OpenArt
OpenArt is an AI-native creative platform that aggregates 100+ generative models behind a unified workspace for character-consistent image, video, audio, and 3D world creation. It serves individual creators, filmmakers, brands, and agencies globally via credit-based subscriptions.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2022
- HeadquartersRedwood City, United States
- Headcount101–250
- GTM typeB2C
- OfferingSoftware
What OpenArt does
OpenArt is an AI-native creative platform founded in 2022 in San Francisco by former Google Area 120 builders Coco Mao (CEO) and John Qiao, aggregating 100+ leading third-party generative models — including OpenAI Sora 2 and GPT Image 2, Google Veo 3 and Nano Banana Pro, ByteDance Seedance 2.0 and Seedream 5.0, xAI Grok Imagine, Kuaishou Kling 3.0, MiniMax Hailuo, Black Forest Labs FLUX, and ElevenLabs — behind a single credit-based subscription. On top of this model layer the company has built proprietary features that solve the two consistency problems the underlying models alone cannot: Character Builder, a four-step guided flow for photorealistic characters whose face, identity, and aesthetic persist across images, video, scenes, and platforms; and OpenArt Worlds, an exclusive integration with World Labs spatial AI that turns text or 1–4 reference images into persistent, navigable 3D environments from which creators can capture production-ready 2D and video keyframes. The product surface spans AI Video Generator, AI Image Generator, AI Music & Audio (voice clone, voice changer, Lyria 3 music, 30+ languages), One-Click Story, Motion Sync, Lip-Sync, Smart Shot, Director, and OpenArt VFX (replace background, relight, video inpaint), all unified inside OpenArt Suite's shared asset library and @Character/@Image referencing system, with Commercial Safety Check (CopySight) providing pre-publication IP screening.
OpenArt serves individual creators, AI influencer builders, filmmakers and directors, brands and advertisers, agencies, and storytellers, with a primary go-to-market motion that is product-led and self-serve on openart.ai, supplemented by sales-assisted Team and Enterprise plans and an Affiliate Program. Pricing is publicly disclosed in four consumer tiers (Essential $14/mo, Advanced $29/mo with commercial rights, Infinite $56/mo, Wonder $240/mo with unlimited creation) plus a $15/mo Extra Credit add-on, with free daily-credit trial as the top of funnel. Distribution is global — localized into 12 languages with reported creators in every country on every continent — and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration exposes generation capabilities to third-party AI agents.
Commercial scale as disclosed by the founders and corroborated by lead investor Canaan Partners is $70M+ ARR at year-end 2025 (up 7x from $10.5M in 2024) and 8M+ monthly active users, with the team having nearly doubled to roughly 20 staff. The company is venture-backed, having raised a $35M Series A led by Canaan Partners with Basis Set Ventures participating in January 2026, following an earlier $5M round in August 2025. Strategic positioning is reinforced by earned media (ABC News, FOX, Bloomberg, TIME, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch), the AI Influencer Summit (January 2026), and co-organization of the AI Personality of the Year Awards 2026 with Fanvue and ElevenLabs.
OpenArt firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- OpenArt
- Legal name
- OpenArt
- Website
- https://openart.ai
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2022
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 101–250 employees
- Short description
- OpenArt is an AI-native creative platform that aggregates 100+ generative models behind a unified workspace for character-consistent image, video, audio, and 3D world creation. It serves individual creators, filmmakers, brands, and agencies globally via credit-based subscriptions.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
OpenArt industry classification
Industry- Product category
- AI Creative Platform
- NAICS
- Software Publishers (5132)
- SIC
- Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Developer & Open-Source Communities (MPACAJAK)
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Where OpenArt is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Redwood City
- HQ country
- United States
- HQ region
- North America
Offices1 record
Markets served
OpenArt business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2C
- Offering type
- Software
- Cost components
- Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations
Revenue model
- Subscription tiers (credit-based): Monthly or annual recurring subscriptions across four consumer tiers (Essential $14/mo, Advanced $29/mo, Infinite $56/mo, Wonder $240/mo) and Team/Enterprise plans. Each tier allocates a monthly credit allowance for images, videos, characters, stories, and personalized models, with rollover, add-on credit packs, and commercial-use rights from Advanced upward.
