As recorded at collection: Leonardo AI, $5 free credit for new API accounts

Leonardo AI is a service that turns written descriptions into images and videos. You can generate images and videos with the 5 dollars' worth of credits provided to new API accounts. Its flagship model Phoenix follows prompts (text describing what to generate) closely and produces photorealistic results, while Kino XL creates a cinematic atmosphere.

Create an account on Leonardo AI's API guide page and apply for API access to receive 5 dollars in credits immediately. No credit card is required. To use it with Python, you can use a community-made toolkit (github.com/wwakabobik/leonardo_api).

Free API credits are provided only once per new account. Once the credits are used up, billing automatically switches to usage-based billing, with no minimum monthly payment. The website free plan separately provides 150 tokens per day, enough to create about 6 to 12 images a day depending on the settings. These tokens cannot be used with the API.