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Important

New model IDs are available now

Publisher-qualified IDs such as black-forest-labs/flux.1-schnell work today and become canonical on September 7. Existing IDs will keep working.

View all model ID changes →

🆕 Recent Apps

Name	Description	Author
🎬 Automated Video App	Resubmission of #13411, with the callback issue fixed. That submission was closed because the app sent a redirect_uri that was not registered on the App Key. The cause: the connect page built the	@ackhmez
🖼️ Pixel Forge	AI image generation studio powered by Pollinations. Users enter a prompt, select a model (Flux, Dreamshaper, Klein, GPT Image 2, Zimage, Nanobanana) and image size, then generate. Built with the Polli	@b3b41020
🛠️ DemoWeaver	DemoWeaver is an open-source AI-powered product walkthrough generator that turns a running web application into a browser-verified, professionally narrated product video. Instead of manually recording	@mebularts
🖼️ AI STUDIO — RealTime AUDIO & VIDEO CREATOR	Creates collaborative images using the Pollinations image API integration. Thereby, allowing users to add generated content or uploaded from the local machines and create slide/videos adaptive to FPS	@noanswers-website
💬 Pollinations Studio	A pure HTML/JavaScript AI generation studio with no framework dependencies. It supports image, text, audio, and video generation via the Pollinations API. Users bring their own API key (sk_ or pk_) fo	@sankezhiyyds
🖼️ Dery AI	Create collaborative images using the Pollinations image API	@derymegana
🖼️ Pollinations App	A simple web app that lets users connect their Pollinations account and generate AI images using their own Pollen.	@Sohaib7838
✍️ Descriptly	## Descriptly v1.0.0 First public release. Descriptly scans images added or modified in a pull request and generates accessible alt-text suggestions using Pollinations vision models — posted directly	@g33ky00
🖼️ EAS AI STUDIO	Create collaborative images using the Pollinations image API	@EkinLiu
💬 App Submission: FreeChat CLI	A zero-config command-line chat tool powered by the Pollinations free API. No API key required. Features include multi-model switching, streaming responses, conversation history, and save/load. Uses t	@xiaotian1171

Browse all apps →

🚀 Unified API

We've launched https://gen.pollinations.ai — a single endpoint for all your AI generation needs: text, images, audio, video, 3D, embeddings — all in one place.

What's Included

• Unified endpoint — single API at gen.pollinations.ai for all generation
• Pollen credits — simple pay-as-you-go system ($1 ≈ 1 Pollen)
• All models, one place — Flux, GPT, Claude, Gemini, Seedream, and more
• API keys — secret keys for model usage, app keys for tracking BYOP apps.
• CLI — npx @pollinations/cli for humans and AI agents (source)

Get started at enter.pollinations.ai and check out the API docs

🆕 Latest News

• 2026-08-28 – 🚀 Every model gets a playground Open any supported Image, Text, Audio, or Video model directly in a preconfigured Play session.
• 2026-08-28 – 🎯 The quest garden has rankings The Community page now shows the top Quest contributors, completed quests, and Pollen earned. Useful motivation, mildly dangerous for your sleep schedule.
• 2026-08-28 – 🎨 Two frames, then cinema Generate 3–10 second, audio-synced video clips with google/gemini-omni-1.1-flash: text or two keyframes in, 360p to 4K video out. Check the API docs.
• 2026-08-28 – ✨ Pixels enter the forge Pixel Forge is a focused image studio for comparing Flux, Dreamshaper, Klein, GPT Image 2, Zimage, and Nanobanana at the dimensions you choose. Try it
• 2026-08-27 – 🚀 GLM-5.3 Flash is now available for paid API users: multimodal input, tool use, mandatory reasoning, and a frankly unnecessary-but-useful 1M-token context window. Browse models
• 2026-08-27 – 🎨 Seedance reference media lets Seedance 2.0 and 2.5 use public image, video, and audio URLs as creative references for image and video generation. Check the API docs
• 2026-08-27 – ✨ Model search filters make the model browser substantially less like rummaging through a seed drawer: search by publisher, modality, capability, ID, and access level.
• 2026-08-27 – 💡 Canonical model slugs are available now, including publisher-qualified IDs like black-forest-labs/flux.1-schnell; existing model IDs continue working as before.
• 2026-08-27 – 🎯 Quests reward merged work — pick up any open POLLEN-QUEST, and the first merged solution earns the fixed Pollen reward. Contribute
• 2026-08-27 – 🌟 Pollinations Studio puts image, text, audio, and video generation in one browser workspace, using your own Pollinations API key. Try it

