A thousand images from one template — made by your code, not by a person.
Design the template once. Your app fills in the data and gets a PNG back in the response: blog covers, product cards, certificates, one for every row in your database.
30 images free · no credit card
Change the JSON, get a different image.
Every image below came out of the Pictika engine, from the same template. Only the data changed.
{
"title": "Ship faster with
fewer meetings",
"byline": "Engineering · March 4"
}
{
"title": "What we learned
migrating 40 services…",
"byline": "Infrastructure · March 11"
}
{
"title": "日本語も絵文字も 🎉 そのまま",
"byline": "Localization · March 18"
}
Why teams pick Pictika
Generate the image while the page is still loading
The PNG comes back in the response, so you can put it straight into a page a visitor is waiting for. A standard Open Graph image — 1200×630, two text layers — takes about 21 ms on our reference hardware.
No code needed to change a headline
/v1/img/47?title=Hello is a link that returns a PNG, so a writer can edit a headline in your CMS and the image follows.
Ship to Tokyo and Hanoi on day one
Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese render out of the box, emoji included. No font setup on your side.
Never get a surprise invoice
When you reach your monthly limit we stop generating instead of billing you for the overage.
Call it from code, or just link to it.
REST API
One POST, a PNG URL back. Works from any language that can make an HTTP request.
POST /v1/images
Authorization: Bearer sk_live_…
{
"template": "tpl_8fk2",
"fields": { "title": "Hello world" }
}
→ 200 { "url": "https://pictika.com/i/9f3c.png" }Image URL
Put the template id and your values in a query string. Nothing to deploy, nothing to install.
https://pictika.com/v1/img/47?title=Hello%20world → PNG
What people generate
Four templates, four sets of data. Every image below was rendered by Pictika.
Pricing
Every plan has every feature. Plans differ only in how many images you generate.
Start with 30 images at no cost. When you reach a plan’s limit we stop generating — we never bill you for the overage.
Payments are processed by Creem, our merchant of record. Creem sells the subscription and issues the invoice.
Questions
Do I need a credit card to try it?
No. You get 30 images when you sign up, and we do not ask for card details until you choose a plan.
What happens when I run out of images?
Generation stops until the next cycle or until you upgrade. You are never charged for going over your plan.
Does it handle Japanese, Chinese, Korean or Vietnamese?
Yes, and emoji too. There is no font setup on your side.
Do you run the rendering yourselves?
Yes. Pictika runs its own rendering engine on its own servers. It is not a wrapper around somebody else’s image API.