What is Canva?
Web-based visual design platform with drag-and-drop editor, templates, and AI features for creating designs, documents, videos, and print materials.
Canva pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From £100/year (Pro). Free tier available.
Free
FreeDesign anything and bring your ideas to life. No cost, just creativity.
- ai_uses
- 200 Standard or 20 Premium
- storage
- 5GB
- templates
- 1,600,000+
- brand_kits
- 1
- Easy drag-and-drop editor
- 1,000+ design types
- 1.6M+ templates
- 4.7M+ photos, videos, graphics, and audio
- 1 Brand Kit
- Ad insights and AI ad creation
- Access to Affinity
- 5GB cloud storage
- Canva Offline
- Magic Layers
Pro
Unlock premium content, more powerful design tools, and AI features.
- ai_uses
- 10x more than Free
- storage
- 100GB
- brand_kits
- 5
- Premium tools (resize, translate, remove background)
- 3.6M+ templates
- 141M+ premium photos, videos, graphics, audio
- 5 Brand Kits
- Social content scheduling
- 100GB cloud storage
- Access to Affinity with AI
- 10x more AI than Free
- Canva AI 2.0
- Magic Layers
Business
Create content faster, market smarter, and grow your business with advanced tools.
- ai_uses
- 20x more than Free
- storage
- 500GB
- brand_kits
- 100
- Collaboration and team admin tools
- 3.6M+ templates
- 141M+ premium photos, videos, graphics, audio
- 100 Brand Kits with approvals
- Access to Affinity with AI
- Access to Leonardo.Ai and Flourish
- 10% discount on print orders
- 500GB cloud storage
- 20x more AI than Free
- Canva AI 2.0
Enterprise
Contact salesEmpower your organisation with end-to-end visual communication.
- storage
- 1TB
- brand_kits
- 1,000
- Enterprise-level security and controls
- SSO and SCIM provisioning
- Custom apps
- 1,000 Brand Kits with tiered approvals
- Priority support
- Dedicated success manager
- 10% discount on print orders
- 1TB cloud storage
- Access to Affinity with AI
- Access to Leonardo.Ai and Flourish
Add-ons
- AI Pass
- AI top-ups
What Canva does
The capabilities that matter for design & creative software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Raster / photo editing
- ✓
- Vector illustration
- ✓
- DTP / page layout
- ✓
- Digital painting
- ✗
- Platform breadth
- Web-based visual suite with tools for digital design, print design, video editin
- CMYK / print production
- ✗
- PSD / AI import
- ✗
- Real-time collaboration / cloud
- ✓
- Generative AI features
- ✓
- Plugin / template ecosystem
- Apps Marketplace with templates and custom apps for Enterprise
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Free / open-source available
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (3)
Independently observed- Leonardo.Ai
- Flourish
- Affinity
Canva alternatives
Other design & creative software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Canva, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 81 | 32.00 | 2596.8 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 16.00 | 1600.0 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 90 | 12.00 | 1080.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 12.00 | 600.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 17 | 18.00 | 311.7 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 25 | 10.00 | 250.0 | ✓ |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"cmyk_print":false,"dtp_layout":true,"generative_ai":true,"pricing_model":"freemium","psd_ai_import":false,"free_available":true,"raster_editing":true,"digital_painting":false,"platform_breadth":"Web-based visual suite with tools for digital design, print design, video editin","plugin_ecosystem":"Apps Marketplace with templates and custom apps for Enterprise","vector_illustration":true,"realtime_collaboration":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 3 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |