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PixLab & FACEIO Pricing Update: Clearer Plans, Better Value, More Power 🚀

We’ve just rolled out an important pricing update across PixLab and FACEIO, and it’s one we’re genuinely excited about. The goal is simple:

make our plans clearer, fairer, and better aligned with how developers, teams, and businesses actually use our products.

If you’ve been using PixLab or FACEIO or thinking about it, this update is for you.

Pricing Update

Why We Updated Our Pricing

Over time, PixLab and FACEIO have grown from individual APIs into full AI platforms used in production by developers, startups, and enterprises worldwide.

Our previous pricing tiers were functional, but they didn’t fully reflect:

  • The maturity of the products
  • The real value delivered at each level
  • The different needs of individuals vs. businesses vs. enterprises

So we redesigned the pricing ladder to be:

  • More intentional
  • Easier to understand
  • Better at guiding users to the right plan

The New Pricing Plans

Here’s the updated pricing for both PixLab and FACEIO:

Plan Price Best for
Starter $20 / month Developers getting started, testing, small projects with moderate traffic
Pro $39 / month Serious individual users and small teams with high traffic
Business $99 / month Production workloads and growing companies
Enterprise $200+ / month High-scale, compliance, and custom needs

Each step represents a real jump in capability, not just a cosmetic upgrade. View full pricing details:

Why This Pricing Works Better

Each tier now has a clear purpose. No confusion. No overlap:

  • Starter → moderate traffic apps, and early usage
  • Pro → daily, production ready, serious usage
  • Business → production and team workflows
  • Enterprise → scale, compliance, and support

What This Means for You

If you’re already a user:

  • You now have clearer upgrade paths
  • Better alignment between price and features
  • Plans that grow with your usage

If you’re new:

  • You can start at $20 with confidence
  • Upgrade only when you actually need more power
  • No artificial complexity or hidden traps

Try the New Plans Today

Whether you’re building:

  • AI-powered apps
  • Face authentication systems
  • OCR and document workflows
  • Computer vision pipelines
  • Enterprise-grade AI solutions
  • Content Creation & Visual Marketing via BG-REMOVE and TXT-REMOVE APIs

The new PixLab and FACEIO plans are designed to support you from first experiment to full production. Get started now:

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Final Thoughts

This pricing update isn’t about charging more.
It’s about pricing honestly, supporting growth, and building long-term trust.

As always, thank you for building with PixLab andFACEIO. 💙

PixLab Prompt Photo Editor for iOS Is Now Available on App Store

PixLab Prompt Photo Editor is now live on the App Store, bringing a new way to edit photos on iPhone and iPad. Instead of relying on complex tools, layers, or sliders, PixLab lets you edit images by simply typing what you want.

Download the app:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pixlab-ai-prompt-photo-editor/id6754860845

Learn more on the PixLab website:
https://pixlab.io/ios-photo-editor

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Why PixLab Prompt Photo Editor Is Essential

Most mobile photo editors slow users down with technical interfaces. PixLab for iOS is designed around a different idea: if you can describe an edit, you should be able to apply it instantly.

PixLab for iOS turns natural language into real photo edits. This makes it an essential tool for creators, professionals, and everyday users who want fast, reliable results without a learning curve.

Edit Photos by Typing What You Want

PixLab’s for iOS core workflow is prompt-based photo editing. You write a short instruction, and the app applies the edit automatically.

Examples include: - Remove the background - Remove unwanted objects or people - Improve lighting and image clarity - Make the photo look professional - Change the background or overall mood

You can refine the result by typing another prompt, making the editing process fast and intuitive exactly like it's web companion version at editor.pixlab.io.

Simple to Use, Professional Results

PixLab for iOS is built for users who want high-quality results without learning traditional photo editing software. There are no layers, masks, or complex adjustment panels to manage.

The interface stays focused on the photo and the prompt, allowing you to move from idea to final image in seconds. This makes PixLab ideal for product photos, profile images, marketing visuals, and social media content.

Advanced Tools When You Need Them

Beyond AI-powered prompt editing, PixLab for iOS also includes professional-grade photo tools optimized for touch. These allow precise refinement after AI generation, including color adjustments, retouching, and cleanup.

