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PDreamwave vs Photo AI
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Dreamwave if…
- you're in its core audience: hr and people teams, professionals and job seekers
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Choose Photo AI if…
- you're in its core audience: social media creators, professionals needing headshots
Side by side
Feature Dreamwave Photo AI
Pricing modelPaidPaid
Starting price—$9/mo
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
PlatformsWebWeb
CompanyDreamwave AI, 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
P Photo AI
- AI twin trained from 5+ selfies in about 2 minutes
- 174+ photo packs such as dating, LinkedIn and Halloween
- Several image and video models, including Nano Banana 2 and Kling 3.0
- AI video generation with sound
- Custom prompts and remixing of any photo
- Magic upscaler plus edit, crop and zoom-out tools
- Shopify clothing try-on
- MCP connection for ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor
What 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
Photo AI
Starter$19/mo or $9/mo billed yearly ($99/yr)
Pro$49/mo or $29/mo billed yearly ($349/yr)
Max$99/mo or $49/mo billed yearly ($599/yr)
Ultra$199/mo or $99/mo billed yearly ($1,199/yr)
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
Photo AI
- Annual billing roughly halves the price, with Starter at $9/mo
- Many image and video models available in one subscription
- 174+ ready-made photo packs
- Commercial use license from the Pro plan
- No free plan or free trial
- Starter is limited to personal use, slow processing and low quality
- Video generation and the upscaler require the Max plan ($49/mo yearly) or higher
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Facts from each vendor's public pages, prices checked Nov 8, 2026. Editorial policy