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🆕 Recent Apps

Name	Description	Author
📚 LoreLoom AI-Powered Interactive Storybook for Kid	LoreLoom AI-Powered Interactive Storybook for Kid generates personalized, narrated interactive stories for children and offers character and setting customization with touch-based interactions.	@abdul-basat
🤖 PromptPilot MCP Server	Generate images, video, and audio directly in Claude, Code, Cursor, Windsurf, or any MCP-compatible AI agent. Powered by Pollinations API with 20 models including Flux GPT-Image-1 Imagen.	@doctorm333
🎬 AI City Diorama Generator	Generates cinematic miniature city dioramas using the AI City Diorama Generator and automates an n8n workflow to publish the results to YouTube Shorts.	@DrTechn
🧭 Gratisfy	Gratisfy allows brings all the free AI inference providers including pollinations in to one place. Whether its a unified API access point Benchmark data or just finding new free providers Gratisfy is	@LynxUnbanned
📚 NovelCraft AI	Write novels in your browser using NovelCraft AI; it runs entirely on your device with no account, no installation, and no server.	@mrlearner1606
🎬 Generador y Editor de Imgenes y Videos con Pollina	Genera y edita imágenes y videos con modelos y plantillas. Generador y Editor de Imgenes y Videos con Pollina exporta en PNG, JPG y MP4, ajusta resolución, recorta clips y aplica filtros.	@Juanrivera126
🏵 Pollinations CLI	High-performance terminal interface + autonomous agent hub for Pollinations.ai. Text/image/audio/video, batch processing, templates, gallery, chat, replays and Pollina Swarm Agent (self-correcting ReAct agent with Architect-Coder-Critic loop and ability to use tools and help make projects autonomously, also has asset generation for full scale projects). A Pollinations CLI which has pretty much everything a CLI user will need.	@blueplaysgames3921
🛡️ Skills-Sentinel-scan	Scan using Skills-Sentinel-scan, a Dockerized security scanner that detects malicious patterns, supply chain risks, and permission overreach in AI skills and agents and exposes a web UI.	@Amine-SGM
🎨 junk journal Ai	Generate junk journal pages with junk journal Ai, creating printable, customizable layouts and collage-style elements for scrapbooking and mixed-media projects.	@nadiaa1987
🎨 AI img gen stant	Generate images from text prompts with control over style, resolution, and seeds, and export outputs for iteration.	@JIC-Jevgin

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🚀 New Unified API — Now Live

We've launched https://gen.pollinations.ai — a single endpoint for all your AI generation needs: text, images, audio, video — all in one place.

What's New

• Unified endpoint — single API at gen.pollinations.ai for all generation
• Pollen credits — simple pay-as-you-go system ($1 ≈ 1 Pollen)
• All models, one place — Flux, GPT-5, Claude, Gemini, Seedream, and more
• API keys — publishable keys for frontend, secret keys for backend

Get started at enter.pollinations.ai and check out the API docs

🆕 Latest News

• 2026-03-17 – 🚀 Drag-and-Drop Uploads You can now upload local images (up to 5MB) directly on the Play page instead of hunting for URLs.
• 2026-03-17 – 📊 Omniscient Model Monitor The model monitor now tracks audio and video models alongside text and images, so you know exactly what's up (or down).
• 2026-03-17 – 🧠 Qwen3.5 397B Arrives We've added Qwen3.5 397B to the Unified API. Massive 262K context window, vision, and reasoning capabilities are now a single endpoint away.
• 2026-03-16 – ✨ Hourly Pollen Refills Spore and Seed tier balances now regenerate every hour. Your free tier credits grow back naturally while you figure out why your code isn't working.
• 2026-03-16 – 📱 Full Model Roster The models table now correctly fetches stats for all 200+ available models instead of giving up at 50. We also cleaned up the UI so you can easily spot new and alpha models.
• 2026-03-16 – 🎨 Nanobanana Image Sizes Requesting smaller images from nanobanana models now returns actual pixels instead of Vertex AI errors.
• 2026-03-15 – ⚡ Frontend speed boost We added lazy-loading and aggressive caching to the main site. Return visits now render near-instantly, because waiting for DOM elements is boring.
• 2026-03-15 – 🤖 PromptPilot MCP Server You can now generate images, video, and audio directly inside Claude, Cursor, or any other MCP-compatible agent.
• 2026-03-15 – 🎬 AI City Diorama Generator New in the showcase: a fully automated n8n pipeline that hallucinates cinematic miniature cities and publishes them straight to YouTube Shorts.
• 2026-03-15 – 📚 LoreLoom Storybooks Also new in the community showcase: an interactive, narrated AI storybook generator for kids.

