VTON API vs Veesual — Virtual Try-On for Fashion Ecommerce

Looking at a VTON API vs Veesual comparison? PixelAPI gives you a developer-ready virtual try-on REST endpoint at $0.025 per image — no sales call, no 4-week onboarding, no minimum contract. POST a garment image and a model photo; get a dressed result back in under 30 seconds. Veesual and Zyler require enterprise agreements; PixelAPI ships an API key in 60 seconds. 500 free credits, no credit card required.

Quick start — one API call to virtually try on a garment

Sign up, copy your key from the dashboard, and POST a JSON body with two base64-encoded images. The endpoint returns a job_id; poll until status=completed, then download the try-on result.

# Step 1 — submit the try-on job
curl -X POST https://api.pixelapi.dev/v1/virtual-tryon \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "garment_image": "'$(base64 -w0 garment.jpg)'",
    "person_image":  "'$(base64 -w0 model.jpg)'",
    "category": "upperbody",
    "n_samples": 1
  }'
# Response: {"job_id": "uuid", "status": "queued", "eta_seconds": 30, ...}

# Step 2 — poll until completed
curl https://api.pixelapi.dev/v1/virtual-tryon/jobs/UUID \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
# Response: {"status": "completed", "output_url": "https://...", ...}

pip install pixelapi
---
from pixelapi import PixelAPI

client = PixelAPI(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")
result = client.virtual_tryon(
    garment_image="garment.jpg",
    person_image="model.jpg",
    category="upperbody",   # upperbody | lowerbody | dress
    n_samples=1,
)
result.save("tryon_result.jpg")

npm install pixelapi
---
import { PixelAPI } from "pixelapi";
import fs from "fs";

const client = new PixelAPI({ apiKey: process.env.PIXELAPI_KEY });
const result = await client.virtualTryon({
  garmentImage: fs.readFileSync("garment.jpg"),
  personImage:  fs.readFileSync("model.jpg"),
  category:     "upperbody",
  nSamples:     1,
});
await result.save("tryon_result.jpg");

composer require pixelapi/pixelapi
---
<?php
use PixelAPI\Client;

$client = new Client(getenv("PIXELAPI_KEY"));
$result = $client->virtualTryon([
    "garment_image" => base64_encode(file_get_contents("garment.jpg")),
    "person_image"  => base64_encode(file_get_contents("model.jpg")),
    "category"      => "upperbody",
    "n_samples"     => 1,
]);
file_put_contents("tryon_result.jpg", $result->getBody());

gem install pixelapi
---
require "pixelapi"
require "base64"

client = PixelAPI::Client.new(api_key: ENV["PIXELAPI_KEY"])
result = client.virtual_tryon(
  garment_image: Base64.strict_encode64(File.read("garment.jpg")),
  person_image:  Base64.strict_encode64(File.read("model.jpg")),
  category:      "upperbody",
  n_samples:     1
)
File.binwrite("tryon_result.jpg", result.body)

go get github.com/pixelapi/pixelapi-go
---
import "github.com/pixelapi/pixelapi-go"

client := pixelapi.New("YOUR_API_KEY")
result, err := client.VirtualTryon(pixelapi.VTONRequest{
    GarmentImage: "garment.jpg",
    PersonImage:  "model.jpg",
    Category:     "upperbody",
    NSamples:     1,
})
if err != nil { panic(err) }
result.Save("tryon_result.jpg")

Pricing — VTON API vs Veesual, Zyler, FASHN AI, and others

Every rival in this space either hides its pricing behind enterprise sales or charges significantly more per image. Here's what's publicly verifiable:

FASHN AI pricing verified from help.fashn.ai/plans-and-pricing/api-pricing, May 2026. Veesual and Zyler do not publish per-image API pricing. PixelAPI's per-image price is set at exactly half the cheapest verified on-demand rate in this category per our pricing principle.

Why developers choose PixelAPI over Veesual

What you get back

Request parameters reference

Common workflows

The Virtual Try-On API is the core of these production fashion ecommerce pipelines:

Integrations

PixelAPI is a plain REST endpoint and integrates with every platform that can make HTTP requests:

Comparison vs alternatives

Rate limits & error handling

The virtual try-on endpoint allows 10 requests/minute on the free tier and 60 requests/minute on paid tiers. This is separate from other PixelAPI endpoints — you can run background removal and virtual try-on concurrently without sharing rate limit quota. Exceeding the limit returns HTTP 429 with a Retry-After header. Recommended pattern: exponential backoff starting at 2 s, doubling each retry up to 30 s. The Python and Node SDKs implement this automatically.

# Python SDK — automatic retry-on-429 for the VTON endpoint
from pixelapi import PixelAPI

client = PixelAPI(api_key="...", max_retries=4)
result = client.virtual_tryon(
    garment_image="garment.jpg",
    person_image="model.jpg",
    category="upperbody",
)  # auto-retries 429 with exponential backoff

Common HTTP status codes from the VTON endpoint:

Frequently asked questions