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PClipdrop vs Fotor
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Clipdrop if…
- you're in its core audience: marketers, designers
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Choose Fotor if…
- you work on iOS, Android, Windows
- you're in its core audience: beginner photo editors, social media creators
Side by side
Feature Clipdrop Fotor
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starting price——
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
Data retention—Kept while account exists; user can delete anytime; face data deleted after avatar generation
GitHub stars467—
Background removal
AI upscaling
Generative fill/erase
Relighting
Batch processing—
Photoshop/Lightroom plugin—
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, API
CategoryPhoto EditingPhoto Editing
CompanyInitMLHONG KONG EVERIMAGING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED
Based in—Hong Kong
Founded2020—
Part ofJasper.ai—
Key features
C Clipdrop
- Text-to-image generation
- Background removal and replacement
- Cleanup of objects, people, text and defects
- Image upscaling up to x16 on Pro
- Relight to change image lighting
- Uncrop to extend photos into new formats
- Universal resizer for social media formats
- Photoshop plugins and usage-based API
F Fotor
- AI image enhancement, upscaling, unblurring and restoration
- Background, object, watermark and text removal
- AI image and video generation
- AI avatars and headshots
- Photo-to-anime, sketch and painting style conversion
- Collage maker and design templates
- Batch photo editing
- Developer API and SDK
Plans and prices
From each vendor's site. Prices change — confirm before buying.
Clipdrop
Free$0
ProNot listed
APIUsage-based
Fotor
BasicFree
ProSee pricing page
Pro+See pricing page
MaxSee pricing page
Strengths and limitations
Clipdrop
- Free plan includes daily uses of most tools
- Pro raises limits to 1,000 uses per 24 hours per tool
- API and Photoshop plugins available
- Pro price not shown on the pricing page
- Free plan limited to 20 uses per day on several tools
- No mobile apps listed
Fotor
- Free-forever Basic plan
- Available on web, mobile and desktop
- Unused credits on paid plans roll over for up to 5 months
- Developer API and SDK available
- Free plan exports at normal resolution only, not HD
- Free plan has 512MB of cloud storage and 1 concurrent generation
- Paid plan prices are not shown in the static pricing page
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