> ## 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.

# AI Image, Video & Music Generation API

> Generate images, video, music, and sound effects programmatically with the models you already use on BudgetPixel — one credit-based API, charged only on success.

The BudgetPixel API lets you generate **images, video, music, and sound effects** from
your own applications using the same models available on budgetpixel.com — one key, one
credit balance, one set of conventions across every modality.

<Card title="Start building today" icon="rocket" href="/quickstart" horizontal>
  Create a key, make your first generation, and poll it to completion in about five minutes.
</Card>

```bash theme={null}
curl https://api.budgetpixel.com/v1/models \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer bpx_live_xxx"
```

## What you can build

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Image generation" icon="image" href="/api-reference/bytedance/generate-image-with-seedream-50-pro">
    Text-to-image, editing, and multi-reference generation across Seedream, Flux, Qwen,
    GPT Image, and more.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Video generation" icon="film" href="/api-reference/bytedance-seedance/generate-video-with-seedance-25">
    Text-to-video, image-to-video with start and end frames, reference-driven video, and
    video-to-video editing.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Music" icon="music" href="/api-reference/music/generate-music-with-music-30">
    Full songs from a prompt or your own lyrics, instrumentals, and exact-length
    background beds.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Sound effects" icon="waveform-lines" href="/api-reference/sound-effects/generate-sound-effect-with-sonilo-sfx">
    Foley, ambience, impacts, and transitions — or effects synced frame-accurately to a
    video's events.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Upscaling" icon="up-right-and-down-left-from-center" href="/api-reference/upscaling/upscale-an-image-with-p-image-upscale">
    Images to 32 MP in seconds, and video to 1080p or 4K with Topaz Labs.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Motion control" icon="person-running" href="/api-reference/motion-control/motion-control-with-dreamactor-m20">
    Drive a character's motion from a reference performance.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Lip sync" icon="comment-dots" href="/api-reference/lip-sync/lip-sync-with-omnihuman-15">
    Match a speaker's mouth to any audio track.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Moderation & classification" icon="shield-check" href="/api-reference/moderation/rate-content-nsfw-level">
    Rate content for NSFW level, screen for CSAM, and classify a track's musical genre.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## How it works

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="API keys" icon="key" href="/authentication">
    Authenticate every request with a bearer API key created from your dashboard.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Async jobs" icon="arrows-rotate" href="/concepts/async-jobs">
    Create a generation job, then poll it until it succeeds. Results return as URLs.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Credit pricing" icon="coins" href="/concepts/pricing-and-credits">
    Usage is metered in credits at each model's published price. You pay only for
    successful generations.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Models" icon="layer-group" href="/concepts/models">
    Discover available image, video, music, and sound-effect models and their pricing at runtime.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Base URL

All endpoints are served under:

```
https://api.budgetpixel.com/v1
```

## Availability

<Note>
  The developer API is currently in **private beta**. Access is limited while we
  finalize the launch. If you have beta access on any paid plan — **Starter**, **Basic**,
  **Premium**, **Pro** or **Ultra** — you can create a key from your BudgetPixel account
  dashboard, then follow the
  [quickstart](/quickstart).
</Note>

## Not building an app?

If you want AI agents like Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor to create with your BudgetPixel
account directly from a conversation — no code, no API keys — use the
[MCP server](/mcp-server) instead. Same models, same credits, OAuth sign-in.


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