Type a headline, pick a language, watch the render and the request URL update live.
Go to the live demo →How a catalog refresh becomes a 90-second batch run instead of an afternoon of exports.
See what runs on the press →GET /img/t/8c41f2?headline=Final+week&lang=deRun it in the demo →
Variable-data image press for the internet
Design an image once. Mark the parts that change. PixelDrive renders a finished file for every row of data you send it: by URL, by API, by CSV, by your AI agent. Fresh renders in about a second, cached repeats in 19 ms, free.
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No card. No watermark. The URL is the API:
No screenshots of dashboards. This is the whole product: a template, its variables, and one HTTP call.
A full canvas editor in the browser: text, images, shapes, SVG. QR codes, barcodes and rating stars are native elements, not hacks. Pull photos from Unsplash and icons from Noun Project without leaving the canvas. Import PSDs.
Every save is checkpointed. 30 restorable versions per template.
Click any element and mark it as a variable. Text, image sources, colors, font sizes, languages. Everything else stays locked, so the brand survives contact with the spreadsheet.
Variables become API parameters automatically. No schema to write.
One GET for quick merges, one POST for full control. Pick the format and quality per request. Identical inputs hit the cache and cost nothing, so retries and re-shares are free.
PNG · JPEG · WebP · AVIF · PDF / quality 1-100 / ?lang= on anything
# quick merge, straight from an img tag
GET /img/t/8c41f2?headline=Final+week&price=29€
&format=webp&quality=80&lang=de
# full control
POST /v1/render
{
"template": "8c41f2",
"format": "avif",
"payload": {
"headline": { "text": "Final week", "lang": "de" },
"photo": { "src": "https://…/sku-2481.jpg" }
}
}
201 { "url": "https://pixeldrive.pro/img/t/8c41f2/a91….avif",
"cached": false, "credits_charged": 1 }render.completed webhook fires after this line1 credit
Fresh render
≈ 1.0 s headless render, any template
Cached repeat
19 mssame inputs, 0 credits
Throughput
27 / sec per render node, scales flat
Output
5 formats png jpeg webp avif pdf
Same job, different bill. Compared against the typical image-API price sheet.
| Pixeldrive | The usual image API | |
|---|---|---|
| Previews | Free, always. Iterate without billing. | Billed like a render. |
| Cache hits | Free. Repeat URLs serve in 19 ms. | Billed again, or capped. |
| Translation | Included. 70 languages on our own model. | Bring your own vendor and glue code. |
| AI agents | Hosted MCP server, 26 tools, in the registry. | None. REST only. |
| Formats | PNG, JPEG, WebP, AVIF, PDF. | PNG and JPEG. |
| $29 / month buys | 8,000 fresh images. $0.0036 each. | About 1,500 to 2,500 images. |
"The usual image API" = published pricing of the leading template-render services, June 2026. Run your own numbers; ours stay flat.
This is the real workflow: change a variable, get a file. No signup needed for a proof.
This proof is free. Live preview — previews never bill. On the press, lang= translates any text you send, not just samples.
Like it? Get 1,000 free renders →
PixelDrive ships a hosted MCP server with 26 tools. Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client can open a blank canvas, lay out elements, search stock photos, and ship a finished render without a human touching the editor.
The loop that makes it work: previews are free. The agent renders a proof, looks at the actual pixels, fixes the kerning, and only pays when it ships the final. Iteration costs nothing.
Listed in the official MCP registry as pro.pixeldrive/pixeldrive
Upload a CSV in the dashboard or POST it to /v1/render/batch. One image per row, named and numbered.
| name | market | lang | price | photo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anaïs Robichaud | Montréal | fr | 49 € | sku-2481.jpg |
| 2 | Jae-min Seo | Seoul | ko | ₩59,000 | sku-2481.jpg |
| 3 | Tunde Okafor | Lagos | en | ₦24,500 | sku-1190.jpg |
| 4 | Marta Jankowska | Warszawa | pl | 199 zł | sku-0832.jpg |
| 5 | Ravi Deshmukh | Pune | hi | ₹1,299 | sku-1190.jpg |
| 6 | Lucia Ferraro | Torino | it | 45 € | sku-0832.jpg |
| 7 | Björn Halvorsen | Bergen | no | 519 kr | sku-2481.jpg |
| 8 | Yasmin El-Sayed | Cairo | ar | E£780 | sku-1190.jpg |
campaign_q2.csv · 8 of 1,847 rows · lang column = per-row translation
Six standing jobs from the board. Every one of them is a template plus a data source.
