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      "vendor": "Photoroom",
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      "category": "design-assets",
      "summary": "Photoroom's API edits product photos over HTTP. One call removes a background, adds a shadow or generated background, relights, expands, resizes or fills a template, and returns the image. A hosted MCP server wraps the same API.",
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      "dns": "photoroom.grade.anchorterminal.com",
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      "license": "Proprietary service under the Photoroom Terms and Conditions. The sample code repository is MIT",
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        "streamable-http"
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      "authNotes": "Self-serve API key, sent in the `x-api-key` header. A person creates a Photoroom account and activates the API in the dashboard at app.photoroom.com/api-dashboard. A team can create several keys and revoke each one. No scopes were found. Prefixing the key with `sandbox_` makes free, watermarked calls. The hosted MCP server uses an OAuth authorisation code grant with PKCE and dynamic client registration, and creates its own API key for the connection (https://docs.photoroom.com/getting-started/introduction.md, https://www.photoroom.com/api/claude).",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "$0.02 an image on the Remove Background API (Basic plan) and $0.10 a call on the Image Editing API (Plus plan), bought as a monthly subscription of images that do not roll over. Sandbox mode is free for 1,000 watermarked calls a month, and a new account gets 10 free production background removals, with no card. Failed calls are not billed. Enterprise pricing from 200,000 images a year is by sales (https://www.photoroom.com/api/pricing, https://docs.photoroom.com/getting-started/pricing.md).",
      "priceSummary": "$20 / mo",
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        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API docs, the OpenAPI description or the pricing pages (checked 2026-10-09).",
        "endpoints": []
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        "design.templates",
        "image.generate",
        "image.upscale"
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        "hosted",
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        "soc2"
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      "graded": true,
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        "methodology": "0.7",
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          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-11-04"
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        "verdict": "A call costs $0.02 for background removal or $0.10 for any combination of edits, and a sandbox key gives 1,000 free watermarked calls a month without a card. No status page or official SDK was found, and Photoroom's privacy policy and security page disagree on whether API images train its models.",
        "bestFor": "Product-photo work at volume, such as cutouts, white backgrounds, shadows, generated scenes and clothing shots, one image a call.",
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          "Prices are per image and public, $0.02 for the Remove Background API and $0.10 for an Image Editing call with any number of edits combined",
          "A `sandbox_` key prefix gives 1,000 free watermarked Image Editing calls a month (100 a day) with no card, per the docs and pricing page",
          "Calls that end in an error do not consume an image, per the pricing page of the docs",
          "A public OpenAPI 3.1 file, an `llms.txt` index and a Markdown twin of every docs page, plus a ready-made prompt for coding agents",
          "The security page says images sent to the API are discarded when the response returns and names five sub-processors and US hosting"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No status page was found on the site or in the docs, so there is no public incident history to read",
          "The privacy policy says model improvement does not apply to API images. The security page says self-serve API plans train by default with an opt-out",
          "No official SDK. The vendor publishes MIT sample code for web, Node.js, Python and iOS and tells callers to use a plain HTTP client",
          "The changelog's last dated entry is 21 April 2026, over six months before this check, while the docs list Virtual Try-On, which has no entry",
          "The terms forbid scraping any part of the Services and any automated system that sends more requests than a person could from a browser"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Send the key in the `x-api-key` header. Prefix it with `sandbox_` while testing, because calls with the plain key consume paid images",
          "Save the response body as a file. A 200 returns image bytes, PNG by default, and any other status returns JSON with `error.message` or `detail`",
          "Send model selectors such as `pr-ai-shadows-model-version: 2026-04-15` as HTTP headers, not form fields. They are not in the OpenAPI file",
          "Stay under 60 images a minute. On 429 back off with an exponential delay, and set a client timeout of at least 60 seconds for AI edits",
          "Use `POST /v2/edit` with `imageFile` for local files and `GET /v2/edit` with `imageUrl` for hosted ones. Each call takes one image"
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        "privacy": "https://www.photoroom.com/legal/privacy",
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        "changelog": "https://docs.photoroom.com/getting-started/changelog",
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        "checked": "2026-10-09",
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          "The Terms and Conditions, effective 29 July 2026, cover the platform, the application programming interface and related services of Photoroom SAS. No separate API terms were found.",
          "The legal notice gives PHOTOROOM, SAS, RCS Paris 853 059 384, 229 rue Saint-Honoré, 75001 Paris. The site footer reads Photoroom, Inc.",
          "The privacy policy, updated March 2026, names Photoroom as controller for photoroom.com, app.photoroom.com and the apps, and has one sentence on API images.",
          "The API answers at image-api.photoroom.com and sdk.photoroom.com and the MCP server at mcp.photoroom.com.",
          "https://www.photoroom.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404.",
          "RDAP for photoroom.com gives a registration date of 1998-11-21, which predates the company.",
          "No status page was found. status.photoroom.com did not answer one request."
