Stability AI Generate Ultra — highest-quality text-to-image generation via pay-per-call MPP
What it does
The Generate Ultra endpoint is Stability AI's premium text-to-image model, exposed through the Locus MPP (Micropayment Protocol) gateway. It accepts a text prompt and optional parameters (negative prompt, aspect ratio, output format, style preset, seed, and img2img inputs) and returns a generated image. Payment is settled per call via the Tempo method on pathUSD at $0.092 per generation.
This endpoint is part of a broader Stability AI suite available through the same MPP provider, which includes Generate Core ($0.034), Generate SD3 ($0.029–$0.075 depending on model), image editing tools (erase, inpaint, outpaint, search-and-replace, search-and-recolor, sketch, structure, style guide, style transfer), background removal and replacement with relighting, multiple upscaling tiers (fast at $0.023, conservative at $0.46, creative at $0.69), 3D model generation (Stable Fast 3D, Stable Point Aware 3D), and audio generation/editing (text-to-audio, audio-to-audio, audio inpaint). All endpoints use POST with JSON request bodies and charge via the same Tempo/pathUSD settlement.
The Generate Ultra endpoint supports aspect ratios including 21:9, 16:9, 3:2, 5:4, 1:1, 4:5, 2:3, and 9:16. Output formats include JPEG, PNG, and WebP. An image-to-image mode is available by providing an input image with a strength parameter (0–1). The only required field is `prompt`. Note that the probe did not capture a 402 challenge on HEAD/GET — the endpoint is POST-only — but the OpenAPI spec with full payment metadata is present and well-structured.
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Generating high-quality images from text prompts for marketing, design, or content creation
- —Image-to-image transformation using a reference image with adjustable strength
- —Producing images in specific aspect ratios for social media, print, or web layouts
- —Automated image generation pipelines where agents pay per call without API keys
- —Batch creative asset generation with reproducible results via seed control
Fit
Best for
- —AI agents needing pay-per-call image generation without subscription management
- —Developers wanting Stability AI's highest-quality model via a simple POST endpoint
- —Workflows requiring deterministic outputs through seed-based reproducibility
- —Applications needing multiple aspect ratios and output formats from a single endpoint
Not for
- —High-volume generation where subscription pricing would be more cost-effective
- —Real-time or latency-sensitive applications (generation may be async)
- —Users who need free or open-source image generation without per-call costs
Quick start
curl -X POST https://stability-ai.mpp.paywithlocus.com/stability-ai/generate-ultra \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <MPP_TOKEN>" \
-d '{"prompt": "A futuristic city at sunset, photorealistic", "aspect_ratio": "16:9", "output_format": "png"}'Example
Request
{
"seed": 42,
"prompt": "A futuristic city at sunset, photorealistic",
"aspect_ratio": "16:9",
"style_preset": "photographic",
"output_format": "png",
"negative_prompt": "blurry, low quality"
}Endpoint
Quality
The OpenAPI spec is comprehensive with full request schemas, payment metadata, and pricing for this and sibling endpoints. However, the probe did not capture a live 402 challenge (the endpoint is POST-only and was probed with HEAD/GET), no response schema is documented, and crawled pages returned only 404 JSON errors. No example responses are available.
Warnings
- —Probe returned 404 on HEAD/GET — endpoint is POST-only; liveness not confirmed via 402 challenge
- —No response schema documented in OpenAPI spec — output format/structure is unknown
- —Currency address 0x20c000000000000000000000b9537d11c60e8b50 assumed to be pathUSD with 6 decimals based on Tempo method context; if decimals differ, pricing would be incorrect
- —Crawled pages all returned 404; no additional documentation was retrievable from the provider origin
Citations
- —Generate Ultra costs 92000 base units via Tempo method with the listed currencyhttps://stability-ai.mpp.paywithlocus.com
- —Supported aspect ratios include 21:9, 16:9, 3:2, 5:4, 1:1, 4:5, 2:3, 9:16https://stability-ai.mpp.paywithlocus.com
- —API reference available at platform.stability.aihttps://platform.stability.ai/docs/api-reference
- —LLM-readable docs referenced at beta.paywithlocus.com/mpp/stability-ai.mdhttps://beta.paywithlocus.com/mpp/stability-ai.md