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Stability AI

Stability AI is an AI company that develops open-source generative AI models for image, audio, video, and language, including the Stable Diffusion family of image generation models. The Stability AI developer platform provides REST APIs for text-to-image generation, image editing, image upscaling, image structure control, video generation, and 3D asset creation. All APIs are accessible at api.stability.ai using bearer token authentication.

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Stability AI the way a machine reads it — 80 machine-readable artifacts across 18 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Stability AI scores 60.9/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 60.9/100 · strong
Contract Quality 16.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 6.1 / 20
Commercial Clarity 14.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Stability AI

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Stability AI. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 18

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Stability AI 3D Generation API

Generate textured 3D mesh assets from single input images using the Stable Fast 3D model.

Stability AI Conservative Upscale API

Increase image resolution while closely preserving the original image details and composition with minimal creative additions.

Stability AI Creative Upscale API

Increase image resolution while enhancing details and adding creative improvements guided by an optional text prompt. This is an asynchronous endpoint that returns a generation ...

Stability AI Erase API

Remove objects from an image by masking the area to erase and letting the AI fill in the background naturally.

Stability AI Fast Upscale API

Quickly increase image resolution with minimal processing time while maintaining image quality.

Stability AI Generate Core API

Generate images using Stable Image Core, a fast and affordable model for high-quality image generation.

Stability AI Generate SD3 API

Generate images using Stable Diffusion 3 and 3.5 models with advanced text-to-image and image-to-image capabilities.

Stability AI Generate Ultra API

Generate images using Stable Image Ultra, the highest quality model for state-of-the-art photorealistic and artistic image generation.

Stability AI Image to Video API

Generate short video clips from a single input image using the Stable Video Diffusion model. The API uses an asynchronous start-and-poll pattern.

Stability AI Inpaint API

Fill in masked regions of an image using AI-guided inpainting with text prompts to control what appears in the filled area.

Stability AI Outpaint API

Extend the boundaries of an image by generating new content that seamlessly continues the existing scene in any direction.

Stability AI Remove Background API

Automatically detect and remove the background from an image, isolating the foreground subject.

Stability AI Replace Background and Relight API

Replace the background of an image and adjust lighting conditions using AI-powered scene understanding.

Stability AI Search and Recolor API

Find specific objects within an image and recolor them using text descriptions of the target object and desired color.

Stability AI Search and Replace API

Find and replace specific objects within an image using text descriptions of what to search for and what to replace it with.

Stability AI Sketch API

Generate images from hand-drawn sketches or line drawings, guided by a text prompt to fill in details, colors, and textures.

Stability AI Structure API

Generate images guided by the structural composition of a reference image, preserving edges and layout while applying new content from a text prompt.

Stability AI Style API

Generate images that adopt the visual style of a reference image while following a text prompt for content direction.

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Open Collections 6

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Stability AI GraphQL Schema

This conceptual GraphQL schema represents the Stability AI developer platform, which provides generative AI APIs for image generation, image editing, image upscaling, video gene...

GRAPHQL

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Stability Ai Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 16

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

API Membership $20/mo: 6,000 credits ($60 worth) included
1 credit = $0.01
SD3 (Stable Diffusion 3): ~$0.035 per image (3.5 credits)
Stable Image Ultra: $0.08 per image (8 credits, SD3.5 Large)
Stable Image Core: lower-cost mid-quality option
Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL)
Stable Video Diffusion
Stable 3D for 3D model generation
Stable Audio for music generation
Enterprise: volume discounts, self-hosted/private models
REST API at api.stability.ai
Default 150 req/10s per key
Image generation: 10 concurrent jobs
Video generation: 5 concurrent jobs
Bearer token (API key) auth
Open-weights models (research / community use)

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Stability Ai Context

0 classes · 8 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Stability AI API Rules

6 rules · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

Stability AI API Rules

10 rules · 2 errors · 7 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 27

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

AsyncGenerationResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConservativeUpscaleRequest

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ControlImageResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreativeUpscaleRequest

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EditImageResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EraseRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ErrorResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FastUpscaleRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Generate3DResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GenerateCoreRequest

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GenerateImageResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GenerateSD3Request

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GenerateUltraRequest

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Stability AI Image Generation

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ImageToVideoRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InpaintRequest

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OutpaintRequest

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RemoveBackgroundRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReplaceBackgroundAndRelightRequest

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchAndRecolorRequest

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchAndReplaceRequest

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SketchControlRequest

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StableFast3DRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StructureControlRequest

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StyleControlRequest

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UpscaleImageResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VideoGenerationResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 2

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Stability Ai Image Generation Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Stability Ai Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 1

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Stability Ai Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Stability Ai Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Stability Ai Agentic Access

20 operations · 18 acting · 3 human-in-the-loop

20 operations · 18 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Stability AI — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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