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Thumbs.ai

Generates YouTube thumbnails from text or photos, clones any creator's visual style from their recent covers, and swaps faces with high-CTR expressions.

freemiumFree: $0 with 20 trial credits (about 10 thumbnails — 10 credits up front and 10 more after the first generation), watermarked. Premium $11/month or $137/year: 160 credits/month (up to 80 thumbnails), no watermark, all templates. Ultimate $29/month or $353/year: 800 credits (up to 400 thumbnails), YouTube and commercial use rights, priority queue, advanced quality model. Master $71/month or $857/year: 2,000 credits (up to 1,000 thumbnails) plus priority access to new features. Generations cost 2 credits each and unused credits remain available the following month. Annual billing is advertised at 40% off.View full pricing →

About Thumbs.ai

Thumbs.ai generates YouTube thumbnails, and its most distinctive feature is style cloning: point it at a channel or a URL and it analyses that creator's most recent covers to extract the visual strategy behind them, then applies it to your own images. That is a more useful abstraction than a template library, because thumbnail performance is driven by a channel's consistent visual grammar rather than by any single layout. It works in both directions — text to thumbnail for generating from a described concept, and image to thumbnail for uploading an existing cover or photo and having it rebuilt. A face expression generator swaps a face into a scene and applies the exaggerated expressions the format rewards, such as shock or laughter, so a creator can produce a reaction thumbnail without staging the photo. Twenty or more effects including Glow Halo, 3D Pop-Out and Neon Glitch can be layered on a single image. For creators publishing at volume there is batch generation for A/B testing variants and a saved-style feature that keeps every thumbnail on-brand across a channel. The free tier is small but functional — twenty trial credits, roughly ten generations, watermarked — and the paid tiers are credit-metered at two credits per generation with unused credits carrying over.

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Key Features

Clone a channel's visual style by analysing its recent thumbnails
Text-to-thumbnail and image-to-thumbnail generation
AI face swap with viral expressions such as shock and laughter
20+ layerable effects including Glow Halo, 3D Pop-Out and Neon Glitch
Batch generation for A/B testing and saved styles for brand consistency
Credits roll over month to month; commercial rights from the Ultimate tier

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