1. Introduction: The “Subscription Madness”
Anyone in e-commerce knows it. You start experimenting with AI, and suddenly your monthly bank statement looks like a software catalog. €20 for ChatGPT here, €15 for an image generator there, another €10 for a video tool. By the end of the month, you’re easily paying €50-100 for AI applications and have long lost track. Every tool has its own login, its own often confusing interface, and its own billing.
What if there was a single place? One subscription, one login, one price – and you get access to the best AI models and tools the market has to offer?
This is the radical promise of Galaxy.ai. Not a new AI model itself, but a “supermarket of AIs” for a fraction of the cost. But can that really work, or is it too good to be true in the end? We took a close look at the “Costco for AI” for you.
2. What is Galaxy.ai, really?
To be clear right away: Galaxy.ai is not a new AI trying to compete with ChatGPT or Gemini. The idea is much smarter.
Think of it like the business model of Costco or a wholesaler. Galaxy.ai buys access to dozens of expensive, specialized AI services in huge quantities. They pass this price advantage on to their users. So, you’re not paying for one tool, but for access to all of them.
The result is a single dashboard – a kind of cockpit – from which you can work in parallel with the “brains” of ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and many other AIs. It’s the answer to tool chaos, a central command center for your AI-powered tasks.
3. The Most Important Features in an E-Commerce Practical Test
A giant toolbox is only useful if the tools inside are sharp. We’ve put the most important features for e-commerce under the microscope.
The Content Machine (Text & Image)
The centerpiece. How practical is it really to send the same query (“Write me 5 ad copies for a sustainable dog toy”) to three top models at once? Extremely practical. You immediately see the different strengths and can pick the best result. The image & logo generators deliver solid quality for social media graphics or quick product mockups. For high-resolution ad banners, however, you hit the limits compared to specialized services like Midjourney.
The Video & Audio Toolkit
We were pleasantly surprised here. For short product clips or social media ads, the AI video tools can produce respectable results in minutes. The text-to-speech function is particularly useful for quickly and professionally voicing product videos without having to speak into a microphone yourself.
The Analysis Tools
An underestimated feature is the PDF analysis. You can upload a 50-page market research report and get a summary of the key points in seconds. That alone can save hours of work. The integrated AI content detector is an important safety net to check if your own texts sound too generic.
The Developer’s Helper
For small adjustments to the shop theme, the code generation is surprisingly helpful. A command like “Create the HTML/CSS code for a countdown banner” often provides a solid foundation that even non-developers can work with.
4. Who is Galaxy.ai REALLY for? And who is it not for?
After our test, it’s clear: Galaxy.ai is a powerful tool, but not the right choice for everyone.
This is YOUR tool if…
- … you already spend more than €20 per month on various AI tools and finally want to reduce costs and complexity.
- … you are “AI generalists”: you need a text, then an image, then an analysis, and don’t want to constantly switch tools.
- … you like to compare different AI models to find the best result for each task, instead of relying on just one.
Better keep your hands off if…
- … you are “AI specialists”. A professional photographer who needs the full depth of Midjourney will not be happy here. Galaxy.ai offers breadth, not always the absolute depth of individual tools.
- … you are perfectly happy with the free versions of ChatGPT or Gemini and only have occasional AI tasks.
- … you are quickly overwhelmed by a huge number of options. Sometimes less is more.
5. What We Find Cool (The Strengths)
Three points stood out to us as particularly positive during the test:
- The price is unbeatable: This is the most obvious and strongest point. One price for dozens of tools. If you add up the individual subscriptions, the savings are enormous.
- The all-in-one efficiency: The constant switching between tabs and logins is gone. Everything is in one workflow, which speeds up the creative process.
- The potential for discovery: You suddenly find yourself trying out tools and AI models for which you would never have signed up for a separate subscription. This leads to new ideas and solutions.
6. Where It (Still) Falls Short (The Weaknesses)
No tool is perfect, and with a project as ambitious as Galaxy.ai, there are of course points that we view critically. For an honest decision, you also need to know the downside.
- “Jack of all trades, master of none?”: This is the biggest question. An all-in-one tool can logically hardly keep up with a highly specialized, expensive individual subscription in every single discipline. A professional designer will probably still create more impressive images with Midjourney. An email marketing expert might find 2% more analytical depth with Klaviyo. Galaxy.ai offers an extremely strong 80-90% solution for almost everything – but anyone who needs the absolute 100% in one area must keep that in mind.
- Potential Overwhelm: The sheer number of tools can be overwhelming at first. You log in and are greeted by dozens of options. You definitely need to be willing to take some time to get started and see the tool not just as a quick problem-solver, but as a real work environment.
- The Confusing Credit System: For us, this is the most important critical point, which deserves its own explanation.
7. The Catch? The Credit System Explained.
The pricing model of Galaxy.ai is not a pure “all-you-can-eat” buffet. It’s more like a giant prepaid ticket for an AI arcade, and this balance is charged in “credits”.
- The Basic Idea: The monthly price (e.g., $15) includes a very large, but not unlimited, amount of credits (e.g., 15 million). For the vast majority of users, this monthly balance will be more than enough, especially for text-based tasks.
- Warning, Credit Eaters: Now comes the catch. While simple tasks like generating a blog article consume very few credits, there are “power features” that can quickly become real credit eaters. An AI-generated headshot set for a team photo can, according to reports, easily cost 3 million credits – that’s 20% of the entire monthly budget for a single action. High-resolution video creation is also very intensive.
- Lack of Transparency: Our biggest criticism is that it’s often not clear how many credits an action will cost before you execute it. This can lead to nasty surprises.
- Buying More Credits: You can purchase additional credits, which are said to be fairly priced. But it remains a potential extra cost factor that you need to be aware of and keep an eye on.
8. The Verdict: A Genius Savings Hack or Just a Gimmick?
After our detailed review, we can say: Galaxy.ai is definitely not a gimmick. It is an extremely clever and, for the right target audience, revolutionary approach.
Galaxy.ai doesn’t reinvent AI, but it revolutionizes access to it. It’s less a single tool and more an extremely well-stocked toolbox for an unbeatable price. You just have to be aware that using the heavy “power tools” from this box costs extra once your monthly credit is used up.
Our Plain-Text Recommendation:
If you are “AI generalists” who need texts, images, and analyses for your daily e-commerce tasks and currently have multiple AI subscriptions running, then Galaxy.ai is an absolute no-brainer. The consolidation and massive cost savings are undeniable.
However, if you are an “AI specialist” who only needs one single tool in its absolute best form, you should stick with your specialized subscription.
9. Your Next Step
The best way to find out if Galaxy.ai is right for you? Do the math.
Take 5 minutes and list all your current AI subscriptions and their monthly costs. Is the total over $15? Then you have your answer. Testing Galaxy.ai is then almost a must to see if the integrated tools meet your standards.