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🌱 Introduction

pollinations.ai is an open-source generative AI platform based in Berlin, powering 500+ community projects with accessible text, image, video, and audio generation APIs. We build in the open and keep AI accessible to everyone—thanks to our amazing supporters.

🚀 Key Features

• 🔓 100% Open Source — code, decisions, roadmap all public
• 🤝 Community-Built — 500+ projects already using our APIs
• 🌱 Pollen Tiers — earn credits by contributing (tiers in beta)
• 🖼️ Image Generation — Flux, GPT Image, Seedream, Kontext
• 🎬 Video Generation — Seedance, Veo (alpha)
• 🎵 Audio — Text-to-speech and speech-to-text
• 🎣 Easy-to-use Packages (Packages)

### Quick Start (3 Steps)

1️⃣ Get your API key
Sign up at enter.pollinations.ai to generate your key.

2️⃣ Choose what you want to generate
Pollinations supports:

• 🖼 Images
• 📝 Text
• 🔊 Audio
• 🎬 Video

3️⃣ Make your first request
Use one of the examples below to generate your first AI output in seconds.

🚀 Getting Started

Image Generation

curl 'https://gen.pollinations.ai/image/a%20beautiful%20sunset' -o image.jpg

Or visit pollinations.ai for an interactive experience.

Text Generation

curl 'https://gen.pollinations.ai/text/Hello%20world'

Audio Generation

Simple GET endpoint:

curl 'https://gen.pollinations.ai/audio/Hello%20from%20Pollinations?voice=nova&key=YOUR_API_KEY' -o speech.mp3

OpenAI TTS compatible:

curl 'https://gen.pollinations.ai/v1/audio/speech' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -d '{"model": "tts-1", "input": "Hello from Pollinations!", "voice": "nova"}' \
  -o speech.mp3

Available voices: alloy, echo, fable, onyx, nova, shimmer, plus 30+ ElevenLabs voices.

MCP Server for AI Assistants

Our MCP (Model Context Protocol) server enables AI assistants like Claude to generate images and audio directly. Learn more

Configuration

Add this to your MCP client configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pollinations": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["@pollinations_ai/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Run with npx (no installation required)

npx @pollinations_ai/mcp

Community alternatives like MCPollinations and Sequa MCP Server are also available.

AI assistants can:

• Generate images from text descriptions
• Create text-to-speech audio with various voice options
• Play audio responses through the system speakers
• Access all pollinations.ai models and services
• List available models, voices, and capabilities

For more advanced usage, check out our API documentation.

🔐 Authentication

Get your API key at enter.pollinations.ai

Key Types

Key	Prefix	Use Case	Rate Limits	Status
Publishable	pk_	Client-side, demos, prototypes	1 pollen per IP per hour	⚠️ Beta
Secret	sk_	Server-side only	No rate limits	Stable

⚠️ Publishable keys: Turnstile protection coming soon. Not recommended for production yet.

⚠️ Never expose sk_ keys in client-side code, git repos, or public URLs

💡 Building an app? Use Bring Your Own Pollen — users pay for their own usage, you pay $0

Model Restrictions

Each API key can be scoped to specific models. When creating a key at enter.pollinations.ai, you can:

• Allow all models — key works with any available model
• Restrict to specific models — select exactly which models the key can access (e.g., only flux and openai, or just gptimage-large)

Usage

curl 'https://gen.pollinations.ai/image/a%20cat?key=YOUR_KEY'

Environment variable (best practice):

export POLLINATIONS_API_KEY=sk_...

