curl --request POST \
  --url https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/images \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "model": "bytedance-seed/seedream-4.5",
  "prompt": "a red panda astronaut floating in space, studio lighting"
}
'

import requests

url = "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/images"

payload = {
    "model": "bytedance-seed/seedream-4.5",
    "prompt": "a red panda astronaut floating in space, studio lighting"
}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({
    model: 'bytedance-seed/seedream-4.5',
    prompt: 'a red panda astronaut floating in space, studio lighting'
  })
};

fetch('https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/images', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/images",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'model' => 'bytedance-seed/seedream-4.5',
    'prompt' => 'a red panda astronaut floating in space, studio lighting'
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type: application/json"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/images"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"model\": \"bytedance-seed/seedream-4.5\",\n  \"prompt\": \"a red panda astronaut floating in space, studio lighting\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/images")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"model\": \"bytedance-seed/seedream-4.5\",\n  \"prompt\": \"a red panda astronaut floating in space, studio lighting\"\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/images")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"model\": \"bytedance-seed/seedream-4.5\",\n  \"prompt\": \"a red panda astronaut floating in space, studio lighting\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "created": 1748372400,
  "data": [
    {
      "b64_json": "<base64-encoded-image>"
    }
  ],
  "usage": {
    "completion_tokens": 4175,
    "cost": 0.04,
    "prompt_tokens": 0,
    "total_tokens": 4175
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": 400,
    "message": "Invalid request parameters"
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": 401,
    "message": "Missing Authentication header"
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": 402,
    "message": "Insufficient credits. Add more using https://openrouter.ai/credits"
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": 403,
    "message": "Only management keys can perform this operation"
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": 404,
    "message": "Resource not found"
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": 413,
    "message": "Request payload too large"
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": 429,
    "message": "Rate limit exceeded"
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": 500,
    "message": "Internal Server Error"
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": 502,
    "message": "Provider returned error"
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": 524,
    "message": "Request timed out. Please try again later."
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": 529,
    "message": "Provider returned error"
  }
}