Lexica
Image generation attached to a public prompt archive, from $8 a month with no free plan
Paid
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What is this tool?
Nothing can be generated here without paying: Starter is $8 a month billed annually for 1,000 fast generations and there is no free tier at all. What the plans really differ on is not the allowance. Whether your output stays private is decided by the tier rather than by a setting, and it only becomes private at Max ($48). The commercial licence is then sold by headcount — one creator, 2-5 people, or 5 and above — so the plan your volume needs and the plan your company needs are often not the same one.
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The archive is the product as much as the generator is. Searching it returns images with the exact prompt behind each one, the model that produced it and its dimensions, and a prompt can be copied or opened straight in the editor — so the natural way to work here is backwards from a result that is close, rather than forwards from an empty prompt box. Generation itself is subscription-gated: the plan block states plainly that nothing can be generated without an active subscription.
What the three plans really sell is a combination of throughput, privacy and licence, and they move independently of each other. Throughput is fast generations a month, 1,000 to 7,000, with a slow queue behind it on Pro and Max once the fast allowance is spent. Privacy is binary and tied to the tier. The licence is sold by headcount — individual, 2-5, or 5 and above. Because those three scales do not line up, the plan that fits your volume, the plan that fits your confidentiality and the plan that fits your company size can be three different plans, and the licence is the one that binds. All three cards carry the same editor features.
The terms are worth reading before the pricing. Using the product grants Lexica a perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable, sublicensable copyright licence over the images you create, to reproduce them, make derivative works, display them publicly and sublicense them — which on the public tiers is not theoretical, because the same document says other users may take those images for their own commercial work. Against that, the terms say nothing about model training, retention or deletion, and carry no date. They also still refer to a 'Free' plan that the plan block says no longer exists, so read the plan block as the entitlement and the terms as the rights.
Is this right for you?
Quick fit check against how you actually work.
Choose this if
- You work from other people's prompts and want them searchable with the image and model attached, rather than scrolling a feed
- Your generation is steady rather than bursty, so a monthly fast-generation allowance is the right unit to buy
- You are an individual creator who needs a commercial licence and nothing more elaborate than that
- You want to keep generating after the fast allowance runs out, which is what the slow queue on the two upper plans is for
Consider alternatives if
- You want to try before paying, because no free plan or trial is printed anywhere
- Your work cannot be public, and privacy begins only at the $48 Max plan
- You are uncomfortable granting the vendor a perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable licence over everything you generate, which is what the terms take
- Your policy needs a stated position on model training, a retention period or a deletion route, none of which the terms address
- You need a documented API, a mobile app or a desktop route, none of which the vendor names anywhere
Key features
What you can actually do with this tool.
A prompt archive you can search, not a gallery you scroll
Open any image in the public collection and the wording behind it is right there, with the model and dimensions, and buttons to copy that prompt or take it straight into the editor. For anyone who learns phrasing by example, that is a working reference rather than inspiration.
Fast and slow generations as the plan mechanic
Plans buy a monthly number of fast generations — 1,000, 3,000 or 7,000 — on the fastest servers. Starter stops there; Pro and Max keep generating on a slow queue after the fast allowance runs out, under a daily cap. So the two upper plans are less a bigger bucket than a different behaviour at the end of the month.
Privacy is a plan feature, not a setting
Images made on Starter and Pro are public and appear in the search everyone else uses, where the terms allow other Lexica users to take them for personal and commercial work. Only the Max plan makes your output private unless you choose to share it. If you generate for clients, this is the line that decides which plan you are on.
Commercial rights priced by company size
A paid plan is required for any commercial use, and the tiers map to headcount rather than volume: an individual creator on Starter, a team of 2-5 on Pro, 5 or more on Max. Two people using one Starter account are outside the licence they think they bought.
Uploads, aspect ratios and top-ups on every tier
Custom aspect ratios, image uploads, optional credit top-ups and early access to new models are printed on all three cards, so the tiers differ on volume, privacy and licence rather than on what the editor can do.
Plans & pricing
Pricing tiers and what's included in each.
Starter plan
$8 / month/ year
- Billed annually (page prints 'Save 20%')
- 1,000 fast generations per month
- No slow generations
- 2 concurrent fast jobs
- Images are public
- Personal commercial license (individual creator)
- Custom aspect ratios, image uploads, optional credit top-ups, early access to new models
Pro plan
Starting paid plan$24 / month/ year
- Billed annually
- 3,000 fast generations per month
- Unlimited slow generations with daily cap
- 3 concurrent fast jobs
- Images are public
- Full commercial license for teams of 2-5 people
Max plan
$48 / month/ year
- Billed annually
- 7,000 fast generations per month
- Unlimited slow generations with daily cap
- 3 concurrent fast jobs
- Images are private
- Full commercial license for teams of 5 or more
Official pricing pagePricing may have changed. Always verify before purchasing.
Frequently asked
Common questions about this tool, answered.
Is there any way to generate an image without subscribing?
No. The plan block states that subscribing is the only way to generate images and that there is currently no free plan, and no trial with a duration is printed anywhere. Searching the public archive and reading other people's prompts is a different matter — that is what the collection is for — but producing your own image starts at Starter, $8 a month billed annually.
Which plan do I need for client work?
Two different rules point at the same answer, and both have to be checked. The first is visibility: on Starter and Pro the plans print 'Images are public', and the terms confirm those images appear in Lexica search where other users may take them for personal and commercial work. Max is where output becomes private unless you share it, and there is no per-image toggle described anywhere, so this is a subscription decision rather than a per-job one. The second is headcount: any commercial use needs a paid plan, and beyond that Starter covers an individual creator, Pro a team of 2-5 and Max 5 or more. Client confidentiality and a company of six point at Max for entirely separate reasons, and either one on its own is enough.
What rights does Lexica take over my images?
A perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free and irrevocable copyright licence, wide enough to cover copying, adaptation, public display and onward sublicensing. That licence is granted by using the product and is not described as ending when a subscription does. What the terms do not say is whether your prompts or images are used to train models, how long anything is kept, or how to have it removed.
How it compares
Context for choosing between this tool and alternatives.
The archive works because everyone's images are in it with their prompts attached. Your images are in it for the same reason on Starter and Pro, where the terms let other Lexica users take them for their own commercial work. That is one decision, not two features, and it is the thing to weigh against a generator that keeps output private by default: the searchable library you came for and the exposure you did not are the same mechanism. Client work changes the answer, because at that point you are paying the top tier to switch off the feature that attracted you.