- Free / Freemium tier: A free trial plan with daily credits and no credit card required. Used as the top-of-funnel for converting users to paid subscriptions.
- Credit pack add-ons (usage-based): Optional Extra Credit add-on at $15/month for 5,000 additional credits, with Wonder subscribers receiving 10% off credit packs. Allows consumption-based spend on top of subscription.
- Team & Enterprise contracts: Larger accounts (agencies and global brand teams) purchase Team and Enterprise plans with shared credits, collaborative workspaces, and 100+ model integrations. Sold via sales-assisted motion.
- Affiliate Program revenue share: OpenArt runs an Affiliate Program (openart.ai/programs/affiliate) that drives referral-based customer acquisition with commission payouts to partners.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Freemium | Pay-as-you-go | Free trial — daily credits, no card required |
| Subscription | Monthly | Essential — entry-level creator plan |
| Subscription | Monthly | Advanced — scale creator plan with commercial use |
| Subscription | Monthly | Infinite — full-speed creator plan (Most Popular) |
| Subscription | Monthly | Wonder — top consumer tier with unlimited creation (Best Value) |
| Usage-based | Pay-as-you-go | Extra Credit add-on — usage top-up |
| Subscription | Multi-year contract | Team & Enterprise Plans — B2B packages |
Go-to-market motion1 record
Distribution channels5 records
Marketing channels11 records
OpenArt product offering
Product offeringCore offering
OpenArt is an all-in-one AI creative platform that aggregates 100+ leading third-party generative models (image, video, audio) behind a unified subscription. It layers proprietary features on top, including Character Builder for consistent AI personas, OpenArt Worlds for persistent navigable 3D environments, One-Click Story, Motion Sync, Lip-Sync, Smart Shot, OpenArt VFX, AI Music & Audio, and a Commercial Safety Check (IP-rights scanner powered by CopySight).
Product overview
OpenArt is an all-in-one AI creative platform that consolidates image, video, character, audio, and persistent 3D content creation into a single unified workspace. At the core is OpenArt Suite, which integrates the AI Video Generator, AI Image Generator, Character Builder, OpenArt Worlds, AI Music & Audio, AI Character, and AI Influencer tools alongside specialized modules including Smart Shot, Director, OpenArt VFX (Replace Background, Relight Video, Video Inpaint), Motion Sync, Lip-Sync, Music Video, and One-Click Story for automated multi-scene stories. Commercial Safety Check (powered by CopySight) adds IP-infringement screening, and OpenArt MCP exposes image and video generation to external AI agents. The platform aggregates 100+ premium AI models from integrated partners including OpenAI, Google, ByteDance, xAI, Kuaishou (Kling), ElevenLabs, MiniMax (Hailuo), Black Forest Labs, and World Labs, letting creators pick the best model for each step inside one subscription and one shared asset library.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Products and services
- OpenArt All-in-one AI creative platform that brings image generation, video creation, character building, audio/music generation, and persistent 3D worlds into a single unified workspace for AI-native creators, filmmakers, brands, and storytellers.
- OpenArt Suite Unified AI creation workspace that brings image, video, character, audio, and 3D world generation into a single panel with a shared asset library, persistent settings, and @Character / @Image referencing across tools.
- AI Video Generator Generates cinematic videos up to 15 seconds at up to 4K resolution from text prompts or reference images, using selectable models including Veo 3.1, Seedance 2.0, Kling 3.0 Omni, and Sora 2 across styles such as photorealism and anime.
- AI Image Generator Generates, edits, and transforms still images using selectable models such as GPT Image 2, Nano Banana Pro, and Seedream 5.0; supports in-canvas erase, expand, background swap, restyle, and 4K upscale.
- Character Builder AI character creation tool with a four-step guided flow (Look Vibe, Gender, Ethnicity, Age) that produces photorealistic human characters plus Image-to-Character and Text-to-Character flows and a full-screen editing workspace; characters can be reused across images and videos.
