Canva alternatives
Canva is already the cheapest design tool we track at 1 user ($12/mo). Here's how the other 3 compare. The closest match, Adobe Creative Cloud, covers 89% of what Canva does. Each one shows how much of it it covers, capability by capability, next to the price.
What Canva does
Core: Templates & stock assets, Brand kit, AI design generation, Slide deck editor, AI deck generation, Team collaboration & review, Browser-based editor.
Important: Real-time co-editing, AI object removal & fill, Desktop and mobile apps (partly), Presentation mode (partly), AI slide editing, Real-time co-editing, PowerPoint import and export, Mobile apps, SSO and security compliance, Auto captions & transcripts (partly), Prompt to finished video (partly), Mobile editing app, Social publishing & scheduling.
Also has: UI and app design (partly), Vector drawing (partly), Interactive prototyping (partly), Shared component libraries (partly), Design system documentation (partly), Motion design (partly), Interactive runtimes and embeds (partly), 3D design (partly), Logo and brand generator (partly), Charts & infographics (partly), UI design references (partly), Plugins and community, Auto-layout smart slides (partly), Viewer engagement analytics (partly), Interactive web-native decks (partly), Works inside PowerPoint/Google Slides (partly), Recorded slide presentations (partly), Video meeting integrations (partly), Website publishing and custom domains (partly), Multi-track timeline editing (partly), Generative video footage (partly), AI audio & video cleanup (partly), Pro color, VFX & audio (partly), Animated explainer creation (partly), Screen & camera recording (partly), Native desktop app (partly), Plugins & app ecosystem (partly).
Alternatives to Canva at 1 user, best match first
- Adobe Creative Cloud: $69.99/mo Annual commitment billed monthly; no monthly plan shown (Creative Cloud Pro (individual, 20+ apps) at its regular US$69.99/mo; no month-to-month price is shown.). It covers 89% of Canva; missing or partial: Brand kit (partly), Real-time co-editing (partly), Social publishing & scheduling (partly), Design system documentation, Screen & camera recording. Free plan: None on the plans page; a 30-day Adobe Stock trial is not a free plan..
- Figma: $20/mo Annual billing is $16/editor/mo; monthly $20 used (Professional plan, full editor seat, month-to-month billing ($20)). It covers 78% of Canva; missing or partial: Templates & stock assets (partly), Brand kit (partly), AI deck generation (partly), AI object removal & fill (partly), AI slide editing (partly). Free plan: Starter is free with unlimited drafts, but one folder holds up to 3 combined Design and Sites files, 3 FigJam and 3 Slides files.. Last price hike: Mar 2025.
- Adobe Illustrator: $22.99/mo Annual, billed monthly; no month-to-month price shown (Illustrator single-app plan, 1 user: US$22.99/mo on the annual plan billed monthly (no month-to-month price shown)). It covers 59% of Canva; missing or partial: Templates & stock assets (partly), Brand kit (partly), Real-time co-editing (partly), AI object removal & fill (partly), Interactive prototyping. Free plan: none. Last price hike: Jun 2025.
Other kinds of products that cover part of Canva
- Framer (Website builders): covers 78% of Canva; missing or partial: Templates & stock assets (partly), Brand kit (partly), AI object removal & fill, Logo and brand generator
- Adobe Photoshop (Photo editing): covers 54% of Canva; missing or partial: Templates & stock assets (partly), Brand kit (partly), AI design generation (partly), Real-time co-editing (partly), UI and app design
Prices at every size
- Canva: 1 user $12/mo, a 10-person team $208.33/mo (Annual-billed /12; month-to-month price unverified)
- Adobe Creative Cloud: 1 user $69.99/mo, a 10-person team $999.90/mo (Annual commitment billed monthly; no monthly plan shown)
- Figma: 1 user $20/mo, a 10-person team $200/mo (Annual billing is $16/editor/mo; monthly $20 used)
- Adobe Illustrator: 1 user $22.99/mo, a 10-person team $379.90/mo (Annual, billed monthly; no month-to-month price shown)
Cheapest self-serve plan, billed month to month (annual price ÷ 12 when only an annual commitment is sold), that lets each editor make unlimited designs and export them for commercial use with no watermark, in the formats the tool's job needs (PNG plus SVG or PDF for graphics, shareable prototypes for UI tools). AI-first generators must include 100 generations a month; viewer, developer and guest seats are not counted.
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