Bottom line: Airbrush (airbrush.ai) is a web app that turns a text prompt into an image, with a choice of AI engines, an upscaler, an image-to-text describer, a blog-cover maker and an API. On AppSumo it sells in codes of $29 once, from 1 to 10 codes. Each code adds 500 image credits a month and one team member. The detail to read first is what a credit buys: the founder says a 512×512 image costs 1 credit and a 1024×1024 image costs 4, so Plan 1’s 500 credits make about 125 large images a month. The listing is refundable up to 60 days and “Not covered by We Got Your Back.” Several buyer questions since July 2026 show no reply from the founder.
Best for: bloggers, marketers and small teams who want a steady monthly supply of stock-style images and blog covers for a one-time price.
Think twice if: you need wide or 9:16 images through the API, image-to-image by API, bulk upscaling, or quick answers from the vendor.
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Updated 29 October 2026. This Airbrush review rests on what we read that day: the Airbrush listing on AppSumo, including all ten plans, the deal terms, questions and reviews, and airbrush.ai’s own pricing page and FAQ. We haven’t generated images with it, so we describe the plans, the credit costs and what buyers report, not image quality.
Airbrush review at a glance
| What we checked | What the pages say |
|---|---|
| AppSumo plans | $29 a code, 1 to 10 codes ($29 to $290 once) |
| Credits | 500 image credits a month per code |
| Credit cost | 1 credit at 512px, 4 at 1024px, 0.5 at 256px (founder) |
| Team members | 1 per code; credits shared across the team |
| airbrush.ai’s own plans | Premium $9 for 500 credits; Free with 20 credits |
| Refund | Refundable up to 60 days on AppSumo |
| AppSumo guarantee | “Not covered by We Got Your Back” |
| Listing rating | 4.56 stars from 273 reviews |
What Airbrush does
You type a short description, pick an engine and a size, and Airbrush returns an image in the browser. The listing describes it as a way to make “original stock photos, NFTs, art, and more.” The features included in every AppSumo plan read:
- Generation: “Create NFTs, stock photos, illustrations, art styles, portraits, art styles, and more.”
- Blog covers: a “Blog article cover/thumbnail creator” that builds an image from your article text.
- Image to text: an “Image-to-text converter” that describes an uploaded image in detail.
- Upscaling: “Image upscaling, sharpening, and detail enhancement.”
- Gallery: a “Public gallery with thousands of images and their prompts.”
- Access: “API Access,” team members, dark mode and a responsive design for desktop, tablet and phone.
Airbrush’s FAQ lists a long set of engines, including Stable Diffusion, Stable Diffusion XL, DALLE-2, Realistic Vision, Pixel Art, Anime Diffusion and Coloring Pages, and says “We are constantly adding new AI models!” In an October 2025 answer on AppSumo the founder added that it “supports advanced models like Flux, DALLE-3, and others.” The FAQ also says users get “full usage rights to commercialize the images they create,” including the right to reprint, sell and merchandise.
On sizes, the FAQ lists 256×256, 512×512 and 1024×1024, and says you can upscale any image up to 4x, to a maximum of 4096×4096. A portrait size of 768×1024 was added in November 2024, according to the founder.
The credit maths most people miss
Here’s the line most people miss. The plan card says “500 image credits per month,” and it’s tempting to read that as 500 images. Turns out the cost depends on size. The founder’s October 2025 answer on the listing:
- “Standard Size Image (512px x 512px): 1 credit per image”
- “Large Size Image (1024px x 1024px): 4 credits per image”
- “Small Size Image (256px x 256px): 0.5 credits per image”
- “Upscaler: 1 credit per image (upscales up to 4x resolution)”
- “Public gallery: No credits required”
Honestly, that short table is the most useful thing on the whole listing. He added that “Credits renew every month” and that the cost of each generation is shown on screen before you run it. A July 2026 reviewer put their own average at “2 credits mostly per image, with some exceptions of 1 credit,” so the cost also varies by engine. We found nothing on either page saying unused credits roll over, so plan as if they don’t.
Two more details change the sums. First, the founder said in November 2025 that “Credits are shared across the team. All usage by you or your team members deducts from the same credit pool.” Second, removing a team member means “their account and all associated data are permanently deleted,” so don’t remove someone before saving what they made.
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Plan 1 A blogger |
$29 once |
| Plan 2 Daily social posts |
$58 once |
| Plan 3 A small team |
$87 once |
| Plan 4 Growing teams |
$116 once |
| Plan 5 Growing teams |
$145 once |
| Plan 6 Agencies |
$174 once |
| Plan 7 Agencies |
$203 once |
| Plan 8 Agencies |
$232 once |
| Plan 9 High volume |
$261 once |
| Plan 10 High volume |
$290 once |
One-time prices on AppSumo; each plan is a number of stacked codes (1 to 10) at $29 each, and the listing shows a struck-through $108 per code. airbrush.ai's own pricing page shows a Premium Plan at $9 USD for 500 Image Credits, without a billing period, and a Free Plan with 20 Image Credits.
