Quick Start

Learn how to create, edit, and export your first scientific figure with FigureLabs. Go from your concept to a publication-ready vector figure in minutes.

AI Illustration Generator

Step 1: Create Your Illustration

Create figures from text, sketches, reference images, or damaged figures — all in one place. Choose your model, style, and color palette, then get a high-res, publication-ready figure in ~30 seconds.

Step 2: Refine Your Illustration

Refine your figure with chat prompts or AI editing tools — Region Redraw, Text Edit, Recolor, Background Removal & Aspect Ratio adjustments, and more.

Step 3: Export Your Illustration

Export as PNG, JPG, PDF, editable PPTX, or SVG — or open directly in the Built-in Canvas for vector editing.

AI Flowchart Generator

Step 1: Create Your Flowchart

Generate a flowchart from text, sketches, or reference figures — or start from a template.

Step 2: Edit Your Flowchart

Refine your flowchart with chat prompts or edit colors, font sizes, and elements directly in the built-in canvas.

Step 3: Export Your Flowchart

Supports PNG and JPG exports, plus editable PPTX, SVG, and source file formats.

AI Plot Generator

Step 1: Create Your Data Chart

Create plots from CSV, Excel, or pasted text data. Preview your dataset, choose a plot type, journal style, and color palette, then generate a publication-ready plot.

Step 2: Refine Your Plot

Refine your plot by chatting with AI. Ask it to change labels, colors, chart type, layout, or style.

Step 3: Export Your Plot

Export as PNG, JPG, SVG, or PPT — or download the corresponding Python code for further editing and reproducibility.

Features

AI Scientific Figure Generator

• Text-to-Figure: Enter text or upload a document (PDF, Word, TXT), and AI generates the figure you need instantly. (Illustration / Flowchart)
• Image-to-Figure: Upload a hand-drawn sketch, lab photo, or image file, and AI transforms it into a polished scientific figure. (Illustration / Flowchart)
• Reference-to-Figure: Upload a reference image, and AI generates a new figure matching its style and layout. (Illustration / Flowchart)
• Enhance Figure: Upload an existing figure and let AI repair, upscale, or redesign it. (Illustration only)
• Data-to-Plot: Upload CSV / Excel files or paste your dataset, and AI generates a publication-ready chart. (Plot only)

Image Generation Models

Choose the model that best fits your scientific figures. Each model offers a different balance of prompt adherence, text rendering, structural consistency, visual fidelity, editing capability, and generation speed.

• GPT Image 2: OpenAI's latest image generation model, designed for stronger prompt following, improved in-image text rendering, multilingual support, and more controllable visual creation. It is suitable for scientific figures that require clear labels, structured layouts, and high-detail composition.
• GPT Image 1.5: A stable and versatile OpenAI image model for general-purpose visual generation. It works well for standard scientific diagrams, workflow illustrations, academic figure drafts, and routine visual exploration.
• GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst: OpenAI’s high-precision image model designed for detailed generation and fine-grained editing control. It is well suited for complex scientific figures, precise image modifications, and polished visuals that require consistent details across edits.
• GPT Image 2.5 Flare: OpenAI’s fast, high-quality image model with improved editing and transparent-background generation. It is well suited for scientific diagrams, isolated visual elements, rapid figure prototyping, and high-volume generation.
• Nano Banana Pro: Google's Gemini 3 Pro Image model, combining image generation with Gemini's reasoning and world knowledge capabilities. It is well suited for structured scientific visuals, annotated diagrams, information-rich layouts, and figures that require logical relationships between visual elements.
• Nano Banana 2: A general-purpose Google image generation and editing model optimized for fast creation and natural-language iteration. It is useful for early-stage figure drafts, visual exploration, quick refinements, and testing different composition directions.
• Nano Banana: A lightweight and fast Google image model for quick visual prototyping. It is suitable for brainstorming, sketching figure directions, generating early visual concepts, and producing fast drafts before further refinement.
• Seedream 5.0 Lite: A ByteDance image generation model focused on high-quality visual output, aesthetic rendering, and complex visual composition. It is suitable for cover-style scientific visuals, research posters, polished conceptual illustrations, and visually engaging science communication materials.
• Seedream 4.5: A faster Seedream model that balances visual quality with generation efficiency. It is useful for scientific figure drafts, report visuals, social media graphics, presentation illustrations, and quick creative iterations.
• Flux.2 Max: A high-performance image model from Black Forest Labs, commonly evaluated for prompt adherence, realism, typography, and generation speed. It is suitable for high-quality scientific figure drafts, realistic lab visuals, text-rich explanatory graphics, and rapid visual exploration.

