Pixc

Pixc is an ecommerce enablement company that builds Shopify apps automating the visual busywork of running an online store — product photo resizing and AI framing, background removal and retouching, AI-generated alt text for SEO, AI lifestyle imagery, and automated visual merchandising of collections. Founded in 2014 and backed by 500 Global, Pixc also runs a professional bulk product photo-editing service billed in prepaid image credits, and serves 32,000+ Shopify merchants. Pixc publishes a public REST API — the Pixc Public API at https://dashboard.pixc.com/v1 — that lets a store or marketplace automate the same photo optimization programmatically — define a reusable template encoding the photo standard, submit batches of image URLs as orders, register webhooks for completion, and collect the optimized results as image URLs or packaged downloads.

Pixc publishes 1 API contract indexed on the APIs.io network: Public API. Tagged areas include Company, Shopify, E-Commerce, Photo Editing, and Image Optimization.

The Pixc catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Pixc’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, signup flow, pricing, and 25 more developer resources.

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57.8/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 24/100 agent aware Front door AI 4/6 moderate Heartbeat 50/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 published contract 3 Agent Skills

Company Shopify E-Commerce Photo Editing Image Optimization Image Processing Product Photography Background Removal SEO Automation Artificial Intelligence Webhook Digital Asset Management

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Developer Platform & API Ecosystem Management

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Webhooks

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 57.8/100 · strong

Contract Quality 10.2 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 11.0 / 15

Access Clarity 12.6 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.0 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.5 / 8

Regulatory Posture 4.8 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 24/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

5 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Operational Transparency scores 10.5 — up to +11.6 composite points
Contract Quality scores 54.5 — up to +11.4 composite points
Contract Governance scores 18.2 — up to +9.8 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Commerce Platform Ecosystems (Shopify, WooCommerce, Stripe Apps)	builds-on	26.8 (thin)	-	1

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Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 1

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

Pixc Public API

REST API for automated product-photo optimization. Three resources — templates (the reusable photo standard: background, border, shadow, output file types and aspect sizes), ord...

Open Collections 3

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

Pixc Public API Orders

OPEN COLLECTION

Pixc Public API Templates

OPEN COLLECTION

Pixc Public API Webhooks

OPEN COLLECTION

Agent Skills 3

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Manage Pixc photo-standard templates

AGENT SKILL

Optimize a batch of product photos with Pixc

AGENT SKILL

Receive Pixc order webhooks instead of polling

AGENT SKILL

Pixc API pricing

Prices published by Pixc, read 2026-10-28 from pixc.com/photo-editing/.

Plan	Price
Small	$20 Includes: 10 Basic images
Medium	$100 Includes: 50 Basic images
Large	$400 Includes: 200 Basic images
Extra large	$2000 Includes: 1000 Basic images

Plan details, limits and sources →

Billed by: credit package · FinOps profile →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Pixc Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Pixc Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Pixc

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Pixc Finops

FINOPS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Pixc Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Pixc API Rules

53 rules · 51 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 3

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Pixc Orders Overlay

4 actions · update · pixc-orders-api-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Pixc Templates Overlay

4 actions · update · pixc-templates-api-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Pixc Webhooks Overlay

4 actions · update · pixc-webhooks-api-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 2

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

Pixc Authentication

oauth2/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Pixc Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Pixc Scopes

