You need a LinkedIn or company-profile photo that looks like a studio took it, without booking a studio. HeadshotPro and Aragon AI train a model on your selfies and generate a batch of new portraits. Fotor restyles a single photo. PhotoRoom does something different again — it polishes a photo you already have. The prices, the photo counts and the privacy terms are not measuring the same thing, so this guide compares them on what is actually comparable.
Three packs: 30, 50 or 70 headshots. No subscription, credits never expire.
Sale prices shown in November 2026 (list $44 / $56 / $94). 40, 60 or 100 headshots.
A general photo editor with an AI headshot feature. Headshot packs are also sold one-time, separately from the subscription.
Not a headshot generator: an AI photo editor. It cleans up, re-backgrounds and enhances an existing photo.
| HeadshotPro | Aragon AI | Fotor | PhotoRoom | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it actually does | Trains on a few of your selfies, generates a batch of new portraits | Trains on a few of your selfies, generates a batch of new portraits | Transforms one uploaded photo into styled headshots | Edits an existing photo: background removal/replacement, retouch, AI backgrounds |
| Best for | One person who wants a standard corporate set, once | People who want the biggest batch and the fastest top tier | A quick profile refresh from a photo already on your phone | Anyone whose photo is good but whose background or lighting is not |
| How you pay | One-time per shoot. No subscription | One-time per headshot pack. Separate subscription exists for its editing tools — it is not the same purchase | Subscription for the editor (credits per month), plus optional one-time headshot packs (20 / 40 / 80 photos) | Subscription (AI credits and export limits per month) |
| Price (Nov 2026) | Basic $29 · Professional $39 · Executive $59 | Basic $35 · Standard $45 · Executive $75 on a 20% promotion (list $44 / $56 / $94) | Pro $8.99/mo monthly, or $39.99/year. Headshot packs sold separately; prices vary by region | Pro $12.99/mo monthly, or $89.99/year ($7.50/mo). Max $34.99/mo, or $249.99/year |
| What the headline count means | 30 / 50 / 70 generated variations per shoot (outfits, backdrops, crops) | 40 / 60 / 100 generated variations; higher packs unlock more attire/background combinations | Styles you select (3–10) applied to your photo; packs counted in photos | No generated batch. Plans are counted in monthly exports (Pro: 1,000) and AI credits (Pro: 8,000) |
| Turnaround (published) | ~2 hours / ~30 min / ~15 min by tier | ~45 min / ~30 min / ~15 min by tier | Seconds per generation, per its headshot page | Near-instant editing; you export when you are done |
| Redo if you dislike the results | 1 free redo within 60 days | Free redo if you contact support | Credit reset to retry, per its headshot FAQ | Not applicable — you re-edit your own photo yourself |
| Refund terms (published) | 30-day money-back "Realism Guarantee" if the results don't look like you | Full refund if you have not downloaded the photos; downloaded cases handled individually | Terms are unclear in public summaries — check the subscription terms before you buy | Refunds limited to within one week of purchase, per its help and review sources |
| What it says about your face photos | Input photos auto-deleted 30 days after generation; states photos are never used to train AI models | Privacy policy is described as deleting or anonymizing face data within 30 days of delivery, with AI providers barred from training general models on it | States uploaded photos are automatically wiped from its encrypted servers within 24 hours | No headshot-specific face-data deletion timeline found in the public pages we checked — read its general privacy policy before uploading |
| Teams | Credit per person (one shoot of 40 headshots + a redo), 20% off at 5 credits up to 50% off at 1,000+; credits never expire | Team offering with branded, consistent styles; pricing via its teams page | Team headshot package: 80 images per person from $29.99/person, discounted by headcount | Team spaces and batch editing exist, but aimed at product and marketing imagery rather than staff headshots |
Prices are USD as published by the vendors in November 2026; PhotoRoom states its prices include VAT/GST, the others are shown before any local tax. Aragon's prices include a limited-time 20% promotion — its list prices are $44 / $56 / $94. Fotor's pricing page renders different currencies and promotions by region, so the figure you see may differ. Plans change — always confirm the current price, count and terms on the vendor's site before you buy.