This combination of AI automation and manual control gives users flexibility without complexity.

Built for Mobile Creativity

PixLab Mobile Pormpt Photo Editor is designed specifically for iOS. Heavy AI processing runs securely in the cloud, keeping the app fast and responsive while delivering high-quality edits.

The app fits naturally into mobile workflows, whether you are editing on the go or preparing visuals for work, content creation, or personal projects.

Start on Mobile, Continue Anywhere

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PixLab is part of the broader PixLab ecosystem. Projects created on iOS can be continued on the PixLab web editor, making it easy to move between devices while keeping your work consistent.

This is especially useful for creators and teams who start edits on mobile and finish them on a larger screen.

Who PixLab Is For

PixLab iOS Prompt Photo Editor is designed for: - Everyday users who want great photos without complex tools - Creators and influencers producing content on mobile - Professionals who need fast, reliable image edits

If photo editing is part of your daily workflow, PixLab iOS is built to save you time.

Get PixLab Prompt Photo Editor

PixLab Prompt Photo Editor is available now on the App Store.

Download on App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pixlab-ai-prompt-photo-editor/id6754860845

Web Version:
https://editor.pixlab.io/

Learn more:
https://pixlab.io/ios-photo-editor

Introducing PixLab’s New PDF APIs: Convert, Scan, and Generate Documents with Vision A

Seamless PDF automation with Vision AI, OCR, and Document Intelligence

We’re excited to announce the release of three powerful new PixLab PDF API endpoints, designed to make PDF workflows smarter, faster, and fully automated. With these additions, developers can now convert PDFs to images, extract text with OCR, scan official ID documents, and programmatically generate PDF documents with ease.

Whether you're building fintech onboarding flows, automated invoice systems, document processing pipelines, or business reporting tools, PixLab’s new PDF APIs are built for you.

✅ pdftoimg — Convert PDFs to Images

Convert every page inside a PDF into high-resolution images for preview, analysis, or AI-based processing.

Perfect for: - Document previews & thumbnails
- Feeding pages into Vision LLMs
- AI-based document analysis pipelines

👉 Documentation → https://pixlab.io/endpoints/pdftoimg

✅ pdfscan — PDF Text Extraction & OCR

Transform scanned or image-based PDFs into searchable, machine-readable text using PixLab’s OCR engine.

Use Cases: - Invoice and receipt automation
- Document processing
- Enterprise data extraction integrations

👉 Documentation → https://pixlab.io/endpoints/ocr

✅ genpdf — Generate PDF Files Programmatically

Create clean, branded PDF documents from HTML, data payloads, or structured templates.

Ideal for: - Invoice generation
- Digital certificates & reports
- Legal and business form creation
- Workflow automation & SaaS platforms

👉 Documentation → https://pixlab.io/endpoints/pdfgen

Built for Modern Document Automation

These Vision APIs are designed to support end-to-end intelligent document pipelines:

  • ✅ Convert → Extract → Analyze → Export
  • ✅ Multi-language OCR + Vision AI
  • ✅ Works with spreadsheets, scanned forms, images, & office docs
  • ✅ Simple API integration across all programming languages

Start Building with PixLab

These endpoints are now live and available to all PixLab users.

👉 Browse all PDF-related endpoints:
https://pixlab.io/api-endpoints

🔐 Get your API key:
https://console.pixlab.io

What’s Coming Next

  • PDF annotation API suite
  • Merge / split PDF tools
  • Structured invoice extraction templates
  • Vision-powered business form understanding

Document Intelligence for the AI Era

At PixLab, our mission is simple:
Deliver world-class Vision AI and Document Intelligence tools to every developer.

Got feedback or need help getting started?
💬 https://pixlab.io/support

— The PixLab Vision Team

PixLab API 2 Released with new API Portal and Over 150 Endpoints

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The development team is thrilled to announce the release of PixLab API 2, a massive upgrade to our machine vision and media processing platform with now featuring a brand-new API Portal and over 150 powerful endpoints designed for businesses, developers, and creators.

