# Pixelixe > 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. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pixelixe - Pricing: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pixelixe#pricing - Reviews: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pixelixe#reviews - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pixelixe.md (~6,100 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pixelixe.min.md (~1,430 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pixelixe.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json) - Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (the key docs and every listing in one file, at most 16 MB, about 4 million tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt) - API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json - MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key) - DNS: dig +short TXT pixelixe.grade.anchorterminal.com (the grade as a DNS TXT record, for a sandbox with no HTTP where names still resolve; also top., best.. and .vs.. under the zone, and the same under grade.letme.dev) - Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data) - Updated: 2026-11-07 ## Overview **Grade F · 37.3/100 · rank #1355 of 1486 · #15 in Programmatic asset production · not agent-ready · confidence medium** ## Assessment 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. ## Facts | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Vendor | Pixelixe (https://pixelixe.com) | | Kind | HTTP API | | Category | Programmatic asset production (https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/design-assets) | | Transport | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | | Endpoint | `https://studio.pixelixe.com/api` | | Auth | OAuth or key · REST calls send the account's API key as `Authorization: Bearer`, from the account after signup; a separate public key is for embedding the editor in a web page. The remote MCP server at studio.pixelixe.com/api/mcp/v1 takes the API key or an OAuth access token from studio.pixelixe.com/oauth/mcp, with one `pixelixe.mcp` scope. No key scopes or rotation documented. | | Pricing | Paid ($59 / mo) · 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. | | x402 | No · Monthly plans. No x402, MPP or L402 in the OpenAPI, the v2 docs, the MCP docs or llms.txt (checked 2026-11-06). Exhausted credits return 400 with a message. | | Licence | Closed service under the Pixelixe terms of service (last modified 19 March 2026) | | Tools exposed | 7 | | MCP registry name | `com.pixelixe/pixelixe-mcp` | | Docs | https://pixelixe.com/docs/v2/ | | llms.txt | https://pixelixe.com/llms.txt | | Last release | 2026-03-26 | | Surface listed | The REST API on studio.pixelixe.com and the remote MCP server at studio.pixelixe.com/api/mcp/v1, read from the v2 docs, the MCP reference, the OpenAPI file, llms.txt, the pricing page, the terms and privacy policy, the OAuth metadata and the MCP registry on 6 November 2026. No account was made and no tool was called | | MCP tools | pixelixe_get_tool_docs, pixelixe_search_documents, pixelixe_get_document, pixelixe_search_design_sets, pixelixe_generate_graphic_variant, pixelixe_create_multiple_images, pixelixe_create_graphic_from_json | | Outputs | PNG, JPEG, PDF, HTML or a hosted image URL; Design Sets render several formats from one payload | | Plans | Create $12 a month (Studio only, no API), Automate $59 (20,000 automated documents), Scale $119 (60,000), Enterprise from $299 (300,000 and up) | | Operator | The terms choose French law and the courts of Paris, with inquiries@pixelixe.com as contact. No company name or address was found on the terms, privacy policy, about or contact pages | | Capabilities | design.templates, design.render, image.edit, pdf.generate | | Tags | hosted, openapi, llms-txt, mcp, remote-mcp, mcp-registry, oauth, api-key, white-label, trial, no-card, eu | | JSON | https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pixelixe.json | ## Score breakdown (methodology v0.7, October 2026 research run) Assessed 2026-11-06 from public evidence against the published checklist (https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/#checklist). Confidence: medium. Performance and Task success pending (no score, not in the total); the total is Σ(score × weight) ÷ 80 over the 7 assessed categories. "This run" is each category's share of the 100 points. | Category | Weight | This run | Score (0–100) | Points | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% | 20 | 15 | 3.0 | | Performance | 10% | pending | pending | n/a | | Schema & documentation | 13% | 16.2 | 66 | 10.7 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% | 16.2 | 49 | 8.0 | | Security & auth | 14% | 17.5 | 38 | 6.7 | | Payments & pricing | 10% | 12.5 | 30 | 3.8 | | Task success | 10% | pending | pending | n/a | | Maintenance & community | 7% | 8.8 | 19 | 1.7 | | Transparency & trust (editorial 32, provenance 49) | 7% | 8.8 | 41 | 3.6 | | Negative events | up