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    "answer": "Photoroom API scores 53.5 (D) on agent readiness against Pixelixe's 37.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Pixelixe leads on maintenance \u0026 community.",
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      "category": "design-assets",
      "summary": "Pixelixe is a template-based graphic platform with a design studio, an Image Automation API that fills saved templates into PNG, JPEG, PDF or HTML, a JSON-to-graphic API, image filters, a white-label editor and a remote MCP server.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pixelixe",
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      "pricingNotes": "API access starts with Automate at $59 a month (20,000 automated documents, 140 AI actions). Scale $119 (60,000), Enterprise from $299 (300,000 and up). Create at $12 a month has no API. 10-day trial with no card. No per-image price.",
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          "Use `pixelixe_generate_graphic_variant` to fill an existing template; it can't change the layout",
          "Read the error `message` text, since every failure is a 400",
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      "connect": {
        "http": "curl -X POST https://studio.pixelixe.com/api/authentication/v2 -H \"Authorization: Bearer $PIXELIXE_API_KEY\"",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http pixelixe https://studio.pixelixe.com/api/mcp/v1",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "pixelixe": {
              "url": "https://studio.pixelixe.com/api/mcp/v1"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/design.templates",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/pixelixe"
      },
      "area": "design-diagrams",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Automate plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 59,
          "note": "20,000 automated documents and 140 AI actions a month"
        },
        {
          "item": "Scale plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 119,
          "note": "60,000 automated documents and 280 AI actions a month"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "",
        "domain": "pixelixe.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2018-09-17",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://pixelixe.com/terms.html",
        "privacy": "https://pixelixe.com/privacy-policy.html",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-11-06",
        "notes": [
          "The terms (last modified 19 March 2026) and privacy policy (effective 7 April 2026) name the operator only as Pixelixe and choose French law and the courts of Paris.",
          "The terms forbid scraping or copying the Service. Public pages were read as data.",
          "pixelixe.com/robots.txt allows the docs and names ClaudeBot as allowed; it disallows /studio/, /docs/v1/ and some demo pages. studio.pixelixe.com/robots.txt disallows the app pages, /assets and /js/ but not /api/ or /.well-known/.",
          "RDAP gives pixelixe.com a registration date of 17 September 2018.",
          "/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. No status page or changelog found."
        ],
        "score": 49
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pixelixe.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "pixelixe",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://studio.pixelixe.com/api",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-11-07T19:22:26.523715438Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 404,
          "lastMs": 67,
          "authRequired": false,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 33,
          "p95ms24h": 121,
          "samples24h": 210,
          "samples30d": 210,
          "days": [
            {
              "date": "2026-11-06",
              "probes": 13,
              "ok": 13
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-11-07",
              "probes": 197,
              "ok": 197
            }
          ]
        },
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "mcp-registry",
            "name": "com.pixelixe/pixelixe-mcp",
            "version": "1.0.2",
            "seenAt": "2026-11-07T18:16:28.95801333Z"
          }
        ],
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://pixelixe.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:01:00.920272687Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://pixelixe.com/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:33:38.090224197Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://pixelixe.com/privacy-policy.html",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:16:29.788755256Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "832cb532d5ba"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://pixelixe.com/terms.html",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:16:31.916703951Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "764ac1d560a1"
          }
        ],
        "mcpTools": {
          "url": "https://studio.pixelixe.com/api/mcp/v1",
          "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T01:46:51.581135972Z",
          "status": "auth",
          "note": "asks for credentials before listing its tools",
          "changedAt": "2026-11-07T01:46:51.581135972Z"
        },
        "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T19:22:26.523715438Z"
