We Just Added 3 Features That Photoroom Charges 5x More For

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PixelAPI just shipped three features that directly respond to what the market is asking for — and priced them at a fraction of what competitors charge.

1. AI Product Shadows — $0.010/image

Photoroom's biggest marketing claim is their "AI shadows that boost sales." Their pricing: $0.05–0.10 per image.

Ours: $0.010 per image. 5x cheaper.

curl -X POST https://api.pixelapi.dev/v1/image/add-shadow \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"image_url": "https://...", "shadow_type": "soft", "shadow_opacity": 0.5}'

Four styles: soft (studio lighting), hard (sunlight), natural (angled), floating (luxury premium look).

Shadows matter. Products with realistic shadows have 18–30% higher e-commerce click-through rates.

2. Batch Processing — No Surcharge, No Special API

Photoroom and remove.bg charge extra for batch access or make you sign up for an "enterprise plan."

PixelAPI has zero batch tier. Just loop through your images:

import concurrent.futures, requests
from pathlib import Path

API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"

def remove_bg(img_path):
    with open(img_path, "rb") as f:
        r = requests.post(
            "https://api.pixelapi.dev/v1/image/remove-background",
            headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}"},
            files={"image": f}
        )
    return r.json()

images = list(Path("products/").glob("*.jpg"))  # Your entire catalog

with concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=10) as pool:
    results = list(pool.map(remove_bg, images))

# 500 images × $0.005 = $2.50 total
# remove.bg would charge $35–100 for the same

10 concurrent requests. 1,000+ images per minute. $2.50 for 500 images.

Full batch tutorial with Python, async, and Node.js →

3. Image Captioning & Auto-Tagging — $0.005/image

This one has no mainstream competitor at this price point. Vision-Language AI that reads your product photos and generates:

Natural language product descriptions
SEO search tags (up to 50)
Alt text for accessibility
SEO title + meta description

result = requests.post(
    "https://api.pixelapi.dev/v1/image/caption",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}"},
    files={"image": open("product.jpg", "rb")},
    data={"mode": "full", "style": "product"}
).json()

# Returns:
# {"caption": "Black leather sneaker with white rubber sole",
#  "alt_text": "Black leather lace-up sneaker",
#  "tags": ["sneaker", "leather", "black", "casual", "footwear"],
#  "structured": {"seo_title": "...", "meta_description": "..."}}

For Meesho/Flipkart/Amazon sellers: upload 500 photos → get 500 complete listings for $2.50.

Pricing Update

Replicate's cheapest image generation tier is now $0.010/image. We're at $0.001/image — 10x cheaper, not 3x as our old pricing table showed. Updated.

All 4 of these are live now. Free tier includes 100 credits (10 shadow generations or 20 captions).

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