> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.budgetpixel.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# List available models

> Returns the models available via the API, with pricing.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /openapi.yaml get /models
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  contact:
    email: support@budgetpixel.com
    name: BudgetPixel Support
  description: >
    The BudgetPixel developer API for programmatic image, video, music and

    sound-effect generation.


    Generation is **asynchronous**: you create a job, then poll its status until
    it

    reaches a terminal state (`succeeded` / `failed`). You are charged in
    credits

    only on success — never for failures, timeouts, or content blocked before

    generation.


    **Authentication.** All requests require an API key sent as a bearer token:

        Authorization: Bearer bpx_live_xxx

    Create and manage keys from your BudgetPixel account dashboard. The
    developer

    API is available on **every paid plan**. On the **Free** plan, API keys can
    call

    one endpoint: `GET /v1/stock/images`, the free stock image library search.


    **Pricing.** API usage is metered in credits at each model's published price

    (see `GET /v1/models`), and your plan's model discounts and active
    promotions

    apply to API charges exactly as they do on the web — `POST /v1/cost` quotes

    your discounted price. Pro and Ultra plans include a daily free-models

    allowance (a shared pool of free generations per day across qualified image

    models such as FLUX 2 Klein and Qwen-Image) that covers API

    requests too — the standard price applies once the day's pool is used.

    Other promotional free daily generations remain web/app-only. Failed

    generations are never charged.


    **Rate limits.** Requests are limited per minute: **600 requests/min per API

    key** and **1200 requests/min per source IP** (defaults; subject to tuning).

    Every response carries `X-RateLimit-Limit`, `X-RateLimit-Remaining`, and

    `X-RateLimit-Reset` (seconds until the window resets). Exceeding a limit

    returns HTTP `429` with a `Retry-After` header — wait that long before

    retrying. Rejected requests still count against the window, so a tight retry

    loop keeps you limited; back off instead. Generation jobs additionally have
    a

    per-plan concurrency cap (the same one as the web workshop), independent of

    these request limits. `POST /v1/uploads` also has a dedicated **60
    uploads/min

    per account** cap (it's free/unmetered) on top of these limits.
  title: BudgetPixel API
  version: '2026-06-20'
servers:
  - description: Production
    url: https://api.budgetpixel.com/v1
security:
  - ApiKeyAuth: []
tags:
  - description: Account and credit balance
    name: Account
  - description: Discover available models and pricing
    name: Models
  - description: Upload input media for image/video generation
    name: Uploads
  - description: Image job status
    name: Images
  - description: FLUX image models
    name: Black Forest Labs
  - description: SeeDream image models
    name: Bytedance
  - description: Video job status
    name: Videos
  - description: Kuaishou Kling video models
    name: Kling
  - description: SeeDance video models
    name: ByteDance (SeeDance)
  - description: Music and sound-effect job status
    name: Audios
  - description: Music generation models
    name: Music
  - description: Text-to-sound-effect models (priced per second)
    name: Sound Effects
  - description: Format conversion for images, video, and audio
    name: Conversions
  - description: Publish posts to your BudgetPixel feed and enter clan themes
    name: Social
  - description: Content moderation — NSFW rating and CSAM detection
    name: Moderation
  - description: Content classification — music genre detection
    name: Classification
  - description: >-
      Search the free stock image library — available on every plan, including
      Free
    name: Stock Images
paths:
  /models:
    get:
      tags:
        - Models
      summary: List available models
      description: Returns the models available via the API, with pricing.
      operationId: listModels
      parameters:
        - description: Filter by model type.
          in: query
          name: type
          required: false
          schema:
            enum:
              - image
              - video
              - audio
            type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                properties:
                  data:
                    items:
                      $ref: '#/components/schemas/Model'
                    type: array
                type: object
          description: The list of available models.
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
components:
  schemas:
    Model:
      properties:
        credits_per_generation:
          description: >-
            Per-output-image cost (images) or per-track cost (music). For image
            models priced by output size this is the default size's rate — see
            resolution_pricing. 0 for per-second models (video, sound effects) —
            see credits_per_unit.
          example: 45
          type: integer
        credits_per_unit:
          description: >-
            Per-unit cost for metered models (e.g. per second of video). For
            resolution-priced models this is the default resolution's rate.
          example: 220
          type: integer
        min_billable_seconds:
          description: >-
            Billing floor for per-second audio models (sound effects, Sonilo
            Music) — cost = credits_per_unit × max(min_billable_seconds, seconds
            rounded up). Absent for flat-priced models.
          example: 3
          type: integer
        name:
          example: flux-2-klein
          type: string
        option_pricing:
          additionalProperties:
            type: integer
          description: >-
            For image models with paid on/off options, a map of the option's
            parameter name to the credits it adds per image when enabled (e.g.
            nano-banana-2.1 `google_search` 10, `image_search` 20). Each amount
            is the option on its own; the parameter's description says when two
            options cost less together. Absent when the model has no paid
            options.
          example:
            google_search: 10
            image_search: 20
          type: object
        resolution_codecs:
          additionalProperties:
            enum:
              - h264
              - h265
            type: string
          description: >-
            For video models where some resolution delivers H.265 (HEVC) instead
            of H.264, a map of resolution to the output codec (`h264` or
            `h265`). Absent when every resolution delivers H.264. H.265 outputs
            are 10-bit and do not play in every browser — see `video_codec` on
            the job status.
          example:
            480p: h264
            720p: h264
            1080p: h265
          type: object
        resolution_pricing:
          additionalProperties:
            type: integer
          description: >-
            For models whose rate varies by resolution or output size, a map of
            resolution to cost — per second for video models, per image for
            image models (keys are the model's `size` / `resolution` values,
            e.g. flux-3-image 768px / 1K / 1.5K / 2K / 4K). Absent when pricing
            is flat.
          example:
            4k: 1250
            480p: 100
            720p: 220
            1080p: 550
          type: object
        type:
          enum:
            - image
            - video
            - audio
          type: string
        unit_type:
          description: The unit `credits_per_unit` applies to.
          enum:
            - generation
            - second
          type: string
      required:
        - name
        - type
        - credits_per_generation
      type: object
    Error:
      properties:
        error:
          properties:
            code:
              description: Stable machine-readable code.
              example: model_not_available
              type: string
            message:
              type: string
            type:
              description: Error category.
              example: invalid_request_error
              type: string
          required:
            - type
            - code
            - message
          type: object
      required:
        - error
      type: object
  responses:
    Unauthorized:
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
      description: Missing or invalid API key.
  securitySchemes:
    ApiKeyAuth:
      bearerFormat: bpx_live_*
      description: 'API key as a bearer token: Authorization: Bearer bpx_live_xxx'
      scheme: bearer
      type: http

````

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