ChatGPT Images vs Merlin vs MaxAI

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

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ChatGPT Images
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Competitor 1
Merlin
Competitor 2
MaxAI
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for ChatGPT Images: Bing Image Creator86% FLUX85% Adobe Firefly85% Leonardo AI84% Seedream84% Stable Diffusion82% Ideogram82% Recraft82%
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3 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool ChatGPT Images
openai.com
Because generation is native to the 4o multimodal model rather than a separate add-on, it draws on the model's world knowledge and the conversation history.
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Competitor Merlin
getmerlin.in
AI assistant in your browser
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Competitor MaxAI
maxai.co
MaxAI is a browser extension and web app that adds an AI sidebar to whatever page you have open.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
204.3Mvisits/mo
1.2Mvisits/mo
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MoM change
▲ 3.6%
▼ 13.8%
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6-month growth
+0.3%
-9.1%
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Global rank web
#212
#46,011
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Avg. last 3 months
197.3M
1.3M
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Bounce rate lower is better
58%
50%
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Pages / visit
3.0
2.5
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Visit duration
2m 31s
4m 15s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 81% · ● Referral 17%
● Direct 83% · ● Referral 14%
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ChatGPT ImagesMerlinMaxAI
066.6M133.2M199.7M266.3MChatGPT Images · 266.3MChatGPT Images · 225MChatGPT Images · 210.1MChatGPT Images · 191.2MChatGPT Images · 203.7MChatGPT Images · 195.7MChatGPT Images · 203.1MChatGPT Images · 190.4MChatGPT Images · 197.2MChatGPT Images · 204.3MMerlin · 1.5MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.2MMerlin · 1.3MMerlin · 1.3MMerlin · 1.3MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.2M1M10M100M1BChatGPT Images · 266.3MChatGPT Images · 225MChatGPT Images · 210.1MChatGPT Images · 191.2MChatGPT Images · 203.7MChatGPT Images · 195.7MChatGPT Images · 203.1MChatGPT Images · 190.4MChatGPT Images · 197.2MChatGPT Images · 204.3MMerlin · 1.5MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.2MMerlin · 1.3MMerlin · 1.3MMerlin · 1.3MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.2MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Paid
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
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$29per month · free tier available
$12per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Free trial
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API access
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Plans
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Free FreePro $29/moTeams $15/mo
Free FreePro $12/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
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CodeDocumentsTextWeb pages
CodeDocumentsImagesTextWeb pages
Output
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CodeImagesText
CodeImagesText
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Design & CreativeImage EditingImage GenerationAI Comic Generator+3 more
Chatbots & CompanionsDesign & CreativeDevelopment & CodeEducation & Learning+21 more
Chatbots & CompanionsEducation & LearningProductivity & OfficeVideo Editing+7 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
5
13
11
Image generation
Chatbots
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Summarizing
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Translations
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Video summaries
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Writing
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Chrome extensions
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Coding
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Copywriting
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Image editing
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Image to image
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Images
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Paraphrasing
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Social media
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Social media posts
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Browser
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Character image generation
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Document summarization
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Grammar checking
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Mind maps
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PDFs
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Productivity
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Prompts
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