From document extraction APIs, background removal, and dynamic PDF creation plus a brand new Vision Platform backed by state-of-the-art vision-language models, PixLab API 2 offers unmatched capabilities to analyze, transform, and automate visual content at scale.

👉 Explore the new API Portal now: pixlab.io/api-portal

👉 Explore the comprehensive list of API endpoints and their documentation: pixlab.io/api-endpoints

What’s New in PixLab API 2?

✅ All-New Developer Portal

  • Modern UI for key management, usage monitoring, and testing API calls in real time.
  • Comprehensive API Reference & Endpoint List with code samples and quickstart guides for every service.

🔍 Featured API Categories & Endpoints

ID Scan & Extract API

Scan official documents effortlessly with PixLab’s ID Scan & Extract API: - Comprehensive ID Support: Quickly scan & extract data from passports, driver's licenses, and 11,000+ document types from 197+ countries. - Structured JSON Output: Get parsed ID fields (name, DOB, MRZ, face, etc.) in a clean, machine-readable format.

👉 Explore DOCSCAN Documentation

FACEIO – Face Recognition & Authentication

Secure and frictionless passwordless authentication: - Facial Login: Enable seamless access with facial authentication. - Liveness Detection: Block spoofing with advanced anti-fraud checks. - Age Verification: Instantly validate user age for compliance.

👉 FACEIO Integration Guide

🖼️ Background Removal API

Remove image backgrounds with pixel-perfect precision: - Ultra-Fast Processing: Background-free images in seconds. - Automated & Scalable: Integrate into any web or mobile app.

👉 View Background Removal Docs

Try also the bulk version: BG Remove App ↗

NSFW & Content Moderation API

Keep your platform safe and compliant: - Blur, Pixelate, or Block harmful images or frames. - Detect adult, violent, or graphic content using advanced AI models.

👉 Content Moderation Docs

👁️‍🗨️ Vision-Language Models (VLMs)

Check out these insights from documents using Vision + NLP via the Vision Platform: - Document understanding with layout awareness - Great for invoices, contracts, ID cards, and more. Featured new Vision API endpoints:

👉 and a whole lot more Explore Vision APIs

📄 Rich PDF Generation API

Create beautiful PDFs at scale:

  • PDFGEN Endpoint: Convert HTML/Markdown to professional PDFs.
  • PDFTOIMG Endpoint: Preview and convert PDFs to image formats, as documented here.

👉 View Rich PDF Generation APIs

🛠️ Online Tools Backed by PixLab APIs

Explore our growing suite of web apps, each powered by PixLab’s infrastructure:

For Developers, Creators, and Businesses

PixLab API version 2 is now production-ready, SDK-free, and tightly integrated, making it ideal for:

  • Fintechs & KYC providers
  • E-commerce & SaaS platforms
  • AI developers & researchers
  • Content creators & automation teams

🔑 Get Your API Key & Start Your Integration Phase

Head to the PixLab Console to:

  • Generate your first API key
  • Integrate with over 150+ endpoints
  • Access complete documentation & live API testing tools

Join thousands of developers and businesses using PixLab to power the next generation of intelligent visual applications.

🧠 Build smarter, automate faster, and scale confidently with PixLab API 2.

— The PixLab Team

Introducing PixLab's New Privacy Policy, DMCA Guidelines, and Terms of Use

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We are excited to announce important updates to the Privacy Policy, DMCA Guidelines, and Terms of Services of the PixLab Websites, Cloud Services, and APIs.

At PixLab, we strive to provide our users with the highest level of transparency, security, and control over their personal data. These updates align with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to ensure compliance and protect your privacy.

New Privacy Policy: Safeguarding Your Data, Respecting Your Privacy

Our revamped Privacy Policy puts your privacy at the forefront. We understand the significance of your personal information and have implemented robust measures to protect it. This policy outlines the types of data we collect, how we use it, and how we ensure its security. Additionally, it informs you about your rights and the choices you have regarding your data.

To learn more about our privacy practices, including data collection, usage, storage, and your rights as a user, we invite you to review our updated privacy policy available at https://pixlab.io/privacy-policy. By continuing to use the PixLab APIs, you are agreeing to the revised policy

DMCA Guidelines: Protecting Copyrighted Material

At PixLab, we respect intellectual property rights and take copyright infringement seriously. Our DMCA Guidelines outline the steps to report any content that infringes upon your copyrights. We have implemented a streamlined process to ensure prompt and efficient handling of DMCA takedown requests.

