Image Convert API
Transcodes an image to PNG, JPEG or WebP at a chosen quality, returned base64-encoded.
- Endpoint
POST /v1/image-convert- Price
- $0.003 per call
- Family
- Images
01When to use it
- Transcoding safely needs a real codec and a hardened fetch: an agent that pulls the URL itself walks past every SSRF control, and the output must be byte-reproducible, which an ad-hoc re-encode is not.
- Your source is AVIF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, SVG, TIFF or WebP and you need JPEG, PNG or WebP.
When not to use it
- The input is over 25 MB (26,214,400 bytes): image-convert answers too_large (413).
- The destination needs more than 60 s to answer: the call ends with upstream_timeout (424).
- The destination is on a private or local network: the network guard refuses it with blocked_target (403).
02Parameters
| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | yes | Absolute http(s) URL of the source image, up to 2048 characters; redirects are followed and the source format is detected from the bytes. |
| format | string | yes | Target format to encode to, png, jpeg or webp; the pixel dimensions are kept and metadata is dropped. One of: "png", "jpeg", "webp". |
| quality | integer | no | Encoder quality from 1 to 100 for jpeg and webp output; ignored for png, which is always lossless. Default: 80. |
03Limits
| Limit | Value |
|---|---|
| Largest source file | 25 MB (26,214,400 bytes) |
| Timeout | 60 s |
| Source formats | AVIF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, SVG, TIFF, WebP |
| Output formats | JPEG, PNG, WebP |
04Example
The published example of image-convert, verbatim: the request body and the response it returns.
POST /v1/image-convert
content-type: application/json
payment-signature: <base64 x402 payload>
{
"url": "https://grist.tools/samples/images/convert-gradient.png",
"format": "webp",
"quality": 80
}200 OK
payment-response: <base64 settlement receipt>
{
"source_url": "https://grist.tools/samples/images/convert-gradient.png",
"source_format": "png",
"format": "webp",
"mime_type": "image/webp",
"width": 32,
"height": 32,
"bytes": 156,
"image_base64": "UklGRpQAAABXRUJQVlA4IIgAAAAQBQCdASogACAALk02m02hJCQkBABMS2AE6ZiX..."
}Sample file: images/convert-gradient.png. 32x32 PNG of a smooth two-axis gradient (red rises left to right, green top to bottom), built from raw pixels with the pinned PNG encoder.
In the sample itself: its IHDR chunk declares 32 by 32 pixels, 8-bit truecolour RGB and no interlacing. The chunks run IHDR, pHYs, IDAT and IEND. In the returned file: the RIFF header counts 148 bytes after itself, and the one chunk is a lossy VP8 bitstream of 136 bytes that starts with a key frame of 32 by 32 pixels.
| Response field | Type | In the example |
|---|---|---|
| source_url | string | "https://grist.tools/samples/images/convert-gradient.png" |
| source_format | string | "png" |
| format | string | "webp" |
| mime_type | string | "image/webp" |
| width | number | 32 |
| height | number | 32 |
| bytes | number | 156 |
| image_base64 | string | a string of 67 characters |
05Call it from code
// image-convert: $0.003 per call, paid in USD Coin on eip155:8453 via x402
// Install: npm install @x402/fetch@2 @x402/evm@2 viem@2
// Save as client.mjs (ES module, Node 18+), export EVM_PRIVATE_KEY with the paying wallet's key in your shell, then run: node client.mjs
// The wrapper reads the 402 (payment-required), signs and retries with payment-signature.
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client, decodePaymentResponseHeader } from '@x402/fetch'
import { ExactEvmScheme } from '@x402/evm/exact/client'
import { privateKeyToAccount } from 'viem/accounts'
const account = privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY)
const client = new x402Client().register('eip155:8453', new ExactEvmScheme(account))
const fetchWithPayment = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client)
const body = {
"url": "https://grist.tools/samples/images/convert-gradient.png",
"format": "webp",
"quality": 80
}
const res = await fetchWithPayment('https://grist.tools/v1/image-convert', {
method: 'POST',
headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' },
body: JSON.stringify(body),
})
console.log(res.status, await res.json())
const settle = res.headers.get('payment-response')
if (settle) console.log(decodePaymentResponseHeader(settle).transaction)# image-convert: $0.003 per call, paid in USD Coin on eip155:8453 via x402
