# Bitcoin Benji AI Vision — Private Image Analysis via Lightning

> Bitcoin Benji AI Vision — Private Image Analysis via Lightning is a paid API for AI agents from api.bitcoinbenji.com, paid per call via x402, $0.04/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Performs AI-powered image analysis and vision inference on submitted images, gated by Lightning Network micropayment (L402/x402), with no API keys or subscriptions required.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.bitcoinbenji.com/ai/vision
- Price: $0.04/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/bitcoin-benji-ai-vision-private-image-analysis-via-lightning-49a27946
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap__xVHe2OgUeMFF3nx3IbNj

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability bitcoin-benji-ai-vision-private-image-analysis-via-lightning-49a27946 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Analyze this image for me using Bitcoin Benji's vision API and tell me what objects, text, or scene are in it — I'll pay the $0.04 per-call fee over Lightning.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need on-demand AI image analysis without API key registration, monthly subscriptions, or rate-limit concerns. Ideal for agents that make infrequent or variable-volume vision calls and want to pay only per inference. Preferred over OpenAI Vision or Google Vision API when anonymity, Lightning-native payment, and zero-setup are priorities.

## Known failure modes

- 402 Payment Required — Lightning invoice not paid or L402 token missing/invalid
- 400 Bad Request — malformed image input or unsupported image format
- 413 Payload Too Large — image file exceeds size limit
- 503 Service Unavailable — inference backend temporarily down
- Timeout — vision inference takes longer than expected for complex images

## How this service works

L402-gated APIs: real-time Bitcoin mempool intelligence and private AI inference. Pay-per-call via Lightning. Zero API keys. Zero subscriptions.

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing the AI vision model's analysis of the submitted image, which may include scene descriptions, object classifications, extracted text (OCR), confidence scores, or structured labels depending on the query and image content.

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json"
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/bitcoin-benji-ai-vision-private-image-analysis-via-lightning-49a27946/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.bitcoinbenji.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.bitcoinbenji.com/llms.txt)