Color Presets

• Color Palette: Choose from 20+ preset color styles, including Warm Biotech, Pathology Rose, Botany Pastel, and more.
• Custom Palette: Import a reference image to automatically extract its main colors and create a new palette.

Visual Consistency

Upload a figure to lock its icons, arrows, fonts, and overall visual style — ensuring all figures in your paper stay consistent.

Style Presets

Choose the most suitable visual style for your scientific figures.

• Flat: Flat 2D vector style, ideal for microbiology, chemistry, flowcharts, and more.
• 2.5D: Adds perspective, depth, lighting, and layered details to 2D visuals, ideal for cells, biological tissues, organs, and more.
• 3D: Fully rendered 3D style with realistic materials, lighting, and strong volumetric depth, ideal for molecular structures, nanomaterials, instruments, and more.
• Sketch: Draft-style visuals that preserve linework and simple annotations, ideal for concept presentation, experimental design, and more.
• Line-Art: Clean outline-only style in black-and-white or monochrome, emphasizing structure, ideal for anatomy diagrams, botanical plates, engineering drawings, and more.
• Hand-Drawn: Hand-drawn illustration style with organic lines and soft colors, ideal for science communication, textbook illustrations, and more.

Conversation

• Real-time Preview & Iteration: The generation process unfolds as a conversation. View AI's thinking process, compare multiple versions of the same prompt, and add new requirements to iterate on the original image.

Infinite Canvas

Create, organize, and refine scientific figures in one persistent workspace. Generate or edit figures through conversation while keeping previous results on the canvas.

Canvas Tools

• Navigation: Inspect details or see the full workspace without changing figure size or position.
  1. Use Zoom in / Zoom out to adjust your view.
  2. Select Fit to Canvas to bring figures into view, or Reset View to restore the default view.
• Upload Images: Bring your own images onto the canvas to compare, annotate, or arrange alongside AI-generated figures.
  1. Select Upload Image in the toolbar and choose an image from your device.
  2. Move the uploaded image into position, place it in a frame, or tag it for AI editing.
• Tag Images for AI Editing: Reference specific figures to replace a local element or blend elements from multiple images.
  1. Select Tag Image in the toolbar.
  2. Click each figure you want to reference.
  3. Describe the edit in the conversation, making clear which tagged image is the source and which is the target.
• Frames: Combine AI-generated figures and uploaded images into a multi-panel figure.
  1. Select Frame in the toolbar and create a frame.
  2. Place related images inside the frame.
  3. Arrange panels manually or select Auto Layout, then adjust positions and spacing as needed.
• Text & Annotations: Add labels, notes, and visual marks to explain or review your figures.
  1. Choose Text for labels and notes, Shapes to highlight areas, Line to connect details, or Pencil for freehand marks.
  2. Add and position annotations without covering important details.
  3. To make annotations part of an image, right-click it and select Merge Layers. Placing annotations over an image does not merge them automatically.

Session Collaboration

A Team feature for reviewing figures, commenting, and making AI edits together in real time. Collaborators can view the full conversation and canvas and generate or edit figures with AI, but cannot move figures or use canvas drawing tools.

• Invite & Manage Access: Only the session owner can invite or remove collaborators. Open Share → Collaborate to invite team members or external collaborators by email, or enable Team Access for the whole team. The Share tab is for public links.
• Join a Session: Open the email invitation and create an account if needed. A Shared status confirms collaboration mode; return anytime through the Sessions list marked with 👥.
• Remove or Leave: Owners can remove collaborators from Share → Collaborate → ⋯. Collaborators can leave through Sessions → ⋯ → Leave collaboration. Access ends immediately, but existing comments remain. Turning off Team Access does not affect individual invitations.
• Credits: All collaborator AI generations, including Apply with AI, use the session owner’s credits.