Prices checked Oct 29, 2026 on Airbrush’s own pricing page. Lifetime deals are listings that can end or change, so check the live listing before you buy.
Worked examples: picking a plan
A blogger publishing three posts a week. That’s about 13 covers a month. Say you make each at 1024×1024 and try three versions before keeping one: 3 × 4 = 12 credits a post, about 156 credits a month. Plan 1’s 500 credits cover it, with room left to upscale the winners at 1 credit each.
A social media manager posting twice a day. Sixty images a month, each at 1024px with four attempts, is 60 × 4 × 4 = 960 credits. Plan 1 runs out in the first half of the month; Plan 2’s 1,000 credits just fit. In practice you’d want Plan 3 for slack, since one bad prompt day eats a lot.
A three-person content team. Plan 3 gives three seats and 1,500 credits a month, but they’re one shared pool. At 4 credits a large image that’s 375 large images across all three people, or about 125 each. If you’ve got one heavy user and two light ones, that may be plenty; if all three generate daily, it won’t be.
Someone working mostly at 512px. Drafts, mood boards and thumbnails at 512×512 cost 1 credit each, so Plan 1 really is about 500 images a month. Honestly, if small images are all you need, Plan 1 is a lot of output for $29.
Don’t forget that each tier adds exactly 500 credits and one seat for another $29, so there’s no discount for buying more codes. Buy for the volume you’ll actually use; the founder said in December 2025 that you can stack more codes later “as long as the deal is available for purchase on AppSumo.”
The deal vs Airbrush’s own plans
Airbrush’s own pricing page, read on 29 October 2026, shows two plans:
| airbrush.ai plan | Price shown | Credits | Other lines |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free Plan | Free | 20 Image Credits | Upscaling, blog cover, image to text, history, gallery |
| Premium Plan | $9 USD | 500 Image Credits | Same list, “Unlock full access” |
The pricing page doesn’t say how often the $9 is charged. The AppSumo listing shows a struck-through $108 beside Plan 1’s $29, which is twelve times $9, but that’s the listing’s figure and we can’t confirm a billing period from it. If the $9 is a monthly charge, Plan 1 costs about the same as three months of Premium and then keeps going. Either way, the free plan’s 20 credits are a reasonable way to see the output before spending anything, which the founder also suggests in his first post on the listing.
The deal terms promise “All future plan updates,” without naming a plan on Airbrush’s own site. That’s looser wording than most deals we read. In practice, when you want a new feature that appears later, ask support whether your codes cover it before you assume they do.
What buyers report
The listing shows 4.56 stars from 273 reviews: 214 five-star, 33 four-star, 4 three-star, 10 two-star and 12 one-star. The deal has been on AppSumo since November 2022, so many reviews are old. We focused on the last year.
Value for money comes up again and again. A January 2026 reviewer summed it up as “$30 for 500 image credits a month” and called the output “mostly decent,” with “some hits and some misses.” A June 2026 reviewer who said they’d tried many generators found that general prompts gave “plasticky” results, but a good prompt gave styling that suited their brand, and called it very close to a pricier platform.
New features keep arriving. A June 2026 review mentions a new Infographic feature. A November 2025 reviewer noted headshot and video generation, and said they received 500 lifetime bonus credits. A May 2026 reviewer liked being able to choose which engine runs a prompt and revise images with text, though “It doesn’t have eraser-precise edit settings.”
Not everyone is happy. A May 2026 three-star review said the most frequent outcome was “The request could not be processed. Please try again.” A December 2025 two-star review said the image quality wasn’t enough for their standards, though generation was fast. Another three-star review in December 2025 wanted a much larger prompt library than the 12 prompts they saw.
The API is the sore point. An October 2026 four-star review said the API “is only good for text to image generation and only uses 3 engines.” A July 2026 reviewer said wide landscape images exist in the app but not through the API. An October 2026 question from a Tier 2 buyer said the API docs show only one text-prompt endpoint and asked about image-to-image; we found no reply.
Support: a gap since the summer
The founder, Neil, answered many questions through 2025, often a week or two after they were asked. His latest answers we found are dated 9 June 2026. After that, questions show no reply from the founder:
- 29 July 2026: a buyer was charged 25 credits for a video that missed the prompt, and asked whether you can preview before credits are taken.
- 13 October 2026: a list of API questions, including rate limits, commercial SaaS use and whether uploaded photos are used for training.
- 14 October 2026: the image-to-image API question above.
- 21 October 2026: a buyer said every download came out as WebP, not JPG or PNG.
