Review of WaveSpeed

WaveSpeed scored 8.5/10 in our test of 16 August 2026. It is a different proposition within the catalogue: a broad pay-as-you-go platform of AI models with no subscription, where the clothes changer costs $0.12 USD per generation and purchased credits do not expire.

Lawful use only with your own photos, or photos of adults who have given explicit consent. Responsible AI (in Spanish).

Every figure above comes from the provider’s own public pages on the date of the test. Prices change without notice, and the date is what makes the number readable.

Privacy and security (30%)

A platform with extensive public documentation, reachable terms and transparent billing. Processing happens in the provider's cloud; for sensitive material we recommend reading the terms first.

Output quality (25%)

The clothes-changer model produces correct results with good-quality input, but it takes more iterations and tuning than the specialised tools: that is the trade-off of a general platform.

Price and free tier (20%)

The best pricing scheme in the catalogue for occasional use: no subscription, $0.12 USD per generation, credits that do not expire and trial credit with no card for eligible accounts.

Speed (15%)

Generation was fast and steady in our session; being shared pay-as-you-go infrastructure, there are no queues split by plan.

Support and transparency (10%)

Prices, documentation and service status are public, and support has clear channels. The barrier is the language and the technical slant of the documentation.

The five weights are fixed across the whole catalogue and are set out in how we review. A tool is never marked against a rival, only against the same scale.

On 16/08/2026 the desk read the provider’s publicly visible pricing, payment and help pages, recorded every amount and limit into the table above, and ran the service through the same standardised scenarios used across the catalogue: well-lit frontal photographs at medium and high resolution, taken from our own test set.

What we record is what the provider states in public and what the interface does in front of us. On the free tier the first line we check is what the provider offers without payment, and here that reads: $1 usd of trial credit for eligible new accounts, with no card.

What we do not do: we never test these tools on photographs of third parties, we publish no results from such attempts if they reach us, and we do not estimate figures the provider leaves unpublished. An absence is recorded as an absence, which lowers the mark on the criterion concerned rather than being filled in with a guess.

Prices and limits change without notice. The date beside every figure is what makes it readable, and the desk re-checks the catalogue on a rolling basis — the next verification date will replace the one above.

• Rombach et al., High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models — The diffusion inpainting this class of tool is built on.
• Kirillov et al., Segment Anything — The segmentation approach behind automatic garment masks.
• Diario Oficial de la Federación, Ley Olimpia reforms — The Mexican text on dissemination of intimate content, real or simulated, without consent.
• Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the AI Act — Article 50 sets the disclosure duty for synthetic content.
• StopNCII.org — The international removal route for non-consensual intimate images.
• TAKE IT DOWN Act, S.146 — The United States takedown obligation, relevant where a provider is hosted there.

Prices, limits and retention come from the provider’s own public pages on the date of the test. Technical and legal claims rest on the published work above. Everything else is what the desk observed in its standardised scenarios.