Comments & Apply with AI

• Add Comments: Click 💬 in the toolbar, then click a point or drag over a region on a figure to comment. Comments attach to figures, not empty canvas space, and are hidden outside comment mode. Session owners receive notifications of new comments.
• Reply & Resolve: Open a comment marker to read or reply; anyone in the session can reply. Click Resolve when addressed. Resolved threads are hidden by default and can be shown again from the comments panel.
• Apply with AI: Open a comment thread and click Apply with AI. AI uses the comment and its figure to pre-fill a prompt in the input box. Review or edit it, then press Enter to generate a new figure in the session.

Collaboration Permissions

AI Image Editing

Edit generated figures directly on an infinite canvas.

• Region Redraw: Select a specific area and enter a new prompt to regenerate only that part, keeping the rest intact.
• Text Edit: AI recognizes text in the image. Click to modify it directly without regenerating the image.
• Upscale: Enhance image resolution to 2K, 4K, or 8K without losing clarity.
• White BG Removal: Remove white backgrounds with one click for transparent layouts.
• Aspect Ratio: Adjust the aspect ratio of your figure to fit different publication or presentation formats.
• Recolor: Apply a new color scheme to your generated figure, with support for importing color styles from a reference image.

Flowchart

• Generate: Create flowcharts from text, sketches, or reference figures — or start with a template.
• Auto-Layout: AI automatically arranges nodes and spacing to generate clean, professional flowcharts in one click.
• Templates: Choose from preset templates, including Flowcharts, Model Architectures, Cycle Diagrams, Timelines, and more.
• Edit in Canvas:
  • Node Editing: Fully editable nodes — drag nodes, adjust connectors, and modify text freely.
  • Color Mode: Apply different color schemes with one click.
  • Multi-Select: Select multiple elements to reposition, rearrange, add, or remove content boxes.
  • Text Edit: Click and edit text directly without regenerating the image, and freely adjust the overall font size.

Plot

• Data Input: Upload CSV / Excel files or paste text data to create your plot.
• Plot Settings: Choose a plot type, journal style, and color palette to generate a publication-ready plot.
• Export: Export as PNG, JPG, SVG, or PPT, or download Python code.

Export

• Export Formats: PNG, JPG, PDF, editable PPTX, SVG — or download Python code.
• Publication Authorization Certificate: Download a verifiable PDF certificate with a unique ID for your generated figures, confirming your commercial and publication rights for use in top-tier journals.

Vectorization

Transform your images into high-precision, editable vector graphics.

• Direct Upload: Upload raster images directly to convert them into vector graphics.
• Vector Canvas: Edit your vectorized image directly in the built-in canvas.
  • Creative Tools: Add text, draw lines, and insert geometric shapes instantly.
  • Image Import: Upload local images directly onto the vector canvas.
  • Element Editing:
    • Modify Fill colors with precise HEX codes.
    • Customize Stroke color, Width, and Border Dash patterns.
    • Adjust overall and stroke Opacity for seamless layering.
• Vector Export: Export your files in vector formats, including SVG and PPTX.

Asset Management

Organize, store, and manage your generated assets efficiently.

• Projects: View and continue your past generation sessions. Each project automatically saves your complete conversation history and the corresponding generated images.
• Library: Organize and manage your saved scientific figures. Create folders to categorize and store your favorite single images for quick access.
• Vector Canvas: Manage and edit your vectorized figures. You can also drag and drop local images directly here to convert them into high-precision vector graphics.

Share Your Work

• Secure Sharing: Create a password-protected link for your figures. Recipients can view the conversation process and image but cannot modify it. Collaboration & Publishing Ready
• Team Workspace: Switch between Personal and Team workspaces. Share assets, manage team members, and pool credit resources within your research group.

API & MCP

Integrate FigureLabs into your application with the API, or create scientific visuals directly from your AI assistant with MCP.

Developer API

Build scientific figure generation and editing into your own products and workflows.

• Generate & Edit: Create figures from text, sketches, or reference images. Enhance, redraw, recolor, or adjust existing figures, and generate SVG flowcharts.
• Prepare Outputs: Upscale images to 2K, 4K, or 8K, or convert raster figures to editable SVG.
• Billing: Use a prepaid API wallet with a $10 minimum top-up. Successful outputs are charged per operation; failed and safety-rejected tasks are not billed. No API subscription is required.

How to Use

1. Open Get API access on API page, fund your wallet, and create an API key. Copy it when shown and keep it on your server.
2. Follow the API Docs to submit a request with your prompt and any source files. Save the returned task ID and check its status until complete.
3. Download the result after the task succeeds. Result links and uploaded API files are valid for seven days.