A "100 headshots" pack is not 100 different portraits. For the two dedicated generators, the headline count is the total number of generated variations of your face — the same person across different outfits, backdrops and crops. Realistically you will shortlist a handful for LinkedIn, your CV and your company page, and the rest are selection material. That is not a flaw; it is what the count means. Budget for it with simple arithmetic instead of impressions: cost per photo you actually keep = price ÷ keepers. A $29 pack where you keep 5 costs $5.80 per keeper; even if you keep only 1, it cost $29 — still below the low end of a studio session below. Judge a pack by its redo and refund terms, because those decide what happens when the batch misses.
What a photographer costs, from the vendors' own pages. HeadshotPro's pricing page puts a traditional studio session at $300–$800 per person; Aragon's published guides put a standard US session at $150–$500 (about $250 on average for an hour), typically delivering 5–10 finished photos per person. Take a 10-person team: a photographer at those published rates totals $1,500–$5,000 before scheduling and travel. The same 10 people on HeadshotPro team credits at the published 20% tier for 5+ credits cost $31.20 per person — $312 in total. On Fotor's published team package, 10 people fall in its 20%-off band at $23.99 per person — $239.90. Those are calculations from published list prices, not quotes, and they exclude the real cost on both sides: coordination time for a shoot day, versus chasing ten colleagues to submit usable selfies.
The four counts are not the same unit. HeadshotPro counts one shoot. Aragon's count grows with attire-and-background combinations. Fotor counts styled photos from a single image. PhotoRoom has no generation count at all — its plans are metered in monthly exports and AI credits. Lining the four numbers up as if bigger meant better is the most common way these comparisons mislead.
HeadshotPro is a dedicated headshot generator with the simplest pricing of the four: pay once, no subscription, and credits that never expire. You upload a few selfies, choose backdrops and outfits (or let it choose), and get one batch back. Basic ($29) returns 30 headshots in about 2 hours with 6 photo credits for edits. Professional ($39) returns 50 in about 30 minutes with 26 credits and a free redo. Executive ($59) returns 70 in about 15 minutes with 46 credits and 4K downloads — the only tier with 4K. Every tier includes one free redo within 60 days, and the company publishes a 30-day money-back "Realism Guarantee" if the results don't look like you. On privacy, its pricing page states that input photos are always deleted 30 days after generation and that your photos are never used to train AI models. Teams buy credits — one credit is one person's shoot of 40 headshots with a redo — with automatic discounts from 20% at 5 credits to 50% at 1,000 or more.
Aragon AI is the other dedicated generator, organized around batch size and speed. Its published individual packs are Basic ($35 on promotion, list $44) with 40 headshots in about 45 minutes and one attire/background combination; Standard ($45, list $56) with 60 in about 30 minutes and two combinations; and Executive ($75, list $94) with 100 in about 15 minutes, all attires and backgrounds, and higher resolution (1792×2176 px, versus 896×1088 px on the lower packs). If you are unhappy, its pricing page offers a free redo through support, or a full refund provided you have not downloaded the photos — downloading is treated as acceptance, with exceptions handled case by case. Its privacy policy is described as deleting or anonymizing face data within 30 days after delivery and barring its AI providers from training general models on that data; the company also publishes SOC 2 Type II compliance. One pricing trap to avoid: Aragon also sells a separate subscription for its AI photo-editing tools. That subscription and a headshot pack are two different purchases, and neither includes the other.
Fotor is a long-running online photo editor, and its AI headshot feature works differently from the two dedicated tools: you upload one photo, pick 3–10 styles, and it generates styled headshots in seconds. There is no multi-selfie training step. The wider editor runs on subscriptions — a free Basic tier with limited credits and watermarked exports, then Pro ($8.99/mo monthly, or $39.99/year) with 100 AI credits a month, Pro+ ($19.99/mo monthly, annual pricing is promotion-dependent) with 300 credits, and a Max tier above that. Separately, Fotor sells one-time headshot packs of 20, 40 and 80 photos, and a team headshot package at 80 images per person from $29.99 per person before volume discounts — so there are two different ways to pay for what looks like the same output, and it is worth checking which one you are in before checkout. Fotor's headshot page makes the strongest deletion claim of the four: uploaded photos are automatically wiped from its encrypted servers within 24 hours. Its headshot FAQ also says that if a result comes out wrong, it will reset your credits so you can retry with different source photos.