- OpenArt Worlds Persistent navigable 3D creative environment that turns a text prompt or 1–4 reference images into a fully explorable 3D world (powered by World Labs spatial AI), letting creators set camera angles, place characters/objects, and capture production-ready 2D images.
- One-Click Story Converts a single sentence, script, image, or song into a one-minute AI-generated video with complete story arc using templates such as Character Vlog, Music Video, and Explainer.
- OpenArt MCP Model Context Protocol integration that lets external AI agents generate images and video directly inside their own workflows.
Companies that use OpenArt
Customer profileNamed customers13 records
Segments7 records
Ideal customer profiles4 records
OpenArt technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- Yes
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Integration10 records
AI capability13 records
Feature10 records
OpenArt partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
13 partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.
- FanvueflagshipFanvue partnered with OpenArt (and ElevenLabs) to co-launch and co-host the AI Personality of the Year Awards 2026 in London, with a $90,000 prize fund and 2,000+ AI personality entries. OpenArt and Fanvue also co-produced the Fanvue x OpenArt AI Personality of the Year Awards 2026.
- ElevenLabs (as sponsor)coreElevenLabs is a 'proud sponsor' of the AI Personality of the Year Awards 2026 (March 23 – April 19, 2026), running alongside OpenArt and Fanvue. ElevenLabs also provides AI voice technology for the program.
- Black Forest Labs (BFL)flagshipFLUX.1 Kontext [pro] and [max] models from Black Forest Labs are available on OpenArt, alongside other platforms such as KreaAI, Freepik, Lightricks, and LeonardoAI. The FLUX.1 Kontext [dev] open-weight variant is in private beta.
- OpenAIflagshipOpenAI is listed as a 'Featured AI model' partner on the OpenArt homepage and powers flagship models accessible inside OpenArt Suite, including Sora 2 (video) and GPT Image 2 (image). OpenArt surfaces these models under a single subscription.
- xAIcorexAI is listed as a 'Featured AI model' partner on the OpenArt homepage and powers Grok Imagine, an image and short video generation model with native audio available inside OpenArt Suite.
- GoogleflagshipGoogle is listed as a 'Featured AI model' partner on the OpenArt homepage. Google powers Veo 3 (video) and Nano Banana Pro (image) accessible inside OpenArt Suite.
- ByteDanceflagshipByteDance is listed as a 'Featured AI model' partner on the OpenArt homepage. ByteDance powers Seedance 2.0 (video) and Seedream 5.0 (image), flagship models inside OpenArt Suite.
- Kling (Kuaishou)flagshipKling is listed as a 'Featured AI model' partner on the OpenArt homepage and powers Kling 3.0 (video), a flagship model inside OpenArt Suite known for stylized motion and anime sequences.
- ElevenLabsflagshipElevenLabs is both a 'Featured AI model' partner on the OpenArt homepage (powering AI voice, voice clone, and voiceover inside OpenArt) and a co-organizer of the AI Personality of the Year Awards 2026, providing AI voice technology for the program.
- Hailuo AI (MiniMax)coreHailuo AI is listed as a 'Featured AI model' partner on the OpenArt homepage. Hailuo powers expressive character motion, lip-sync, and gesture-driven video models inside OpenArt Suite.
- World LabsflagshipWorld Labs provides the spatial AI technology that powers OpenArt Worlds, exclusively on OpenArt. The integration is the foundation for OpenArt's persistent, navigable 3D environment feature.
- CopySightflagshipOpenArt built Commercial Safety Check with CopySight, described as 'experts in AI IP safety.' CopySight powers the IP-safety scanning that flags copyright, likeness, character, and trademark resemblance before content is published — first-of-its-kind on a consumer AI creative platform.
- Pollo AIminorPollo AI aggregates multiple AI generation tools (including Kling AI, Runway, Canva, and OpenArt) into a unified interface for content creators, surfacing OpenArt inside its bundled offering.
Scale indicators10 records
Recent moves6 records
Expansion highlights7 records
OpenArt competitors and assessment
Company assessmentBroad incumbents
- Adobe Firefly: Adobe Firefly is Adobe's generative AI image and video suite integrated across Creative Cloud. It is a broad incumbent peer — overlapping with OpenArt's image and video generation capabilities but as part of a wider creative software portfolio for professional users.
