Pixel art that looks hand-made. Ready in seconds.
AI generated pixel art, designed by artists. Characters, maps, items, tilesets, animations and 3D models on a real pixel grid, in 84 styles, from $0.03 an image.
Made with Retro Diffusion. Every pixel on the grid.
No smudged "pixel-style" filters. Hover any piece to see the model and style behind it, then make your own in one click.
RD ProPainterlyUse style →
RD ProHorrorUse style →
RD ProInventory ItemsUse style →
RD ProIsometricUse style →
RD ProFantasyUse style →
RD ProSci-fiUse style →
RD ProUI PanelUse style →
RD ProPainterlyUse style →
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RD ProHorrorUse style →
RD ProFantasyUse style →
RD ProUI PanelUse style →RD ProFantasyUse style →
RD ProDungeon MapUse style →
RD ProDefaultUse style →
RD ProSimpleUse style →
RD ProFantasyUse style →
RD ProPlatformerUse style →
RD ProDefaultUse style →
RD ProInventory ItemsUse style →
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RD ProTop DownUse style →
RD ProFantasyUse style →RD Pro and Advanced Animations lead the lineup.
RD Pro is our flagship for finished, professional art. Advanced Animations brings your own characters and scenes to life from a single image. RD Fast, RD Mini, Animations, Tilesets, Low-Poly 3D and My Styles cover quick drafts, tiny sprites, maps and 3D. Hover any card to flip through real outputs.
RD Pro
$0.18per imageOur best model. Clean lines, readable shapes and the widest range, from portraits and maps to UI panels and sprite sheets. Edit and pixelate built in.
Advanced Animations
Animate your own character, creature or scene from one image. Pick a move, or describe one in your own words, and get a looping sprite sheet back.
RD Mini
$0.06per imageTiny sprites, icons and textures, 16 to 64 px.
Tilesets
$0.06fromSeamless tiles and tile objects for maps.
Low‑Poly 3D
$0.10fromPixel-textured 3D models and whole scenes.
My Styles
Train a style on a handful of your own images, then generate new art in your look. Works with every RD Pro setting.
Still art in.
Living art out.
Give it one image of your own character, creature or scene. Pick a move and get it back animated and on-model, as a looping sprite sheet and GIF.
- From $0.10 per animation. Most moves are $0.14, Subtle Motion and Custom Action $0.25
- Custom Action: describe any move in your own words
- 4 to 16 frames, looping, transparent backgrounds and sheet export built in
Walks, attacks, idles and living scenes.
Every loop here is a real Advanced Animations output, made from one still image. Hover one to see the preset behind it.
Got "pixel-style" art from another AI? Fix it.
The Pixel Art Fixer finds the real grid, snaps every pixel to it and cleans the palette. Drag the handle to compare real results. Free in your browser, $0.002 per image in bulk on the API.
OriginalFixedPixel art tools that run in your browser.
Convert, recolor, outline, rotate and slice sprite sheets for free. Every tool runs on Retro Diffusion's own engine on your device, so nothing is uploaded and there are no watermarks.
Built for people who ship pixel art.
A real pixel grid
Every output downloads at true size. Scale it 2×, 4×, 10× and it stays crisp, because it’s actual pixel art.
Styles that hold a look
From 1-bit to painterly, isometric to inventory sheets. Lock a palette and your whole set matches.
Pay for what you make
Top up from $5 and your balance never expires. Every button shows its price before you click, and failed generations are refunded automatically.
Game-ready output
Transparent backgrounds, seamless tiling on X and Y, sprite sheets and palettes, built into the generator.
Run jobs side by side
Queue up to five jobs at once on the website while you keep tweaking prompts and settings.
Automate everything
The same models over a simple REST API and an MCP server for your AI tools. Same prices, no extra fees.
Fix, recolor and extend without leaving the canvas.
Nine editing tools sit on the canvas rail. Three of them are free, the rest start at $0.01.
Image Edit
Describe a change, keep the rest
Inpainting
Repaint just one area
Outpainting
Extend the canvas outward
Background Remover
Clean cut to transparency
Color Reducer
Fewer colors, same shapes
Palette Converter
Snap to any palette
Color Style Transfer
Borrow another image’s colors
K-Centroid Downscale
Downscale to a true grid
Seam Tiling
Make it tile seamlessly
Every named color, drawn in pixel art.
Color Names is the open, community-built list of 31,937 human-named colors. Retro Diffusion sponsored the art: a sprite for every single one. Each object was dreamed up from the color's own name and description, then drawn in its exact hex with RD Pro. Browse them all in the explorer's new pixel mode.
Pick Your Poison #bff128, the lime you see all over Retro Diffusion
“Neon warning signs and bad choices, glowing like a toxic cocktail.”
A round lime-green potion flask with a skull-shaped cork and a dark outline.
One of 16 drawn together in a single RD Pro generation, then cut out on transparency.
Read the announcements from Retro Diffusion and meodai, the creator of Color Names.
One API for every model.
Generate images, animations, tilesets and 3D from your own tools, pipelines and agents. Free cost checks before you spend, async jobs for batch pipelines, and a hosted MCP server for Claude, Cursor and friends.
- Same prices as the website, from $0.03 an image
- One balance for the website, the API and MCP
- Every call shows up in your API Activity
# Generate 2 RD Pro images, 128×128 curl https://api.retrodiffusion.ai/v2/inferences \ -H "X-RD-Token: $RD_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "prompt": "a knight resting under a cherry tree", "prompt_style": "rd_pro__fantasy", "width": 128, "height": 128, "num_images": 2, "remove_bg": true }' # → { "balance_cost": 0.36, "base64_images": ["iVBORw0…", "iVBORw0…"] }
Questions, answered.
Actual pixel art. Outputs sit on a true pixel grid with a limited palette, and you can download them at 1× (original size) or scaled up with no blur.
RD Fast is $0.03 per image and RD Pro $0.18. Animations start at $0.07. Top up any amount from $5 and it never expires. The exact price is always shown before you generate, and failed generations are refunded automatically.
Yes. New accounts start with $0.50 of balance, no card needed. Enough for 16 RD Fast images or 2 RD Pro images. The Pixel Art Fixer is free with no signup at all.
Yes. You own your outputs and can use them in personal and commercial projects alike.
True pixel resolutions from 16×16 icons up to 384×384 scenes, depending on the style, with lossless nearest-neighbor upscaled downloads when you need bigger files.
Yes, a REST API and an MCP server with the same models and prices as the website. It uses the same balance as your account. Example code is on GitHub.
Yes. My Styles learns your look from a handful of your images, then generates new art in it, or pass up to 9 reference images straight to RD Pro. No fine-tuning wait.
Yes. Monthly invoicing based on spend, and custom models trained for your project. Reach out on Discord or at support@retrodiffusion.com.
Your next sprite is a sentence away.
New accounts start with $0.50 of balance, no card needed. 84 styles, 8 models, Low-Poly 3D, and a balance that never expires.