What is OpenPixels?

OpenPixels is an open marketplace with a unified API where you can get fast and reliable AI media generation from a variety of providers at the cheapest available price.

Who is this for?

If you have the fal, runware, replicate, nebius, and hyperbolic clients installed, and a massive switch statement to choose between them based on rate limits, pricing for each model, downtime, and free credit allocations, you might enjoy OpenPixels.

Benefits

• Availability: Requests automatically fall through when a provider is down.
• Performance: Requests are automatically routed to the proviers which strike the best balance between speed and cost for that specific request.
• Customization: Bring your own provider keys to take advantage of free credits or volume-based discounts, or use ours for simplicity.
• Simplicity: Use one efficient, thread-safe, task-safe client instead of a dozen semi-broken ones.
• Visibility: Easily see how much money you’re spending, and where.

Why did we create this?

We want the market for AI media generation to be more efficient and competitive.

Right now, prevailing prices for image generation are much higher than the underlying costs of inference.

For example, for Flux.1 [dev], a standard 1024x1024 image takes about 4 seconds to generate on an H100 in bf16. Since H100s cost about $2.25/hour, the compute cost to generate 1000 images is approximately $2.5 on a fully saturated machine (note this example excludes licensing costs, which are mandatory).

At the time of writing, the market price for 1000 images at the best known providers is approximately $25.

We will close this gap.

Efficiency

In general, there are a few ways to make marketplaces more efficient.

Low entry and exit barriers: it should be easy to start a new provider. OpenPixels is designed to reduce the risk inherent to starting a new provider; if you can do cheap and fast inference, we effectively guarantee that we will channel lots of demand to you. You don’t need to worry that you’ll have 1000 H100s sitting idle in a warehouse because you can’t get the word out.

Transparency: it should be easy to compare prices and speeds. We aggregate statistics on each provider over time, so you can tell whether providers are switching from H100s to 4090s during periods of peak demand.

Low switching costs: it should be easy to switch between providers. OpenPixels is designed to make this a 1-line (or 0-line) change. No account setup, rate limit requests, or integration work. In fact, unless you specify otherwise, OpenPixels will automatically switch between providers to save you money.

Availability of information: it should be easy to tell whether you’re getting the best deal. OpenPixels shows prices from the best providers in one place.