What is image-sdk?

Image SDK is a TypeScript library that gives you one consistent way to generate and edit images using many different AI image providers, including Flux, OpenAI, Stability AI, Google Imagen, Replicate, fal.ai, Ideogram, and Recraft. Normally, each of these services has its own request format, its own way of telling you when an image is ready, and its own way of failing, which means switching providers or supporting several at once usually means writing a lot of custom code. The library aims to make the simple case genuinely simple, a single function call can generate an image with no setup at all using a free demo mode, while still supporting the harder, real world problems production applications run into. These include handling the fact that many providers work by submitting a request and then checking back later for the result, especially tricky on serverless platforms with limited execution time, normalizing content moderation responses so you do not need separate handling per provider, adding automatic fallback to another provider if one fails, tracking cost and usage automatically, and offering pluggable permanent storage so that image links that would otherwise expire do not silently break your application. To get started, you install the package from npm and either try a free command line demo with no API key, or set an environment variable with a key from any one of the supported providers and the library automatically detects and uses it. More advanced usage lets you configure multiple providers together with fallback behavior, and separate the triggering of a slow image generation job from resuming it later, useful on platforms like Vercel or Cloudflare Workers. The project also ships a command line tool, a React hook, and a Model Context Protocol server so AI coding assistants like Claude Code and Cursor can use it directly. It requires Node.js 20 or newer, or Bun, and is licensed under Apache 2.0. The project describes itself as early access.