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10 Helpful AI Tools for Content Creators

10 Helpful AI Tools for Content Creators

The Rise of AI for Content Creation

The benefits of using artificial intelligence (AI) for content creation are numerous. Not only does it save time and increase efficiency, but it can also take over the more repetitive, time-consuming tasks, help you generate new content ideas, and enhance SEO. Below we’ve compiled a list of 10 AI tools for text, image, and video generation that will help you as a content creator realize your full creative potential. We’ve also written a blog post about five ChatGPT alternatives, which you can read here.

Top AI Tools for Text Generation

1 Writer

Overview of Writer website

G2 rating: 4.4 / 5

Writer is a full-stack generative AI platform that uses Palmyra, its custom family of LLMs. The platform offers Knowledge Graph which allows the processing of large amounts of data and stores data in a graph structure that is both cost-effective and easy to update. It also offers API integrations and a no-code, open-source Python framework that enables users to easily build AI apps and workflows that can be integrated into the Writer platform. Writer’s library of AI apps also helps you create content, such as blog posts, recaps, or emails.

Pricing

Writer offers three pricing plans:

  • Developer plan: Free app builder, only pay for API usage, AI app templates, low-code tooling, full development framework
  • Team plan ($18/user/month): Pre-built apps, open-ended prompt interface Writer, governance extensions, basic admin tools. A free trial is also available.
  • Enterprise plan (custom pricing): Everything in the Team plan, plus customized AI apps, API access, Knowledge Graph, and advanced security and support.

2 Rytr

Overview of Rytr website

G2 rating: 4.7 / 5

A platform with a similar-sounding name but slightly different features is Rytr. This AI writing assistant helps you generate content for multiple use cases, such as blog posts, social media posts, emails, poems, or SEO optimization. With Rytr, you have the option of creating a custom tone, wherein the tool analyzes a sample of your writing and uses your tone when generating content. It also offers seamless Chrome extensions.

Pricing

Rytr also offers three pricing plans:

  • Free plan: 10,000 characters/month, Chrome extension, pre-programmed tones of voice, access to exclusive community
  • Unlimited plan (from $7.50/month): Everything in the Free plan, plus unlimited characters/month, one voice tone match, 50 plagiarism checks/month, and priority support.
  • Premium plan (from $24.16/month): Everything in the Unlimited plan, plus multiple tone matches, 100 plagiarism checks/month, 35+ languages, and custom use cases.

3 Jasper

Overview of Jasper website

G2 rating: 4.7 / 5

Jasper is an AI text generation tool that creates high-quality, customizable content that fits in with your personal brand voice. With Jasper, you can create marketing campaigns, analyze content performance, and even generate images to support your text. The tool also offers browser extensions, countless integration possibilities, as well as API with which you can integrate Jasper directly into your own platform.

Pricing

Jasper offers three pricing plans that can be billed monthly or yearly:

  • Creator plan (from $39/month/seat): One user seat, one brand voice, access to Jasper Chat and SEO mode, browser extensions. A free trial is available.
  • Pro plan (from $59/month/seat): Everything in the Creator plan, plus additional user seats, 3 brand voices, 3 Instant Campaigns, Collaboration & user management, access to Jasper Art. A free trial is available.
  • Business plan (custom pricing): Everything in the Pro plan, plus unlimited feature usage, team collaboration, performance analytics, custom style guides, API access, enterprise-grade security, and more.

4 Copy.ai

Overview of Copy.ai website

G2 rating: 4.7 / 5

Copy.ai is another AI text generation tool that also offers all-in-one marketing and sales platforms. With this platform, you can build workflows and choose from over 30 actions such as text writing, information extraction, or drafting social media content. You can also work with workflow templates for SEO, company insights, and competitor analysis.

Pricing

Copy.ai provides monthly and yearly subscriptions:

  • Free plan: One seat, 2,000 words in chat, ChatGPT 3.5 & Claude 3, Copy.ai brand voice and infobase
  • Starter plan (from $36/month): One seat, unlimited words in chat and chat projects, access to all latest LLMs, private community access
  • Advanced plan (from $186/month): Everything in the Starter plan, plus up to 5 seats, 2,000 workflow credits/month, 15+ marketing workflows, 15+ sales workflows, workflow builder access.
  • Enterprise plan (custom pricing): Everything in the Advanced plan, plus API access, unlimited customizable workflows, 20+ tech integrations, enterprise-grade security, and more.

Top AI Tools for Image Generation

5 Midjourney

Overview of the Midjourney gallery

G2 rating: 4.4 / 5

Midjourney is a generative AI program that generates images from natural language prompts. The project is independent and self-funded and works through Discord. Midjourney works with LLMs, and diffusion models and runs on closed-source code. With text-based prompts, users can specify image descriptions and receive high-quality images in return.

Pricing

Midjourney offers four pricing plans that all include access to the Midjourney member gallery, the official Discord, general commercial usage terms, and individual features:

  • Basic plan (from $8/month): 3.3 hours/month Fast GPU time, maximum 3 concurrent jobs and 10 jobs in queue
  • Standard plan (from $24/month): Everything in the Basic plan, plus 15 hours/month Fast GPU time and unlimited Relax GPU time.
  • Pro plan (from $48/month): Everything in the Standard plan, plus 30 hours/month Fast GPU time, Stealth mode, 12 Fast jobs, 3 Relaxed jobs and 10 jobs in queue.
  • Mega plan (from $96/month): Everything in the Pro plan, plus 60 hours/month Fast GPU time.

