Aragon AI Pricing in 2026: Every Plan, Explained

What each tier actually costs, what you get for it, and the three things on the pricing page that are easy to miss.

Aragon AI is one of the most searched names in AI headshots, and most of that search volume is people trying to find out what it costs before they hand over a card. That is a reasonable thing to want and Aragon's own page makes you piece it together across a feature grid, so here is the whole thing laid out.

We build a competing product. You should read this knowing that. What we have tried to do is state Aragon's numbers accurately rather than unflatteringly, because a comparison that misrepresents the other side is worthless to you and embarrassing for us. Every figure below comes from Aragon's published pricing page.

The three plans at a glance

	Basic	Standard	Executive
Price	$35	$45	$75
Was	$44	$56	$94
Headshots	40	60	100
Turnaround	45 minutes	30 minutes	15 minutes
Attire options	1	2	All
Background options	1	2	All
Resolution	Standard	Standard	Enhanced

All three are one-time purchases rather than subscriptions, which is genuinely a point in Aragon's favour and worth saying plainly. A lot of this category bills monthly and hopes you forget.

The three things people miss

1. The cheap plan gives you one outfit and one background

This is the big one. At $35, Basic gets you 40 headshots, which sounds generous until you notice that all 40 come from a single attire choice and a single background. You are not getting 40 options. You are getting 40 variations of one option.

A 2026 comparison put it directly, saying Aragon's basic plan has fewer extras than rivals specifically on the attire and background count. Another said the entry tier skimps on extras despite the lower entry price. If you want an actual choice of looks, the real entry point is Standard at $45 for two of each, or Executive at $75 for the full catalogue.

This is worth doing the arithmetic on. If what you wanted was a suit for LinkedIn and something softer for a speaker bio, Basic cannot give you both, and the upgrade that can costs more than double.

2. Speed is a paid feature

Turnaround scales with price: 45 minutes on Basic, 30 on Standard, 15 on Executive. Nothing wrong with that as a business model, but it does mean the cheapest plan is also the slowest, and 45 minutes is a long time to sit with an unusable LinkedIn profile if you are mid job search.

It is also worth knowing what that time is spent on. Aragon, like most of this category, fine-tunes a small model on your face before it generates anything. That training pass is the wait. It is also why you have to upload six or more photos rather than one.

3. The refund window is narrower than it looks

Aragon offers a refund within 14 days of purchase, but only if you have not consumed any credits. Read that twice, because the two conditions together are stricter than either one alone.

In practice it means the refund is available right up until the moment you find out whether the product works for you. Once you have generated anything, you have consumed credits, and the window is closed regardless of what you think of the result. That is not a hidden term, it is stated on the page, but it is the single most consequential line on it and it is easy to skim past.

What does the input cost you?

Price is not the only thing you pay. Aragon needs six or more photos of you, and a 2026 review describes it generating 40 to 100 headshots from six selfies.

Six good photos of yourself is a bigger ask than it sounds. They need to be different, recent, well lit, and taken on different days if possible so the model does not learn one specific lighting setup as though it were your face. Most people's camera rolls do not contain six usable ones, which means a photo session before the photo session.

If you have those six photos, this is a non-issue. If you do not, it is the real cost of the cheaper number.

How that compares to the rest of the market

	Aragon	BetterPic	FreeHeadshot
Entry price	$35	$35	$0
Top tier	$75	$79	$49
Photos you upload	6+	Several	1
Wait	15 to 45 min	1 to 2 hours	About 60 seconds
Try before paying	No	No	Yes, watermarked
Billing	One-time	One-time	One-time

BetterPic's plans run $35, $39 and $79 for 20, 60 and 120 headshots, with 1, 3 and 6 styles respectively and turnaround from two hours down to one. On raw photo count per dollar the two are close, and BetterPic's top tier includes human edits and a free redo that Aragon does not match.

Our own position is the different one, and it is fair to be upfront about why. We run Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, which reads a face directly out of a single photo rather than training a per-person model. No training pass means no six-photo requirement and no 45-minute wait, and it means we can afford to let you generate a set before you decide whether to pay anything. Three headshots, watermarked, no account, no card. If they are bad you have lost a minute.

What we do not have is Aragon's per-plan attire and background matrix, because we do not gate styles by tier at all. Every one of our 230-plus styles is available on every tier, free included. Whether that is better depends on whether you find a curated shortlist helpful or restrictive.

Is Aragon worth $35?

Against a photographer, obviously. Aragon's own page cites an average US photoshoot at $250 for a one-hour session, and that figure is if anything conservative in a major city once you count travel and retouching. Any of these tools clears that bar.

Against the rest of the AI category, it depends on one thing: whether you already have six good photos of yourself. If you do, Aragon at $45 for the Standard tier is a fair deal and the reviews on output quality have improved noticeably, with 2026 write-ups specifically noting better skin-tone handling and lighting than earlier versions.

If you do not have six photos, the cheaper-looking price is buying you a chore. And if you have not decided whether AI headshots work for your face at all, paying $35 to find out is a strange way to run the experiment when free options exist.

What we would actually suggest

Try a free one first, from us or from anyone. Not because ours will necessarily be the one you keep, but because AI headshots are wildly person-dependent. They work brilliantly on some faces and fall apart on others, and no review can tell you which you are. Fifteen minutes of trying settles a question that no amount of comparison reading will.

If a free result looks close but not right, that is useful information too: it means the category works for you and it is worth paying for a better model. Then Aragon at $45, or BetterPic's Expert tier, or our $19 pack all become sensible purchases rather than gambles.

If the free result looks wrong in a way that is clearly about your face rather than the tool, save your $35. Book a real photographer or ask a friend with a decent phone and a window.

FAQ

Does Aragon AI have a free trial? No. There is no free tier that generates headshots you can look at before paying. The refund policy is the closest thing, and it only applies if you have not consumed any credits, which means it closes the moment you generate anything. If trying before buying matters to you, that is the specific gap.

How much is Aragon AI? $35 for Basic (40 headshots, 1 attire, 1 background, 45 minute wait), $45 for Standard (60 headshots, 2 attires, 2 backgrounds, 30 minutes), and $75 for Executive (100 headshots, all attires and backgrounds, enhanced resolution, 15 minutes). All one-time payments, not subscriptions.

Is Aragon AI a subscription? No. All three plans are one-time purchases. This is a real advantage over parts of the category that bill monthly, and worth crediting.

How many photos does Aragon AI need? Six or more. A 2026 review describes it producing 40 to 100 headshots from six selfies. They should be recent, varied, and well lit, ideally not all from the same day, or the model learns that day's lighting as a feature of your face.

Can I get a refund from Aragon AI? Within 14 days, and only if you have not consumed any credits. Both conditions apply together, so once you have generated headshots the refund is no longer available regardless of what you think of them.

What is the cheapest way to get an AI headshot? Free, from a tool with a genuine free tier. We give three watermarked headshots with no signup and no card. If you want them without the watermark and across all styles, our packs are $9, $19 and $49 one-time. Among the paid-only tools, Aragon and BetterPic both start at $35.

Is Aragon AI better than FreeHeadshot? On some things. Aragon's per-plan curation gives you a tighter, more deliberate shortlist of corporate looks, and its top tier renders at enhanced resolution. We are faster, need one photo instead of six, cost nothing to try, and open every style on every tier. The honest answer is that you can settle it yourself in about a minute, for free, which is not a rhetorical device so much as the actual reason our free tier exists.