See API Pricing for current rates.

MCP Integration

Connect FigureLabs to ChatGPT, Codex, or Claude to create and refine scientific visuals within your AI conversation.

• Create in Context: Turn research descriptions, methods, or datasets into scientific illustrations, editable flowcharts, and data plots.
• Keep Refining: Request changes in the same conversation, or select Open in FigureLabs to continue on the canvas. Projects and new versions stay in FigureLabs.
• Account & Credits: Connect with your existing FigureLabs account — no API key required. Your current plan and credits apply to successful generation and editing.

How to Connect

1. Open Connect MCP in the FigureLabs workspace, choose your assistant, and follow its setup guide. The MCP server URL is https://api.figurelabs.ai/plot-mcp.
2. Sign in to FigureLabs, authorize the connection, and enable FigureLabs in a new conversation or task.
3. Ask FigureLabs to create a figure from your research description or data, then describe any changes in the same conversation.

See the Connection Guide for assistant-specific steps and troubleshooting. You can disconnect FigureLabs from your assistant’s connector settings at any time.

Credits & Pricing

Choose the perfect FigureLabs plan for your research needs. Flexible pricing, powerful AI models, and complete transparency.

Why Upgrade?

All paid plans unlock our most powerful features designed for professional researchers:

• Advanced Export Formats: Download true SVGs or fully editable PPTX files for PowerPoint.
• All Premium Models: Get exclusive access to top-tier models including Sora, Flux.2 Max, and SeeDream.
• More Daily Credits: Unlock 100 daily credits (double the free plan) to generate more figures without interruption.
• Publication Authorization: Download a PDF certificate to verify your commercial and publication rights.

How Credits Work

Credits are your creative currency on FigureLabs—every AI generation, editing, and export action uses Credits based on task complexity.

What Are Credits?

FigureLabs Credits power all AI-driven actions on our platform:

• AI Generation: Creating scientific figures from text prompts, sketches, or references.
• AI Editing: Text Edit, Region Redraw, White BG, and Upscale.
• Vectorization: Exporting generated figures into fully editable SVG or PPTX formats.

Credit Consumption Rules

• Generation & Editing
  • Image Generation (1K) / Region Redraw / Regenerate / White BG: 50 credits
  • Text Edit: 60 credits
• Upscaling
  • Upscale 2K: 10 credits
  • Upscale 4K: 20 credits
  • Upscale 8K: 40 credits
• Vector Export
  • SVG Vector/PPTX Vector: 150 credits

How to Earn & Manage Credits?

• Welcome & Referral: Get 150 credits upon signup. Invite a friend and both receive 300 credits.
• Daily Refresh: Log in daily to claim 50 credits (Free plan) or 100 credits (Paid plans). Note: Unused daily credits expire at the end of the day.
• Plan Credits: Receive a set amount of credits at the beginning of each billing cycle based on your active subscription.
• Credit Rollover: Individual plan credits reset at the end of the billing cycle. Team and Business plans roll over up to 20% of unused credits to the next cycle.
• Top-up Credits: Purchase additional credit packs at any time (valid for 12 months).

Plan Pricing

Compare features and limits to find the right plan for your workflow. All paid plans unlock commercial use and advanced export formats.

Plan Comparison

Same credits and features. Save 50% with yearly billing.

* Model Access:

• Basic: Nano Banana Pro
• Standard: Nano Banana, Nano Banana 2, Nano Banana Pro, GPT Image 1.5
• Full: All models including GPT Image 2, SeeDream 4.5, Sora, and Flux.2 Max

Note: Min. 2 seats for Team, 5 for Business. 1st-month discounts apply to individual monthly plans.

Top-Ups

Purchase top-up packages anytime. Top-up credits are valid for 12 months.

• 1,000 Credits: $15.00
• 3,000 Credits: $30.00
• 6,000 Credits: $50.00
• 12,000 Credits: $90.00

Credits & Pricing FAQ

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FigureLabs Glossary

Welcome to the FigureLabs Glossary. This guide explains the key concepts and features to help you go from a rough idea to a publication-ready scientific figure smoothly.

Core AI Concepts

Generation Modes

AI Editing Tools

Formats & Export

Credits & Billing