Nightly catalog feed in, finished product cards out. Price drops re-render only the SKUs that changed; everything else hits the cache and costs nothing.
Anvil ground anchor, galvanized$24.50 · ★ 4.6One brand template, forty audiences, five offers. The ad set builds itself from a sheet, and the losing variants cost cents to replace.
Job 0610-052 · localizationper launchThe lang column does the work. Same template, every market, headlines translated and re-fit on render.
Job 0610-067 · contentper postNo build step, no plugin. The meta tag IS the integration.
<meta property="og:image" content="https://pixeldrive.pro/img/t/8c41f2?title=...">Job 0610-071 · emailper openHotlink a GET render in the email body. It renders on first open, then the cache serves the next ten million for free.
Job 0610-088 · eventsweeklyNames, headshots, session times and a QR code to the ticket page, all variables. When the schedule changes, the cards already have.
Job 0610-093 · productcontinuousAnything with a name on it. Rating stars and barcodes regenerate from data, so a 4.2 draws 4.2 stars without anyone opening a design tool.
The plumbing you'd otherwise build yourself, already bolted to the press.
The changelog is public and dated. The press gets faster every week; the rate card doesn't move.
The language drum
Append &lang=es to any render URL and every text layer comes back translated, re-fit, and cached. Whole template or single field. The engine is a translation model we run on our own metal: no per-word vendor fees, no text leaving the press, translations cached for 90 days.
Operators on record, and the meter readings from the last thirty days.
Mira CastellanosContent ops lead, Bodega NorteOur catalog refresh went from an afternoon of exports to a 90-second batch run. Nobody on the team has opened the old PSD since March.
Dmitri VasilievLifecycle marketing, FerrylineWe hotlink renders straight into lifecycle email: 11 million opens last quarter, zero broken images, zero extra credits.
Aoife BrennanFounder, Slipstream SocialOur Claude agent designs the weekly creative and ships it while we sleep. Free previews are the whole trick: it can look at its own work before it spends.
Renders, 30 days
4,182,907 across 61 countries
Median cached serve
19 msp99 under 120 ms
Uptime, quarter
99.97% status page is public
Languages rendered
70 most popular: es, de, fr
1 credit = 1 fresh render. Cache hits and proofs are free. Credits arrive monthly.
Annual billing: save 17% (two months free) on any paid plan, chosen at checkout. Free proofs: previews never bill. Free repeats: cached renders never bill. Translation, webhooks, batch runs, the MCP server and every output format are included on every plan, the Free one too.
One fresh render = one credit, regardless of size or format. Cache hits are free: the same template with the same inputs returns the stored file and bills nothing. Previews (in the editor, over the MCP, in the demo above) are always free.
A fresh render takes about a second. A cached repeat serves in roughly 19 ms. Each render node sustains around 27 renders per second and nodes scale horizontally, so batch throughput is a provisioning question, not an architectural one.
Yes. Add lang=de to a render and every text layer is translated, or set it per field. The model runs on our own servers: no per-word vendor fees, your copy never leaves the press, and each translation is cached for 90 days so repeats are instant.
Upload a CSV in the dashboard or POST rows to /v1/render/batch. Each row becomes one image. Progress streams live, failed rows are listed individually, and when the run finishes you get an email and a batch.completed webhook containing every URL.
Everything you can: create templates, add and arrange elements, search stock, mark variables, preview for free, and render. The hosted MCP server exposes 26 tools and is listed in the official registry as pro.pixeldrive/pixeldrive. Free previews mean the agent iterates on real pixels before it spends a credit.
PNG (default), JPEG, WebP, AVIF and single-page PDF, with a qualityparameter for the lossy ones. Each format is cached separately, so switching formats doesn't invalidate what you've already rendered.
On our edge store, served from a stable URL you can hotlink anywhere: email, meta tags, your own CDN. Re-rendering the same inputs always resolves to the same file, so links never rot when your data doesn't change.
Cache hits keep serving free, so live traffic never breaks. Fresh renders pause until you top up or the month rolls over. Per-token rate limits are yours to set, so one runaway integration can't drain the account.
1,000 free credits, the first thousand images are on us. A template takes ten minutes. The next ten thousand images take none of yours.