PhotoRoom is included in "AI headshot" roundups so often that its actual job needs stating plainly: it does not train on your selfies and does not generate new portraits of you in new outfits. It is an AI photo editor — best known for product photography — that removes or replaces backgrounds, retouches, relights and enhances a photo you already have. For a profile picture, that means: if you already own one good, sharp photo of yourself and the problem is the kitchen behind you, PhotoRoom can turn it into a clean, studio-style profile image. If you have no good photo to start from, it is the wrong tool and one of the two dedicated generators fits better. Pricing is subscription-based: a free plan limited to personal, non-commercial use, then Pro ($12.99/mo monthly, or $89.99/year) with 8,000 AI credits and 1,000 exports a month, Max ($34.99/mo, or $249.99/year), and Ultra above that; yearly Pro and Max include a 7-day trial. Because it edits rather than generates, there is no redo concept — you adjust the edit yourself — and refund sources describe a short window of one week after purchase. Unlike the other three, we could not find a headshot-specific promise about how long face photos are kept, so treat its general privacy policy as required reading before uploading.
No decent photo of yourself → a dedicated generator (HeadshotPro or Aragon AI) that builds portraits from ordinary selfies. One good photo with a bad background → PhotoRoom's editing, or Fotor's single-photo restyle. This single question eliminates half the list.
Divide the pack price by the number of photos you would genuinely publish — for most people that is one to five. Then compare that figure with a photographer's session ($150–$500 standard, per the vendors' own published guides), not with the headline generation count.
HeadshotPro publishes a 60-day redo and a 30-day money-back guarantee. Aragon's refund depends on not downloading. Fotor resets credits for a retry. These terms, not the photo count, decide your risk if the first batch misses — read them on the checkout page, not in a review.
Your selfies are biometric data. The stated deletion windows found here were 24 hours (Fotor) and 30 days (HeadshotPro, Aragon AI); PhotoRoom publishes no headshot-specific timeline that we could find. If a service's policy is vaguer than you accept, that is a reason to choose another one, whatever the price.
For a dedicated generated set, the published one-time prices checked in November 2026 run from $29 (HeadshotPro Basic, 30 headshots) to $75 (Aragon AI Executive at its promotional price, 100 headshots). Fotor can start lower — a Pro subscription is $8.99 for a month — but that buys editor credits, and its dedicated headshot packs are priced separately. PhotoRoom is a subscription editor from $7.50/mo billed yearly. For reference, the vendors' own guides put a traditional photographer's session at roughly $150–$500 per person.
Plan on a shortlist, not the full count. The headline number is the total of generated variations across outfits, backgrounds and crops. How many you keep depends on your source photos and your standards, which is exactly why the redo and refund terms matter more than the count. This guide is based on published vendor information, not hands-on testing, so we don't quote a "hit rate" we haven't measured — be skeptical of any review that states one without showing its method.
Each service publishes something different. Fotor states uploads are wiped from its encrypted servers within 24 hours. HeadshotPro states input photos are deleted 30 days after generation and are never used to train AI models. Aragon's privacy policy is described as deleting or anonymizing face data within 30 days of delivery. For PhotoRoom we found no headshot-specific deletion timeline in its public pages. Policies change — read the current privacy policy of whichever service you choose, before uploading.
It depends on the service and on whether you have downloaded. HeadshotPro publishes a 30-day money-back guarantee for results that don't look like you, plus a free redo within 60 days. Aragon offers a free redo, and a full refund if you haven't downloaded the photos. Fotor's headshot FAQ talks about resetting credits for a retry rather than refunds, and its subscription refund terms are unclear in public summaries. PhotoRoom refund sources describe a one-week window. Check the exact terms at checkout.
LinkedIn's rules require your profile photo to be a real, recognizable photo of you, and generated portraits sit in a grey area that policies are still catching up with: a generated image that accurately represents your current appearance is a different case from one that changes your age, build or features. Whichever tool you use, pick the result that looks like you on an ordinary workday — and if your employer or a licensing body (law firms, healthcare, real estate) has a photo policy, that policy wins.
Because this guide is compiled from the vendors' published pricing, specifications and policies, not from hands-on testing we haven't done. Judging how realistic a generated face looks requires generating faces, and we won't describe results we haven't produced. What we can verify from public information — price, counts, terms, deletion policies — is exactly what this page compares.