Pollinations.ai
An open-source platform and API for generating text, images, audio and video with many AI models.
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About Pollinations.ai
Pollinations.ai offers one API for text, image, audio and video generation, with OpenAI-compatible endpoints, vision, search, embeddings and structured output. Developers build apps on it while users sign in and spend credits, called Pollen, from their own wallet, with spending caps and the option for app makers to earn a share.
The polli command-line tool generates media directly from the terminal and has agent-friendly JSON output. Free Pollen is available for prototypes through quests. The stack is published on GitHub.
Strengths
- One API for text, image, audio and video
- OpenAI-compatible endpoints
- CLI with JSON output for scripts and agents
- Source published on GitHub
Limitations
- Aimed at developers rather than casual image makers
- Generation runs on Pollinations servers, not locally
Details
- Pricing
- FreemiumFree Pollen credits are available for prototyping; heavier use is paid from user wallets.
- License
- Open source, license not stated
- Developer
- Pollinations
- Platforms
- Web, Command line
- How it runs
- Downloadable app, Web application, Hosted service
- Works offline
- No
- Best suited for
- Developers prototyping AI apps who want a single multi-model API
- Categories
- AI image generators, AI developer tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Sources
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