Comparison · 2026
ArtCraft suite vs Adobe Creative Cloud
The ArtCraft team wrote a free, open-source alternative to each of Adobe’s seven best-known apps, plus an AI creative studio. Here they are side by side.
Every crafting app is early (DesignCraft is still pre-alpha, the rest are alpha): the features are broadly there, while depth, stability and file exchange with Adobe are improving quickly.
What a year costs
Adobe Creative Cloud Pro
$69.99/mo, all apps
$839.88 /yr
One Adobe app (e.g. Photoshop)
$22.99/mo
$275.88 /yr
All ArtCraft crafting apps
Free and open source; AI generation billed in credits
$0 /yr
US list prices, annual plan billed monthly, checked Oct 2026. Source
Firefly vs ArtCraft AI
Adobe builds generative AI into each app with Firefly. ArtCraft is a separate AI studio where you control the shot first, composing in 2D and staging in 3D, then generate with the model you pick: Nano Banana, GPT Image, FLUX, Seedream, Kling, Veo and more. Both charge credits for AI generation.
getartcraft.comWhat they share
- Written from scratch in Rust, running natively
- Dual-licensed MIT or Apache-2.0
- No account; fully offline
- Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD and the web
- Every app can be driven by AI agents through a CLI and MCP