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🌱 Introduction

pollinations.ai is an open-source generative AI platform based in Berlin, powering 500+ community projects with accessible text, image, video, audio, 3D and embeddings generation APIs. We build in the open and keep AI accessible to everyone—thanks to our amazing supporters.

🚀 Key Features

• 🔓 100% Open Source — code, decisions, roadmap all public
• 🤝 Community-Built — 500+ projects already using our APIs
• 🌱 Pollen Quests — earn Pollen by completing Quests
• 🖼️ Image Generation — Text-to-image and image editing
• 📝 Text Generation — Chat, reasoning, vision, function calling, structured outputs
• 🎬 Video Generation — Text-to-video and image-to-video
• 🎵 Audio — Text-to-speech and speech-to-text
• 🧊 3D Generation — Text-to-3D and image-to-3D
• 🎙️ Real-time API — OpenAI-compatible WebSocket for streaming conversations
• 🔢 Embeddings Creation — Semantic search, retrieval, similarity matching
• 🤖 Managed Agents — Turn a prompt, base model, and optional Pollinations tools into a reusable model
• 🎣 Easy-to-use Packages (Packages)

🤖 Managed Agents

Build a reusable text agent without hosting an agent server. Choose a system prompt and base model, optionally give it Pollinations tools, then call it through the same OpenAI-compatible API as any other model.

• Private or public — keep an agent owner-only or publish it after receiving community publisher access.
• Normal model API — call a registered agent by its owner/agent-name model ID.
• Dashboard, CLI, or API — manage agents in My Models, with polli agents, or through /account/agents.

See Publish an Agent for setup and billing behavior.

🧩 Community Models

Community members connect their own OpenAI-compatible text, image, image-editing, and speech-to-text endpoints to Pollinations.

• Host your own model — follow Publish a Model to test and register an upstream endpoint, then keep it private or publish it to the catalog.
• Automatic fallback routing — nominate up to three compatible backup models so generations keep moving when an upstream model goes down.
• Discover and monitor — browse community models via gen.pollinations.ai/v1/models and watch live health and community leaderboards at model-monitor.pollinations.ai.

For billing details when building apps on top, see Connect User Wallets.

🚀 Getting Started

Quick Start (3 Steps)

1️⃣ Get your API key
Sign up at enter.pollinations.ai to generate your key.

2️⃣ Choose what you want to generate
Pollinations supports:

• 🖼 Images
• 📝 Text
• 🔊 Audio
• 🎬 Video
• 🧊 3D
• 🔢 Embeddings

3️⃣ Make your first request
Use one of the examples below to generate your first AI output in seconds.

Image Generation

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" 'https://gen.pollinations.ai/image/a%20beautiful%20sunset' -o image.jpg

Or visit pollinations.ai/play for an interactive experience.

Text Generation

curl 'https://gen.pollinations.ai/text/Hello%20world?key=YOUR_API_KEY'

Audio Generation

Simple GET endpoint:

curl 'https://gen.pollinations.ai/audio/Hello%20from%20Pollinations?voice=nova&key=YOUR_API_KEY' -o speech.mp3

OpenAI TTS compatible:

curl 'https://gen.pollinations.ai/v1/audio/speech' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -d '{"model": "tts-1", "input": "Hello from Pollinations!", "voice": "nova"}' \
  -o speech.mp3

Available voices: alloy, echo, fable, onyx, nova, shimmer, plus 30+ ElevenLabs voices.

