Raphael AI

Raphael's pitch is breadth without commitment. Instead of picking one model and pricing around it, the app holds a roster — GPT Image 2.5, Seedream 5.0 Flash and 5.0 Pro, Seedream 3.5 Pro, Nano Banana 2, Nano Banana 2 Lite, Nano Banana Pro and MiniMax H3 / H3 Turbo — and routes your prompt to whichever fits. That is genuinely useful if your job is deciding which model to standardise on, because you can compare outputs on your own prompts the same afternoon, with no card and no account. The free tier is the headline and it is unusually generous: unlimited generations in basic mode, watermark included, roughly 8 seconds per image on the Basic model, up to 4 images per prompt. Signing in free adds daily credits and higher-resolution models up to 2K — worth doing, since some models (Nano Banana among them) ask you to sign in before they will run. The editing stack is broader than the name suggests. Remove background, expand image, upscaler, watermark remover and transform style cover the production chores around a generated image, and image-to-image accepts up to six reference images, which is more than most single-model tools allow. The video side (text-to-video, image-to-video, video upscaler, AI lip sync) plus 3D model generation and voice cloning means one subscription can cover a small team's whole visual pipeline rather than a bolt-on per modality. The honest weaknesses. Routing is a feature and a cost: you cannot pin the exact model for a repeatable batch, so a campaign that needs identical rendering logic across 40 images will fight the tool. Pro at $10/mo billed annually excludes MiniMax H3 and H3 Turbo entirely, so the advanced-model pitch only lands on Ultimate ($20/mo billed annually) or Max ($40/mo billed annually). Credits are the real ceiling — 2,000/month on Pro, 5,000 on Ultimate, 10,000 on Max — and video eats them far faster than stills, so a high-volume workflow needs a credit maths exercise before committing. Commercial rights require a paid subscription; the free tier is personal and non-commercial only. The pricing page also states there is no public API at the moment, which rules Raphael out for developers wiring generation into a product rather than a person clicking buttons. And subscriptions cannot be switched directly — you cancel renewal and rebuy, with benefits running to the end of the paid period. Where it fits: freelancers, e-commerce sellers and small marketing teams producing social images, product shots and short video, who want premium model output at a low entry price and don't need deterministic model selection. Where it doesn't: engineering teams needing programmatic access, anyone requiring guaranteed commercial rights without a subscription, and pipelines where credit caps become the bottleneck.