We Built a One-Call AI Product Photography API — Here's How It Works Under the Hood

We Built a One-Call AI Product Photography API — Here's How It Works Under the Hood If you sell products online, you know the pain: raw product photos shot on a kitchen counter look terrible. Professional product photography costs $50–$200 per shot. AI tools like PhotoRoom exist, but their API costs $0.15+ per image and requires you to chain multiple calls yourself. We just shipped a single API endpoint that takes your raw product image and returns a studio-quality shot — background removed, AI scene generated, shadows added — in one call at $0.075 per image . Here's exactly how it's built. The Problem With the "Do It Yourself" Approach Most image AI APIs are building blocks, not solutions. To get a professional product photo you had to: POST /remove-background → get transparent PNG POST /generate-background with SDXL → get background image Composite foreground + background yourself POST /add-shadow → get final image That's 3 API calls, 3 billing events, your own compositing code, and