See full API docs for detailed authentication information.

🖥️ How to Use

Web Interface

Our web interface is user-friendly and doesn't require any technical knowledge. Simply visit https://pollinations.ai and start creating!

API

Use our API directly in your browser or applications:

https://pollinations.ai/p/a_cozy_pixel_art_robot_and_bee_in_a_digital_garden_8-bit_warm_stardew_valley_vibes

Replace the description with your own, and you'll get a unique image based on your words!

Here's an example of a generated image:

🎨 Examples

Image Generation

Python code to download the generated image:

import requests

def download_image(prompt):
    url = f"https://pollinations.ai/p/{prompt}"
    response = requests.get(url)
    with open('generated_image.jpg', 'wb') as file:
        file.write(response.content)
    print('Image downloaded!')

download_image("a_cozy_pixel_art_robot_and_bee_in_a_digital_garden_8-bit_warm_stardew_valley_vibes")

Text Generation

To generate text:

https://gen.pollinations.ai/text/What%20is%20artificial%20intelligence?

Audio Generation

Generate speech from text:

https://gen.pollinations.ai/audio/Hello%20from%20Pollinations?voice=alloy&key=YOUR_API_KEY

Or use the OpenAI TTS-compatible endpoint:

curl 'https://gen.pollinations.ai/v1/audio/speech' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -d '{"model": "tts-1", "input": "Hello from Pollinations!", "voice": "alloy"}' \
  -o speech.mp3

🛠️ Integration

SDK

Check out our Pollinations SDK for Node.js, browser, and React integration.

Architecture

%%{init: {'theme': 'dark', 'themeVariables': { 'background': '#1a1a1a', 'primaryColor': '#2a2a2a', 'primaryBorderColor': '#555555', 'primaryTextColor': '#eeeeee', 'lineColor': '#00e5ff', 'clusterBkg': 'transparent', 'clusterBorder': '#888888', 'fontSize': '13px', 'fontFamily': 'Inter, system-ui, sans-serif'}}}%%

graph LR
    subgraph CLIENTS["Clients / Apps"]
        Q[Bots - Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp]
        N[30+ Mobile and Web Apps]
        A[pollinations.ai Web Frontend]
        R[AI Agents - Qwen, Sillytavern, ...]
        AI[AI Assistants - Claude]
        MCP[MCP Server]
    end

    AI --> MCP
    Q --> GEN
    N --> GEN
    A --> GEN
    R --> GEN
    MCP --> GEN

    GEN["gen.pollinations.ai"]:::cfWorker --> ENTER["enter.pollinations.ai Gateway"]:::cfWorker

    ENTER --> IMG["Image Service"]:::ec2
    ENTER --> TXT["Text Service"]:::ec2
    ENTER --> AUD["Audio Service"]:::ec2

    IMG --> CF["Cloudflare Worker with R2 Cache"]:::cfWorkerLight
    CF --> B["image-origin.pollinations.ai"]:::ec2
    B --> D["FLUX / GPT Image / Seedream - GPU VMs"]:::gpuNode

    AUD --> EL["ElevenLabs TTS API"]:::provider

    TXT --> C["text.pollinations.ai"]:::ec2
    C --> SC["Scaleway API"]:::provider
    C --> DS["Deepseek API"]:::provider
    C --> G["Azure-hosted LLMs"]:::provider
    C --> CFM["Cloudflare AI"]:::provider

    style CLIENTS fill:none,stroke:#888,stroke-width:2px,stroke-dasharray: 5 5

    linkStyle default stroke-width:3px,stroke:#00E5FF

    classDef cfWorker fill:#E65100,color:#fff,stroke:#FFB300,stroke-width:2px,font-weight:bold
    classDef cfWorkerLight fill:#BF360C,color:#fff,stroke:#FFB300,stroke-width:1px
    classDef ec2 fill:#1F2937,color:#fff,stroke:#F59E0B,stroke-width:2px
    classDef gpuNode fill:#064E3B,stroke:#34D399,color:#ECFDF5,stroke-width:2px
    classDef provider fill:#1E3A8A,stroke:#60A5FA,color:#EFF6FF,stroke-width:1px

