Canva vs Decart

Canva — Application · Private · $42B valuation · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Decart — Foundation Models · Private · $4B valuation · 3 of 3 figures sourced

Relationship

Background Remover and Delulu (by Decart) do comparable work on image editing; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; smaller scale (private).

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

4 of 12 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scale

4 of 12 capabilities — Shares image editing, text generation, video editing and 1 more.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship application.

Ludbee product records

Smaller scale — Decart: $4B valuation, against Canva's $42B valuation.

Ludbee scale figures · valuation, market cap or revenue estimate

Aligned comparison

FieldCanvaDecart
Valuation$42B$4B Decart has 11× smaller
Employees5,500—
Founded20132023 10 yrs later
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryApplicationFoundation Models
Stack layerApplicationAPI service, Application, Infrastructure service, Model API
HeadquartersSydney, AustraliaTel Aviv, Israel

Capability overlap

Shared · 4

Image editingText generationVideo editingVideo generation

Not verified for Decart · 8

Code generationData analysisImage generationMarketing contentPresentation generationSummarizationTranslationWorkflow automation

Recorded for Canva. Decart’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Canva · 4

GPU programmingModel hostingModel inferenceModel training

Recorded for Decart. Canva’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Canva

Application

AffinityApplication

Professional desktop suite for vector drawing, photo editing and page layout, acquired by Canva in 2024.

Background RemoverApplication

Removes image backgrounds automatically inside the Canva editor.

CanvaApplication

Browser design tool with generative image, video and text features built in.

Canva AIApplication

Canva's conversational AI assistant, which generates text, images, videos, code and editable designs from chat prompts inside Canva and connects to external tools such as Slack, Gmail, Google Drive and Notion.

Canva CodeApplication

Canva's AI code generator, which turns prompts into responsive, interactive designs — landing pages, dashboards, quizzes, calculators and charts — that can be edited in the Canva editor and published as websites.

Canva GrowApplication

Canva's ad management platform, which generates ad creative with AI, publishes campaigns to Meta, TikTok and LinkedIn, and reports on performance in one place.

Dream LabApplication

Canva's AI image generator, launched from the Canva homepage, which produces up to four images per text prompt and supports reference images, follow-up refinement and resolution boosting.

Magic AnimateApplication

Chooses animations and transitions for a design using its own visual context.

Magic EraserApplication

Removes unwanted objects from photographs inside the Canva editor.

Magic FormulasApplication

Generates spreadsheet formulas from a plain-language description inside Canva Sheets.

Magic InsightsApplication

Analyses spreadsheet data inside Canva and generates visual insights and charts.

Magic LayersApplication

Turns a flat, AI-generated design into an editable layout: select, move and edit individual design elements after the fact.

Magic WriteApplication

Canva's AI text generator, which drafts and rewrites copy inside Canva designs and Canva Docs from a prompt.

TranslateApplication

Translates the text inside a Canva design while preserving layout.

Decart

Application

Delulu (by Decart)Application

Delulu is Decart's consumer mobile app for AI photo transformation, published on iOS and Android by Decart.AI, Inc. Its store listing describes it as a way to 'Turn any photo into something fun, weird, or just really good-looking, with a single tap', browsing preset styles and creating stickers to share.

LucyApplication

Real-time video editing platform that edits and transforms live video at streaming speed, for enterprises, brands, creators and live/streaming/gaming use cases; built on Decart's DOS infrastructure.

No counterpart

Decart sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Canva yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

API service

Oasis 3API service

Interactive world model for Physical AI, generating realistic, controllable real-time simulation environments for training autonomous systems, distributed as an API/SDK product built on Decart's Optimization Stack (DOS) infrastructure.

Infrastructure service

Decart Optimization StackInfrastructure service

The Decart Optimization Stack (DOS) is Decart's inference and training optimization infrastructure, spanning hardware-aware model design, kernel tooling, proprietary compilers and inference optimization. It is sold to hardware providers and AI teams as engagements covering benchmark optimization, customer-defined kernel and compiler work, cross-workload efficiency gains, and profiler and simulator licensing, and is marketed as hardware-agnostic across GPUs, TPUs, Trainium and AMD accelerators.

Model API

CogitoModel API

Cogito is Decart's OpenAI-compatible LLM inference API, serving frontier open-weight models including Kimi K2.6, Kimi K2.7 Code, GLM-5.2, Qwen3 235B and GPT-OSS 120B across Trainium, TPU and GPU capacity. A self-serve Standard tier is billed per token, while an ultra-fast reserved tier advertises 1,000+ tokens per second. It is built on Decart's own DOS optimization stack.

Decart API PlatformModel API

Hosted API for Decart's real-time video and world models.