      }
    },
    "edges": [
      {
        "by": 28,
        "category": "transparency",
        "leads": "photoroom",
        "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Per the 9 October check, not re-read on 4 November. Closed hosted service under the Photoroom Terms and Conditions effective 29 July 2026, which name the application programming interface. Sample code is MIT (15). The security page gives retention figures (images discarded after the call, operational logs 15 days, API access logs one year). The statements on training disagree. The privacy policy of March 2026 says model improvement does not apply to API images, the security page says self-serve API plans train by default with an opt-out, and the terms authorise training on user content with an opt-out. A DPA is for Enterprise customers only (14). Preview and alpha functions carry a two-week notice, the 2024 base URL change gave a dated deadline, and the AI Backgrounds v2 model is marked deprecated with no removal date (12). The security page names GCP, AWS, Cloudflare, Datadog and Vercel and says hosting is in the United States. The full list is in the trust centre, which was not read (16).",
          "b": "Closed service under terms of 19 March 2026 that choose French law but name no company (12 of 30). The privacy policy of 7 April 2026 keeps account data while the account is active and 'as long as reasonably necessary' after, with no periods, and says nothing about AI processing or training (10 of 30). V1 is marked deprecated in the docs with no dates or notice period (5 of 20). Processors are described only by category, with Google Analytics named, and data processed in France, the EEA and other vendor countries (5 of 20). 12 + 10 + 5 + 5 = 32."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 69,
          "b": 41
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 27,
        "category": "reliability",
        "leads": "photoroom",
        "name": "Reliability",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Read with the hosted lines. Photoroom's terms (clause 2.7.a, effective 29 July 2026) bar copying any part of the Services by automated or non-automated scraping, so photoroom.com hosts were not re-read on 4 November and the 9 October readings are kept. No status page was found on photoroom.com, the docs or the security page, and status.photoroom.com did not answer one request, per the 9 October check (0). With no history to read, the incident line takes the floor of 5. The security page states one incident on record, a 30-minute availability disruption in October 2024, which is the vendor's own account (5). Limits are published, 60 images a minute by default and 1,000 a month and 100 a day in sandbox mode (15). The docs say a 429 is returned at the limit, tell callers to back off exponentially and to retry a 500 up to three times, and say failed calls are not billed. No `Retry-After` header or idempotency key is documented, so safe-retry guidance without keys (12). The API page states a 99.9 per cent uptime target on Enterprise accounts, but no SLA document was found and the terms say availability is not guaranteed, so no SLA could be read (0). The Image Editing API left beta on 3 April 2024. Upscale, text-guided segmentation and templating are labelled preview (10).",
          "b": "Hosted lines. No status page found on the site or in the docs (0). No readable incident history (5). No rate limit is published; the terms only forbid circumventing them (0). No 429, Retry-After or backoff guidance. Every error, a wrong key and exhausted credits included, is a 400 with a message (0). No SLA found; the terms supply the service as is (0). API v2 is current and not labelled beta (10). 0 + 5 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 10 = 15."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 42,
          "b": 15
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 20,
        "category": "schema",
        "leads": "photoroom",
        "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Per the 9 October check, not re-read on 4 November. A public OpenAPI 3.1.0 description at image-api.photoroom.com/openapi, read as embedded on the docs reference page, with four operations (25). `llms.txt`, a Markdown twin of every page and a page with a prompt written for coding agents (10). 86 of the 87 parameters of `GET /v2/edit` carry a description, the operation description lists every edit, and the agent page says when to call each of the two APIs (17). 31 of 87 parameters have enums, but booleans are strings, no field of `/v2/edit` is marked required, and the embedded description declares neither the `x-api-key` header nor the `pr-*` model headers (10). Curl examples on every page and 400, 402 and 500 bodies in the description. 401, 403 and 429 are documented in prose only, and the two APIs use different error shapes (11). Paths are `/v1` and `/v2`, models are pinned by dated headers and the changelog is dated back to June 2023, but the description's version is fixed at 1.0.0 and the last changelog entry is 21 April 2026 (13).",