11 scopes · implicit

11 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

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

Pixc Agentic Access

16 operations · 8 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 5

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Sandbox

Sandbox

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

DataModel

Webhooks

Lifecycle

Conformance

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: pixc
name: Pixc
description: Pixc is an ecommerce enablement company that builds Shopify apps automating the visual busywork of running an
  online store — product photo resizing and AI framing, background removal and retouching, AI-generated alt text for SEO,
  AI lifestyle imagery, and automated visual merchandising of collections. Founded in 2014 and backed by 500 Global, Pixc
  also runs a professional bulk product photo-editing service billed in prepaid image credits, and serves 32,000+ Shopify
  merchants. Pixc publishes a public REST API — the Pixc Public API at https://dashboard.pixc.com/v1 — that lets a store or
  marketplace automate the same photo optimization programmatically — define a reusable template encoding the photo standard,
  submit batches of image URLs as orders, register webhooks for completion, and collect the optimized results as image URLs
  or packaged downloads.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pixc/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: prepaid-credits
  onboarding: self-service
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Public
  confidence: high
  source:
  - https://pixc.com/api/
  - https://pixc.com/photo-editing/
  generated: '2026-08-13'
  method: searched
  note: 'Self-service sign-up at https://pixc.com/dashboard/signup, Access Token issued from Account Settings > API Access
    in the dashboard. The API is not separately priced — calls spend the same prepaid image credits sold on the pricing page.
    The `test: true` header exercises any operation without spending credits, which is the only free path.'
image: https://pixc.com/images/hero-illustration.png
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-08-13'
tags:
- Company
- Shopify
- E-Commerce
- Photo Editing
- Image Optimization
- Image Processing
- Product Photography
- Background Removal
- SEO
- Automation
- Artificial Intelligence
- Webhook
- Digital Asset Management
tags_raw:
- Company
- Shopify
- Ecommerce
- Photo Editing
- Image Optimization
- Image Processing
- Product Photography
- Background Removal
- SEO
- Automation
- AI
- Webhooks
- Digital Asset Management
apis:
- name: Pixc Public API
  description: 'REST API for automated product-photo optimization. Three resources — templates (the reusable photo standard:
    background, border, shadow, output file types and aspect sizes), orders (a batch of submitted image URLs processed against
    one template), and webhooks (order_created, order_status_updated, download_generated) — across sixteen operations. Results
    are read back as per-image records with one rendered output per template type/size combination, or as packaged downloads.
    Authentication is a bearer Access Token issued from the Pixc Dashboard; the published spec additionally declares an OAuth
    2.0 implicit flow with eleven granular scopes. Every operation accepts a `test: true` header that validates the request
    without modifying the account or spending image credits. Published by Pixc as Swagger 2.0 at https://dashboard.pixc.com/v1/schema.'
  humanURL: https://pixc.com/api/
  baseURL: https://dashboard.pixc.com/v1
  tags:
  - Image Processing
  - Photo Editing
  - Background Removal
  - Image Resizing
  - E-Commerce
  - Product Photography
  - Digital Asset Management
  - Webhook
  tags_raw:
  - image-processing
  - photo-editing
  - background-removal
  - image-resizing
  - ecommerce
  - product-photography
  - digital-asset-management
  - webhooks
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://pixc.com/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://dashboard.pixc.com/docs?url=https://dashboard.pixc.com/v1/schema
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://pixc.com/api/#getting-started
  - type: Swagger
    url: https://dashboard.pixc.com/v1/schema
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pixc-orders-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pixc-templates-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pixc-webhooks-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/pixc-orders-overlay.yaml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/pixc-templates-overlay.yaml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/pixc-webhooks-overlay.yaml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/pixc-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/pixc-scopes.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/pixc-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/pixc-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/pixc-data-model.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/pixc-webhooks.yml
  - type: Sandbox
    url: sandbox/pixc-sandbox.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/pixc-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/pixc-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: SDKs
    url: packages/pixc-packages.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/pixc-capability-edges.yml
  name: Pixc Business Capability Map
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://pixc.com/api/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://pixc.com/api/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://dashboard.pixc.com/docs?url=https://dashboard.pixc.com/v1/schema
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://pixc.com/api/#getting-started
- type: Website
  url: https://pixc.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://pixc.com/blog/
- type: Support
  url: https://help.pixc.com/en/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Pixc2
- type: SignUp
  url: https://pixc.com/dashboard/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://pixc.com/dashboard/login
- type: Pricing
  url: https://pixc.com/photo-editing/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://pixc.com/legal/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://pixc.com/legal/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://linkedin.com/company/pixc
- type: Packages
  url: packages/pixc-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/pixc-packages.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/pixc-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/pixc-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/pixc-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/pixc-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/pixc-data-model.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/pixc-webhooks.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/pixc-sandbox.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/pixc-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/pixc-conformance.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/pixc-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/pixc-rate-limits.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/pixc-agentic-access.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/pixc-llms.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/pixc-domain-security.yml
x-pointers-deliberately-omitted:
- type: WellKnown
  reason: well-known/pixc-well-known.yml records a probe in which every /.well-known/ path returned 404 on dashboard.pixc.com
    and 403 on pixc.com. The artifact documents an absence; a pointer would assert Pixc serves the surface.
- type: MCPServer
  reason: mcp/pixc-mcp.yml is a derived candidate tool list with deployment.mode = none. Pixc ships no hosted or local MCP
    server, so a pointer would credit an agent surface that does not exist.
- type: AgentCard
  reason: /.well-known/agent-card.json and /.well-known/agent.json miss on every host. Per the pipeline, nothing was written
    to a2a/.
- type: Idempotency
  reason: No idempotency header, parameter or retry-safety contract exists in the published spec or docs. See conventions/pixc-conventions.yml.
- type: StatusPage
  reason: status.pixc.com returns HTTP 200 but the body is the two-byte string "OK" from the pixc.com DNS wildcard, not a
    status page. pixc.com/status is 404.
- type: Deprecation
  reason: No deprecation policy, Sunset header support or notice period is published.
- type: Security
  reason: probe-security-programs.py found no security.txt, no disclosure page and no bug bounty; pixc.com/security returns
    404.
- type: Compliance
  reason: No trust centre and no named certification (SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI, HIPAA, GDPR) is published on a reachable page;
    /trust and /compliance both 404.
- type: ChangeLog
  reason: No changelog, release-notes page or GitHub release exists. pixc.com/changelog is 404 and the sitemap lists no such
    page.
- type: AsyncAPI
  reason: Pixc documents webhooks but publishes no AsyncAPI document; Webhooks is pointed at instead and no AsyncAPI was authored
    on Pixc's behalf.
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-13'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 27
  pass: local-v1

Pixc API — frequently asked questions

Does Pixc have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Pixc, including Pixc Public API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Pixc API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 1 OpenAPI specification for Pixc, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Pixc API?

Pixc uses bearer-token authentication (oauth2/http · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Pixc Authentication.

How much does the Pixc API cost?

Pixc publishes its prices; its Small plan is $20 as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 4 pricing plans for Pixc, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Pixc API ready for AI agents?

Pixc has a Kin Score of 57.8 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 24.2 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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