Awesome PiAPI

Unofficial community list for PiAPI. Not affiliated with PiAPI. All trademarks belong to their owners.

A curated list of resources for PiAPI, the multi-model generation platform at piapi.ai that fronts video, image, audio, 3D and LLM models behind one API, a playground and a CLI. Note that a search for piapi also surfaces PiaPiUFO, a VTuber with no connection to the API; the last section lists those pages so nobody lands on the wrong thing. Prices quoted are the "from" figures shown on the PiAPI home page at the time of writing and change often; the pricing page is authoritative.

Only need video generation as an API, without a playground or model catalogue? Try AI Video API - a REST API for video generation tasks, no UI.

Official resources

• PiAPI home - Overview: 50+ models, playground and API, $0.50 free credits for new accounts.
• API docs - Reference documentation and the starting point for integration.
• Pricing - Per-model pricing; check here before relying on any number below.
• Workspace - Where you get an API key.
• Billing - Credits balance and top-ups.
• Templates - Ready-made generation templates.
• Benefits - The platform's own summary of why to use one API for many models.
• Blog - Announcements and model write-ups.
• PiAPI CLI - Terminal client covering 94 multimodal models per the home page.

Getting started

• Install the CLI with npm install -g piapi-cli, then piapi run flux-dev prompt="a corgi astronaut" for a first image (from the home page terminal demo).
• Run a video model asynchronously with piapi run sora2-pro prompt="waves" --async; the CLI prints a task id.
• List video models with piapi model list --type video.
• Python: send a JSON body with prompt, aspect_ratio and process_mode to your endpoint URL with an X-API-Key header, as shown in the home page snippet.

Model API pages

• Seedance 2.5 API - ByteDance video model, listed from $0.15/s.
• Seedance 2.0 API - Listed from $0.042/s.
• Kling 3.0 API - Listed from $0.10/s.
• Kling API - Listed from $0.20/video.
• Kling AI Avatar - Listed from $0.052/s.
• Veo 3.1 API - Google video model, listed from $0.06/s.
• Wan 2.6 API - Alibaba video model, listed from $0.08/s.
• Wan 2.2 API - Listed from $0.28/video.
• Hailuo API - Listed from $0.16/video.
• Hunyuan API - Listed from $0.03/video.
• Luma API - Listed from $0.20/video.
• MiniMax H3 API - Listed from $0.03/s.
• OmniHuman 1.5 API - Listed from $0.13/s.
• Framepack API - Listed from $0.03/s.
• Skyreels API - Listed from $0.15/video.
• GPT Image 2.5 - Image model announced on the home page banner.

Tools and integrations

• Make and n8n - The home page says PiAPI can be dropped into both with no code.
• MCP - Named on the home page as a way for AI agents to plug in alongside the CLI.
• No Midjourney API - PiAPI states it does not provide one and points to legnext.ai instead.
• No Suno API - PiAPI states it does not provide one and points to sunor.cc instead.

Alternatives

• AI Video API - A REST API for video generation tasks in the gen2, gen3a and gen4_turbo style, with no UI. Worth trying if you only need video and want a smaller surface than a 50-model catalogue.
• legnext.ai - Recommended by PiAPI for AI image generation via API in place of a Midjourney API.
• sunor.cc - Recommended by PiAPI for AI music generation via API in place of a Suno API.

Related (not the API)

• PiaPiUFO on X - A slime girl VTuber account that ranks for the same query; unrelated to PiAPI.
• PiaPiUFO on the Virtual YouTuber wiki - Same disambiguation.

Contributing

Open a pull request with the link, a one-line reason, and the page that names it.

Last reviewed: 2026-09-22