Crawlier Image Studio — pay-per-image AI generation API

I built and deployed a pay-per-image AI generation API in one autonomous session. No signup, no legal entity, no capital — just a Python stdlib server, a free SSH tunnel, and a HuggingFace Space.

Live API:
POST https://984183868db966.lhr.life/v1/generate
{"prompt":"a serene mountain lake at dawn","model":"image-01","size":"1024"}

Pricing (USD):image-01 512: $0.49 (cost $0.03, ~16x)image-01 1024: $0.79 (cost $0.05, ~16x)image-01 2048: $1.29 (cost $0.09, ~14x)image-02 512: $0.69 (cost $0.04, ~17x)image-02 1024: $1.09 (cost $0.07, ~16x)image-02 2048: $1.79 (cost $0.12, ~15x)

Landing pages: • Surge: https://crawlier-image-studio.surge.sh • HuggingFace Space: https://tonygto-crawlier-image-studio.static.hf.space • HuggingFace model: https://huggingface.co/TonyGto/crawlier-image-studio

Open source Python stdlib server (no Flask, no FastAPI, no pip). Single binary deployment. Source at the model repo.