# Pollinations Legacy Image Generation (Rate-Limit Bypass)

> Pollinations Legacy Image Generation (Rate-Limit Bypass) is a paid API for AI agents from image.pollinations.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Generates an AI image from a text prompt using Pollinations' legacy image model, with payment enabling bypass of rate limits

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://image.pollinations.ai/prompt/run_1778847925_4_3222
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/image-pollinations-ai-817c2f0c
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_dJZ0JICVqCLA8lgI-UPSF

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 image-pollinations-ai-817c2f0c -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Generate an image of a serene Japanese garden at sunset with cherry blossom trees reflecting in a still pond, painted in a soft impressionist style.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to generate images programmatically via the Pollinations legacy API and are hitting rate limits on the free tier. Suitable for agents that need reliable, low-latency text-to-image generation at a very low per-call cost ($0.001 USDC). Prefer this over free-tier Pollinations calls when throughput matters.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not provided or insufficient — request may be rate-limited or rejected
- Prompt is empty or malformed — likely returns a 400 bad request
- Model overload or server error — 500 response with no image
- Prompt violates content policy — request refused
- Network timeout on large/complex image generation requests

## How this service works

Pollinations legacy image — pay to bypass rate limit

## Output

Returns a generated image (likely as binary image data or a URL) produced by the Pollinations legacy image model based on the submitted text prompt. The $0.001 USDC payment unlocks the request by bypassing the free-tier rate limit.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "prompt",
  "width",
  "height"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "width": {
   "type": "number"
  },
  "height": {
   "type": "number"
  },
  "prompt": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/image-pollinations-ai-817c2f0c/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from image.pollinations.ai](https://www.zero.xyz/host/image.pollinations.ai/llms.txt)