Leonardo AI

Leonardo AI is an image and video generation platform based in Sydney, Australia. It launched in late 2022, first aimed at game artists who needed concept art and assets. Canva bought the company in 2024, and Leonardo still runs as its own product.

Users can create images from text, edit them on a canvas, upscale them and turn them into short videos. Leonardo offers its own models, such as Phoenix, along with models from other companies. Users can train custom models on their own images to keep a consistent style or character. Realtime Canvas updates an image as the user sketches, and the Motion feature animates still images. It is available on the web and on iOS.

There is a free plan with a daily allowance of tokens. Paid plans give more tokens, faster generation and private images. Teams and businesses can also use Leonardo through an API. Its users include game studios, designers, marketers and hobby artists.