Leonardo.Ai

Model

API for Leonardo's image and video models plus many third-party models

Price: Pay per use
Access: API key

About

Canva-owned API that runs Leonardo's own models (Lucid, Phoenix, Motion) next to hosted third-party image, video and audio models, and takes over the remove.bg background removal API. Billing is prepaid dollars; API credit is separate from web app plans.

What you can do with it

Generate images with Lucid Origin, Phoenix or third-party models like FLUX
Turn a prompt or a still image into a short video clip
Remove backgrounds from product and portrait photos in one sync call

Get started

Buy API credit on the API Access page of the Leonardo app
Create an API key there and send it as a Bearer token

Example

curl -X POST https://cloud.leonardo.ai/api/rest/v2/generations \
  -H "accept: application/json" \
  -H "authorization: Bearer $LEONARDO_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "lucid-origin",
    "parameters": {
      "prompt": "a portrait-style photograph of a fox with soft orange fur",
      "quantity": 1
    },
    "public": false
  }'

Details

Hosting: Hosted service
Available in: Worldwide
Official SDKs: Python, JavaScript/TypeScript
MCP server: Remote