Holo AI alternative: try it on your own website before you pay

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Holo AI has no free trial and its refund ends at your first credit, so you only see what it does with your brand after you have paid.

AdMakeAI builds your brand from the same website and gives you 30 free credits, enough for 15 Fast ads, before you pay anything.

One click, 15 Fast ads at 2 credits each, and the 30 credits leave the balance at once, not ad by ad.

1. Paste the site

New Project step: What's your website or app? with admakeai.com typed in and a Continue button

2. The set fills in

The studio mid-run: 6 of 8 ads ready, the first two finished ads on screen

3. Four more from the same set

Ad: Focus On Strategy Not Design, woman with coffee reading a dashboard on a tablet
Ad: Simply Elevate Your Ad Creative Instantly, app icon with three feature icons, See More button
Ad: Scale Campaigns With Intelligent Automation, bold type, Boost Your Output button
Ad: Try Scale Campaigns With Intelligent Automation, minimal layout, Get Started button
A real run on our own site, admakeai.com, from a new free account: the URL went in and 8 Fast ads were ready about two and a half minutes later, for 16 credits. Six of the eight are shown.

Holo AI (tryholo.ai) Starter charges $19.20 a month at checkout, or $8.13 a month if you prepay six months, for 100 credits plus 5 more on each day you log in. An image costs 2 credits.

Holo is good at what it sells. You paste a website, it learns the brand, and it plans and writes ads, social posts, emails and blog pages on a calendar you approve. Most customers like it: 4.4 stars from 1,171 reviews on Trustpilot, 72% of them five-star.

Holo AI homepage, October 2026
Holo AI's homepage, October 2026.

Where Holo AI wins, and where AdMakeAI does

AdMakeAIHolo AI

Built for

Meta ads: Ad Library research, sets of up to 15 variations, UGC video, a push into your ad account
A marketing calendar: ads, social posts, emails and SEO blog posts, on autopilot

Starter price

$39 a month, or $27.30 a month billed yearly
$19.20 a month, or $8.13 a month billed every 6 months

Starter allowance

500 credits: 250 Fast or 62 Sharp images, no logins needed
100 credits plus 5 per login day: 50 to 125 images

Free trial

Free credits at signup, no card
None, by design

Brand setup

Paste your site: logo, voice, audience and product photos pulled in
Brand DNA learned from your site and past content, updated from plain-language feedback

Social posts, emails, SEO blog posts

None
Included, 2 credits each

Publishing and scheduling

Meta only, as paused drafts in your ad set after a preflight. No scheduler.
Meta, LinkedIn and TikTok through their APIs, per Holo; social scheduling; Autopilot on Scale

Competitor research

Meta Ad Library search, tracking by brand and keyword, saved ads
Competitor tracking of what rivals post and promote, plus trend analysis

Languages

Translates ad images into 34 languages
99+ languages

Team and brands

Single user
Starter: 1 brand, 1 invite. Scale: 3 brands, 5 invites.

Holo rows from tryholo.ai, its pricing page and docs. Its publishing claims are its own; we have not tested them.

Holo AI pricing next to AdMakeAI, per image

Part of Holo's allowance only exists on days you log in, so each Holo row has two prices per image: plan credits only, then logging in on all 30 days.

Holo Starter, monthly

$ per image: $0.38, or $0.15

Price a month
$19.20
Credits a month
100 + 5 per login day
Images a month
50 to 125

Holo Starter, 6-month billing

$ per image: $0.16, or $0.065

Price a month
$8.13 ($48.78 up front)
Credits a month
100 + 5 per login day
Images a month
50 to 125

Holo Scale, monthly

$ per image: $0.16, or $0.12

Price a month
$39.20
Credits a month
500 + 5 per login day
Images a month
250 to 325

Holo Scale, 6-month billing

$ per image: $0.077, or $0.059

Price a month
$19.33 ($115.98 up front)
Credits a month
500 + 5 per login day
Images a month
250 to 325

AdMakeAI Starter

$ per image: $0.16 Fast, $0.62 Sharp

Price a month
$39 ($27.30 billed yearly)
Credits a month
500
Images a month
250 Fast or 62 Sharp

AdMakeAI Professional

$ per image: $0.11 Fast, $0.42 Sharp

Price a month
$79 ($63.20 billed yearly)
Credits a month
1,500
Images a month
750 Fast or 187 Sharp

Holo: what checkout charged after toggling Monthly and 6 months on tryholo.ai/pricing on October 18, 2026, under a "Black Friday 60% off" countdown. The list prices shown struck through are $48, $20.33, $98 and $48.33. Daily credits per Holo's docs. AdMakeAI: monthly prices, Fast 2 credits, Sharp 8.

Per image, Holo is cheaper if you prepay six months or log in every day, as low as $0.06 against our $0.16 Fast ad. What it won't let you do is see it get your brand right before you pay. AdMakeAI will: paste the same site and spend 30 free credits on it, no card.

