Pollinations

Pollinations is an open source generative AI platform that puts image, text, audio, video, 3D and embedding generation behind a single API. It is built in Berlin and aimed at developers, creators and community projects that want to add generation to an application without assembling separate provider accounts for each modality. There are several ways in. An OpenAI compatible endpoint lets existing clients point at the service with little change, and there is also an SDK, a command line tool, a real time WebSocket API and a hosted MCP server for assistants. Models are addressed in a publisher and model format, with older identifiers kept working as aliases, and the catalog spans families including Flux, GPT, Claude, Gemini and Seedream. Managed Agents let a reusable text agent be defined from a system prompt, a base model and an optional set of platform tools. Community Models let developers connect their own OpenAI compatible endpoints and optionally publish them into the shared catalog. Access is controlled with two key types: public application keys that carry a budget and a permission set fixed at creation, and secret server side keys that are not rate limited. Usage is metered in credits called Pollen, priced as you go at a published rate of $1 to roughly one Pollen. Pollen can also be earned by completing quests, and the platform states that getting started requires no credit card. Applications can connect user wallets so that each end user pays for their own generation rather than the developer carrying the cost.