OpenArt alternativeElyum, pay only for keeps

OpenArt is a browser AI suite that resells 100+ third-party image, video, and audio models (Kling, Veo, Seedance, Flux, MiniMax, ElevenLabs and others) behind one credit subscription. It started as an image generator and model marketplace, then added video, Character Creator 2.0, and narrative tools. What it does well is breadth plus workflow: OpenArt's pricing page sells watermark-free output from the $13 Starter plan, consistent-character slots that scale from 13 to 353, and a Director editing suite with One-Click Story for multi-shot work. Reviewers praise how fast a prompt becomes an image. It also ships an MCP server for agent tools.

The search for an OpenArt alternative usually starts with the bill. Through 2025-2026 OpenArt ran repeated plan restructures; reviewers describe shrinking credit value and features moved behind new costs, including Character Creator 2.0 gating older work. A Trustpilot complaint pattern is blunt: credits get burned on failed renders with no clear refund path. Others report charges months after they thought they had canceled, and support on billing disputes stretching to weeks. OpenArt has not published an explicit failed-generation refund policy. The Wonder plan at $175/mo advertises Unlimited Creation, but only for MiniMax H3 Max.

Elyum is one studio and one credit balance across 50+ models, including the Seedance 2.5 page, the Kling 3.0 page, Nano Banana 2, FLUX 2 Pro, Seedream 5 Pro and MiniMax H3. One credit is $0.01. Plans are Free (up to 150 credits once (our algorithm may grant them), no card), Plus $9/mo, Pro $29/mo and Ultra $69/mo, with top-ups. Commercial use and no watermark apply to kept takes on every plan. The mechanic: every render returns as a free preview. You KEEP the takes you want (the only charge) or KILL the rest for an automatic full refund. Failed generations are never charged. See the pricing page for plan math.

This page is not for you if you need OpenArt's Director suite, One-Click Story, stock-style footage, talking-head avatars, a mobile app, team seats or a community feed. Elyum does not ship those. It is also a weak swap if your whole pipeline is built around OpenArt's consistent-character inventory and you need 80 or 353 slots. Stay there, or run both.

What it actually costs

OpenArt's pricing page lists Starter at $13/mo for 4,000 credits (about 4,000 images or 50 videos), 13 characters, 8 parallel gens, watermark-free, no commercial use. Plus is $27/mo for 12,000 credits, commercial rights, 40 characters, 16 parallel. Pro is $44/mo for 24,000 credits, 80 characters, 32 parallel, priority support. Wonder is $175/mo for 106,000 credits and Unlimited Creation on MiniMax H3 Max only. Extra Credit is $15/mo for 5,000 credits and needs Plus or higher. Yearly-billed monthly rates were not captured with confidence.

Elyum's posted plans are Free (up to 150 credits once (our algorithm may grant them)), Plus $9/mo, Pro $29/mo and Ultra $69/mo. One credit equals $0.01. Pro and Ultra add fair-use unlimited images on selected models. OpenArt Plus at $27/mo is the first commercial tier; Elyum includes commercial use on kept takes from Free. OpenArt Starter's 4,000 monthly credits are a bigger raw pile than Elyum Plus if you KEEP everything. The pile shrinks if you discard takes, because OpenArt still bills many of those jobs.

Worked example: you want a 5s Kling clip. OpenArt's published per-clip table in third-party research is for Kling 2.1 (500 credits at 5s, 1,000 at 10s), not Kling 3.0. On Elyum, a KEEP of Kling 3.0 is {{price kling-3 per second 5}}. Preview is free. If the take is unusable, KILL it and the credits do not stay charged. Compare model-level notes on OpenArt vs Elyum for Kling 3.0.