Speech-to-text:

curl 'https://gen.pollinations.ai/v1/audio/transcriptions' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -F file=@audio.mp3 \
  -F model=whisper-large-v3

Video Generation

curl 'https://gen.pollinations.ai/video/a%20sunset%20timelapse%20over%20the%20ocean?key=YOUR_API_KEY' -o video.mp4

Use duration to set video length, aspectRatio for orientation, and image[0]/image[1] to pass start/end reference frames. See available video models and capabilities at gen.pollinations.ai/video/models.

3D Generation

curl 'https://gen.pollinations.ai/3d/a%20low-poly%20treasure%20chest?model=trellis-2&resolution=low&key=YOUR_API_KEY&image=IMAGE_URL' -o model.glb

Pass reference image URL(s) via the image parameter for image-to-3D models (put image= last in the URL, or URL-encode it). See available 3D models at gen.pollinations.ai/3d/models.

Embeddings

curl 'https://gen.pollinations.ai/v1/embeddings' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -d '{"model": "openai-3-small", "input": "Hello world!"}'

Pass a string or an array of up to 32 strings (text or multimodal content parts). See available embedding models at gen.pollinations.ai/embeddings/models.

Pollinations CLI

Generate text, images, audio, video, and more right from your terminal:

npx @pollinations/cli gen image "cyberpunk city at night" --model flux --output city.png
npx @pollinations/cli gen text "Explain quantum tunneling in one sentence"
npx @pollinations/cli gen audio "Hello world" --voice nova --output speech.mp3
npx @pollinations/cli gen video "a waterfall in slow motion" --duration 5 --output clip.mp4
npx @pollinations/cli gen transcribe speech.mp3

Install globally and use the shorter polli command: npm install -g @pollinations/cli. Run polli models to list models, polli auth login to authenticate, and polli docs for the full API reference in your terminal.

Real-time API

Stream AI responses over an OpenAI-compatible WebSocket:

wss://gen.pollinations.ai/v1/realtime?model=gpt-realtime-2.1&key=pk_YOUR_API_KEY

Browser clients pass the key as a query parameter (?key=); server clients can use the Authorization: Bearer header instead.

MCP Server for AI Assistants

Our MCP (Model Context Protocol) server enables AI assistants like Claude to generate images and audio directly. Learn more

Configuration

Add this to your MCP client configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pollinations": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["@pollinations/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Run with npx (no installation required)

npx @pollinations/mcp

A community alternative, MCPollinations, is also available.

AI assistants can:

• Generate images from text descriptions
• Create text-to-speech audio with various voice options
• Play audio responses through the system speakers
• Access all pollinations.ai models and services
• List available models, voices, and capabilities

For more advanced usage, check out our full API docs — APIDOCS.md or the live docs at gen.pollinations.ai/docs.

🔐 Authentication

Get your API key at enter.pollinations.ai

Key Types

Key	Prefix	Use Case	Rate Limits	Status
App Key	pk_	Browsers, mobile apps, public clients	Budget & permissions set at creation	Stable
Secret	sk_	Server-side only	No rate limits	Stable

⚠️ Never expose sk_ keys in client-side code, git repos, or public URLs

💡 Building an app? Use Connect User Wallets — users pay for their own usage, you pay $0

Model Restrictions

Each API key can be scoped to specific models. When creating a key at enter.pollinations.ai, you can:

• Allow all models — key works with any available model
• Restrict to specific models — select exactly which models the key can access (e.g., only flux and openai, or just gptimage-large)

Usage

curl 'https://gen.pollinations.ai/image/a%20cat?key=YOUR_KEY'

Environment variable (best practice):

export POLLINATIONS_API_KEY=sk_...

