# glyphforge — Pixelate Image API

> glyphforge — Pixelate Image API is a paid API for AI agents from glyphfor9e.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-30).

Pixelates a base64-encoded image by reducing colors and enlarging pixel blocks, returning a pixelated PNG

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://glyphfor9e.vercel.app/api/pixelate?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-30
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/glyphforge-pixelate-image-api-594dd8ae
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_xTHoR54160WFtOlRTWr2W

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 glyphforge-pixelate-image-api-594dd8ae -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pixelate this image for me — use a pixel block size of 8 and reduce it to 16 colors? Here's the base64-encoded PNG.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need server-side image pixelation with controllable block size and color quantization, especially for creative, retro, or anonymization use cases. Ideal when you want a pixelated PNG output from an arbitrary raster image input without needing a full image editing library. Best suited for lightweight per-call workloads given the $0.05 USDC micropayment model.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or malformed base64 image string returns an error response
- Unsupported image format (not PNG, JPEG, or WEBP) may cause processing failure
- Extremely large images may time out or exceed payload limits
- Invalid integer values for colors or pixelSize may cause unexpected output or errors
- Payment failure via x402 micropayment protocol will block the request

## How this service works

Convert images to ASCII, Braille, Unicode block art, and more. Paid API with x402 micropayments on Base.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with a success boolean and a data object containing: the pixelated image as a base64-encoded PNG string, along with its width and height in pixels.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "image"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "image": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Base64-encoded image (PNG, JPEG, WEBP)"
  },
  "colors": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "Number of colors to quantize to"
  },
  "pixelSize": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "Size of each pixel block"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "data": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {
    "image": {
     "type": "string",
     "description": "Base64-encoded pixelated PNG"
    },
    "width": {
     "type": "integer"
    },
    "height": {
     "type": "integer"
    }
   }
  },
  "success": {
   "type": "boolean"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/glyphforge-pixelate-image-api-594dd8ae/health.json
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