Adobe Firefly

Free tier

Platforms: web, mac, windows | Last verified: 2026-04-12

Features

*Generative Fill in Photoshop — select any area and describe what to add, replace, or remove
*Generative Expand for extending an image beyond its original borders with matching content
*Text-to-image generation trained exclusively on licensed Adobe Stock images and public domain content
*Text effects that apply styles, textures, or scenes to letterforms as a vector-compatible output
*Vector recoloring in Illustrator — describe a color scheme in plain text to recolor complex vector art
*Adobe Stock integration for reference images and direct licensing of generated content

Pricing

Free: 25 generative credits per month on free plan

Firefly Premium$5/month

Creative Cloud All Apps$60/month

Strengths

+Commercial safety is the main reason to choose Firefly over Midjourney or DALL-E — the training data is licensed, so there's no legal ambiguity for client work or product assets
+Generative Fill in Photoshop is the most practical implementation of AI image editing in any professional tool — it's non-destructive and works on any layer
+25 free credits per month is enough to actually evaluate whether it fits your workflow before paying

Limitations

-25 credits per month disappears fast if you iterate on prompts — a serious image workflow will hit the limit in a day
-Standalone at $5/mo is a good deal, but most users end up needing Creative Cloud anyway, and at $60/mo the value comparison with Midjourney gets complicated
-Text-to-image quality lags behind Midjourney and Flux for photorealistic output — Firefly's strength is editing, not generation from scratch

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