Canva

Canva creates and adapts campaign assets with shared templates and brand kits.

Canva
Oximy ResearchUpdated 19 September 2026

Overview

A
Transparency
6 / 10
Trust
91 / 100
Design toolSydney, AUCanva Pty Ltd.

Trains on your data

Free
No
Paid
No
Opt-out
Yes

Incidents

4
  • highCanva enterprise customer data exposed in third-party breach - Capital Brief
  • highCanva cracks down on AI credit fraud | Information Age | ACS
  • mediumLog4j2 Vulnerability Update
SOC 2ISO 27001GDPRCCPAdsaEU-US DPF

Assessed SEP 21, 2026 · Checked by hand SEP 21, 2026

SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, no content training by default, business training exclusion, deletion and US or EU residency are confirmed; duplicate incident data was removed and incident dates and roles corrected.

Trust breakdown

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91 / 100

Overall trust score

Data safetyComplianceIncidentsLegal
Data safety100
Compliance92
Incidents65
Legal100

Data and privacy

Trains on your data

No training on user data

Storage regions

United StatesEU

Sub-processors

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Data retention

Following termination or deactivation of your user account, Canva will retain your profile information and User Content for a commercially reasonable time, and for as long as we have a valid purpose to do so.

Deletion: Upon termination or expiry of the Agreement, Canva shall destroy all Customer Personal Data in its possession or control, except to the extent necessary to retain Customer Personal Data for the Permitted Purpose or required by applicable law.

Incidents

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Canva Design ModelLeonardo.ai (acquired by Canva)
Proprietary model

Canva has developed its own proprietary foundation model called the Canva Design Model, specifically for design tasks. They also acquired Leonardo.ai in 2024, whose technology is used for generating editable design elements. While Canva aims to use its in-house models wherever possible, they also utilize third-party models (like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.) in the early stages of new AI features to learn and iterate quickly, before investing in proprietary solutions for scalability and cost-effectiveness. Canva has also embedded its platform within other AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and Google Gemini.

Integrations and access

Integrations

API: YesSlackAsanaMicrosoft TeamsSalesforceGoogle WorkspaceChatGPTClaude

Available on

Web
iOS
Android
macOS
Windows
Linux
Extension
CLI

Pricing

Free

$0/year

Design anything, up to 200 uses of Standard AI tools or 20 uses of Premium AI tools, no Ultra AI tools.

Pro

$180/year for one person

Unlock premium content, more powerful design tools, and AI features. Up to 2,000 uses of Standard AI tools, or 200 uses of Premium AI tools, or 20 uses of Ultra AI tools. Premium tools (resize, translate, remove background), 3.6M+ templates, 141M+ premium photos, videos, graphics, and audio.

Business

$250/year per person

Create content faster, market smarter, and grow your business with advanced tools. Up to 4,000 uses of Standard AI tools, or 400 uses of Premium AI tools, or 40 uses of Ultra AI tools. 100 Brand Kits and approvals, 10% discount on print orders, 500GB of cloud storage.

Enterprise

Custom

Empower your organization with end-to-end visual communication. For enterprise customers with 150+ contracted seats. Includes enterprise-level security and controls, SSO and SCIM provisioning, custom apps, 1000 Brand Kits with tiered approvals and multi-team management, 10% discount on print orders, 1TB of cloud storage, and up to 4,000 uses of Standard AI tools, or 400 uses of Premium AI tools, or 40 uses of Ultra AI tools. Contact sales for pricing.

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Prices as listed on SEP 21, 2026; check the vendor's page.

Timeline

  1. 2023-10Canva launched its AI Magic Studio, integrating AI across its products and introducing a suite of brand management tools. This included a collaboration with OpenAI.

Company

Canva

Founded
2013
HQ
Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia

Popularity

954.6M

monthly visits

high tierlow risk

Canva holds a significant market share in the graphics software industry, sitting third behind Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign, and is positioned as a more accessible alternative to complex professional design tools.

Value and ROI

What it should move: Marketers spend less time producing campaign assets and adapting them to different formats.

Best fit

It fits distributed teams that often produce social, presentation, and campaign assets.

The catch

Templates make assets easy to multiply. High-visibility work still needs brand, rights, and design review.

In our stacks for

References

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