# imageapis.com

> Images, PDFs and screenshots from templates, HTML or URLs. JSON layer templates with text that
> shrinks to fit, Open Graph cards from a title, signed URLs that render on fetch, webhooks, an MCP server.
> A house API of APIDirectory. One key: 150 images a month free, paid plans from $9.

- API base: https://api.imageapis.com  (X-API-Key header or Authorization: Bearer)
- OpenAPI, reference and try-it: https://dash.imageapis.com/docs
- Keys and plans: https://dash.imageapis.com/
- MCP server: https://mcp.imageapis.com (same key as a bearer token)
- Rendered files: https://img.imageapis.com/i/<id>.<ext>; signed URLs: https://img.imageapis.com/s/<base>/<template>.<ext>?…&sig=
- Cost: one unit per image or screenshot, one per PDF page; template and record calls are free.

## Pages

- [Chart to image](https://imageapis.com/tools/chart-to-image): Paste a list of numbers and get a bar, line, area, pie or donut chart as a PNG at a hosted URL. Free, no sign-up. The same call renders charts inside any template.
- [HTML to image](https://imageapis.com/tools/html-to-image): Paste HTML and CSS, get a PNG. Rendered in a real browser with web fonts, flexbox and gradients. Free, no sign-up.
- [HTML to PDF](https://imageapis.com/tools/html-to-pdf): Paste HTML, pick A4 or Letter, get a PDF with backgrounds and web fonts. Free, no sign-up. The same as POST /v1/pdfs.
- [Open Graph image generator](https://imageapis.com/tools/og-image-generator): Make a 1200×630 Open Graph image from a title, description and site name. Free, no sign-up, hosted URL you can use right away.
- [Social card maker](https://imageapis.com/tools/social-card-maker): Make a share image sized for X, LinkedIn, Facebook or Instagram from a title and a photo. Free, no sign-up, hosted URL back.
- [Website screenshot](https://imageapis.com/tools/website-screenshot): Screenshot any public web page at the viewport size you choose, light or dark mode. Rendered in a real browser, hosted URL back. Free, no sign-up.
- [Charts in images](https://imageapis.com/guides/chart-images): Put a bar, line, area, pie or donut chart on any card with the chart layer, feed the whole series through one variable, render it from Python or a signed URL, and tune colours, labels and scale.
- [Images from an AI agent over MCP](https://imageapis.com/guides/images-from-ai-agents-mcp): Connect Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client to mcp.imageapis.com and have an agent design templates, render Open Graph cards, PDFs and screenshots with your key.
- [Images from Node.js](https://imageapis.com/guides/images-from-node): Render images from Node with fetch, run them in the background with webhook_url, and receive the finished record. Complete example with an Express receiver.
- [Images from Python](https://imageapis.com/guides/images-from-python): Save a layer template once, then render it from Python with requests: variables, modifications, 2x scale, downloading the PNG. Complete working example.
- [Dynamic Open Graph images in Next.js](https://imageapis.com/guides/og-images-nextjs): Give every Next.js page its own Open Graph image without a build step or an API call at request time: a signed imageapis.com URL in generateMetadata, rendered on first fetch.
- [PDF invoices from HTML](https://imageapis.com/guides/pdf-invoices-from-html): Generate invoice PDFs from an HTML template with {{placeholders}}, A4 with margins, rendered in the background and delivered by webhook. Complete example.
- [Signed URLs](https://imageapis.com/guides/signed-urls): How imageapis.com signed URLs work: HMAC-SHA256 over the path and query, expiry, template locking, edge caching, revocation, and the four lines of code in Python, Node and PHP.
- [Starter templates](https://imageapis.com/guides/starter-templates): Eight complete templates ship with the API. List them, copy one into your account with a single call, render it with your variables, and change layers by name or in the editor. curl and Node.
- [Starter templates](https://imageapis.com/starters/): 8 complete templates to copy (og-card, blog-post, product-review, quote-card, event-ticket, certificate, video-thumbnail, weekly-report); each page has the JSON, the layers and a live render
- [Compare](https://imageapis.com/compare): imageapis.com against Bannerbear, Templated, Robolly and HTML/CSS to Image
- [Changelog](https://imageapis.com/changelog)