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      "summary": "Bria's API generates and edits images with its FIBO models, trained on licensed data. It runs as an asynchronous REST API with Python and TypeScript SDKs and an MCP server.",
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      "authNotes": "Self-serve organisation API key from the Bria Console, sent in the `api_token` header. An organisation can hold several named keys and revoke each one. No scopes. The hosted MCP server also accepts an OAuth 2.1 bearer token (PKCE, dynamic client registration, device flow) tied to a Bria account. The streaming WebSocket takes `api_token` or `oauth` as a query parameter (https://docs.bria.ai/getting-started/authentication.md).",
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      "pricingNotes": "Free plan with 100 calls, no card, at 10 requests a minute. Pay-as-you-go is billed per image, call or second of video, from $0.018 (background removal) to $0.03 (FIBO generation, FIBO Edit) an image, at 60 requests a minute. Enterprise is priced by sales and adds unlimited IP indemnification, SSO, audit logs and self-hosting (https://bria.ai/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "$0.02 / call",
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        "webhooks",
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        "bestFor": "Teams that need image generation and editing with a stated training-data licence, C2PA marking and an indemnity (capped on Pay-as-you-go, unlimited on Enterprise), and product-shot or background work at volume.",
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          "Per-image prices are public, from $0.018 for background removal to $0.03 for FIBO generation and FIBO Edit",
          "The free plan gives 100 calls on every endpoint with no card, at 10 requests a minute",
          "Each API has a downloadable OpenAPI 3.0 file, and every docs page is served as Markdown with an `llms.txt` index",
          "The Online Terms and Conditions warrant that customer content is not used to train generative models without written consent",
          "A returned `seed` and `structured_prompt` reproduce an image when sent back, per the docs"
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          "API keys are organisation-wide with no scopes, and no spend cap was found in the reviewed documentation",
          "No API changelog or deprecation policy was found, and the OpenAPI files carry an empty version",
          "The streaming background removal WebSocket takes `api_token` as a URL query parameter",
          "No `security.txt`, disclosure policy or bug bounty was found. ISO 27001 and SOC 2 are stated on the site with no report or trust centre linked",
          "All 18 tools in `bria-mcp` are marked read-only and idempotent although each call is billed"
        ],
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          "Send the key in the `api_token` header, not as `Authorization: Bearer`. Only `/v2/image/verify` and `/v2/video/verify` work without it",
          "Expect `202` with `request_id` and `status_url` from v2 endpoints. Poll `GET /v2/status/{request_id}` every 1 to 2 seconds, or pass `sync: true`",
          "Status polls count towards the per-endpoint limit (10 a minute on Free, 60 on Pay-as-you-go), so prefer `webhook_url` for batches",
          "Download results promptly. Image URLs expire after 3 days by default, and legacy `/v1/product/*` results after 1 hour",
          "Do not resend a failed `POST` blindly. There is no idempotency key, and the SDKs retry status polls only"
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          "measured": false
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          "reliability": 83,
          "schema": 84,
          "security": 33,
          "transparency": 42
        },
        "provenanceScore": 56
      },
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        "install": "pip install bria-client",
        "http": "curl -X POST https://engine.prod.bria-api.com/v2/image/generate \\\n  -H \"api_token: $BRIA_API_TOKEN\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"prompt\": \"a serene mountain landscape at dawn\", \"aspect_ratio\": \"1:1\"}'",
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          "usd": 0.03,
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        },
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          "item": "FIBO Lite generation",
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        {
          "item": "FIBO Edit",
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        {
          "item": "Increase resolution",
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          "item": "Structured prompt",
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          "item": "Video background removal",
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        "privacy": "https://bria.ai/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.bria.ai",
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          "The API answers at engine.prod.bria-api.com and the hosted MCP server at mcp.prod.bria-api.com, a different domain from bria.ai. Bria's own docs name both hosts.",
          "The terms link is the Bria Online AI General Terms and Conditions (March 2025, V1.1), a PDF on Google Drive linked from https://bria.ai/terms-of-use. It defines Online Services to include the APIs and an Order to include confirming a subscription plan on Bria's website. We could not see which terms the console shows at sign-up.",
          "https://bria.ai/terms-of-use is a website terms page that grants personal, non-commercial access and is not used as the terms link.",
          "The privacy policy names Bria Artificial Intelligence Ltd. and covers the 'Bria API' service. It carries no effective date.",
          "The terms give 126 Yigal Alon Street, Tel Aviv, for notices and 1412 Broadway, New York, in the page header.",
          "bria.ai/.well-known/security.txt, docs.bria.ai/.well-known/security.txt and engine.prod.bria-api.com/.well-known/security.txt return 404. platform.bria.ai returns the console's HTML page at that path.",
          "RDAP for bria.ai gives a registration date of 2020-04-03.",
          "status.bria.ai is an Atlassian Statuspage. No API changelog was found in the docs sitemap. The SDK repository has a `CHANGELOG.md` for each language."
