Alternatives to Luma
A creative agent app from Luma Labs for generating and editing images and video. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Luma
A creative agent app from Luma Labs for generating and editing images and video.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Luma.
Runway
A web creative platform for generating and editing video, images and audio with AI.
Runway generates and edits video, images and audio on its own models and is free to try, without Luma's project-wide agent or Frame.io connectors.
Kling AI
An AI studio for generating images and videos from text, images and references.
Kling AI generates images and video from text and multimodal references with storyboarding and native audio, with limits varying by model and plan.
PixVerse
An AI video generation platform that turns text prompts and images into video clips.
PixVerse offers text and image to video with character consistency, lip sync, a node canvas and a command-line tool, using proprietary models.
Vidu
An AI video generator that makes clips from text prompts, images and reference material.
Vidu makes clips up to 16 seconds with audio and has an agent that builds complete videos from a brief, plus an API platform.
Leonardo AI
A generative AI platform for creating, editing, animating and upscaling images and video from prompts.
Leonardo AI generates and upscales images and video with consistent characters, and adds Android and iOS apps and a developer API.
Kaiber
An AI video platform for making music-synced videos, animations and talking characters.
Kaiber focuses on music-synced video and animation using third-party models, with only a low-cost trial rather than a free tier.
Morph Studio
A web suite for AI image and video generation that uses several third-party models.
Morph Studio gathers third-party image and video models with an Open Canvas for building longer stories from generated clips.
Adobe Firefly
Adobe's generative AI app for creating and editing images, video, audio and designs.
Adobe Firefly covers images, video, audio and designs with Adobe and partner models, and offers web, iOS and Android apps.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Luma as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Hailuo AI
MiniMax's web app for creating AI videos and images from text prompts or photos.
Luma is a creative agent app that keeps context across a project and adds video editing such as relighting and motion transfer.
Higgsfield
A web and mobile creative suite for generating and editing AI images, video and voice.
Luma is an agent-based app for images and video with relighting, product swap and connectors for Frame.io, Figma and Google Ads.
Magnific
An online AI creative platform for generating and upscaling images, video and audio, formerly Freepik.
Luma is a creative agent app that keeps context across a project and adds video relighting and product swap, with a freemium plan and Figma and Frame.io connectors.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Topaz Video
Video enhancement software that uses AI models to upscale, stabilize, sharpen and interpolate frames in footage.
Midjourney
A hosted AI image generator that turns written prompts into images through its website and Discord.
Synthesia
A web platform for making presenter-style videos with AI avatars and voiceovers in many languages.
