPT pull from it, and ComfyUI users can run its models inside their own node workflows.

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