Magnific vs The Noun Project Comparison 2026
Both cover design & graphics and stock footage & assets. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Freepik's stock library plus AI models
Icons on a licence that never expires
At a glance
- The Noun Project starts cheaper, at $3.33.
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
Magnific | The Noun Project | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $14.50 | From $3.33 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Not stated |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Yes | Yes |
Magnific
Freepik's stock library plus AI models
Magnific is what Freepik renamed itself, and the plan buys both halves of that history: a quarter of a billion photos, vectors and PSDs, plus generation and upscaling across a shelf of image, video and audio models. Credits are the meter, and they are issued for the year rather than reset every month, so a heavy fortnight does not strand the rest of the quarter. A commercial licence covers what comes out. Anybody who only wants stock will be paying for the model access as well, because the plans no longer separate them.
Our note
Check what you currently spend on stock before treating this as a generation tool, because for a lot of people the library alone justifies the entry plan and the models are the part that comes free. The name change is recent enough that searching for Freepik pricing will still find old figures.
Only on this side
- Covers ai image generation
The Noun Project
Icons on a licence that never expires
The Noun Project sells icons and photos on a royalty-free worldwide licence that the page says never expires, which is the part that matters for work shipped once and left alone for years. Contributors are paid from subscriptions, and the library is moderated rather than open, so quality is more even than an open marketplace. Plugins for Figma, Adobe and Office plus a Mac application mean an icon can be dropped in without a download step. A single icon can be bought outright for those who need one thing and not a subscription.
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