# An API alternative to Canva Bulk Create

Canva's way to make many versions of one design from a table: data in, one page or design per row, inside the Canva editor.

## Before you read on

Canva's editor is in another league from ours: its template library, stock photos, brand kit, and the fact that your whole team already knows it. Bulk Create needs no code at all, works from a typed table or a spreadsheet with embedded images, and Canva's Autofill API can fill designs from your own app on Pro plans and above. For a few hundred designs made by a designer now and then, it is the simpler tool.

## The differences, plainly

| What | Canva Bulk Create | Shareglint |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Pro: $18 a month or $144 a year for one person; Business: $25 per person a month | Starter: $9 for 2,000 renders; 100 a month free, watermarked |
| Which plans | Pro, Business, Enterprise, Education and Nonprofit plans; not Free | Every plan, the free one included |
| Data in | A manual table, a Canva Sheet, a CSV or XLSX upload, or a connected app; Google Sheets as an exported file | Rows by API, a CSV upload, or a CSV / Google Sheets link |
| Rows per run | Up to 300 (Canva's help pages give 150 or 60 columns) | Free 50, Starter 500, Pro 1,000, Scale 2,000, Business 5,000 rows per batch, by plan |
| Images per row | Uploaded or embedded images; image URLs "will be treated as plain text" | Public image URLs in any image field |
| Result | One multi-page design or separate designs in Projects; download PNG, JPG or PDF, pages as a ZIP | An image URL per row and size, plus one ZIP |
| Automation | Bulk Create has no API. The Autofill API fills designs from your app on Pro and up, images only as uploaded asset ids; export links last 24 hours | REST API, webhooks, signed URLs and an MCP server on every plan |
| Image at a URL (og:image) | Not offered | Signed URLs and auto OG URLs |
| Design tool | Canva's full editor, template library, stock photos and brand kit | Your HTML and CSS, a simple visual editor, or 153 built-in templates |

Canva Bulk Create pricing ($18 / mo (Canva Pro, one person), Bulk Create on Pro and higher plans; up to 300 rows per run) comes from their own public page, checked 2026-11. If something has changed — tell us and we will fix it.

## Which one to pick

- **Take Canva Bulk Create:** A designer makes a one-off batch — name tags, certificates, a set of social posts — in Canva, and nobody needs it to run by itself.
- **Take Shareglint:** Images must be generated by code or on a schedule, served at a URL (og:image, email), come in thousands, or take image URLs straight from your data.