ContentImage vs Orshot
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Orshot is a image generation api with templates. ContentImage is an agent that makes the featured, OG and social image for every article on a site, with headlines hyphenated and typeset in Finnish, German, French, Spanish and English. Pick Orshot when you are building your own product on top of an image API and want predictable per-credit pricing.
The short version
Orshot renders images from templates through an API and sells monthly credits with overage pricing.
ContentImage reads your site, learns your brand, picks a style, shortens the headline without cutting a word, typesets it for the language and checks the result. It can run on its own against your sitemap or RSS feed and publish to WordPress or Ghost.
Pick Orshot if
You are building your own product on top of an image API and want predictable per-credit pricing.
Pick ContentImage if
You want the finished result, an image on every article, rather than a render API you wire up yourself.
What Orshot does well
- Free tier
- Overage instead of a hard stop
- Official MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Included |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 100 credits per month |
| Entry paid plan | $39/mo | 1,500 credits |
| Overage | $0.036 down to $0.024 | per credit, by tier |
| ContentImage | Free during the beta | Per-site limits, see /pricing |
Prices checked on 2026-11 from orshot.com/pricing. They change, so check the vendor before you decide.
Headline typesetting
Long compound words are the hard case: Finnish and German headlines routinely contain single words wider than a social image. ContentImage hyphenates with language-specific patterns, prefers compound boundaries, balances the lines and avoids a one-word last line. We have not tested Orshot on this and make no claim about it. Run ten of your own headlines through both before you choose.
AI assistants and MCP
Orshot: Official MCP server. ContentImage ships an MCP server with twelve tools for Claude Code, Cursor and Claude Desktop. See the MCP setup.
ContentImage is free during the beta. No card needed.
Get started freeFAQ
- Is ContentImage cheaper than Orshot?
- ContentImage is free during the beta, so yes today. Orshot pricing is in the table above, checked 2026-11.
- Can I use both?
- Yes. They do different jobs: Orshot for the assets you design yourself, ContentImage for the image on every article.