Moving from Higgsfield to Mage

Your finished files carry over as files. Everything else you built on Higgsfield, such as Soul ID characters, Moodboards and app setups, lives on its platform and does not import into another tool, so the move is a rebuild. On Mage most of that rebuild takes minutes, because nothing has to be trained.

Characters are the biggest change. Higgsfield's Soul ID trains on 20 or more photos of one person before the face can be reused. A Mage Character starts from one photo, or from a portrait you generate, and works as soon as it is saved: you call it by @handle in image and video prompts, on Mage and in AI assistants connected to Mage. References work the same way for outfits, poses, locations and objects, and a character can carry its own voice into video.

The everyday jobs map closely to Mage apps: recasting the person in a video, swapping a face, making a photo speak, changing an outfit, seeing a shot from a new angle, relighting it. Some Higgsfield tools have no Mage equivalent, and this guide names them, so you can decide whether to move everything at once or keep both for a while.

Higgsfield says cancelling turns off auto-renewal and does not delete your account or your generations, and its help center describes your assets as accessible while your subscription is active. Subscription credits expire at the end of the paid period. Credit Pack credits survive cancellation but expire 90 days after purchase, so spend them first. After the paid period ends, new Higgsfield generations follow its free-account rules, which add a visible watermark.

Deleting the account is a different step. Higgsfield gives 30 days to restore a deleted account and then removes everything permanently, trained Soul characters included, so download first. Keep the photos you trained each Soul ID on, too: the best one becomes your Mage character.

• Download finals and the clips you may want to recast later.
• Spend Credit Pack credits before they expire.
• Keep one clear source photo for each Soul ID character.
• Note the prompts and settings that worked best for you.

Pick the one photo that shows the person best: the face clearly visible, even light, a plain background, no sunglasses and no heavy shadow across the eyes. That photo sets the identity everywhere the character appears. If the character will be swapped into video full-body, use a full-body image instead, so the outfit and build carry over as well as the face.

If your best material is a single portrait, the Character Sheet app turns one image into a sheet with a face close-up, front, side and back views and the outfit details, and you can save the sheet as the character. To design a new face rather than rebuild an old one, start from the AI character generator.

Test before you move a whole series. Generate the character in three different settings and one short clip, compare them with your Soul ID results, and swap the source photo if something drifts. Then add the voice: upload a short clip or generate one, and the video models that support character voices use it whenever the character is in the prompt.

• One clear, front-facing photo per character.
• Full-body images for characters that will be swapped into video.
• Test in three scenes and one clip before migrating a series.
• Save outfits and locations as references to pair with the character.

Recast, Higgsfield's app for swapping characters in a video, maps to Video Character Swap. It replaces the whole person in a clip, face, hair, body and outfit, with a character from one image, while the motion, camera and background stay as filmed. To change only the face, use Video Face Swap for clips and Face Swap for photos.

Lipsync Studio maps to Lipsync, which makes the subject of one image speak an audio clip of up to 15 seconds; a saved character keeps its identity on Plum, Lemon and Cherry. Higgsfield’s AI Clothes Changer and AI Stylist map to Outfit Swap, which puts the outfit from a reference photo onto a person and keeps the face and the scene.

For stills, Higgsfield's Angles 2.0 and Relight apps have Mage counterparts: Angles shows an image from a new camera angle, and Relight changes the direction and mood of the light. If you leaned on Moodboards for a repeatable look, Mage has Moodboards too: 20 or more images in one style that steer the image models that support them.

Higgsfield's MCP connector signs you in with OAuth and deducts credits for every generation, whatever your plan. Mage's server works the same way: add it from the MCP page, sign in with your Mage account, and your assistant gets 16 tools to choose a model, quote each generation with estimate_cost, and generate on Gems with your characters and references by @handle. The server needs one successful payment on the account first, any Gem pack or plan.

You can keep both connected in Claude while you compare. Turn on one connector per chat so Claude uses the one you mean, and ask for models by name; unless you name one, Mage uses Mango 3 for images, Cherry 2 Pro for video and Seed Audio for sound. The Claude AI video generator guide covers video in Claude step by step.

Cinema Studio picks a camera body, a lens and a motion preset from menus. On Mage you write them. Name the move (slow push-in, tracking shot, crane up, handheld, whip pan, crash zoom), the look (35mm film, anamorphic, macro) and the light. For several shots in one Cherry 2 Pro clip, list them in order with rough timings, as the examples below do.

One-click templates become one of two things on Mage: a prompt that describes the effect, or a clip you have the rights to, recast with Video Character Swap. For a transition between two exact images, use Lemon with a first and a last frame, and describe only what happens between them.

Some Higgsfield tools have no Mage counterpart, and it is better to know before you cancel. Cinema Studio's menus of camera bodies, lenses and motion presets have none: you direct the camera in words. Marketing Studio turns a product URL or image into a finished video ad on the website; on Mage the closest is the UGC Video skill, which runs inside an AI assistant rather than as an app on the site. Higgsfield's own Soul image models and Soul HEX palettes are not on Mage, and its directory of about 94 one-click apps is larger than Mage's set of apps.

Model catalogs differ too. If a particular third-party model is the reason you use Higgsfield, look for it on Mage’s models page before you cancel. And on both platforms, generations started through an AI assistant are metered: unlimited covers the website or app only.

If video is most of your work, start with Pro at $30 a month: Melon, short Lemon clips, Wan, LTX and MiniMax-H3 Turbo are unlimited, and so is character creation. Pro Plus at $60 adds Mage's premium video models, such as Cherry, Kiwi and Plum Max, within set lengths, and Max at $200 adds Cherry 2 Pro at 4 seconds and 480p and 1080p on several models. If you mostly generate from an assistant, Gems are what you spend, and a Gem pack may be all you need. Compare the lists on the membership page, and read the unlimited AI video generator guide for how the lists work.