If you believe your copyrighted material is being used improperly on PixLab, please follow the instructions provided in our DMCA guidelines, which can be found within our terms of use at https://pixlab.io/dmca.

Terms of Service: A New Framework for Collaboration

Our terms of services define the rules and regulations for using PixLab's website and APIs. By using our services, you agree to abide by these terms and conditions. They cover a range of important aspects, including user responsibilities, content ownership, limitations of liability, and more.

We encourage you to familiarize yourself with our terms of use, available at https://pixlab.io/terms, to understand your rights and obligations when using PixLab.

Your Trust Matters

As a user of PixLab, your trust is of utmost importance to us. We are committed to maintaining the highest standards of privacy and data protection. These updates to our Privacy Policy, DMCA Guidelines, and Terms of Services aim to provide you with increased control, transparency, and legal compliance.

We value your feedback and are constantly working to improve our services. If you have any questions or concerns about these updates or any aspect of PixLab, please reach out to our support team via our various communication channels.

Finally, we thank you for choosing PixLab as your trusted platform for image and video processing. We look forward to continuing our journey together while prioritizing your privacy and security.

Full Scan Support for United Arab Emirates (UAE) ID/Residence Cards

The PixLab Document Scanner, development team is pleased to announce that is now fully support scanning Emirates (UAE) ID & Residence Cards via the /DOCSCAN API endpoint at real-time using your favorite programming language.

When invoked, the /DOCSCAN HTTP API endpoint shall Extract (crop) any detected face and transform the raw UAE ID/Residence Card content such as holder name, nationality, ID number, etc. into a JSON object ready to be consumed by your app.

Below, a typical output result of the /DOCSCAN API endpoint for an Emiratis (UAE) ID card input sample:

Input Emirates (UAE) ID Card

UAE ID card specimen

Extracted UAE ID Card Fields

UAE extracted fields

The code samples used to achieve such result are available to consult via the following gists:

The same logic applies to scanning official travel documents like Visas, Passports, and ID Cards from many others countries in an unified manner, regardless of the underlying programming language used on your backend (Python, PHP, Ruby, JS, etc.) thanks to the DOCSCAN API endpoint as shown in previous blog posts:

Algorithm Details

Internally, PixLab's document scanner engine is based on PP-OCR which is a practical ultra-lightweight OCR system, mainly composed of three parts: DB text detection, detection frame correction, and CRNN text recognition. DB stands for Real-time Scene Text Detection.

PP-OCR: A Practical Ultra Lightweight OCR System - Algorithm Overview

PP-OCR Algorithm Overview

The system adopts 19 effective strategies from 8 aspects including backbone network selection and adjustment, prediction head design, data augmentation, learning rate transformation strategy, regularization parameter selection, pre-training model use, and automatic model tailoring and quantization to optimize and slim down the models of each module.

In PP-OCR, Differentiable Binarization (DB) is used as text detector which is based on a simple segmentation network. It integrates feature extraction and sequence modeling. It adopts the Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) loss to avoid the inconsistency between prediction and label.

The algorithm is further optimized in five aspect where the detection model adopts the CML (Collaborative Mutual Learning) knowledge distillation strategy and CopyPaste data expansion strategy. The recognition model adopts the LCNet lightweight backbone network, U-DML knowledge distillation strategy and enhanced CTC loss function improvement, which further improves the inference speed and prediction effect.

PixLab API 1.9.72 Released!

The PixLab development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the PixLab API 1.9.72.