          "b": "OpenAPI 3.1 (version 2.0.0) at pixelixe.com/pixelixe-openapi.json, but it covers four endpoints, authentication, document search, graphic automation and photo effects, and leaves out the JSON-to-graphic and image processing APIs (18 of 25). llms.txt exists but routes readers to marketing pages; the MCP reference is written for LLMs (7 of 10). The MCP reference says what each of the seven tools maps to, that `pixelixe_generate_graphic_variant` 'is not a free-form layout API', lists common mistakes and how to present outputs (17 of 20). The MCP layer documents canonical field names and refuses legacy aliases; the REST modifications are open structures keyed by element name (10 of 15). Request examples throughout, but errors are one table of message strings all returning 400 (8 of 15). /v2 paths and a deprecated V1, with no changelog (6 of 15). 18 + 7 + 17 + 10 + 8 + 6 = 66."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 86,
          "b": 66
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 15,
        "category": "ergonomics",
        "leads": "photoroom",
        "name": "Agent ergonomics",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Per the 9 October check, not re-read on 4 November. The response body is the image itself, so an agent saves a file and reads nothing into context. `outputSize`, `maxWidth`, `maxHeight`, `export.format` and the `size` presets set what comes back, and the MCP server has one tool, per Photoroom (18). Nothing to paginate. Output size, format and DPI controls (15). JSON errors with a message and a documented meaning for 400, 401, 403, 402, 429 and 500, but the two APIs use different shapes and `Unauthorized` covers both a missing key and an empty balance (13). No idempotency key. Calls keep no state, failed calls are not billed and `background.seed` repeats a generated background, but a retried success is billed again. The MCP tool's annotations were not read (10). Only the image is required and defaults are sensible. No official SDK, only sample code for four platforms (8).",
          "b": "Seven compact MCP tools (25). Document and design-set search filters, with no pagination documented (10 of 20). All errors are 400 with free-text messages, so an agent can't branch on a code (6 of 20). No idempotency keys, and annotations couldn't be read on the closed server. The MCP tools only read and create, with nothing that deletes (5 of 20). Few required fields, but no official SDK (3 of 15). 25 + 10 + 6 + 5 + 3 = 49."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 64,
          "b": 49
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 11,
        "category": "security",
        "leads": "photoroom",
        "name": "Security \u0026 auth",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Per the 9 October check, not re-read on 4 November. A team can hold several API keys and revoke each in the dashboard, with no scopes found. The key travels in the `x-api-key` header only. The hosted MCP server's published OAuth metadata gives an authorisation code grant with PKCE, dynamic client registration and a revocation endpoint, per the 9 October reading, and the connector page says it creates its own key for the connection (20). No read-only key. The API stores nothing to change, a sandbox key cannot spend, and a prepaid monthly allowance bounds spend (8). Returns images, not untrusted text (10). The dashboard shows usage history, `GET /v2/account` returns the balance, and the security page says API access logs are kept for one year on Photoroom's side (6). The security page states a SOC 2 Type 2 attestation scoped to the API with a report of April 2026, held in a trust centre drawn by script that was not read. `security.txt` returns 404 and no disclosure policy or bug bounty was found, so a SOC 2 claim with no readable report or disclosure route (5).",
          "b": "A bearer API key per account, plus a public key for the embedded editor. The MCP server accepts the key or an OAuth token from studio.pixelixe.com/oauth/mcp with one `pixelixe.mcp` scope. No key scopes, rotation or revocation documented (18 of 30). No read-only mode, though the MCP tools can't delete or change account settings (10 of 20). Tools return the account's own templates and renders (10 of 15). No audit log or per-call record documented (0). No security.txt, disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification found (0). 18 + 10 + 10 + 0 + 0 = 38."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 49,
          "b": 38
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 10,
        "category": "payments",
        "leads": "photoroom",
        "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Per the 9 October check, not re-read on 4 November. No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, the OpenAPI description or the pricing pages (0). Per-image prices are public, $0.02 for background removal and $0.10 for an Image Editing call (20). Sandbox mode gives 1,000 free watermarked calls a month and a new account 10 free production calls on the Remove Background API, with no card, per the pricing page (20). A person has to create an account and activate the API in the dashboard. The MCP server also needs a Photoroom sign-in (0).",
          "b": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices with monthly document counts are public, with no per-image price (10). 10-day trial with no card (20). A person signs up and copies the key, or approves OAuth in a browser (0). 0 + 10 + 20 + 0 = 30."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 40,
          "b": 30
        }
      }
    ],
    "facts": [
      {
        "a": "HTTP API",
        "b": "HTTP API",
        "name": "Kind"
      },
      {
        "a": "Photoroom",
