VectorTrace vs Adobe Express Convert to SVG
Both turn a photo or a logo into an SVG in a browser tab. The structural difference is that one of them uploads your file to do it, and the other does not.
- 제품
- Adobe Express Convert to SVG
- 확인일
- 2026-09-07
- 규칙
- 출처와 날짜 명시
- 가격
- 무료 미리보기
나란히 비교
| 나란히 비교 | vectortrace | Adobe Express Convert to SVG |
|---|---|---|
| Where the image is processed | The image is traced by WebAssembly in a Web Worker in your own tab. It is never uploaded, so there is nothing to store, delete or leak. | On Adobe servers. The page asks you to drag and drop or browse to upload the image, and returns the SVG for download.출처 · 확인일 2026-09-07 |
| What goes in | PNG, JPG, WebP, BMP and GIF, decoded by your own browser — there is no server limit, because there is no server in the path. | The page states the file must be JPEG, JPG or PNG and up to 40MB.출처 · 확인일 2026-09-07 |
| What comes out | SVG, PDF, EPS and DXF from one document, including formats aimed at cutters, engravers and RIPs. | SVG, which the page describes as powered by Adobe Illustrator.출처 · 확인일 2026-09-07 |
| What it costs | Previews are free and unlimited. Downloads need Pro at €9.00 per month or €69.00 per year, tax inclusive. | The converter page says it is free to use with no credit card required; Adobe Express itself is sold as a free plan and a premium plan, described on their pricing page.출처 · 확인일 2026-09-07 |
| Works offline | Yes, once the page has loaded. The engine is a module in the tab, not a request. | No — an upload-based tool needs the network by definition.출처 · 확인일 2026-09-07 |
| Automating a conversion | POST /api/v1/vectorize, with a generated OpenAPI 3.1 document at /api/openapi.json. | The converter page documents a one-image flow — choose, upload, download — and no HTTP API for it. Adobe sells developer APIs for other products, so check their developer site for current availability.출처 · 확인일 2026-09-07 |
알아두면 좋은 점
Adobe Express Convert to SVG is a hosted web tool: its page invites you to "Drag and drop an image or browse to upload", takes a JPEG, JPG or PNG up to 40MB, and returns an SVG that Adobe describes as powered by Adobe Illustrator. It is free to use and sits next to the rest of Express, which is where the result is most useful.
VectorTrace is also a browser tab, but the engine is a WebAssembly module inside it. Nothing is uploaded, so the tool works offline, has no file-size ceiling set by a server, and never holds your artwork. What we give up in exchange is the ability to run a large model on rented server hardware.
Canva ships an equivalent — an image-to-vector app in its editor, offered on its paid plans — and the same rows below apply to it: hosted, upload-based, SVG out. This page is about one product, so Canva is named here and compared nowhere.
No side-by-side benchmark exists yet. Our figures on the committed corpus are published with the date and the engine version that produced them; theirs are absent because we have not measured them, not because they lost. The row below points at our run and says exactly what it covers.
아직 측정하지 않은 것
- Which trace is closer to your original at the edges? Nobody has published a head-to-head, ours included: convert the same file in both, open the two SVGs at 800%, and look at where each boundary sits against the source pixels.
- Are you allowed to upload this particular file? For a client mark under NDA that question decides the tool before any quality comparison does.
- How many paths does each result carry for the same artwork? Your editor reports it, and it is the number that predicts how painful the cleanup will be.
벤치마크
마케팅이 아니라 측정입니다. 코퍼스, 방법론, 그리고 실행이 만들어낸 모든 수치를 빠짐없이 게시합니다.
방법론 → /benchmarks- boundary error, p95
- 0.09 px
- region-count error
- 0.000
- node-count ratio
- 1.00×
vectortrace를 선택하는 이유
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브라우저 내 실행, 완전한 비공개
엔진은 여러분의 기기에서 워커로 실행되는 WebAssembly입니다. 이미지는 업로드되지 않으므로 유출될 것도, 삭제할 것도, 믿고 맡길 것도 없습니다.
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감싼 것이 아니라 편집 가능한 패스
엔진은 이미지를 색상 영역으로 그룹화하고, 그 경계를 추출해 곡선을 피팅합니다. 결과물은 실제 지오메트리입니다 — 영역마다 하나의 채우기, 여러분이 직접 옮길 수 있는 모든 노드 — 탭 안에서 만들어지며 서버에서는 결코 만들어지지 않습니다.
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인쇄와 생산 현장에서 쓰는 형식
아트워크용 SVG와 PDF, 커터·조각기·자수 소프트웨어용 EPS와 DXF. Illustrator, Inkscape, LibreCAD에서 바로 열리는 실제 파일 — JPEG를 감싼 SVG가 아닙니다.
질문
- 01Is Adobe Express Convert to SVG free?
- Its own page says the tool is free to use and needs no credit card. Adobe Express is otherwise sold as a free plan and a premium plan; we link their pricing rather than restating figures that change without telling us.
- 02Does Adobe Express upload my image?
- Yes — it is a hosted tool, and its page describes dragging and dropping or browsing to upload the file. Ours does not: the trace runs in your tab, so there is no upload to inspect and nothing stored. Whether that matters depends on whether the file is yours to send.
- 03Which one is better for a logo?
- We have not measured either against the other, so we will not rank them. What we can say is what each is built to do: ours reproduces the mark in your file as closely as the pixels allow and writes cutter formats as well as SVG. Trace your own logo in both and judge the outlines.
- 04What about Canva?
- Canva offers an equivalent image-to-vector app inside its editor on its paid plans. It is the same hosted, upload-based shape as Adobe Express, so the rows on this page apply to it too — but a comparison page is about one product, so we have not written claims about Canva here.