6 Freepik

Overview of the Freepik gallery

G2 rating: 4.7 / 5

Originally a stock image bank website, Freepik also offers an AI text-to-image generator. The tool provides you with an easy-to-use interface where you can choose from different styles and presets of colors, framing, and lighting. After generating an image, you can customize it, explore additional versions, upscale the quality, or save it to your profile.

Pricing

Freepik offers two pricing plans for individuals for their platform, in which the AI image generator is included:

  • Free plan: 10 image downloads/day, 20 AI image generations/day, limited AI sketch to image generations, 2 AI image quality upscales/day, free content in the online editor
  • Premium plan (from €9/month): Unlimited downloads/day, unlimited AI image and sketch to image generations/day, 20 AI image quality upscales/day, unlimited content in the online editor, and more

7 Leonardo.Ai

Overview of the Leonardo.ai gallery

G2 rating: 4.3 / 5

Leonardo.Ai is an AI art generation tool that uses a selection of high-quality AI models to generate images and more. By typing in a text prompt, you can generate multiple images and refine by adjusting specific settings. On top of that, Leonardo.Ai could also be included in the next section, as the platform also allows you to generate high-quality video clips and animations.

Pricing

Leonardo.Ai offers four API plans with different amounts of API credits that do not expire, can be topped up and can be used in different ways:

  • Basic plan ($9/month): 3,500 API credits/month, up to 5 concurrent generations, access to Alchemy, Prompt Magic v3, PhotoReal, and Motion, train models with API credits
  • Standard plan ($49/month): 25,000 API credits/month, everything in the Basic plan, plus 20% discount on API credits top-ups
  • Pro plan ($299/month): 200,000 API credits/month, everything in the Basic plan, plus 40% discount on API credits top-ups
  • Custom plan (custom pricing): Custom API credits amount, everything in the Basic plan, plus custom discount on API credits top-ups

Top AI Tools for Video Generation

8 Pika

Overview of the Pika website

Pika is a platform that transforms prompts into video content. It offers three video creation possibilities: text-to-video, wherein a text prompt is translated into video, image-to-video, that turns images into video, and video-to-video, that lets you modify any existing video. With settings such as lip sync, sound effects, expand canvas, and extend video length, Pika allows you to tweak videos in any way possible.

Pricing

Pika offers four pricing plans:

  • Basic plan (free): 250 initial credits, 30 credits refill daily, 2 credits/lip sync generation, download videos
  • Standard plan ($8/month): Everything in the Basic plan, plus 700 credits/month, free lip sync generations, upscale resolution, no watermark, extend video length, discount for credit purchase.
  • Unlimited plan ($28/month): Everything in the Standard plan, plus 2,000 credits/month, unlimited Chill generations.
  • Pro plan ($58/month): Everything in the Unlimited plan, plus infinite credits, unlimited Lightning generations, early access to new features, commercial terms.

9 Invideo AI

Overview of the Invideo AI website

G2 rating: 4.5 / 5

Invideo AI is another AI video generation tool that creates videos with script, subtitles, voiceover and music from text prompts. This platform lets you generate videos by describing your idea via text, adding details like video length, platform or voiceover accent. After the video is generated, you are also able to edit it with text commands. Invideo AI also supports over 50 languages.

Pricing

Invideo AI offers three pricing plans on its platform:

  • Free plan: 10 mins of AI generation/week, 10 GB storage, 4 exports with Invideo logo/week, 2.5M+ standard media
  • Plus plan (from $20/month): 50 mins of AI generation/month, 80 iStock/month, 100 GB storage, unlimited exports, 2 voice clones, up to 1 user
  • Max plan (from $48/month): 200 mins of AI generation/month, 320 iStock/month, 400 GB storage, unlimited exports, 5 voice clones, up to 1 user

10 HeyGen

Overview of the HeyGen website

G2 rating: 4.8 / 5

HeyGen is our final AI video creation platform on the list. With HeyGen, you can easily create video using their AI avatars and voices. The videos created with this tool mainly feature a talking AI avatar, which you can select and customize according to your use case and language you prefer. HeyGen also offers a wide range of templates you can choose from.

Pricing

HeyGen provides four pricing plans:

  • Free plan: 1 general credit (= 1 min of video), access to core platform, single user workspace, avatar video, video translation, standard video generation
  • Creator plan (from $24/month): Everything in the Free plan, plus 180-720 credits/year, instant avatars, watermark removal, fast video generation.
  • Team plan (from $120/month): Everything in the Creator plan, plus 360-1,080 credits/year, multi-user workspace, brand management, 4k resolution support.
  • Enterprise plan (custom pricing): Custom credit plans, access to end-to-end platform, multi-user workspace, enterprise-grad security, and more

Enhance Your Content Creation with AI

The growing influence of AI has transformed content creation itself and can be found practically anywhere in modern spaces. AI-powered tools are now being widely adopted by content creators, marketers, and businesses to streamline their content generation processes. From text to image and video generation – AI is redefining the possibilities of content production.

Many of these AI tools also don’t just fulfill one single purpose, like Leonardo.Ai that lets you generate both image and videos, or Freepik that also serves as a stock image bank. This versatility greatly simplifies the creative process for content creators.

We hope this list has provided you with a comprehensive overview of the available AI content creation tools. As always, we also offer free consultations should you need further assistance.

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