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          "name": "openai"
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      "authNotes": "`Authorization: Bearer` with a project key. GPT Image models may need API organisation verification before the first call.",
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        "evidence": "No machine payment. Access needs an account with prepaid credit.",
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          "date": "2026-10-01"
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        "negative": -2,
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          "On 2025-11-26 OpenAI disclosed that its analytics vendor Mixpanel was breached, exposing names, emails, rough location and IDs of API platform users. No API keys, prompts or outputs. Mixpanel was removed and the incident documented (https://openai.com/index/mixpanel-incident/). -2 because it touched every API account, decayed because it's fixed and disclosed."
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        "verdict": "Generation, mask edits and multi-reference edits on the same models, via the Image API or the Responses tool. No per-image price for GPT Image 2.5, and the cost calculator doesn't cover it.",
        "bestFor": "General-purpose generation and editing for agents already on OpenAI, especially multi-turn edits through the Responses tool.",
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          "No training on API data by default, 30-day abuse logs and Zero Data Retention eligibility for GPT Image models",
          "Typed parameters, an OpenAPI spec, llms.txt and a dated changelog",
          "Batch halves the image output price, including on GPT Image 2.5 Flare"
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          "No per-image price for GPT Image 2.5, and the cost calculator doesn't cover it",
          "Tier 1 accounts get 5 images a minute on GPT Image 2.5 Flare",
          "Base64-only responses put the whole image in the payload",
          "Six image models removed or scheduled for removal between 2026-05-12 and 2026-12-01",
          "Three API image incidents in the last 90 days, the longest about 53 minutes of elevated errors"
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          "Pin `quality` and `size`. `auto` makes cost and latency vary per call",
          "Read `usage` in the response to track image tokens, it's the only cost signal for GPT Image 2.5",
          "Don't retry `moderation_blocked` or `image_generation_user_error`. Change the prompt first",
          "Honour `Retry-After` on 429 and add jitter, image limits are per minute and low at tier 1",
          "Move off gpt-image-1 before 2026-10-23 and off 1-mini, 1.5 and chatgpt-image-latest before 2026-12-01"
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        "install": "pip install openai   # or: npm i openai",
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Keys are organisation-wide with no scopes, and the API has no changelog or deprecation policy.\n\n**OpenAI Image API.** Generation, mask edits and multi-reference edits on the same models, via the Image API or the Responses tool. No per-image price for GPT Image 2.5, and the cost calculator doesn't cover it.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Bria API\n\n1. Send the key in the `api_token` header, not as `Authorization: Bearer`. Only `/v2/image/verify` and `/v2/video/verify` work without it\n2. Expect `202` with `request_id` and `status_url` from v2 endpoints. Poll `GET /v2/status/{request_id}` every 1 to 2 seconds, or pass `sync: true`\n3. Status polls count towards the per-endpoint limit (10 a minute on Free, 60 on Pay-as-you-go), so prefer `webhook_url` for batches\n4. Download results promptly. Image URLs expire after 3 days by default, and legacy `/v1/product/*` results after 1 hour\n5. Do not resend a failed `POST` blindly. 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