比較Comparison · checked 9 November 2026
Anime image API prices, side by side.
What one anime image costs through an API, across the services a developer would actually consider. Every number was read from the vendor’s own pricing page or docs on 9 November 2026 and links to where we read it. We make AnimeAPI, so check the sources rather than taking our word.
01The short answer
- AnimeAPI is $0.003 per image, prepaid from $5, with no subscription.
- Among services sold as an anime image API, that was the lowest published per-image price we found. The nearest was $0.004.
- It is not the cheapest image generation of any kind. General-purpose platforms list a few non-anime models for $0.0006 to $0.002 per image. If you only need a cheap general image and will handle model choice and prompting yourself, look there.
- Big general-purpose image models cost roughly two to sixteen times more per image.
- Several well-known anime services publish no per-image price at all, because they sell subscriptions or credits.
02Anime image APIs
Services that sell an anime model or anime checkpoints behind an API.
| Service | Per image | vs AnimeAPI | How it is priced | What you commit to | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AnimeAPIanime model | $0.003 | — | $0.003 per image, any orientation | Prepaid from $5, no subscription, balance never expires, 3 free images | animeapi.ai |
| GoEnhanceAnime image API | $0.004 | 1.3× | 0.2 tokens per image, which is $0.004 | Token packs. Asynchronous: submit, then poll | docs.goenhance.ai |
| ModelsLabCommunity anime checkpoints | $0.0047 | 1.6× | $0.0047 per call on the $47/month plan (10,000 calls); $0.0065 on the $21/month plan | Monthly subscription required | modelslab.com |
| VeniceAnime image model | $0.01 | 3.3× | $0.01 per image | Pay as you go | docs.venice.ai |
| getimg.aiImage generation API | $0.015 | 5× | "From $0.015 per image" | No subscription, no minimum spend | getimg.ai |
| HyperealAnime checkpoints | $0.02 | 6.7× | $0.02 per image | Credits from $10 | hypereal.cloud |
| NovelAIImage generation | not published | Subscription with a monthly allowance; no per-image price is published | $10 to $25 a month | docs.novelai.net | |
| PixAIAPI (beta) | not published | Credits; no per-image dollar price is published | Credit packs from $5 or a membership | platform.pixai.art | |
| CivitaiGeneration API | not published | Priced in Buzz per job; no fixed per-image price | Buzz purchase or membership from $10 a month | civitai.com |
03Run-a-model platforms
General inference platforms. Some host community anime checkpoints; most of the lowest prices here are for general models, not anime ones. You choose the model, write tag-style prompts yourself and, on some, pay by compute time rather than per image.
| Service | Per image | vs AnimeAPI | How it is priced | What you commit to | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AnimeAPIanime model | $0.003 | — | $0.003 per image, any orientation | Prepaid from $5, no subscription, balance never expires, 3 free images | animeapi.ai |
| ReplicateCommunity anime checkpoints | $0.0042 | 1.4× | About $0.0042 to $0.0062 per run depending on the checkpoint (billed by compute time) | Pay as you go | replicate.com |
| PollinationsCommunity and general models | $0.0012 | 60% less | $0.0012 to $0.002 per image for its low-cost general models; not anime checkpoints | Pay as you go | gen.pollinations.ai |
| DeepInfraFLUX.1 schnell (general model) | $0.002 | 33% less | $0.0005 per step at 1024×1024; 4 steps is $0.002 | Pay as you go | deepinfra.com |
| fal.aiFLUX.1 schnell (general model) | $0.003 | same | $0.003 per megapixel; no anime checkpoint price is published | Prepaid credits | fal.ai |
| WaveSpeedCheapest image model listed | $0.005 | 1.7× | "From $0.005 per image" | Pay per use | wavespeed.ai |
| Together AIGeneral image models | $0.00225 | 25% less | $0.00225 to $0.04 per image depending on the model; no anime checkpoint listed | $15 minimum first purchase | together.ai |
04Big general image models
Useful when you need text rendering or photographic range. Priced at about one megapixel, standard quality.
| Service | Per image | vs AnimeAPI | How it is priced | What you commit to | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AnimeAPIanime model | $0.003 | — | $0.003 per image, any orientation | Prepaid from $5, no subscription, balance never expires, 3 free images | animeapi.ai |
| RecraftV4.1 Flash | $0.007 | 2.3× | $0.007 per image | Unit packages | recraft.ai |
| Black Forest LabsFLUX 3 Image Klein | $0.009 | 3× | $0.009 per image at 1K; FLUX 3 Image is $0.048 | Pay as you go | bfl.ai |
| Stability AIStable Image Core | $0.03 | 10× | 3 credits at $0.01 per credit | Credits | platform.stability.ai |
| GoogleGemini image model (1K) | $0.0336 | 11× | "Equivalent to $0.0336 per image" at 1024×1024 | Pay as you go | ai.google.dev |
| OpenAIGPT image model, medium quality | $0.043 | 14× | About $0.025 low, $0.043 medium, $0.053 high at 1024×1024 | Prepaid credits | developers.openai.com |
05What the price does not show
- Minimums and subscriptions. A low per-call price on a $47 monthly plan only holds if you use the whole plan. AnimeAPI has no plan: the smallest purchase is $5 and it never expires.
- Prompting. Anime checkpoints want tag-style prompts. AnimeAPI rewrites a plain-English sentence into tags for you and returns what it used.
- One call or two. AnimeAPI answers the request with the finished image in about four seconds. Several others make you submit a job and poll for it.
- Trying before paying. AnimeAPI gives 3 free images on sign-up with no card, and a demo with no account.
- Where AnimeAPI is the wrong choice. If you need a specific community checkpoint or LoRA, fine control over sampler settings, or image-to-image, a run-a-model platform fits better. AnimeAPI offers three fixed models and keeps the request to a prompt.
06How we checked
- Prices come only from each vendor’s own pricing page or documentation, opened on 9 November 2026.
- Where a vendor prices by step, megapixel or compute time, the table shows the arithmetic for a single image of about one megapixel.
- Where a vendor publishes no per-image price, the table says so instead of estimating one.
- Prices change. If a number here is out of date, write to contact@animeapi.ai and we will correct it.