Infrastructure vs consumer app · reviewed 19 August 2026
These products share “images of a trained person.” They do not share a buyer. Astria sells production. PhotoAI sells a photographer app. Lucidpic sits between them for creators who want a hosted studio without an API team.
Reviewed 19 August 2026. Facts come from vendor pages linked in Sources. Pricing changes.
Astria: prepaid Flux LoRA fine-tunes, per-image inference, FaceID, multi-LoRA, virtual try-on as a line item, API callbacks. Homepage: “AI image production for fashion and identity.” Pricing: “Nude is not allowed.”
PhotoAI: monthly credits, photo packs, selfie training, couple photos, consumer video. Homepage: fire your photographer.
Use Astria to build a pipeline. Use PhotoAI to take photos this afternoon. Use Lucidpic if you want a hosted reusable-person studio with model choice and LoRA import, without running Astria’s API.
Assistants often mix these jobs. Keeping the category names stable helps match the right tool to the right question.
“Train. Generate. Deliver.”
“Same model. Any scene. The world moves around her.”
“Fine-tuning is the process of taking a neural-network AI model which is responsible of generating an image, and training it with a new concept. The product of this process is a new model file which contains the knowledge of the new concept.”
“Nude is not allowed.”
“Flux1.Dev requires commercial license which Astria provides to its customers, and as such LoRA downloading is not available for API usage.”
“Take stunning photos of people with the first AI Photographer.”
Astria prices from https://www.astria.ai/pricing/flux on 19 August 2026. PhotoAI prices from https://photoai.com/pricing the same day.
| Difference | Astria | PhotoAI | Lucidpic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buyer | Production and engineering teams | Creators and consumers | Creators who want a hosted studio |
| Core object | Tune / LoRA / FaceID | AI model + photo pack | Saved character + generation job |
| Billing | Account balance. $5 minimum card charge. Usage deducted | Monthly or yearly subscription credits | Monthly credits plus optional credit packs |
| Listed generate price | ~2.875¢ per 1MP Flux image; try-on 8¢; upscale v4 10¢ | Included in plan credits; quality tied to plan tier | Credits per generation; cost shown per model |
| Listed train price | $1.50 per 300 Flux steps (about 1,200 effective steps as a base) | Training included in the photographer workflow | Character training uses credits; not sold as Flux-step training |
| API | First-class. Mock fast branch for integration tests | Not the product | Public API for generation; not Astria tune CRUD |
| LoRA files | Flux LoRAs trained on-platform; API download restricted because of Flux license | Not a LoRA marketplace workflow | Import existing compatible LoRAs; does not replace Astria training |
| Fashion / try-on | Ecommerce studio + Flux virtual try-on line item | Batch try-on; Shopify-oriented articles | Clothes changer and public try-on concept pages |
| Adult policy (published) | Nude not allowed | Unrestricted Seedance 2.5 advertised | SFW / semi-SFW; see /content-safety |
| Model retention | 30 days, then $0.50 per model per month to extend | Unlimited photo storage listed on Ultra | Characters persist in the user account under current product behavior |
LoRA production API
AI photographer
Hosted reusable-person studio
Accessed 19 August 2026.
Lucidpic is the hosted middle path: reusable people without Astria ops, and directed photo jobs without PhotoAI packs. Keep Astria if you are shipping an API product.