to −15 | up to −15 | none recorded | 0 | | **Total** | | | | **37.3 → F** | ### Why each score - Reliability 15 (checked 2026-11-06): 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. - Performance: Pending. Latency is measured per call by our probes, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until the first probe window closes. - Schema & documentation 66 (checked 2026-11-06): 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. - Agent ergonomics 49 (checked 2026-11-06): 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. - Security & auth 38 (checked 2026-11-06): 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. - Payments & pricing 30 (checked 2026-11-06): 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. - Task success: Pending. Task success needs the category task suites run through each tool, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until then. A data provider's data-quality score is published on its listing now and becomes half of this category when it's scored. - Maintenance & community 19 (checked 2026-11-06): No dated release or API change was found. The newest dated items are the MCP registry entry of 26 March 2026 and the privacy policy of 7 April 2026, more than 180 days before this check (0). No three dated changes since 8 August (0). No changelog. Support by email at inquiries@pixelixe.com, not tested (4 of 15). com.pixelixe/pixelixe-mcp is in the official MCP registry under a domain-verified namespace; there are no official SDKs (15). No public package or repository (0). 0 + 0 + 4 + 15 + 0 = 19. - Transparency & trust 41 (checked 2026-11-06): 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. Fix list, everything this grade says the listing lacks, the biggest gain first (18 items). What it covers is at https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/pixelixe.md (JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/pixelixe.json). The whole list for a coding agent comes from `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/fix-list` with `{"listing": "pixelixe", "plan": "read"}`, free while the beta runs ### What we couldn't check - Who operates Pixelixe: the terms and privacy policy name no company or address. - The rate limits: none are published. - Whether the MCP server sets tool annotations: it is closed and no session was opened. - Investors were not looked for beyond the about page, which names no team or backers. ### Sources - v2 API docs and error table: (seen 2026-11-06) - MCP reference: (seen 2026-11-06) - OpenAPI 3.1: (seen 2026-11-06) - llms.txt: (seen 2026-11-06) - pricing: (seen 2026-11-06) - terms of service: (seen 2026-11-06) - privacy policy: (seen 2026-11-06) - MCP protected-resource metadata: (seen 2026-11-06) - official MCP registry entry: (seen 2026-11-06) - about page: (seen 2026-11-06) ## Score history Every move of a score since the listing was graded, newest first, with its cause. A score can't move without an entry here. JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pixelixe/history.json - 2026-11-06: graded 37.3 F (methodology 0.7) ## Who's behind it (provenance 49/100, checked 2026-11-06) | Check | Finding | Points | | --- | --- | --- | | Legal entity named | not found | 0/20 | | Domain age | pixelixe.com, registered 2018-09-17 (8 years) | 11/15 | | Endpoint on the vendor's domain | studio.pixelixe.com | 15/15 | | Terms of service | read, states 5 of the 7 things a reader expects, and has 1 clause that costs points | 6.3/10 | | Privacy policy | read, states 7 of the 8 things a reader expects | 9.3/10 | | Status page | not found | 0/10 | | Changelog | not found | 0/10 | | security.txt | not found | 0/10 | | People named | 1 named with their role, 1 with a public profile | 10/10 | | Support route | a support address, help pages | 5/5 | 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. ### Terms and privacy, as read A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. Not legal advice. **Terms of service** (https://pixelixe.com/terms.html), read 2026-11-06, dated 2026-03-19, states 5 of the 7 things a reader expects. - To know. Restricts automated access (costs points). "Reverse engineer, scrape, copy, or attempt to extract source code or proprietary logic from the Service except to the extent such restriction is prohibited by applicable law." - Gives the date it was last updated. Last updated 2026-03-19. - Names the governing law or courts. The law of France. - States a limit on its liability. Capped at the fees paid in the 12 months before the claim. - Not found in the text. Says how changes to the terms are announced. - Not found in the text. Refers to a service level or uptime commitment. **Privacy policy** (https://pixelixe.com/privacy-policy.html), read 2026-11-06, dated 2026-04-07, states 7 of the 8 things a reader expects. - Gives the date it was last updated. Last updated 2026-04-07. - Says how long data is kept. For as long as needed, with no period named. - Not found in