Holo's 125 creations assume you log in every day

The Starter card says "125 creations included". The plan itself is 100 credits at 2 per image, so it pays for 50. The other 75 come from daily credits: 5 on each day you log in, gone 24 hours later. One reviewer, fabrizio gentile molinari, bought Starter expecting 125 and found out after paying:

"they give you 100 credit per billing period as they answer me (monthly), so you can generate just 50 creative"

fabrizio gentile molinari, Trustpilot 1 star, 2026-09-11

Holo Starter, one month

100 credits, plus 5 on each day you log in

10
2+5
30
4+5
5+5
60
7+5
80
9+5
10+5
110
12+5
130
14+5
15+5
160
17+5
180
19+5
20+5
210
22+5
230
24+5
25+5
260
27+5
280
29+5
30+5

Credits

190

Images

95

Per image, monthly

$0.20

Per image, 6-month

$0.086

Daily credits expire 24 hours after you get them. Images at 2 credits each. Starter at checkout: $19.20 a month, or $8.13 a month on 6-month billing.

AdMakeAI Starter is 500 credits a month whether you log in once or every day.

No trial, and the refund ends at your first generation

Holo's pricing FAQ answers the trial question in one line: "No - and that's on purpose. Every plan is the full product from day one." Under its refund policy you can ask within 7 calendar days of a payment, and only if none of that payment's credits were used, "including for a test generation or a discarded generation". Approved refunds lose a 5% processing fee.

"When I asked for a refund, I was told I wasn't eligible because I had already used credits. But how are you supposed to test the platform without using them?"

Francesko Lamce, Trustpilot 1 star, 2026-10-14

So the only way to judge Holo on your own brand is to pay and keep the month whatever happens.

What AdMakeAI does with the same website

Brand DNA is the part Holo users like most, and the part that hurts when it misses:

"the video comes out with my company logo but a different company name. then you have to spend more credits to do a fix."

Frank Alatorre, Trustpilot 1 star, 2026-09-22

In AdMakeAI you paste the same URL and watch it work: it reads your logo, palette, brand voice and audience off the site in seconds, and an 8-ad set starts filling in that brand, like the run at the top of this page. Those 8 ads cost 16 of your 30 free credits, so you judge the output on your own site before any money moves. If you sell products, it pulls the photos from your store too.

When you like what it made, the next set is one brief in Ad Set Studio, up to 15 variations at the price on the button (2 credits for Fast, 8 for Sharp). The Meta Ad Library tracker shows what competitors keep paying to run, and on paid plans the ads you keep go into your Meta ad account as paused drafts, 3 credits each.

What you give up is the rest of Holo's calendar: AdMakeAI makes no social posts, emails or SEO pages.

Keep Holo for the calendar, switch for Meta ads

Stay with Holo if you

  • Want social posts, emails, SEO blog posts and ads planned on one calendar you approve
  • Publish to LinkedIn or TikTok as well as Meta, or need a social scheduler
  • Write in more than the 34 languages we translate ads into (Holo lists 99+)
  • Need teammates or several brands: 1 invite and 1 brand on Starter, 5 and 3 on Scale
  • Want the lowest price per image and will prepay six months and log in daily: $0.06 to $0.07

Switch to AdMakeAI if you

  • Want to see what it makes from your own site before you pay anything
  • Run your ads on Meta and want the finished ones in your ad account, not a downloads folder
  • Want to see what competitors keep running in the Meta Ad Library before you brief
  • Want your full allowance without logging in every day
  • Need sets of up to 15 variations of one product at a time

Holo AI questions before you pay

Is Holo AI worth it?

For one subscription that plans social posts, emails, blog pages and ads on a calendar, yes, and most of its 1,171 Trustpilot reviewers agree. The catch is that you can't test it on your own brand before paying.

Is Holo AI legit?

Yes. Holo is a venture-backed company in Vilnius, Lithuania, rated 4.4 from 1,171 Trustpilot reviews; the one-stars are mostly about credits and refunds.

Is Holo AI free?

No. There is no free plan; the cheapest way in is Starter at $19.20 for one month. AdMakeAI starts you with 30 free credits, no card.

Does Holo AI have a free trial?

No. Holo's pricing FAQ says: "No - and that's on purpose. Every plan is the full product from day one."

How much does Holo AI cost?

At checkout, Starter is $19.20 a month, or $8.13 a month billed every six months; Scale is $39.20, or $19.33 a month on 6-month billing. Those are discounted from struck-through list prices of $48, $20.33, $98 and $48.33. Starter's 100 credits make 50 images, or up to 125 if you log in and use 5 daily credits every day.

Does Holo AI give refunds?

Only within 7 calendar days of a payment, only if none of that payment's credits were used, and minus a 5% fee.

Is Holo AI a Canva alternative?

For social content, in a different way. In Canva you design each post yourself; in Holo you approve drafts it writes and designs from your website. Pick Canva if you want control of every layout, Holo if you want the calendar filled for you, and AdMakeAI if the job is Meta ads.

Can Holo AI publish ads to Facebook?

Holo says campaigns publish natively to Meta, LinkedIn and TikTok; we have not tested it. AdMakeAI pushes to Meta only, as paused drafts in the ad set you pick.

What are the best Holo AI alternatives?

For Meta ads, AdMakeAI: Ad Library research, sets of up to 15 variations and a push straight into your ad account. For social posts and ads with a scheduler, closer to Holo, Predis.ai. For ad creatives paid per download, AdCreative.ai.

Is AdMakeAI cheaper than Holo AI?

Per image, usually not: Holo is $0.06 to $0.38 at checkout depending on billing and logins, against our $0.16 Fast and $0.62 Sharp on Starter. What AdMakeAI gives you is a free test on your own site first and the full allowance without daily logins.

Bring your Holo website over

Paste the same URL you gave Holo and see the first 8 ads in your brand before you pay anything. That run takes 16 of your 30 free credits.

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