Reliability · REPRODUCIBLE GUIDE

Image Generation API Error Handling by Failure Class

Classify authentication, validation, moderation, capacity, timeout, and asset-delivery errors before deciding whether to retry.

One API gateway for multiple AI models.

APIMart is a multi-model AI API gateway with an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Use one account to access supported image models, compare current pricing, and choose a cost-efficient option for each workload.

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WHY THIS GUIDE EXISTS

Test the workflow,
not the marketing claim.

Production error handling improves when permanent request failures are separated from temporary provider or network conditions, with safe prompt logging, stable job identifiers, retry budgets, and explicit terminal reasons for rejected assets.

Ecommerce

Ceramic skincare hero

Editorial product photograph of a matte ceramic skincare bottle on pale limestone, soft north-window light, delicate contact shadow, warm neutral palette, 85mm lens compression, no text, no logo.
Clean premium product hero1:1
Design

Music festival poster

Experimental electronic music festival poster, oversized condensed type placeholders, electric blue field, silver halftone sphere, asymmetric Swiss grid, high contrast screen-print texture, leave all wording blank.
Poster composition test2:3
Ecommerce

Transparent headphones cutout

Over-ear headphones isolated as a clean ecommerce cutout, transparent background, accurate soft edge detail around fabric ear pads, neutral product color, no floor, no text, no added accessories.
Transparent catalog asset1:1
PYTHON QUICKSTART

Keep the request reproducible.

Store credentials in the environment. Record the exact model identifier, dimensions, test date, and retry count with the resulting asset.

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
  api_key=os.environ["APIMART_API_KEY"],
  base_url="https://api.apimart.ai/v1",
)

result = client.images.generate(
  model="gpt-image-1-official",
  prompt=PROMPT,
  size="1024x1024",
  n=1,
)
REVIEW CHECKLIST

Before you publish a result