# Install: pip install "x402[requests,evm]>=2.24,<3"
# The session reads the 402 (payment-required), signs and retries with payment-signature.
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http import decode_payment_response_header
from x402.http.clients.requests import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact import register_exact_evm_client
from x402.mechanisms.evm.signers import EthAccountSigner
account = Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])
client = x402ClientSync()
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(account), networks="eip155:8453")
session = x402_requests(client)
payload = {
"url": "https://grist.tools/samples/images/convert-gradient.png",
"format": "webp",
"quality": 80
}
res = session.post("https://grist.tools/v1/image-convert", json=payload)
print(res.status_code, res.json())
settle = res.headers.get("payment-response")
if settle:
print(decode_payment_response_header(settle).transaction)# image-convert: $0.003 per call, paid in USD Coin on eip155:8453 via x402
# 1. Unpaid call: HTTP 402, the requirements in the payment-required header (base64 JSON) and in the body.
curl -i -X POST 'https://grist.tools/v1/image-convert' -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{"url":"https://grist.tools/samples/images/convert-gradient.png","format":"webp","quality":80}'
# 2. Same call with the signed payment (an EIP-3009 authorization, EIP-712 signed: it cannot be
# typed by hand). x-payment is accepted as the v1 alternative. HTTP 200 carries payment-response.
curl -i -X POST 'https://grist.tools/v1/image-convert' -H 'content-type: application/json' -H 'payment-signature: <base64 x402 payload>' -d '{"url":"https://grist.tools/samples/images/convert-gradient.png","format":"webp","quality":80}'06Errors
| Code | HTTP | For this service |
|---|---|---|
| invalid_input | 400 | The body does not match the schema; its fields are url, format and quality. |
| blocked_target | 403 | |
| unreachable_target | 424 | |
| upstream_timeout | 424 | |
| unsupported_content_type | 415 | The source is not a type image-convert reads; it reads AVIF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, SVG, TIFF and WebP. |
| too_large | 413 | |
| unprocessable | 422 | |
| internal | 500 |
Input that is rejected before the tool runs (malformed JSON, schema mismatch, body over the size limit) is never charged.
When each code is raised, and what it means for payment: /docs/image-convert.
07Conversions
| Conversion | Recorded sample | Source size | Output size |
|---|---|---|---|
| AVIF to JPEG | images/pair-note.avif | 1 KB | 4.2 KB |
| AVIF to PNG | images/pair-note.avif | 1 KB | 1,021 bytes |
| AVIF to WebP | images/pair-note.avif | 1 KB | 940 bytes |
| GIF to JPEG | images/pair-note.gif | 1.9 KB | 4.2 KB |
| GIF to PNG | images/pair-note.gif | 1.9 KB | 1,021 bytes |
| GIF to WebP | images/pair-note.gif | 1.9 KB | 940 bytes |
| JPEG to PNG | images/pair-note.jpg | 5.2 KB | 3 KB |
| JPEG to WebP | images/pair-note.jpg | 5.2 KB | 942 bytes |
| PNG to JPEG | images/convert-gradient.png | 1.8 KB | 373 bytes |
| PNG to WebP | images/convert-gradient.png | 1.8 KB | 156 bytes |
| SVG to JPEG | images/svg-badge.svg | 365 bytes | 1.1 KB |
| SVG to WebP | images/svg-badge.svg | 365 bytes | 570 bytes |
| TIFF to JPEG | images/pair-note.tiff | 3.6 KB | 4.2 KB |
| TIFF to PNG | images/pair-note.tiff | 3.6 KB | 1,021 bytes |
| TIFF to WebP | images/pair-note.tiff | 3.6 KB | 940 bytes |
| WebP to JPEG | images/pair-note.webp | 248 bytes | 4.2 KB |
| WebP to PNG | images/pair-note.webp | 248 bytes | 1,021 bytes |
08Questions
- How much does a image-convert call cost?
- $0.003 per call, paid in USDC on Base via x402, with no account and no API key.
- What does image-convert return?
- A JSON object with 8 top-level fields: source_url, source_format, format, mime_type, width, height, bytes and image_base64. The example on this page is a real call over images/convert-gradient.png.
- What happens when a image-convert call fails?
- The tool answers with a typed JSON error from the errors table. Payment is settled only after the tool has produced its result; a call that fails inside the tool is never settled. A 503 upstream_unavailable can follow a settled call; the x402 payments guide covers it, 429, 402 and an uncertain 500.