- Stability AI: Stability AI is the developer of Stable Diffusion and a foundation-model provider. It is a broad incumbent peer — its models (and enterprise platform) overlap with OpenArt's image generation capabilities, and Cybernews rated it alongside OpenArt as a top AI art generator.
- OpenAI: OpenAI is a foundation-model provider and operator of ChatGPT and Sora. It is both a partner (Sora 2 and GPT Image 2 are integrated into OpenArt) and a broad incumbent peer — its consumer ChatGPT/Sora apps increasingly compete with OpenArt's end-user creative workflows.
Emerging players
- Pollo AI: Pollo AI is an aggregator platform that bundles multiple AI generation tools (including Kling, Runway, Canva, and OpenArt) into a unified interface for creators. It is an emerging aggregator peer — partially competing with OpenArt's own aggregator strategy by reselling access to it.
- Hailuo AI: Hailuo AI is a video generation platform developed by MiniMax. It is both a model partner on OpenArt (Hailuo video models are integrated) and an emerging competitor offering direct-to-consumer video generation that overlaps with OpenArt's AI video features.
Direct peers
- Pika Labs: Pika is an AI video generation platform focused on short-form video creation. It is a direct peer to OpenArt's AI video generator and One-Click Story features for the same creator audience.
- Runway: Runway is a leading AI video and creative platform with tools for text-to-video, image-to-video, and editing. It is a direct peer to OpenArt's AI video generator, Smart Shot, Director, and OpenArt VFX features, serving filmmakers, brands, and creators.
- Leonardo AI: Leonardo AI is an AI image and video generation platform for creators and game studios. It is a direct peer to OpenArt, competing on multi-model access, character consistency, and creator tooling.
- Midjourney: Midjourney is a leading AI image generation platform serving creators and brands. It is a direct peer to OpenArt's AI image generation and creative platform capabilities, competing for the same individual creator and brand budgets.
- Krea: Krea is an AI creative platform aggregating multiple image and video models for creators. It is a direct peer to OpenArt's multi-model aggregator strategy and was named alongside OpenArt in Krea's 2025 'Top 8 AI Image Generators' roundup.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat6 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
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OpenArt leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles2 records
OpenArt funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds2 records
Investors4 records
Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →
OpenArt M&A and investment
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Investments
M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →
Frequently asked questions about OpenArt
What does OpenArt do?
OpenArt is an all-in-one AI creative platform that aggregates 100+ leading third-party generative models (image, video, audio) behind a unified subscription. It layers proprietary features on top, including Character Builder for consistent AI personas, OpenArt Worlds for persistent navigable 3D environments, One-Click Story, Motion Sync, Lip-Sync, Smart Shot, OpenArt VFX, AI Music & Audio, and a Commercial Safety Check (IP-rights scanner powered by CopySight).
Is OpenArt a public or private company?
OpenArt is a private company. It is classified as venture growth investor backed and is currently operating.
When was OpenArt founded?
OpenArt was founded in 2022. It employs 101 to 250 people.
Where is OpenArt based?
OpenArt is headquartered in Redwood City, United States, in the North America region.
How does OpenArt make money?
Five revenue lines are on record. Subscription tiers (credit-based) is the primary driver. The others are free / Freemium tier, credit pack add-ons (usage-based), team & Enterprise contracts and affiliate Program revenue share.
Who are OpenArt's main competitors?
Broad incumbents on record are Adobe Firefly, Stability AI and OpenAI. Emerging players are Pollo AI and Hailuo AI. Direct peers are Pika Labs, Runway, Leonardo AI, Midjourney and Krea.
Does OpenArt have an API?
Yes. OpenArt offers an MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration that enables developers and AI agents to generate images and video directly inside their own agent workflows. The MCP server is positioned as a developer/agent-facing surface so external AI systems can call OpenArt's image and video generation capabilities. Developer documentation is at openart.ai/mcp.
What industry is OpenArt in?
OpenArt's product category is AI Creative Platform. Its primary akta.pro industry code is MPACAJAK, Developer & Open-Source Communities. Its NAICS code is 5132 and its SIC code is 7372.