Bannerbear

Bannerbear is an API-first platform for automated visual content generation: images, videos, and PDFs rendered from reusable, brand-controlled templates. The workflow starts in a drag-and-drop template editor where a designer builds a layout with dynamic fields - text, images, dates, barcodes, or any data that will change between renders. Once a template exists, every output is produced by feeding it data: a REST API call, a row in Airtable or Google Sheets, a Shopify product, a WordPress post, or a trigger in Zapier or Make.com. One template can therefore generate thousands or millions of unique, on-brand assets without manual design work. The Images API renders graphics in all major image formats plus single- and multi-file PDFs, while the Workflow API automates branded video with title cards, overlays, and subtitles, and includes media tools for trimming, resizing, cropping, joining, overlaying, color filtering, slideshows, GIF previews, and cover art. Audio tools add voiceovers, and the subtitle tool burns captions by first transcribing audio and then re-encoding the video. Bannerbear's AI angle is genuine but focused: rather than generating an entire design from a prompt, AI assists inside deterministic templates. AI background generation creates new backdrops for product and portrait images, background removal isolates subjects, and face or subject detection enables smart cropping and compositing, with each AI feature costing one extra credit per layer that uses it. AI agents can also drive the whole pipeline, since Bannerbear ships MCP support and markets AI-powered subtitle, animated-subtitle, and YouTube chapter generators. Usage is metered in credits: a base image render costs one credit, multiplied by the number of formats and the scale requested; animations cost two credits per second; media tools cost one to four credits depending on the workload; Auto Animate costs one credit per run. All generated assets are delivered through a global CDN with hotlinking, and integration options include signed URLs, simple URLs, embeddable HTML forms, crawlers, and team members with roles. Plans start with a free 30-credit trial, then Automate at $49 per month for 1,000 image and video API credits with 10 GB of bandwidth, Scale at $149 per month for 10,000 credits, and Enterprise at $299 per month for 50,000 credits, with security and support features such as data expiry, 2FA, GDPR DPA, priority and Zoom support, and bring-your-own AWS S3 storage expanding at each tier. Positioned against the manual design bottleneck rather than text-to-image generators, Bannerbear complements generative AI ideation with consistent, on-brand rendering at scale, making it a reliable production layer for marketing stacks that need thousands of images, videos, and documents generated the moment data changes.