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AI Face Swap for Photos Put your face into any picture

Upload the picture you want to be in, then one clear photo of the face. About a minute later you get it back with the pose, clothing, lighting and background intact. New accounts get 20 credits — five swaps here — and free results carry a watermark.

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Keep the picture's expressionCarry the new face over
Swap the Face

Sign up and get 20 free credits — about 5 images

Use only faces you own or have permission to use. Everyone shown on this page is an AI-generated character.

How an AI face swap works: the target studio headshot on the left, the face being used in the middle, and the finished result on the rightNano Banana 2 Lite · 1K

Our own run — the picture, the face we put into it, and the result. This target already had similar hair, which is why only the face changes here; on a target whose hair is different, the hair comes across with the new face too.

How to swap a face in a photo

Upload two pictures: the photo you want the face to appear in, and a clear front-on photo of the face itself. The model redraws the head in the first picture using the second one, and leaves the pose, clothing, lighting and background where they were. It takes about a minute and costs four credits, so the 20 credits a new account gets cover your first five swaps.

What people use a face swap for

Four quite different jobs, one tool.

A gift with a deadline

A birthday card, a leaving present, an anniversary photo. Per-run pricing, so you are not signing up for a subscription to make one image.

A profile picture

Your face in a style you could not photograph. Free runs carry a watermark, so budget one paid run for the version you post.

Costumes and characters

Your face on a knight, an astronaut, an oil-painted noble. This is where the tool is at its best.

Testing an idea

Storyboards, mock posters, a look you want to see before you commit to shooting it properly.

Upload Two Photos

Face swap in 3 steps

  1. A studio headshot uploaded as the target picture for an AI face swap
    Step 1

    Upload the picture

    One clearly visible face, front-on or three-quarters. A strict side profile will not carry the likeness.

  2. A front-on studio headshot uploaded as the source face for an AI face swap
    Step 2

    Upload the face

    A plain front-on photo, evenly lit. Distinctive detail such as a mole carries the likeness across.

  3. The finished AI face swap result shown for comparison against the original headshot
    Step 3

    Generate and compare

    About a minute. You get a slider against your original, and can rerun with different notes.

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What a face swap keeps, and what it changes

Measured across four real runs on this page — a studio portrait, a painting, a three-person group shot and a strict side profile.

What we checkedResultWhat we measured
The likenessCarries across on a front-on targetTwo moles on the source cheek came through, along with the jawline and eye shape
HairAlways follows the new faceIt replaces the whole head, not the features — a bald, grey-bearded subject came back with the source face’s long dark hair
Clothing and backgroundHeld up in all four runsVelvet nap, gold thread, a lace collar, a ring, the frame carving and the cracked varnish all survived
Side profilesDoes not workThe result was "a woman with long dark hair, in profile" — true of almost anyone. Use a front-on or three-quarter target
Group shotsOne face at a time, and re-composedIn our three-person run the framing tightened and every expression was redrawn, including the two faces we did not swap
Film and videoNot a VFX replacementFine for one still or one look. Replacing a performance across an edit is a different craft
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Four runs, nothing cherry-picked

The same source face into four kinds of target, best to worst. The fourth one is the failure case.

AI face swap run one: a studio headshot before and after, with the source face shown below

Studio portrait — the clean case

A front-on target whose hair already matched. Only the face changed: the white shirt, the grey backdrop, the lighting and the framing all held.

AI face swap run two: a Renaissance oil portrait before and after, showing the hair arriving with the new face

A painting — the whole head moves

Velvet, gold thread, lace, a ring, the frame carving and the cracked varnish are untouched. But a bald, grey-bearded subject came back with the source face’s long dark hair — this is the run that shows the head, not the features, is what gets replaced.

AI face swap run three: a three-person park bench photo before and after swapping the middle face

Group shot — works, but re-composes

We asked for the middle person only. The identity landed, but the framing tightened and all three expressions changed from laughing to smiling — including the two faces we did not touch.

AI face swap run four: an astronaut in strict side profile before and after, showing the likeness failing to carry

Side profile — the failure

The spacesuit, the rim light and the launch tower are perfect. The face is not recognisably anyone. Profiles do not carry a likeness — bring a front-on or three-quarter target.

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The picture holds. The head is redrawn, not pasted.

Every tool in this category shows you a seamless result and lets you assume it worked by cutting one face out and dropping it onto another. That is not what happens, and knowing the difference tells you which pictures to bring.

The likeness half is genuinely good, and better than we expected. We ran one AI-generated source face into four targets at this page’s own tier. On a three-quarter Renaissance portrait it came back with the jawline, the high cheekbones, the eye shape and — the detail that convinced us — the two small moles on the left cheek. If your question is "will people recognise me in this", on a front-facing picture the answer is yes.

What it does not do is edit the face in isolation. It regenerates the head. In all four runs the hair came from the source photo, not the target: a bald, grey-bearded nobleman came back with long dark hair, and the prompt explicitly asked for the hair to stay. This is inherent rather than a bug, and it is why the tool is at its best on costume-and-character pictures, where a new hairstyle is not a mistake, and weakest on "keep everything, change only the features".

Two more limits worth knowing before you upload. A strict side profile carries almost no identity — our astronaut run kept the spacesuit, the rim light and the launch tower perfectly, and produced a face that could belong to anyone. And in a group shot the model re-frames the picture and redraws every expression, including on the people you left alone; ours went from three friends laughing to three friends smiling politely, with the composition tightened. Bring a picture with one face in it, looking towards the camera, and this tool does the thing it is good at.

Can ChatGPT swap faces in photos?

It is the question Google now attaches to almost every face-swap search, so it is worth answering plainly. General assistants can edit images, and they will happily restyle a portrait — but face swapping specifically is where they tend to stop, because putting one real person’s face onto another image is exactly the request their policies are built to refuse. You will often get a redraw "in the style of" your photo instead of your actual likeness, which looks like a swap until you look at it twice.