the text. Says whether personal data is sold or shared for advertising. - Says where data is transferred or stored. Relies on standard contractual clauses. ## Humans behind the project (researched 2026-11-06 from public pages, not part of the grade) ### Key people - Thomas Thelliez, Founder, Pixelixe. GitHub: https://github.com/thomasthelliez - Note: No person is named on pixelixe.com's about, contact, FAQ, docs, terms or privacy pages, read 6 November 2026. Thomas Thelliez's own site, thomasthelliez.com, says he is "Founder of Pixelixe, a profitable visual automation platform launched in 2018 and grown primarily through SEO, APIs and product-led utility" and calls it a side project; his GitHub account (thomasthelliez) links that site. The terms (19 March 2026) name the operator only as Pixelixe, under French law and the courts of Paris, with inquiries@pixelixe.com as contact, so the status stays unknown. Investors were looked for on the same pages and with one search; none is named, and the founder's site describes Pixelixe as profitable and grown through SEO. Product Hunt's maker pages sit behind a bot check and weren't read. ### Getting support - Support email: inquiries@pixelixe.com - Help: https://pixelixe.com/docs/help-center/mcp-connectors-setup.html - Help: https://pixelixe.com/contact.html - Sources: https://pixelixe.com/about.html, https://pixelixe.com/contact.html, https://pixelixe.com/terms.html, https://pixelixe.com/privacy-policy.html, https://thomasthelliez.com/ ## Live (updated 2026-11-07 17:49 UTC) - Right now: up, HTTP 404, 35 ms, checked 2026-11-07 17:49 UTC (get on `https://studio.pixelixe.com/api`) - Uptime 24h 100.0% (195 probes) · 30 days 100.0% (195 probes) · p50 33 ms · p95 119 ms - security.txt: none - Watching privacy - Watching terms - Tools: the endpoint asks for credentials before listing them (checked 2026-11-07 01:46 UTC) - Always current: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/live/pixelixe.json ## Probe metrics Not measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. Live uptime, where we poll the endpoint, is under Live and doesn't change the score. ## Prices | Item | Price | Unit | Note | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Automate plan | $59 | per month (plan) | 20,000 automated documents and 140 AI actions a month | | Scale plan | $119 | per month (plan) | 60,000 automated documents and 280 AI actions a month | Across all listings: https://www.anchorterminal.com/prices/index.md ## Strengths - Seven compact MCP tools with a reference that states the canonical fields and common LLM mistakes - OpenAPI 3.1 for the authentication, search, automation and photo effect endpoints - Creates editable graphics from a single JSON document, returned as HTML or saved for reuse - Remote MCP server with OAuth, in the official registry under a domain-verified namespace - 10-day trial without a card ## Weaknesses - Every error is HTTP 400 with a free-text message, including wrong keys and exhausted credits - No rate limits, status page, SLA or changelog found - API access starts at $59 a month; the $12 plan has none - The OpenAPI file covers four endpoints, not the JSON-to-graphic or image processing APIs - The terms and privacy policy name no company, and no processors are listed ## Before you call it (notes for agents) 1. Call `pixelixe_search_documents` first to find the `document_uid` of the template to reuse 2. Use `pixelixe_generate_graphic_variant` to fill an existing template; it can't change the layout 3. Read the error `message` text, since every failure is a 400 4. Stop and tell the user on 'Not enough Credits'; retrying won't help 5. For a batch, use `pixelixe_create_multiple_images` and summarise counts rather than inlining every image ## Connect First request: ```bash curl -X POST https://studio.pixelixe.com/api/authentication/v2 -H "Authorization: Bearer $PIXELIXE_API_KEY" ``` Claude Code: ```bash claude mcp add --transport http pixelixe https://studio.pixelixe.com/api/mcp/v1 ``` MCP client configuration: ```json { "mcpServers": { "pixelixe": { "url": "https://studio.pixelixe.com/api/mcp/v1" } } } ``` Through letme: https://letme.dev/pixelixe. letme answers with the pick and how to call it direct. How it works: https://www.anchorterminal.com/letme/index.md ## Similar tools Ranked by shared capabilities, then score. Same-category tools with no shared capability key are listed last. | Tool | Grade | Score | Rank | Shared capabilities | x402 | Markdown | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Abyssale | B | 65.6 | 411 | design.render, design.templates, image.edit, pdf.generate | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/abyssale.md | | Canva REST APIs + MCP | B | 67.3 | 332 | design.templates, design.render, image.edit | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/canva.md | | Bannerbear API + MCP | C | 59.6 | 690 | design.templates, design.render, image.edit | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bannerbear.md | | Layerre | C | 57.6 | 785 | design.templates, design.render, pdf.generate | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/layerre.md | | Pictify | C | 55.7 | 856 | design.render, design.templates, pdf.generate | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pictify.md | | Robolly | D | 48.4 | 1115 | design.templates, design.render, pdf.generate | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/robolly.md | ## Panel reviews (0) Reviewed by the Anchor panel (https://www.anchorterminal.com/reviewers/index.md): . Desk reviews, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. For a desk review, the outcome says whether the reviewer's questions could be answered from public material: success, partial or failure. How reviews work: https://www.anchorterminal.com/reviews/how-it-works.md ## Notable - OpenAPI 3.1 (version 2.0.0) covering four endpoints, authentication, document search, graphic automation and photo effects, on studio.pixelixe.com (source: ) - Seven MCP tools, from document search to `pixelixe_create_graphic_from_json`, with a reference written for LLMs that lists common mistakes and how to present outputs (source: ) - Every API error returns HTTP 400 with a status and message string, including a wrong key and exhausted credits (source: ) - In the official MCP registry as com.pixelixe/pixelixe-mcp 1.0.0 since 26 March 2026, under a domain-verified namespace (source: ) - API V1 is marked deprecated in the docs, with no removal date (source: ) - #15 of 18 in Best programmatic image and design asset APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/design-assets/index.md - All 153 assets comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/design-assets/index.md ## Compare - [APITemplate.io vs Pixelixe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apitemplate-io-vs-pixelixe.md): F 30.1 vs F 37.3 - [Bannerbear API + MCP vs Pixelixe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bannerbear-vs-pixelixe.md): C 59.6 vs F 37.3 - [Canva REST APIs + MCP vs Pixelixe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/canva-vs-pixelixe.md): B 67.3 vs F 37.3 - [Contentdrips API and MCP vs Pixelixe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/contentdrips-vs-pixelixe.md): F 36.3 vs F 37.3 - [Creatomate vs Pixelixe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/creatomate-vs-pixelixe.md): D 49.6 vs F 37.3 - [DynaPictures vs Pixelixe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dynapictures-vs-pixelixe.md): E 43.2 vs F 37.3 - [Layerre vs Pixelixe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/layerre-vs-pixelixe.md): C 57.6 vs F 37.3 - [Pixelixe vs Placid API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pixelixe-vs-placid.md): F 37.3 vs E 43 - [Pixelixe vs PostNitro](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pixelixe-vs-postnitro.md): F 37.3 vs D 52.6 - [Pixelixe vs Robolly](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pixelixe-vs-robolly.md): F 37.3 vs D 48.4 - [Pixelixe vs Shotstack](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pixelixe-vs-shotstack.md): F 37.3 vs B 67.3 - [Pixelixe vs Templated API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pixelixe-vs-templated.md): F 37.3 vs C 58.8 - [Abyssale vs Pixelixe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/abyssale-vs-pixelixe.md): B 65.6 vs F 37.3 - [Osmo CLI vs Pixelixe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/osmo-cli-vs-pixelixe.md): F 35.2 vs F 37.3 - [Pictify vs Pixelixe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pictify-vs-pixelixe.md): C 55.7 vs F 37.3 - [Adobe Photoshop API vs Pixelixe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-photoshop-api-vs-pixelixe.md): E 44 vs F 37.3 - [Photoroom API vs Pixelixe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/photoroom-vs-pixelixe.md): D 53.5 vs F 37.3 ## Verify this listing For the vendor. The badge or a plain link to this page verifies the listing, from a page on pixelixe.com or one of its subdomains. It shows the listing is the vendor's and that the vendor knows it's here, and it never changes a grade, rank or review. The vendor sends the page's address to `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` as `{"slug": "pixelixe", "url": "…"}`, or calls the `verify_listing` tool at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp. We fetch the page once, then again every week; two failed checks in a row and the verification lapses, and a later pass restores it. What we check: https://www.anchorterminal.com/builders/index.md#verify HTML badge: ```html Pixelixe on Anchor Terminal ``` Markdown badge, for a README: ```markdown [![Pixelixe on Anchor Terminal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/pixelixe.svg)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pixelixe) ``` Plain link: ```html Pixelixe on Anchor Terminal ``` ## Share this listing For the vendor. 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