Quick answer: Higgsfield Soul 2.0 is an image model built for people and fashion: editorial portraits, outfits and skin texture that read like a magazine shoot. Higgsfield Soul Cinema is an image model that makes stills look like frames from a real film, with film grain, motivated lighting and cinema color grades. Both make still images, not video. In Kolbo.AI, Soul 2.0 costs about 2 credits per image and Soul Cinema 4, so the free credits you get at signup are enough to try both.
| Soul 2.0 | Soul Cinema | |
|---|---|---|
| Best at | People, fashion, editorial portraits | Film stills, scene references, posters |
| Look | Sharp, magazine-grade photography | Film grain, cinematic grade, real lens depth |
| Style presets | 33 built in | Works from your prompt |
| Credits per image in Kolbo.AI | About 2 | 4 |
Two image models from Higgsfield are live in the Create Image tool.
Soul 2.0 is the next generation of Higgsfield's flagship people-and-fashion engine. Soul Cinema is a new model built specifically for cinematic film-still output. They sit alongside every other model in the tool and work with your Visual DNA characters, aspect ratio choices, and prompts exactly as you would expect.
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Higgsfield Soul 2.0
Soul 2.0 is built for people. Where most image models treat a human subject as one element among many, Soul 2.0 is engineered around the face, the body, the fabric, and the light falling across them. The results read like editorial photography: sharp, intentional, fashion-grade.
What it does well:
- Magazine covers and fashion editorials - the model understands how a photographer frames a subject
- Character portraits where likeness and expression matter
- Clothing and texture rendering at a level most general models miss
- High-contrast, stylized looks that still read as photographic
Style presets: 33 curated presets ship with Soul 2.0. Each one is a named visual direction - a lighting mood, a color treatment, a compositional energy - so you can dial in the look before you write a word of prompt. Combine a preset with your own text and the model layers them together rather than picking one or the other.
Pricing: from 2 credits per image.
Higgsfield Soul Cinema
Soul Cinema does one thing: it makes images that look like frames pulled from a real film.
Not "cinematic style." Actual movie-frame rendering - the grain structure of a film stock, the color grade of a specific era of cinema, the way a wide lens compresses a background or a telephoto stacks the layers of a scene. The lighting is directional and motivated, not the even, soft-box quality of most AI image output.
What makes it distinct:
- Film-stock grain that reads as photochemical, not digital noise
- Motivated practical lighting (the light always has a source)
- Color grades calibrated to specific cinematic traditions - not just "warm" or "cool" but a full color-science treatment
- Depth and foreground-background separation that looks like real glass and real aperture
Best for: film stills, mood boards for video production, scene references, poster concepts, editorial content where photographic realism alone is not enough.
Pricing: 4 credits per image.
Two bonus Souls
They also come with company: Soul Cast turns a single prompt into a complete character casting sheet - front, back and close-up of the same character - and Soul Location builds entire cinematic worlds and environments, no people in frame.
Which model should you choose?
Use Soul 2.0 when the person, clothing and editorial style are the subject. Use Soul Cinema when the shot needs to read like a frame from a film, with a deliberate lighting setup and foreground-background separation. Both create still images; this comparison is about image style, not video generation.
For more control over framing, read our camera angles and lens presets guide. For moving shots, see the cinematic camera movement guide.
How to use them
Both models are in the Create Image tool now. Select Higgsfield Soul 2.0 or Higgsfield Soul Cinema from the model picker, write your prompt, and generate. Soul 2.0's 33 style presets appear when that model is active. Soul Cinema works from your prompt directly.
If you use Cinema Controls - the Looks, Style, and Camera chips above the canvas - they compose with both models. Soul Cinema plus a cinematography preset is a particularly strong combination.
Both models are available to every Kolbo.AI account, including free accounts with signup credits.
Frequently asked questions
What is Higgsfield Soul 2.0?
Soul 2.0 is Higgsfield's image model for people and fashion. It focuses on faces, bodies, clothing and the light on them, so portraits and editorials look like professional photography. It ships with 33 style presets.
What is Higgsfield Soul Cinema?
Soul Cinema is Higgsfield's image model for cinematic stills. Every image is rendered like a frame from a film: film-stock grain, light with a visible source, and a full cinema color grade.
Soul 2.0 vs Soul Cinema: which should I use?
Use Soul 2.0 when the person and their outfit are the subject: fashion, portraits, social content. Use Soul Cinema when the image should feel like a scene from a movie: storyboards, film references, posters. Many creators generate the character in Soul 2.0 and the scene in Soul Cinema.
Can I use Soul 2.0 and Soul Cinema for free?
Yes, to try them. New Kolbo.AI accounts get free credits, and at about 2 credits for Soul 2.0 and 4 for Soul Cinema, that covers several images of each.
Can Soul make videos?
No. Both are image models. To animate a Soul image, send it to a video model such as Kling, Seedance or Veo in Kolbo.AI's Image to Video tool.
What are Soul Cast and Soul Location?
Two companion models: Soul Cast makes a character sheet (front, back and close-up) from one prompt, and Soul Location builds environments with no people in frame.