I Found an AI Photo Generator So Stupidly Good I Had to Check If It Was Legal

Posted by nikol from the Agriculture category at 23 Nov 2025 04:39:02 pm.

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Last night at 23:57 I needed a cover image for tomorrow’s newsletter: “lonely astronaut sitting on Mars dune, Earth rising, vintage NASA aesthetic, 8K film grain, subtle lens flare.”Normally: panic, scroll Unsplash for 40 minutes, settle for something 80 % right, hate myself.This time I typed the prompt, pressed Generate once, and 6.2 seconds later I was staring at something that legitimately looks like Denis Villeneuve directed it on a $180M budget.I closed my laptop, opened a beer, and stared at the wall for ten minutes.
The Tool: Freepik Flux (the one hiding in plain sight)Everyone’s paying $60/month for Midjourney Turbo or begging Grok for Flux access.Meanwhile Freepik (yes, the stock site your aunt uses) silently dropped Flux Pro + Llama-3-powered prompting in November 2025 and made it borderline free.
What actually happens:

100 % free: 20 images/day, no credit card, no “slow queue”
Paid ($9/month): unlimited + commercial license + 4K upscaling + remove watermark
Built-in “Enhance Prompt” that rewrites your lazy sentence into PhD-level art direction
Style references: upload one photo and it locks the entire session to that exact vibe
Zero deformed hands, perfect typography, realistic depth of field, actual film grain that doesn’t look like a 2012 Instagram filter

I generated 87 images yesterday. Total cost: one coffee.
Four Images That Made Me Question Reality

“Abandoned Soviet arcade, 1987, flickering fluorescent lights, dust particles in sunbeams, Polaroid border” → sold as album cover for $1,100 in 20 minutes
“Cyberpunk Tokyo alley, heavy rain, holographic koi fish swimming in puddles, shot on 35 mm” → now has 2.8M views on my Instagram
“Wes Anderson symmetrical shot of a 1960s moon base cafeteria, pastel uniforms, perfect centering” → client cried (legit tears)
“My actual face but as a Ghibli character, sitting under cherry blossoms” → new profile pic, 400+ DMs asking who the animator is

November 2025 AI Image Generator Brutal Honest RankingGod Tier (use this or fall behind)

Freepik Flux – price + speed + quality + unlimited = unbeatable right now

S-Tier

Recraft V3 (vectors)
Ideogram 3.0 (text)

A-Tier (still good but you’re overpaying)

Midjourney v7
Grok Flux

F-Tier (2023 called, wants its tech back)

DALL·E 3
Stable Diffusion web UI (unless you love tinkering more than creating)

The Scary PartI just replaced a $3,800/month photographer retainer with a $9/month Freepik subscription.The photographer is now learning prompt engineering.This is not a drill.
Stop Everything and Do This Right Now

Go to freepik.com/ai/image-generator
Type literally anything (even “cat wearing sunglasses riding a unicorn” to test)
When your brain melts, upgrade to Premium for $9 and never look back
Delete every stock photo site from your bookmarks. They’re dead.

I’m writing an AI photo generator I liked this while my 47th generation finishes in the background.
2025 is officially unfair.

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