A dedicated page like this one differs in three ways, and none of them is that it tries harder. It takes two images and an instruction written for this one job, so you are not negotiating with a general-purpose model about what you meant. It runs a fixed model at a fixed price, so the result is repeatable and you know what a run costs before you start. And it tells you where it fails — profiles, group shots, hair — which a chat window will not, because it does not know it is doing a face swap in the first place.

Where a general assistant is still the better tool: describing a face that does not exist, writing the brief, or deciding whether the image is a good idea at all. If you want a face that is nobody’s, that is generation rather than swapping, and the Images surface is the place for it.

Your photos stay yours

A photo of someone’s face is personal. What happens to it here:

Nothing uploads before sign-in

Picking a file only previews it on your device. Not one byte is stored until you sign in and click generate.

Private, deduplicated storage

Uploads land in your private library, never a public gallery, and re-running the same photo stores nothing new.

Deletable any time

Remove uploads and results from your library whenever you want.

Upload Two Photos

Free face swap sites vs Renoise

A typical free face swap site

  • Promises unlimited swaps with no account at all
  • Silent about hair, profiles and group shots
  • One result, and the workflow ends there
  • No stated price, because there is no stated limit
  • No guidance on which picture to bring

Renoise

  • 20 credits on signup — five swaps — then billed per image, no subscription
  • States that the whole head is redrawn and that profiles fail
  • Shows four real runs including the one that did not work
  • Says which target picture works: one face, front-on or three-quarters
  • Same account changes the background, upscales it, or animates the result
Swap a Face

Choose your plan

Credits work across every tool — upscaling, image editing and the video models.

Starter

30% OFF

For first-time AI content creators

$20$14/mo

Billed $168 annually

Upgrade Plan

Save $72/year

1,200 credits released monthly
No Unlimited generation
Unlimited Concurrent Generations
Renoise Agent Beta
Unlimited LLM Chats
Commercial Use
Watermark-free exports

Standard

30% OFF

For creators shipping content every week.

$60$42/mo

Billed $504 annually

Upgrade Plan

Save $216/year

3,600 credits released monthly
2 days of Unlimited each month
Unlimited models:
Hailuo H3 (768p)
Seedance 2.0 Mini (480p, 720p)
Seedream 5.0 Pro (1k)
Seedream 5.0 Lite
Unlimited Concurrent Generations
Renoise Agent Beta
Unlimited LLM Chats
Commercial Use
Watermark-free exports
Best Value

Advanced

20% OFF

For studios and pros producing at commercial scale.

$200$160/mo

Billed $1920 annually

Upgrade Plan

Save $480/year

14,000 credits released monthly
7 days of Unlimited each month
Unlimited models:
Hailuo H3 (768p)
Seedance 2.0 Mini (480p, 720p)
Seedream 5.0 Pro (1k)
Seedream 5.0 Lite
Unlimited Concurrent Generations
Renoise Agent Beta
Unlimited LLM Chats
Commercial Use
Watermark-free exports

Renews automatically each year until canceled.

An AI face swap result: a new face rendered into a studio headshot, keeping the shirt, hair and backdrop

Take the swap further

Change the backdrop behind the result, upscale it for print, or open the Images surface for stronger models and finer control.

Frequently asked questions

1.Is the AI face swap free here?

New accounts get 20 credits at signup and a swap costs four, so your first five are free. After that each one is billed per image. There is no free plan and no subscription — the credits are a one-time grant you spend however you like.

2.Does the result have a watermark?

Results generated on the free credits are watermarked. Saying so here rather than after you generate is deliberate: if you need a clean image to post, plan on one paid run for the final version.

3.Will the face still look like the person?

On a front-on or three-quarter target, yes — in our own testing the jawline, cheekbones, eye shape and even two small moles carried across. On a strict side profile, no: the result looks like a generic person in profile. And the hair always comes from the face you upload, because the model redraws the whole head.

4.Can I swap more than one face at once?

One at a time. You can run a group photo twice, swapping a different person each time, but be aware of what our test found: with several faces in frame the model re-composes the picture and redraws everyone’s expression, including the people you did not touch. For a two-person gift image, expect to compare a couple of runs and keep the best.

5.Can I swap a face in a video?

Not on this page — it works on still images only. For video, the Video surface has the generation models, and animating a swapped still is often the better route than trying to reface an existing clip.

6.Can I do a live or webcam face swap?

No. This is a generation pipeline: you upload two pictures and wait about a minute for a rendered result. It is not a real-time camera filter and cannot be used on a live stream.

7.Can I get the result as a GIF?

No — the output is a still image. There is no model here that writes GIFs directly, so we would rather say that than hand you an mp4 and call it one.

8.What kind of picture works best as the target?

One clearly visible face, looking at the camera or turned no more than three-quarters away, and reasonably well lit. Costume, painting and character pictures are the sweet spot, because a change of hairstyle reads as part of the look rather than as an error.

9.What happens to the photos I upload?

They are processed to produce your result and are governed by the Renoise privacy policy, which is linked in the footer. Do not upload a face you would not be comfortable having processed by a cloud service.

10.Whose face am I allowed to use?

Your own, or someone else’s with their permission. Do not use a public figure’s face, and do not produce images that put a real person in a situation that never happened or imply an endorsement they did not give.

11.Should I use this for a short film?

For one still, a poster or a single look — yes. For replacing a performance across an edit, we would talk you out of it, and so would most people who do that work: a face replacement that holds up shot to shot is a VFX job, and a generated one tends to look worse than the problem it was meant to solve.

By Leon, RenoiseLast reviewed Models verified: Nano Banana 2 Lite