        "b": "Pixelixe",
        "name": "Vendor"
      },
      {
        "a": "https://image-api.photoroom.com/v2",
        "b": "https://studio.pixelixe.com/api",
        "name": "Hosted endpoint"
      },
      {
        "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP",
        "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP",
        "name": "Transports"
      },
      {
        "a": "OAuth or key",
        "b": "OAuth or key",
        "name": "Auth"
      },
      {
        "a": "Freemium",
        "b": "Paid",
        "name": "Pricing"
      },
      {
        "a": "$0.10 per image",
        "b": "not published",
        "name": "Price for image editing"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "x402"
      },
      {
        "a": "Proprietary service under the Photoroom Terms and Conditions. The sample code repository is MIT",
        "b": "Closed service under the Pixelixe terms of service (last modified 19 March 2026)",
        "name": "Licence"
      },
      {
        "a": "1",
        "b": "7",
        "name": "Tools exposed"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "Read-only variant documented"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "llms.txt"
      },
      {
        "a": "not listed",
        "b": "com.pixelixe/pixelixe-mcp",
        "name": "MCP registry"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-04-21",
        "b": "2026-03-26",
        "name": "Last release"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-07-29",
        "b": "2026-03-19",
        "name": "Terms last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-03-01",
        "b": "2026-04-07",
        "name": "Privacy policy last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes, with an opt-out",
        "b": "not found in the text",
        "name": "Customer content may train models"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "Terms restrict automated access"
      },
      {
        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "not found in the text",
        "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking"
      },
      {
        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "not found in the text",
        "name": "Terms or service can change without notice"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "not found in the text",
        "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver"
      }
    ],
    "faq": [
      {
        "answer": "Photoroom API scores 53.5 (D) on agent readiness against Pixelixe's 37.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Pixelixe leads on maintenance \u0026 community.",
        "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Photoroom API or Pixelixe?"
      },
      {
        "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.",
        "question": "Do Photoroom API and Pixelixe need an API key?"
      },
      {
        "answer": "Yes. Photoroom API has a hosted endpoint at https://image-api.photoroom.com/v2 and Pixelixe at https://studio.pixelixe.com/api.",
        "question": "Can an agent call Photoroom API and Pixelixe without installing anything?"
      }
    ],
    "goodFor": [
      {
        "aheadOn": [
          "Reliability, 42 against 15",
          "Schema \u0026 documentation, 86 against 66",
          "Agent ergonomics, 64 against 49",
          "Security \u0026 auth, 49 against 38",
          "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 30",
          "Transparency \u0026 trust, 69 against 41"
        ],
        "also": null,
        "goodFor": "Product-photo work at volume, such as cutouts, white backgrounds, shadows, generated scenes and clothing shots, one image a call.",
        "slug": "photoroom",
        "watchFor": "No status page was found on the site or in the docs, so there is no public incident history to read"
      },
      {
        "aheadOn": [
          "Maintenance \u0026 community, 19 against 13"
        ],
        "also": [
          "Free to start without a card"
        ],
        "goodFor": "Template fills and white-label editing for marketing and SaaS teams, with a JSON-to-graphic route for agents.",
        "slug": "pixelixe",
        "watchFor": "Every error is HTTP 400 with a free-text message, including wrong keys and exhausted credits"
      }
    ],
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        {
          "causes": [
            "correction",
            "time"
          ],
          "date": "2026-11-04",
          "delta": -2.6,
          "from": 56.1,
          "fromGrade": "C",
          "to": 53.5,
          "toGrade": "D"
        },
        {
          "causes": [
            "method"
          ],
          "date": "2026-10-27",
          "delta": 0.1,
          "from": 56,
          "fromGrade": "C",
          "to": 56.1,
          "toGrade": "C"
        }
      ],
      "pixelixe": null
    },
    "job": {
      "capability": "image.edit",
      "name": "Image editing"
    },
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      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apitemplate-io-vs-pixelixe.json",
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        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apitemplate-io-vs-pixelixe"
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      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bannerbear-vs-photoroom.json",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bannerbear-vs-pixelixe.json",
