Kive is an AI product photography platform for consumer brands. See features, Shopify and MCP integrations, and pricing from $40/month with a free plan.
Researched and fact-checked by Bartu Cavusoglu · Updated October 26, 2026
Kive is an AI product photography and brand visuals platform for consumer brands. Its site lists fashion and apparel, skincare, personal hygiene and furniture as example categories and says more than 12,000 brands use it. Users create product shots, ads and short videos starting from product photos.
The pitch is that small teams can handle heavy creative workloads without a studio shoot for every asset. Kive combines generation, editing, a shared library and an AI agent in one workspace, and it connects to outside AI tools through MCP.
Users begin by entering a product URL or uploading product images, which Kive turns into reusable AI products. These are placed into scenes with a text prompt or a preset. Prompts can reference products by name, so one instruction can combine several items, such as a bag carried by a trained character.
Results can be edited, turned into video or resized. The Kive agent runs tasks in the background and chooses from nine named workflows, including Marketplace Listing, Catalog Lookbook and Meta Ad Formats. Several agents can run in parallel, and every generation draws on monthly credits.
Generation features include product accuracy, curated presets, multi-product scenes for bundles, and custom presets that can be reused across visuals. Character models train the AI on specific faces for consistency, and batch creation applies saved settings to many products at once.
The workspace side includes a central library, natural-language search, real-time comments, version history and a shared prompt library. AI editing handles background removal, upscaling, canvas expansion, erasing and object replacement. A 31-tool MCP server lets agents import products, generate and organize assets.
Kive is an AI product photography and brand visuals platform for consumer brands. It generates product shots, ads and short videos from product photos, and includes editing, a shared library and an AI agent. Its site says more than 12,000 brands use it.
Kive has a free plan, Basic at $40/month with 2,000 credits, and Pro from $100/month with 5,000 credits. Billed yearly, Basic is $30/month and the first Pro tier is about $67/month in the first year. Enterprise pricing is custom.
Yes. The free plan includes 40 AI credits when you verify your email, inspiration browsing and up to 5 boards. After credits run out, you can still generate one free image every 30 minutes.
Each plan includes monthly credits. An image costs about 10 credits, a 5-second video about 100 and a finished ad about 200. Failed and content-filtered generations are refunded, and unused credits roll over up to 2x the monthly allowance.
Yes. Kive has a Shopify app for generating images in the admin and importing catalogs, and it is listed in the ChatGPT app directory. It also works with Claude, Cursor, n8n, Zapier, Figma and Notion over MCP.
Kive suits consumer brands and small creative teams that need product photos and ads at volume, particularly in fashion, cosmetics, bags, eyewear and furniture. Agencies and multi-brand teams are addressed by higher Pro tiers and Enterprise.
Yes. Kive includes a collaborative workspace, link sharing, comments, version history and a shared prompt library. Basic allows up to 2 users and Pro up to 10, while Enterprise team size is tailored.