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🔮 Future Developments

We're constantly exploring new ways to push the boundaries of AI-driven content creation. Some areas we're excited about include:

• Digital Twins: Creating interactive AI-driven avatars
• Music Video Generation: Combining AI-generated visuals with music for unique video experiences
• Real-time AI-driven Visual Experiences: Projects like our Dreamachine, which create immersive, personalized visual journeys

🌍 Our Vision

pollinations.ai envisions a future where AI technology is:

• Open & Accessible: We believe AI should be available to everyone — earn Pollen by contributing, no credit card required

• Transparent & Ethical: Our open-source approach ensures transparency in how our models work and behave

• Community-Driven: We're building a platform where developers, creators, and AI enthusiasts can collaborate and innovate

• Interconnected: We're creating an ecosystem where AI services can seamlessly work together, fostering innovation through composability

• Evolving: We embrace the rapid evolution of AI technology while maintaining our commitment to openness and accessibility

We're committed to developing AI technology that serves humanity while respecting ethical boundaries and promoting responsible innovation. Join us in shaping the future of AI.

🤝 Community and Development

We believe in community-driven development. You can contribute to pollinations.ai in several ways:

1. Coding Assistant: The easiest way to contribute! Just create a GitHub issue describing the feature you'd like to see implemented. The MentatBot AI assistant will analyze and implement it directly! No coding required - just describe what you want.

2. Project Submissions: Have you built something with pollinations.ai? Use our project submission template (labeled as APPS) to share it with the community and get it featured in our README.

3. Feature Requests & Bug Reports: Have an idea or found a bug? Open an issue and let us know. Our team and the MentatBot assistant will review it.

4. Community Engagement: Join our vibrant Discord community to:

   • Share your creations
   • Get support and help others
   • Collaborate with fellow AI enthusiasts
   • Discuss feature ideas before creating issues

For any questions or support, please visit our Discord channel or create an issue on our GitHub repository.

🗂️ Project Structure

Our codebase is organized into several key folders, each serving a specific purpose in the pollinations.ai ecosystem:

• pollinations.ai/: The main React application for the Pollinations.ai website.

• image.pollinations.ai/: Backend service for image generation and caching with Cloudflare Workers and R2 storage.

• text.pollinations.ai/: Backend service for text generation.

• packages/sdk/: SDK NPM library with pollinations ready functions for Pollinations.ai.

• packages/ompc/: Oh My Polli Code is a ready Open code Router mechanism built on top of the open code framework but wiith the pollinations models.

• packages/mcp/: Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for AI assistants like Claude to generate images directly.

This structure encompasses the frontend website, backend services for image and text generation, and integrations like the Discord bot and MCP server, providing a comprehensive framework for the pollinations.ai platform.

For development setup and environment management, see DEVELOP.md.

🏢 Supported By

pollinations.ai is proud to be supported by:

• Perplexity AI: AI-powered search and conversational answer engine
• AWS Activate: GPU Cloud Credits
• io.net: Decentralized GPU network for AI compute
• BytePlus: Official ByteDance cloud services and AI solutions
• Google Cloud for Startups: GPU Cloud Credits
• NVIDIA Inception: AI startup support
• Azure (MS for Startups): OpenAI credits
• Cloudflare: Put the connectivity cloud to work for you.
• Scaleway: Europe's empowering cloud provider
• Modal: High-performance AI infrastructure
• Nebius: AI-optimized cloud infrastructure with NVIDIA GPU clusters
• api.airforce: AI API gateway — alpha models (imagen-4, grok-video, qwen-character), may be unstable
• Seraphyn: AI API gateway — community models (gpt-5.4, qwen3-tts)

💚 Support Us

The best way to support pollinations.ai is by using our product! Get your API key and start building at enter.pollinations.ai.

📣 Stay Connected

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📜 License

pollinations.ai is open-source software licensed under the MIT license.

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