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        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bannerbear-vs-pixelixe"
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/canva-vs-photoroom.json",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/canva-vs-pixelixe.json",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/contentdrips-vs-photoroom.json",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/creatomate-vs-photoroom.json",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/creatomate-vs-pixelixe.json",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pixelixe-vs-placid.json",
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        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pixelixe-vs-robolly"
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pixelixe.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pixelixe.json\n- Best programmatic image and design asset APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/design-assets/index.md\n- All 153 assets comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/design-assets/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Photoroom API (D)\n\nGood for: Product-photo work at volume, such as cutouts, white backgrounds, shadows, generated scenes and clothing shots, one image a call.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 42 against 15\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 86 against 66\n- Agent ergonomics, 64 against 49\n- Security \u0026 auth, 49 against 38\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 30\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 69 against 41\n\nWatch for: No status page was found on the site or in the docs, so there is no public incident history to read\n\n### Pixelixe (F)\n\nGood for: Template fills and white-label editing for marketing and SaaS teams, with a JSON-to-graphic route for agents.\n\nAhead on:\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 19 against 13\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: Every error is HTTP 400 with a free-text message, including wrong keys and exhausted credits\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Photoroom API +28\n\n- Photoroom API (69): Per the 9 October check, not re-read on 4 November. Closed hosted service under the Photoroom Terms and Conditions effective 29 July 2026, which name the application programming interface. Sample code is MIT (15). The security page gives retention figures (images discarded after the call, operational logs 15 days, API access logs one year). The statements on training disagree. The privacy policy of March 2026 says model improvement does not apply to API images, the security page says self-serve API plans train by default with an opt-out, and the terms authorise training on user content with an opt-out. A DPA is for Enterprise customers only (14). Preview and alpha functions carry a two-week notice, the 2024 base URL change gave a dated deadline, and the AI Backgrounds v2 model is marked deprecated with no removal date (12). The security page names GCP, AWS, Cloudflare, Datadog and Vercel and says hosting is in the United States. The full list is in the trust centre, which was not read (16).\n- Pixelixe (41): Closed service under terms of 19 March 2026 that choose French law but name no company (12 of 30). The privacy policy of 7 April 2026 keeps account data while the account is active and 'as long as reasonably necessary' after, with no periods, and says nothing about AI processing or training (10 of 30). V1 is marked deprecated in the docs with no dates or notice period (5 of 20). Processors are described only by category, with Google Analytics named, and data processed in France, the EEA and other vendor countries (5 of 20). 12 + 10 + 5 + 5 = 32.\n\n### Reliability: Photoroom API +27\n\n- Photoroom API (42): Read with the hosted lines. Photoroom's terms (clause 2.7.a, effective 29 July 2026) bar copying any part of the Services by automated or non-automated scraping, so photoroom.com hosts were not re-read on 4 November and the 9 October readings are kept. No status page was found on photoroom.com, the docs or the security page, and status.photoroom.com did not answer one request, per the 9 October check (0). With no history to read, the incident line takes the floor of 5. The security page states one incident on record, a 30-minute availability disruption in October 2024, which is the vendor's own account (5). Limits are published, 60 images a minute by default and 1,000 a month and 100 a day in sandbox mode (15). The docs say a 429 is returned at the limit, tell callers to back off exponentially and to retry a 500 up to three times, and say failed calls are not billed. No `Retry-After` header or idempotency key is documented, so safe-retry guidance without keys (12). The API page states a 99.9 per cent uptime target on Enterprise accounts, but no SLA document was found and the terms say availability is not guaranteed, so no SLA could be read (0). The Image Editing API left beta on 3 April 2024. Upscale, text-guided segmentation and templating are labelled preview (10).\n- Pixelixe (15): Hosted lines. No status page found on the site or in the docs (0). No readable incident history (5). No rate limit is published; the terms only forbid circumventing them (0). No 429, Retry-After or backoff guidance. Every error, a wrong key and exhausted credits included, is a 400 with a message (0). No SLA found; the terms supply the service as is (0). API v2 is current and not labelled beta (10). 