See full API docs for detailed authentication information.

🖥️ How to Use

Web Interface

Our web interface is user-friendly and doesn't require any technical knowledge. Simply visit https://pollinations.ai and start creating!

Here are some examples of what you can generate:

🛠️ Integration

SDK

Check out our Pollinations SDK for Node.js, browser, and React integration.

OpenAI SDK Compatibility

The API is OpenAI-compatible, so the official OpenAI SDKs work out of the box — just point them at https://gen.pollinations.ai/v1.

Node.js:

import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  baseURL: "https://gen.pollinations.ai/v1",
  apiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY",
});

const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "openai",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }],
});
console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);

Python:

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://gen.pollinations.ai/v1", api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="openai",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Other OpenAI SDKs work too: Go, Java, .NET, Rust (async-openai, community) — plus compatible frameworks like Vercel AI SDK.

Vercel AI SDK:

import { createOpenAI } from "@ai-sdk/openai";
import { generateText } from "ai";

const client = createOpenAI({
  baseURL: "https://gen.pollinations.ai/v1",
  apiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY",
});

const { text } = await generateText({
  model: client("openai"),
  prompt: "Hello!",
});
console.log(text);

Architecture

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graph LR
    subgraph CLIENTS["Clients / Apps"]
        Q[Bots - Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp]
        N[30+ Mobile and Web Apps]
        A[pollinations.ai Web Frontend]
        R[AI Agents - Qwen, Sillytavern, ...]
        AI[AI Assistants - Claude]
        MCP[MCP Server]
    end

    AI --> MCP
    Q --> GEN
    N --> GEN
    A --> GEN
    R --> GEN
    MCP --> GEN

    GEN["gen.pollinations.ai — Edge Router + Generation Worker"]:::cfWorker -->|auth and billing| ENTER["enter.pollinations.ai — Auth Gateway + Billing"]:::cfWorker

    GEN --> IMG["Image — gen Worker dispatch to providers / GPU backends"]:::cfWorkerLight
    IMG --> D["Flux, Z-Image, Seedream, ... — GPU VMs"]:::gpuNode

    GEN --> TXT["Text — Portkey multi-provider"]:::provider
    GEN --> VID["Video — Wan / Veo / Seedance"]:::provider
    GEN --> AUD["Audio — ElevenLabs / OVH (Whisper)"]:::provider

    style CLIENTS fill:none,stroke:#888,stroke-width:2px,stroke-dasharray: 5 5

    linkStyle default stroke-width:3px,stroke:#00E5FF

    classDef cfWorker fill:#E65100,color:#fff,stroke:#FFB300,stroke-width:2px,font-weight:bold
    classDef cfWorkerLight fill:#BF360C,color:#fff,stroke:#FFB300,stroke-width:1px
    classDef gpuNode fill:#064E3B,stroke:#34D399,color:#ECFDF5,stroke-width:2px
    classDef provider fill:#1E3A8A,stroke:#60A5FA,color:#EFF6FF,stroke-width:1px

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🔮 Future Developments

We're constantly exploring new ways to push the boundaries of AI-driven content creation. Some areas we're excited about include:

• Digital Twins: Creating interactive AI-driven avatars
• Music Video Generation: Combining AI-generated visuals with music for unique video experiences
• Real-time AI-driven Visual Experiences: Projects like our Dreamachine, which create immersive, personalized visual journeys

🌍 Our Vision

pollinations.ai envisions a future where AI technology is:

• Open & Accessible: We believe AI should be available to everyone — earn Pollen by contributing, no credit card required

• Transparent & Ethical: Our open-source approach ensures transparency in how our models work and behave

• Community-Driven: We're building a platform where developers, creators, and AI enthusiasts can collaborate and innovate

• Interconnected: We're creating an ecosystem where AI services can seamlessly work together, fostering innovation through composability

• Evolving: We embrace the rapid evolution of AI technology while maintaining our commitment to openness and accessibility

We're committed to developing AI technology that serves humanity while respecting ethical boundaries and promoting responsible innovation. Join us in shaping the future of AI.