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Since its launch on 2017, PixLab have already processed over 450 Millions of users contents whether static images, GIF or Videos Frames. This milestone release introduces new API endpoints, various minor bug fixes, processing speed improvements by up to 5% and many innovative features. Let's start with the one we are existed about in no particular order:

  • Passports & ID Cards Scan: While documents scanning were introduced in earlier version of the PixLab API via the /docscan endpoint. This release pushes further the accuracy of the OCR engine. A 5MB raw Passport sample now takes less than 3 seconds to execute including face detection & extraction, MRZ (Machine Readable Zone) extraction and finally transformation of the Raw MRZ data into textual content. You can try out the accuracy of the Passport scanning engine using these Python and PHP scripts to see it in action.
  • DNS infrastructure moved to Cloudflare for faster than ever response times.
  • Full support for HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 (QUIC).
  • Up to three layers of redundancy for the standard PixLab OCR engine for faster, accurate & guaranteed scan results.
  • A fresh update of the adult & gore content detection ML model which is used to power the famous PixLab /NSFW API endpoint that have already analyzed over 100 millions of user contents with high accuracy.
  • Face Detection (including facial landmarks extraction) & Emotion Pattern (including gender & age) extraction are now using the RetinaFace Model which scores the highest on the LFW dataset.
  • The /docscan API endpoint now fully support scanning ID cards from Malaysia & Singapore and many other countries (at users request) as well the brand new India Aadhar ID card. Find out more information about Aadhard fully support via our blog announcement here.
  • Finally, a brand new, high performance custom image processing layer written in C/C++ and powered by ImageMagick and our Embedded computer Vision Library SOD is integrated directly into our cloud API.

Pixlab customers are more than advised to take a look at The official API endpoints documentation, The Samples Page, The Github repository for additional information.

Finally, for potentially interested users, you are more than welcome to start a 7 days free trial to see the API in action. Simply head to the PixLab Dashboard and activate your free trial from there.

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PixLab on Social Media Platforms

Follow PixLab on social media to keep up-to-date with the latest company news, research highlights and benefit from a range of useful resources including (but not limited to) our brand new API services such the state-of-the-art Passports & ID Cards scanning API, the new facial recognition engine which achieve 99.8% success ratio and many more API endpoints for building intelligent applications.

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Don't forget! You can instantly reach our support team via the PixLab dashboard and we always guaranty a response in 48 business hours timeframe for your integration and support assistance!

Milestone Reached for the PixLab NSFW API Endpoint

The PixLab Computer Vision team is pleased to announce that a milestone have been reached for the Not Safe For Work API endpoint. Over the course of the last 12 months, the /nsfw API endpoint have already analyzed millions of our user's media files with high accuracy.

For those not familiar with this endpoint. /nsfw let you detect not suitable for work (i.e. nudity & adult) content in a given image or video frame. NSFW is of particular interest, if mixed with some media processing API endpoints like /blur, /encrypt or /mogrify to censor images on the fly according to their nsfw score.

A typical blurred image with a high NSFW score should look like the following:

blurred image

To obtain such image result, two endpoints were actually used:

  • /NSFW is the analysis endpoint that must be called first. It does perform nudity & adult content detection and return a score value between 0..1. The more this value approaches 1, the more your picture/frame is highly nsfw.
  • /blur is called later only if the nsfw score value returned earlier is greater than certain threshold. In our case, it is set to 0.5.

The Python code below was used to generate the blurred picture programmatically without any human intervention. This can help you automate things such as verifying user's uploads:

import requests
import json

# Target Image: Change to any link (Possibly adult) you want or switch to POST if you want to upload your image directly, refer to the sample set for more info.
img = 'https://i.redd.it/oetdn9wc13by.jpg' 
# Your PixLab key
key = 'Pixlab_Key'

# Censor an image according to its NSFW score
req = requests.get('https://api.pixlab.io/nsfw',params={'img':img,'key':key})
reply = req.json()
if reply['status'] != 200:
    print (reply['error'])
elif reply['score'] < 0.5 :
    print ("No adult content were detected on this picture")
else:
    # Highly NSFW picture
    print ("Censoring NSFW picture...")
    # Call blur with the highest possible radius and sigma
    req = requests.get('https://api.pixlab.io/blur',params={'img':img,'key':key,'rad':50,'sig':30})
    reply = req.json()
    if reply['status'] != 200:
        print (reply['error'])
    else:
        print ("Censored image: "+ reply['link'])

Finally, the official endpoint documentation is available to consult at https://pixlab.io/cmd?id=nsfw and a set of working samples in various programming language are available at the PixLab samples pages.