Is the Canva API free?
Canva’s official Connect API is not a free developer product—it requires Canva Enterprise. Free/Pro/Teams users can automate Canva designs via third-party APIs like Layerre, which includes a free tier.
There is no free, generally available Canva REST API for generating designs from templates on Free, Pro, or Teams plans.
What "Canva API" usually means:
- Canva Connect API (official): Autofill brand templates, asset management, editor embed. Requires Canva Enterprise. Pricing is enterprise sales, not a free developer sandbox for production automation.
- Canva apps / developer platform: Building apps that run inside Canva is a different surface than calling Autofill to generate marketing images at scale.
What Free/Pro users can do instead:
- Use Bulk Create inside the editor for small manual CSV batches (Pro/Teams)
- Use a third-party design automation API such as Layerre that imports Canva share links and generates variants via REST or Zapier/Make/n8n
Layerre free tier: 50 credits/month so you can prove the workflow before paying. Paid plans start at $15/mo.
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