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Stability AI

Stability AI Ltd GB

A UK company that sells image generation as an API billed in credits and also offers self-hosted Core Models under a revenue-capped Community Licence.

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Price on request
Free plan
Yes
Trial
No
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Best for

Readers who want output assigned to the user, C2PA on API deliveries, and a self-hosting path under a published revenue cap.

Strengths / Weaknesses

Strengths

  • API starts with 25 free credits and a published per-generation credit price
  • Outputs from the API and from Core Models are assigned to the user, subject to law and acceptable use
  • C2PA manifests are documented on API image, video and audio outputs

Weaknesses

  • Prices are in USD and taxes may be added; no Luxembourg gross euro price is published
  • A clearly linked standard DPA was not found on the retrieved pages
  • Self-hosted open models do not embed credentials automatically

Pricing

Plan Price Unit Note
Starter credits Price on request one-off credits 25 free credits at the start; 1 credit = 0,01 USD
Stable Image Ultra Price on request per generation 8 credits, 0,08 USD per generation
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Price on request per generation 6,5 credits, 0,065 USD per generation

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Verdict

Stability AI sells credit-based API generation and a Community Licence for self-hosting under 1,000,000 USD revenue, with C2PA on API outputs and no customer indemnity in the standard terms.

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Where we write about it

Where these numbers come from

  1. [1] Stability AI, API Pricing accessed 2026-11-11
  2. [2] Stability AI, License accessed 2026-11-11
  3. [3] Stability AI, Terms of Service accessed 2026-11-11

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