Playground

Playground has rebuilt itself as a design tool that happens to rent other people's models. The pricing page lists five engines — Playground's own Muse Image and PGv3 beside OpenAI's GPT Image 2 and GPT Image 2.5 and ByteDance's Seedream, with Google's Nano Banana and Nano Banana Pro on the upper tiers — wrapped around a template-driven editor that exports SVG, so the deliverable is a logo, a tee graphic or a cut file rather than a bare PNG. Pro adds 75 generations per rolling three hours and AI editing out to 2K; Pro Plus lifts output to 3840x2160 with 1,000 monthly credits. Commercial use is granted on every plan as a worldwide royalty-free licence, which is unusually clean for a product reselling third-party models.

The free tier is the headline change, and it is not generous: three shared credits a month across the named models, two downloads a day, with the in-house engine auto-assigned to free accounts. Budget accordingly — Nano Banana Pro costs four credits per generation and is capped at 10 images a month on Pro, so the $12 Pro plan (or $36 Pro Plus) is a rationing device, not unlimited generation. Before subscribing, check which engine you are actually paying for, whether the resolution ceiling on your tier is 2K or 4K, and that API access is still a request-a-form beta rather than a documented product if you intend to build on it.