0 + 5 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 10 = 15.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Photoroom API +20\n\n- Photoroom API (86): Per the 9 October check, not re-read on 4 November. A public OpenAPI 3.1.0 description at image-api.photoroom.com/openapi, read as embedded on the docs reference page, with four operations (25). `llms.txt`, a Markdown twin of every page and a page with a prompt written for coding agents (10). 86 of the 87 parameters of `GET /v2/edit` carry a description, the operation description lists every edit, and the agent page says when to call each of the two APIs (17). 31 of 87 parameters have enums, but booleans are strings, no field of `/v2/edit` is marked required, and the embedded description declares neither the `x-api-key` header nor the `pr-*` model headers (10). Curl examples on every page and 400, 402 and 500 bodies in the description. 401, 403 and 429 are documented in prose only, and the two APIs use different error shapes (11). Paths are `/v1` and `/v2`, models are pinned by dated headers and the changelog is dated back to June 2023, but the description's version is fixed at 1.0.0 and the last changelog entry is 21 April 2026 (13).\n- Pixelixe (66): OpenAPI 3.1 (version 2.0.0) at pixelixe.com/pixelixe-openapi.json, but it covers four endpoints, authentication, document search, graphic automation and photo effects, and leaves out the JSON-to-graphic and image processing APIs (18 of 25). llms.txt exists but routes readers to marketing pages; the MCP reference is written for LLMs (7 of 10). The MCP reference says what each of the seven tools maps to, that `pixelixe_generate_graphic_variant` 'is not a free-form layout API', lists common mistakes and how to present outputs (17 of 20). The MCP layer documents canonical field names and refuses legacy aliases; the REST modifications are open structures keyed by element name (10 of 15). Request examples throughout, but errors are one table of message strings all returning 400 (8 of 15). /v2 paths and a deprecated V1, with no changelog (6 of 15). 18 + 7 + 17 + 10 + 8 + 6 = 66.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Photoroom API +15\n\n- Photoroom API (64): Per the 9 October check, not re-read on 4 November. The response body is the image itself, so an agent saves a file and reads nothing into context. `outputSize`, `maxWidth`, `maxHeight`, `export.format` and the `size` presets set what comes back, and the MCP server has one tool, per Photoroom (18). Nothing to paginate. Output size, format and DPI controls (15). JSON errors with a message and a documented meaning for 400, 401, 403, 402, 429 and 500, but the two APIs use different shapes and `Unauthorized` covers both a missing key and an empty balance (13). No idempotency key. Calls keep no state, failed calls are not billed and `background.seed` repeats a generated background, but a retried success is billed again. The MCP tool's annotations were not read (10). Only the image is required and defaults are sensible. No official SDK, only sample code for four platforms (8).\n- Pixelixe (49): Seven compact MCP tools (25). Document and design-set search filters, with no pagination documented (10 of 20). All errors are 400 with free-text messages, so an agent can't branch on a code (6 of 20). No idempotency keys, and annotations couldn't be read on the closed server. The MCP tools only read and create, with nothing that deletes (5 of 20). Few required fields, but no official SDK (3 of 15). 25 + 10 + 6 + 5 + 3 = 49.\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Photoroom API +11\n\n- Photoroom API (49): Per the 9 October check, not re-read on 4 November. A team can hold several API keys and revoke each in the dashboard, with no scopes found. The key travels in the `x-api-key` header only. The hosted MCP server's published OAuth metadata gives an authorisation code grant with PKCE, dynamic client registration and a revocation endpoint, per the 9 October reading, and the connector page says it creates its own key for the connection (20). No read-only key. The API stores nothing to change, a sandbox key cannot spend, and a prepaid monthly allowance bounds spend (8). Returns images, not untrusted text (10). The dashboard shows usage history, `GET /v2/account` returns the balance, and the security page says API access logs are kept for one year on Photoroom's side (6). The security page states a SOC 2 Type 2 attestation scoped to the API with a report of April 2026, held in a trust centre drawn by script that was not read. `security.txt` returns 404 and no disclosure policy or bug bounty was found, so a SOC 2 claim with no readable report or disclosure route (5).\n- Pixelixe (38): A bearer API key per account, plus a public key for the embedded editor. The MCP server accepts the key or an OAuth token from studio.pixelixe.com/oauth/mcp with one `pixelixe.mcp` scope. No key scopes, rotation or revocation documented (18 of 30). No read-only mode, though the MCP tools can't delete or change account settings (10 of 20). Tools return the account's own templates and renders (10 of 15). No audit log or per-call record documented (0). No security.txt, disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification found (0). 18 + 10 + 10 + 0 + 0 = 38.