The best AI headshot generator - my personal and honest review

Laurentiu Raducu — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 19:45:47 +0000

It’s amazing how stable diffusion evolved in the last couple of years. When Flux was launched, I was blown away how realistic the photos were.

I decided to try out a few headshot generators which claim that they have their own proprietary models, just to see if how big is the difference between closed-source and open-source models.

I picked up the first 3 positions recommended by Perplexity (who’s using Google nowadays?) and here’s my honest feedback.

I used 4 photos for each of the 3 services I tried out, all of them were taken on the same trip.

Aragon.ai

One thing that stood out was the amount of ads they are serving on Google and Insta. I decided to go with the professional headshot style, as this was quite opposite to the style of the photos I uploaded. Here’s the result:

I wouldn’t say these are bad, the output actually looks like the 16 yo version of me, but it still far away from what Flux can do.

Also, I got around 40 pictures for $35, which is quite expensive. I get it, it takes some resources to host those H100/A100 GPU-enabled machines, but I still find it too much. Important to note is that from these 40 pics, 50% were not looking like me at all (two of them I was actually transformed into a male).

HeadshotPro.com

I got a bit discouraged at the beginning. The process is really simple, but I had to contact them to get the output photos after waiting a couple of hours for them. Here are two notable pics I got:

I’d say the results are a bit better, but still far away from reality. I have to say that I was impressed by the quality of details and the fact that their model managed to depict the hands and fingers correctly.

The price was cheaper, $25 for 40 pics. Not that bad.

Headsnap.io

I’ve never seen this tool before Perplexity recommended it to me. They must be doing some new-age SEO, as Google doesn’t know too much of them. I was a bit scared, but I am glad I tried it. Here are the results:

These pics look amazing IMO. They look exactly like me and the imperfections are negligible. You cannot really tell with 100% certainty that this AI. I ended up using one of these as my main LinkedIn picture. Not all of them were that good, but around 50% were realistic. They have lots of other styles too, even for dating apps or as a speaker.

The price was cheaper than all the other generators I tried, $8 for 30 photos.

Anyone else tried these platforms? I am curious to know your experiences.

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The best AI headshot generator - my personal and honest review