Features, pricing & fit
Piksio vs Duply
Both products offer dynamic image URLs and retain separately purchased credits. Piksio includes 500 free standard images every month and native chart/address inputs, while Duply offers monthly image/video plans plus forms and integrations.
One template, personalized for every recipient
Create one template. Make it personal for every customer.
Let AI build your personalized template, or design it in the canvas. Review it once, then reuse it with each recipient’s details in your email tool.
- Create your template. Describe your idea and let AI build the layout, background and supported personalized layers, or arrange the design yourself in the canvas.
- Review your design and fields. Choose what changes for each person, such as a name, company logo, profile photo, QR code, map or progress/donut value. Use the canvas whenever you want to refine the result.
- Reuse it for your recipients. Save the template, copy its image link into your email platform and connect the merge fields. Piksio renders the saved design with each recipient’s details.
AI helps create the template. Recipient images reuse that saved design with the supplied data. Piksio does not generate a new AI layout or background for every email. You can update the template when you want to change the design.
How Duply compares: Duply’s documented setup is to design a branded template, mark dynamic layers, then generate through URL, form, CSV or API. Piksio can build the design and supported recipient layers from a guided brief before you save the image link.
Duply creation workflow · AI workflow checked October 23, 2026.
AI creation supports progress/donut charts; other chart types and advanced refinements are available in the canvas. Review the generated design before sending.
Three reasons to choose Piksio
A recurring allowance rather than a starter balance
Piksio includes 500 standard images every month. Duply gives verified new accounts a one-time generation balance; its paid monthly plans start at $16 for 200 credits.
Avoid the monthly minimum for the email link
Both products offer variable image URLs. Piksio uses prepaid credits after the free allowance; Duply Starter costs $29/month for 1,000 credits and 20 templates. Both retain separately purchased top-up credits.
Use chart values and addresses directly
Piksio creates native progress/donut charts and maps from recipient values. Duply’s documented image-layer route can vary the artwork per person, but your integration prepares the chart/map image before supplying it.
The details that change the decision
Feature-by-feature comparison
Compare the email-image workflow and the features around it. Plan restrictions are shown where published.
| Feature | Piksio | Duply |
|---|---|---|
| Create a complete template with AI | Let AI build the layout, background and supported personalized layers, or design your template in the canvas. Review the saved design and reuse it with each recipient’s details. Recipient images are rendered from the saved template and supplied data. | Duply’s documented setup is to design a branded template, mark dynamic layers, then generate through URL, form, CSV or API. Piksio can build the design and supported recipient layers from a guided brief before you save the image link. |
| Recipient-specific email image URL | Yes — image URL filled with your email platform’s merge tags. | Yes — Dynamic URL with query parameters. |
| Chart values that change per recipient | Yes — supply each recipient’s progress/donut value to a native chart layer. Additional chart types are available in the editor. Supported charts can animate. | Can vary per recipient through chart artwork in an image layer. The getting-started guide documents general text/image/shape/video elements; generating chart graphics is external to that documented route. |
| QR targets that change per recipient | Yes — supply each recipient’s target URL as a variable; Piksio generates the QR code in the design. | Can vary per recipient by supplying a different QR image. Your integration generates that graphic from the recipient’s target URL. |
| Maps that change per recipient | Yes — pass each recipient’s address to a native map layer; Piksio generates that person’s map. A rendered map uses 2 credits/allowance units. | Can vary per recipient through a different map image URL. In this image-layer workflow, your integration generates each address-specific map externally. A native address-to-map layer is not documented. |
| Recipient text/logos on product surfaces | Yes — each recipient’s text/logo is rendered with cylinder wrap, fabric displacement or carve/emboss. The effect is applied to the changing content. Still PNG output. | Text/images can change per recipient. For the documented image-layer route, supply a separately composited surface variant for each person. Native cylinder/fabric/material effects applied to the changing content are not documented. |
| When personalization credits run out | Saved-default design is served instead of a broken image. | Buy top-ups or upgrade the monthly quota. Purchased extra credits do not expire. |
| Broader outputs and product embedding | This personalized-image workflow outputs PNG/GIF; no PDF, MP4, or white-label SDK in this workflow. | API, forms, integrations, video, public links, and brand kits. |
Native layers, uploaded assets and custom code are different workflows. Where the documented route uses an image asset or an integration, we say so. Features without sufficient public evidence are omitted; absence from this table is not a claim that the product lacks them.
Duply sources: Generation methods · Pricing · AI creation workflow (checked October 23, 2026). Piksio: workflow and features · pricing.
Cost and commitment
Piksio vs Duply pricing
| Pricing detail | Piksio | Duply |
|---|---|---|
| Free allowance / evaluation | 500 standard personalized images every month. No preview watermark or credit card required. | One-time generation balance for verified new accounts. |
| Paid entry and commitment | No subscription. Prepaid top-ups from US$10 for 2,000 credits at the base rate. | $16/month Mini; $29/month Starter. |
| What the paid price includes | 1 paid standard personalized image = 1 credit (US$0.005 base rate). Supported GIFs cost the same as stills. | Mini: 200 credits and 3 templates. Starter: 1,000 credits and 20 templates. |
| What is metered | The unique personalized image. Repeat fetches/reopens are free; changing the design or recipient values creates a new image. | Standard image: 1 credit. Monthly credits reset; purchased top-ups do not expire. Video varies by output. |
What this means for your budget
Piksio’s recurring free 500 standard images exceed Mini’s 200-image allowance. For 1,000 standard images in a month, Piksio consumes $2.50 beyond its free allowance ($10 minimum top-up), versus Duply Starter at $29/month.
Your actual volume
What would your image campaign cost?
Compare the cash needed for one month, including minimum purchases and unused subscription capacity.
Piksio
$10.00cash top-up needed500 free images; 500 paid credits. A $10 top-up buys 2,000 credits; 1,500 remain.
Duply
$29.00Starter1,000 included/purchased; 0 unused at 1,000 images.
Monthly still-image allowance. Additional credits are offered, but no public unit price is given; above 25,000, request a vendor quote.
All published monthly options used in this estimate
- Mini: $16.00 for 200 credits/calls.
- Starter: $29.00 for 1,000 credits/calls.
- Professional: $57.00 for 5,000 credits/calls.
- Business: $129.00 for 25,000 credits/calls.
Pricing checked October 22, 2026. This estimates a new month’s cash requirement, not the accounting value of credits consumed. Estimates cover standard still images for one user, before tax, AI and map costs. Public tiers are compared without an annual commitment. A quote is requested where no equivalent public price is available.
Published vendor details: Pricing. Checked October 22, 2026; confirm the current plan before purchase.
When Duply fits better
Duply is worth choosing when video variations or a form-based asset workflow matter as much as URL-driven image generation.
How to choose
Choose Piksio for its recurring free allowance and direct chart/map inputs. Compare Duply when its video, form or wider integration workflow matters. The image URL and non-expiring purchased credits are available in both products.
This comparison is published by Piksio. Product details and pricing were reviewed on October 22, 2026; links to the vendor’s sources are included above.