🤝 Community and Development

We believe in community-driven development. You can contribute to pollinations.ai in several ways:

1. Coding Assistant: The easiest way to contribute! Just create a GitHub issue describing the feature you'd like to see implemented. The Polli assistant will analyze and implement it directly! No coding required - just describe what you want.

2. Project Submissions: Have you built something with pollinations.ai? Use our app submission template to share it with the community and get it featured in our README.

3. Feature Requests & Bug Reports: Have an idea or found a bug? Open an issue and let us know. Our team and the Polli assistant will review it.

4. Community Engagement: Join our vibrant Discord community to:

   • Share your creations
   • Get support and help others
   • Collaborate with fellow AI enthusiasts
   • Discuss feature ideas before creating issues

For any questions or support, please visit our Discord channel or create an issue on our GitHub repository.

🗂️ Project Structure

Our codebase is organized into several key folders, each serving a specific purpose in the pollinations.ai ecosystem:

• pollinations.ai/: The main React application for the Pollinations.ai website.

• gen.pollinations.ai/: Cloudflare Worker for API routing, auth handoff, text generation, and caching.

• enter.pollinations.ai/: Auth gateway and billing — API keys, Pollen credits, and pack checkout.

• shared/: Auth, model registries, IP queue, and utilities shared across the services.

• apps/: Applications maintained in this repository.

• operations/: Internal dashboards, monitoring, economics, and infrastructure, including the GPU fleet.

• media.pollinations.ai/: Media upload service — upload files and get a URL to use with Pollinations models, with public tag galleries.

• operations/social/: Automated social media pipeline (X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Reddit, Discord).

• packages/polli-cli/: The Pollinations CLI — for humans, AI agents, and everything in between.

• packages/sdk/: SDK NPM library with pollinations ready functions for Pollinations.ai.

• packages/mcp/: Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for AI assistants like Claude to generate images directly.

• opencode-pollinations-plugin: This is opencode-pollinations-plugin, a plugin for OpenCode that integrates Pollinations.ai's inference capabilities directly into the OpenCode environment, built by our community member @fkom13.

This structure encompasses the frontend website, backend services for image and text generation, and integrations like the Discord bot and MCP server, providing a comprehensive framework for the pollinations.ai platform.

For development setup and environment management, see DEVELOP.md.

🏢 Supported By

pollinations.ai is proud to be supported by:

• Perplexity AI: AI-powered search and conversational answer engine
• AWS Activate: GPU Cloud Credits
• io.net: Decentralized GPU network for AI compute
• BytePlus: Official ByteDance cloud services and AI solutions
• Google Cloud for Startups: GPU Cloud Credits
• NVIDIA Inception: AI startup support
• Azure (MS for Startups): OpenAI credits
• Cloudflare: Put the connectivity cloud to work for you.
• Scaleway: Europe's empowering cloud provider
• Modal: High-performance AI infrastructure
• Nebius: AI-optimized cloud infrastructure with NVIDIA GPU clusters
• OpenAI: Frontier AI models and APIs
• OpenRouter: Unified API for LLMs
• Fireworks AI: Fast inference platform for open models
• Replicate: Run AI models with an API
• RunPod: GPU cloud built for AI workloads
• OVHcloud: European cloud and GPU infrastructure
• Lambda Labs: GPU cloud for AI training and inference
• ElevenLabs: AI voice generation and text-to-speech
• AssemblyAI: Speech-to-text and speech understanding models
• Alibaba Cloud: Cloud computing and AI services

💚 Support Us

The best way to support pollinations.ai is by using our product! Get your API key and start building at enter.pollinations.ai.

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📜 License

pollinations.ai is open-source software licensed under the MIT license.

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