\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Photoroom API +10\n\n- Photoroom API (40): Per the 9 October check, not re-read on 4 November. No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, the OpenAPI description or the pricing pages (0). Per-image prices are public, $0.02 for background removal and $0.10 for an Image Editing call (20). Sandbox mode gives 1,000 free watermarked calls a month and a new account 10 free production calls on the Remove Background API, with no card, per the pricing page (20). A person has to create an account and activate the API in the dashboard. The MCP server also needs a Photoroom sign-in (0).\n- Pixelixe (30): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices with monthly document counts are public, with no per-image price (10). 10-day trial with no card (20). A person signs up and copies the key, or approves OAuth in a browser (0). 0 + 10 + 20 + 0 = 30.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Photoroom API | Pixelixe | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 42 | 15 | Photoroom API +27 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 86 | 66 | Photoroom API +20 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 64 | 49 | Photoroom API +15 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 49 | 38 | Photoroom API +11 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 30 | Photoroom API +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 13 | 19 | Pixelixe +6 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 69 | 41 | Photoroom API +28 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **53.5 · D** | **37.3 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Photoroom API | Pixelixe |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Photoroom | Pixelixe |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://image-api.photoroom.com/v2` | `https://studio.pixelixe.com/api` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| Price for image editing | $0.10 per image | not published |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under the Photoroom Terms and Conditions. The sample code repository is MIT | Closed service under the Pixelixe terms of service (last modified 19 March 2026) |\n| Tools exposed | 1 | 7 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `com.pixelixe/pixelixe-mcp` |\n| Last release | 2026-04-21 | 2026-03-26 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-07-29 | 2026-03-19 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-03-01 | 2026-04-07 |\n| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Photoroom API\n\n- -2.6 on 4 November 2026 (C to D): correction, time\n- +0.1 on 27 October 2026: checklist\n\n### Pixelixe\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Photoroom API.** A call costs $0.02 for background removal or $0.10 for any combination of edits, and a sandbox key gives 1,000 free watermarked calls a month without a card. No status page or official SDK was found, and Photoroom's privacy policy and security page disagree on whether API images train its models.\n\n**Pixelixe.** Pixelixe's seven MCP tools and their LLM-oriented reference make template fills and JSON-to-graphic creation simple to call, with an OpenAPI file for the core endpoints. Every error comes back as a 400 with a message, there are no published rate limits, status page or changelog, and API access starts at $59 a month.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Photoroom API\n\n1. Send the key in the `x-api-key` header. Prefix it with `sandbox_` while testing, because calls with the plain key consume paid images\n2. Save the response body as a file. A 200 returns image bytes, PNG by default, and any other status returns JSON with `error.message` or `detail`\n3. Send model selectors such as `pr-ai-shadows-model-version: 2026-04-15` as HTTP headers, not form fields. They are not in the OpenAPI file\n4. Stay under 60 images a minute. On 429 back off with an exponential delay, and set a client timeout of at least 60 seconds for AI edits\n5. Use `POST /v2/edit` with `imageFile` for local files and `GET /v2/edit` with `imageUrl` for hosted ones. Each call takes one image\n\n### Pixelixe\n\n1. Call `pixelixe_search_documents` first to find the `document_uid` of the template to reuse\n2. Use `pixelixe_generate_graphic_variant` to fill an existing template; it can't change the layout\n3. Read the error `message` text, since every failure is a 400\n4. Stop and tell the user on 'Not enough Credits'; retrying won't help\n5. For a batch, use `pixelixe_create_multiple_images` and summarise counts rather than inlining every image\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Photoroom API or Pixelixe?\n\nPhotoroom API scores 53.5 (D) on agent readiness against Pixelixe's 37.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Pixelixe leads on maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Photoroom API and Pixelixe need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Photoroom API and Pixelixe without installing anything?\n\nYes. Photoroom API has a hosted endpoint at https://image-api.photoroom.com/v2 and Pixelixe at https://studio.pixelixe.com/api.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/photoroom-vs-pixelixe.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/photoroom-vs-pixelixe.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"photoroom\", \"b\": \"pixelixe\"}`. 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