What was read
7 companies placed; 0 read during October 2026.
- MidjourneySep 30, 2026
- LeonardoSep 30, 2026
- IdeogramSep 30, 2026
- KreaSep 30, 2026
- CanvaSep 30, 2026
- Commercial rights to generated imagesSep 30, 2026
- Small businesses making their own visualsSep 30, 2026
Gaps closed and opened
4 themes were raised about two or more of 7 read companies; 0 share no word with anything a company declares. Against the previous month: 0 gaps opened and 0 closed (0 now share a word with a declared capability, 0 no longer raised about two companies). Themes are compared by their words, so a theme the reading reworded counts as one closed and one opened.
- Opened · 0
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- Now answered in the declared names · 0
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- No longer raised about two companies · 0
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- ● Free tier, trial and paywalled featuresraised about 5 of 7
- ● Usage limits and capsraised about 4 of 7
- ● Accuracy and output qualityraised about 3 of 7
- ● Price levelraised about 2 of 7
Who entered
0 companies placed; 5 products sighted by a search and not yet read (Meta Muse Image, GPT Image 2 (ChatGPT Images 2.0), Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image), Recraft V4.1, Flux.2 Pro / FLUX 3 (Black Forest Labs)).
Pricing moves
6 of 7 read companies have a pricing entry on record; none recorded a pricing change this month.
- Midjourney [FACT] Sep 30, 2026Midjourney's official plan comparison lists four paid tiers — Basic ($10/mo), Standard ($30/mo), Pro ($60/mo), Mega ($120/mo) — with 20% off annual billing ($8/$24/$48/$96 per month respectively), and no free tier or trial. source
- Leonardo [COMPANY CLAIM] Sep 30, 2026Leonardo's current pricing structure is Free ($0, 150 tokens/day), Essential ($12/mo), Premium ($30/mo), and Ultimate ($60/mo), with annual billing up to 20% cheaper, plus Team Starter (~$72/mo) and Team Growth (~$144/mo) seat-based plans and a separate pay-as-you-go API. source
- Krea [COMPANY CLAIM] Sep 30, 2026Krea's current plan structure is Free (100 compute units/day), Basic, Pro, and Max as individual tiers plus Business and Enterprise for teams, with credits, LoRA training, and upscaling resolution scaling by tier. source
- Canva [COMPANY CLAIM] Sep 30, 2026Canva's current plan structure is Free ($0), Pro (~$18/month or $144/year for a single user), Business/formerly Teams (~$25/user/month or $250/user/year, no seat minimum), and Enterprise (custom-quoted, generally aimed at 50+ or 150+ seats). source
- Commercial rights to generated images [FACT] Sep 30, 2026Midjourney's paid tiers range from a $10/month Basic plan up to a $120/month Mega plan, with the $30 Standard plan including unlimited Relax Mode generation, and commercial use rights require at least the paid Basic tier since the platform has no free trial. source
- Small businesses making their own visuals [FACT] Sep 30, 2026Baseline: AI image generator pricing for small businesses ranges from free tiers to roughly $159/month (e.g. DeeVid AI free to $159/month, Canva AI from $9.99/month, Leonardo.ai free to $24/month, Midjourney from $10/month, Adobe Firefly from $4.99/month). source
What users raised
21 themes raised by users; the most raised: Free tier, trial and paywalled features (5 of 7), Usage limits and caps (4 of 7), Accuracy and output quality (3 of 7).
- Free tier, trial and paywalled features 5/7
- Usage limits and caps 4/7
- Accuracy and output quality 3/7
- Price level 2/7
- AI images require metadata/label cleanup for platform credibility 1/7
- AI logos not polished enough for final client use 1/7
- commercial license does not equal copyright protection 1/7
- Customer support 1/7
- Difficulty maintaining exact brand consistency with real products 1/7
- Fast GPU minutes run out quickly on Basic plan 1/7
- human faces/portraits look unnatural 1/7
- Integrations and API 1/7
- Interface and design 1/7
- Mobile apps 1/7
- Not suited for vector output needs 1/7
- outputs public by default unless paying extra 1/7
- Platform seen as consumer/designer-oriented rather than developer-first 1/7
- Price increases 1/7
- Pro plan repriced upward over time 1/7
- risk of trademark/character infringement in outputs 1/7
- Single-user license restriction on Pro plan 1/7
Funding by quarter
Withheld: something was read in 1 of the last 8 quarters. A series needs at least 2 to say anything a single reading does not.
The ledger this month
0 observed claims recorded this month.
How big this market is, as its publishers state it
No market-size figure has been recorded for this level yet. Not read is not zero.
Research-house estimates for this sector, carried side by side under each house’s own name. Estimates of one market can differ several-fold; none is averaged, and none is Forge’s.
No publisher is named for this level yet, so there is nothing to read from. Publishers are authored in the taxonomy and arrive with a deploy.