Most people miss that the public Q&A isn’t the only channel. The founder does point buyers to a chat option inside the dashboard and to support@airbrush.ai, and two reviewers praise fast replies there, so the listing may not show the whole picture. But when you’re judging a small vendor, slow public answers are worth weighing.
Video and mobile: read carefully
Video isn’t on the plan cards. In January 2026 a buyer (not the founder) answered another buyer’s question with “Video editing is not part of the AppSumo deal.” Yet the July 2026 question above describes using the video tool and being charged 25 credits. We can’t settle what AppSumo buyers get for video. If you’ve seen video mentioned in reviews, treat it as an extra you can’t count on, and don’t forget the 25 credits one attempt cost that buyer.
On mobile, the FAQ says there’s an Android app and “We are currently working on an app for Apple iPhone and iPad devices.” In July 2025 the founder said the iOS app was “on track to release in a few weeks”; on 31 December 2025 a buyer was still asking for a date.
The terms
The deal terms read:
- “Lifetime access to Airbrush – AI Image Generator”
- “You must redeem your code(s) within 60 days of purchase”
- “All future plan updates”
- “Stack up to 10 codes”
The listing adds “60 day money-back guarantee. Try it out for 2 months to make sure it’s right for you!” and “Refundable up to 60 days.” The guarantee line reads “Not covered by We Got Your Back. Listed by the partner, not reviewed by AppSumo.”
Airbrush vs Canva and Shutterstock
The listing names Canva and Shutterstock as what Airbrush replaces. They’re different kinds of tool. Shutterstock is a library of existing stock images; Airbrush makes new ones from a prompt, with commercial rights per its FAQ. Canva is a design editor with layouts and text; Airbrush makes the image but doesn’t lay out a social post or a slide around it. We didn’t price Canva or Shutterstock for this review. If you’ve already got a design tool you like, Airbrush is more of a feed for it than a replacement.
Common mistakes with the Airbrush deal
Reading 500 credits as 500 large images. At 1024×1024 it’s 125. Size your plan on the images you’ll actually make.
Forgetting the shared pool. Extra seats don’t bring extra credits for each person; everyone draws from one balance.
Buying for the API. On buyer reports, it’s text-to-image only, with fewer engines than the web app and no wide format. When the API is the reason you’re buying, test it in week one.
Counting on video or iOS. Neither is on the plan cards. Skip the deal if either is the main reason.
Buying before the free plan. Don’t skip the 20 free credits; they show the output style before any money moves.
Planning for print without checking. The upscaler goes up to 4x, to 4096px at most. Whether that’s enough for your print job is something to test, not assume.
Removing a team member casually. Their account and data are deleted permanently. Download their work first.
Who Airbrush suits
A blogger or newsletter writer. Plan 1 covers a few covers a week with room to spare.
A small marketing team. Plan 2 or 3, if you accept one shared credit pool.
A developer automating images. Only if text-to-image at the supported sizes is enough. If you’ve built on other image APIs, read Airbrush’s docs first; buyers say it offers one endpoint.
Anyone needing 9:16 or wide images in bulk, or fast vendor replies. Skip it, or test hard inside the window.
How to test it inside the refund window
- Start on the free plan before buying, and run the same prompt through three engines.
- Make ten 1024×1024 images and check the credit balance against the founder’s 4-credit figure.
- Download in the format you need, since one buyer reports WebP only.
- If you’re buying for the API, call it with your real sizes and engines in the first week.
- Message support through the dashboard chat and time the reply, before day 60.
What we couldn’t check
We didn’t generate images, test the API or judge output quality. We couldn’t confirm whether the $9 Premium plan is monthly, whether unused credits roll over, whether video is part of the AppSumo deal, or which download formats are offered. The listing doesn’t show the company’s founding year, country or size, and it didn’t display a bought count. Several buyer questions since July 2026 had no founder reply when we read the page.
FAQ: Airbrush questions
Is Airbrush a one-time payment on AppSumo?
Yes. Each code is $29 once, and you can stack up to 10, from $29 to $290.
How many images do 500 Airbrush credits make?
About 500 at 512×512, or 125 at 1024×1024, on the founder’s figures. Some engines cost more; one buyer reports about 2 credits per image.
Can I use Airbrush images commercially?
Airbrush’s FAQ says users get full rights to commercialize the images they create, including reprinting, selling and merchandise.
Is Airbrush refundable on AppSumo?
Yes, up to 60 days, but the listing is “Not covered by We Got Your Back.”
The verdict
Airbrush gives a lot of monthly image credits for $29 once, with commercial rights, many engines, an upscaler and an API. The catch is in the maths: a large image costs 4 credits, the pool is shared across your team, and the API does less than the web app. The quiet spell in public founder answers since June 2026 is the other thing to weigh. Start on the free plan, test the sizes and formats you need inside the 60 days, and buy only the codes your real volume needs.
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