Design a template once, render images, PDFs and videos from your API
Orshot is a creative-automation API: design a branded template once (in its Studio, or imported from Canva/Figma), connect dynamic data sources, and render images, ads, social content, multi-page PDFs — and now video and audio — automatically via REST API, webhooks, native integrations or your AI agent (MCP included). Built for agencies, brands, startups and developers who need thousands of on-brand variations, not one hero image. Free tier with $39-349 volume plans.
This is the "programmatic creative" layer that product screenshots, personalized PDFs, certificates, og-images and ad variants all need — the glue between your data and pixels that nobody wants to hand-build with headless browsers.
Who it's for: developers generating dynamic og-images and PDF reports from product data, agencies personalizing client creative at scale, and anyone whose AI agent needs to produce on-brand visuals as part of a workflow. The template-once-render-many model is proven (Bannerbear, Placid); Orshot's differentiators are the AI-agent-first integrations and video/audio support — test render latency and template flexibility against your actual volume before committing to a plan.
What it is
Design a template once, render images, PDFs and videos from your API
Pricing
Freemium
Primary category
Developer Tools
Source code
Closed source / hosted
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