Craiyon uses a tiered service system to achieve commercial sustainability, and its fee model is designed with typical SaaS characteristics:
- The free tier retains core functionality, limiting only resolution and generation speed to ensure a basic user experience
- Paid subscription unlocks value-added services such as 1080P HD output, priority queue generation and copyright notice exemption
- Commercial terms of use are clear and standardized, and free users are required to retain the craiyon.com attribution mark.
- The upcoming mobile app will be available as a premium subscription exclusive benefit
This model maintains the openness of the tool while creating a revenue stream through technology layering to fund subsequent R&D. The commercialization path is more scalable, especially in light of the market expectation that image generation APIs may open up.
This answer comes from the articleCraiyon: a free tool for generating AI art imagesThe
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