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PDreamwave vs Lensa
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Dreamwave if…
- you work on Web
- you're in its core audience: hr and people teams, professionals and job seekers
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Choose Lensa if…
- you work on iOS, Android
- you're in its core audience: social media users, instagram creators
Side by side
Feature Dreamwave Lensa
Pricing modelPaidPricing unknown
Starting price——
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
PlatformsWebiOS, Android
CategoryAI HeadshotsPhoto Editing
CompanyDreamwave AI, Inc.Prisma Labs, Inc.
Full feature lists
D Dreamwave
- Headshots generated from a single selfie
- Team-wide consistent styles like Business Formal and White Coats
- 4K print-ready output for badging
- HRIS sync with Workday, ADP, Rippling, Gusto, BambooHR
- Push photos to Slack, Outlook and Okta
- Prompt-based outfit, background and distraction edits
- Branded AI photobooth for live events
- Specialty styles for real estate and clinical staff
L Lensa
- One-tap effects like Golden Hour, Halo Flash and Disposable
- Presets applying full color, light and mood grades
- Beauty toolkit with Hollywood, Hair Boost and Makeup effects
- Eraser removes unwanted objects and people, rebuilds background
- Enhancer upscales low-resolution or cropped photos
- Improves dark or poorly lit shots
- Hair try-on previews haircuts from one selfie
Their home pages
What each vendor shows first: the pitch, the plans and the sign-up.
Dreamwave · dreamwave.ai
Lensa · prisma-ai.comWhat you'd pay
The cheapest plan that fits, per month, billed yearly where the plan offers it.
Dreamwave
Company headshots$49-59 per person
Event photoboothCustom
Lensa
Pricing unknown. Plan details aren't published.
Strengths and limitations
Dreamwave
- Team plan includes 150 photos per person and a free redo
- 1-2 hour turnaround
- Integrates with major HRIS and workplace apps
- Says it never sells or trains on user data, and data is deletable
- No free plan
- Event photobooth pricing is quote-only
Lensa
- Available on both iOS and Android
- Combines effects, retouching, object removal and upscaling in one app
- Large user base with 70M+ downloads listed
- Mobile-only; no desktop or web editor listed
- No API for developers
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Facts from each vendor's public pages, prices checked Nov 8, 2026. Editorial policy