Pikzels

Every action draws on one credit balance. The pricing page lists a thumbnail at 10 to 20 credits, a thumbnail analysis at 5, a title at 1 and a Persona or Style at 50 to train. The advertised “up to 150 thumbnails a month” on Premium assumes the cheapest 10-credit thumbnail and the full 1,500-credit month.

Monthly plans do not start at the full allowance. The terms list Premium at 1,000 credits in month 1, 1,100 in month 2, 1,300 in month 3 and 1,500 from month 4; Ultimate runs from 3,000 to 4,500. Yearly plans receive the month-4 amount times 12 at once: 18,000 credits on Premium and 54,000 on Ultimate.

The pricing table has only two paid plans, Premium and Ultimate, and no free tier. A Start Free Trial button appears next to each plan, but the public pages do not state how long the trial lasts, how many credits it includes or whether a card is required. Check those details on the checkout screen before entering payment information.

The refund policy matters here. All purchases are final: no refunds for monthly or yearly subscriptions or for credit top-ups. If a trial converts into a paid plan, cancel before it renews through the customer portal; access and remaining credits continue until the end of the paid cycle.

A Persona is trained from 3 photos of one person and then reused across thumbnails. The terms require that any face you upload, train or apply is your own, or that the person has given explicit consent and all necessary rights. Public figures, celebrities and anyone else without authorization are excluded, as is using a likeness to impersonate, defame or mislead.

A face is personal data, and a trained Persona can place that person in scenes they never agreed to. Train only your own face, or a collaborator’s with written permission that covers thumbnails. The privacy policy, revised in October 2024, does not say how Persona photos are stored or deleted, so ask support@pikzels.com before uploading someone else’s images.

Recreate takes a thumbnail link or upload, extracts its layout and rebuilds it around your content. The terms describe it as building on proven formats, not copying or passing off someone else’s protected work, and put all responsibility for the source and the output on the user.

You must make sure the result does not reproduce logos, trademarks, watermarks, fonts, characters, artwork or another creator’s likeness, and you agree to indemnify Pikzels against claims. In practice, use Recreate for composition ideas such as layout, text position and color balance, then replace every face, logo and distinctive element with your own material.

Thumbnails created at your request are your exclusive property under the terms. Pikzels nevertheless keeps a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use those projects for marketing, research, development and other business purposes, including the right to modify and display them.

That sits awkwardly with the “All Generations Remain Private” line on the plan cards, so read the terms as the binding text. Generated files also carry embedded metadata marking them as AI-generated by Pikzels, which may not survive re-encoding. You remain responsible for any AI disclosure rules on the platforms where you publish.

By default, unused credits reset on the renewal date, on both monthly and yearly plans. The Credit Rollover option, chosen at checkout, lets unused credits accumulate for as long as the subscription stays active. Rolled-over or purchased credits still cannot be used without an active subscription.

Cancelling and later resubscribing restarts the monthly credit schedule at month 1. Filing a chargeback leads to immediate account termination and forfeited credits, so contact support first. Additional credits can be bought at any time without changing plans, but those purchases are also non-refundable.

1. Record the credit balance before training the Persona.
2. Upload 3 clear photos of your own face and train the Persona.
3. Prompt one thumbnail with a short headline and your Persona, then make one text edit.
4. Download the file and check resolution, text spelling and face likeness at YouTube preview size.
5. Record the credits used for training, generation and the edit.

Accept a 16:9 thumbnail whose face is recognizably yours, with correctly spelled text, where training and generation match the listed 50 and 10 to 20 credits. Reject a distorted face, misspelled headline or unexpected charges. No likeness or credit result is reported until the exercise is run.

For general image design beyond YouTube packaging, compare Canva, Adobe Firefly and Midjourney.