Does Visual Sandbox have a subscription?

No. You add money to a balance and each generation debits it. The minimum top up is $10. A month where you make nothing costs nothing.

How much does Flora cost?

Flora charges per seat. Starter is $18 a seat a month, Pro is $50 a seat a month, and Max is $200 a seat a month. Each seat adds usage dollars to a shared pool. Enterprise pricing is custom.

Is Flora cheaper than Visual Sandbox per image?

It depends on the model and the size. Flora's pricing page puts Nano Banana 2 at an average of $0.151 per image. Visual Sandbox charges $0.09 at 1K, $0.13 at 2K, and $0.19 at 4K. Flora also charges the seat fee on top.

Can a team use Visual Sandbox together?

Not yet. Visual Sandbox has no shared workspace, no seats, and no real time collaboration. Flora is built for teams and does this well.

Did Flora change its web address?

Yes. florafauna.ai now redirects to flora.ai.

All comparisons

Visual Sandbox vs Flora

One charges per seat. One charges per generation.

In short

Flora charges $18 to $200 a seat a month. We charge per generation.
A month you make nothing costs $0 here and the seat fee there.
Flora has real time collaboration. We have none.
Both meter in dollars at published rates, so this is about the seat.

Our take. Use Flora if a team shares one board. Use Visual Sandbox if one person wants the bill to match the work.

See a model's price

Flora

Flora is a team canvas. Several people work on one board at the same time, run models on it, and edit the results in layers.

Pricing: $18 to $200 a seat, a month
Free plan: 1 seat, 3 projects
Built for: A team on one board

Side by side

The same 9 questions, asked of Flora

Visual Sandbox compared with Flora, question by question
What is compared	Visual Sandbox	Flora
What you pay for	Each generation	Each seat, then the usage on it
What the balance is in	Money. One credit is one cent	Money, at published rates
Free tier	None. A $10 minimum top up	1 seat, 3 projects, about 17 generations
Cheapest paid tier	There is no plan	Starter, $18 a seat a month
A month you make nothing	$0	The seat fee
The price before you run	A dollar figure on every model page, before you sign in	Published model rates, shown in the app
Working as a team	Not offered	The core of the product
From the terminal or an agent	A CLI, an MCP server and an API, on the same balance	An MCP server and an API, reached from a paid seat
The catalogue	37 models	60 and more models

Key takeaways

Is Visual Sandbox a good Flora alternative?

Where we win

No subscription: No seat to cancel and no plan to downgrade.
The price before you sign in: Nano Banana 2 reads $0.09 at 1K, $0.13 at 2K and $0.19 at 4K.
A receipt per generation: The 25% markup is stored on the run, so a later change never rewrites an old line.
A draft mode: P-Video runs at $0.01 a second against $0.03 with draft off.
The balance does not reset: Money you add stays until you spend it.

Where Flora wins

One board, several people: Real time collaboration is the product, not a feature on it.
A layer editor: Edit, annotate and label the output where it was made.
Cost by project and by member: Per member usage caps, and a report an agency can bill a client from.
A larger catalogue: 60 and more models, plus a community gallery of work and techniques.
A free plan: 1 seat, 3 projects, about 17 generations.

Worth checking

Flora meters in dollars too: At published rates, the same as we do. The difference is the seat, not credit opacity.
The $0.151 is an average: Across sizes. Our 4K tier is $0.19, above it.
The seat is not pure overhead: Each seat carries usage dollars into the shared pool with it.
No team features here: No shared workspace, no seats, no real time collaboration.

Per use or per seat

Move the slider. The seat does not move.

Our bill starts at zero and follows the work. Flora's starts at the seat.

Nothing to cancel when a quiet month comes.
Every model prints its dollar price before you sign in.
$0.151 is the average Flora publishes for the same model.

Flora prices a person. Visual Sandbox prices a generation.

Drag to your images a month200

What a month costs

Visual Sandbox: $18.00
Flora Starter: $48.20

You save

$30.20

The money

One person, 200 Nano Banana 2 images

Same month, same work, both bills.

$18.00

Visual Sandbox

200 images at the $0.09 1K tier. That is the whole bill.

$30.20

Flora, in usage

200 images at the $0.151 average Flora publishes.

+ the seat

Flora, on top

$18, $50 or $200 a month, for every person.

Flora plan	A seat, a month	What the seat carries
Free	$0	1 seat, 3 projects
Starter	$18	Usage dollars in the shared pool
Pro	$50	Usage dollars in the shared pool
Max	$200	Usage dollars in the shared pool
Enterprise	Custom	SSO, SAML and a named contact

Flora discounts a quarterly plan by 10% and an annual plan by 20%.
A launch offer through September 30 adds usage dollars to each seat: $12 on Starter, $50 on Pro and $100 on Max.
Both tools meter in dollars, not in a private credit unit. Most rivals do not, so it is worth saying plainly.

Which one fits

Which one fits you?

Four questions. The answer names Flora when Flora is the right call.

01 of 04

How many people touch the same board?

Or use both

They are not really the same product. One prices a person, one prices a run.

01
Draft the variations here, and pay only for the runs you make.
02
Bring the keepers into Flora when the team has to see them.
03
Keep the seat count to the people who actually need the board.

The call

Which one to pick

Pick Visual Sandbox when

You work alone and your output is uneven month to month.
You want to see a dollar price before you run a model.
You want an agent to generate from a terminal, through the CLI or the MCP server.
You want to save a setup as a preset and share it with a link.
You do not want another monthly bill.