Solutions / Image Generation

Governed image generation across every provider.

Route image generation, edits, and variations through the ManyLayers gateway — with provider flexibility, per-team spend controls, content guardrails, and a complete audit trail for every image request.

The problem

Image AI spend is invisible and difficult to govern.

Teams calling image APIs directly have no shared spend visibility, no content policy enforcement, and no audit record of what was generated or by whom. When brand incidents happen or budgets overrun, there is no trail to investigate. Provider lock-in makes it expensive to test alternatives.

The outcome

Every image request governed, tracked, and auditable.

ManyLayers routes image requests through the same governed gateway used for text. Guardrails screen prompts, budgets cap per-team spend, and every generation is logged with cost and outcome. Switch from DALL-E to Imagen or your own SDXL deployment with a single config change.

Capabilities

Full governance over your image generation workloads.

Generation, Edits & Variations

Full coverage of the images API surface: create images from text prompts, generate edits from a base image and mask, and produce variations of an existing image — all through a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

Provider Choice

Route image requests to OpenAI DALL-E, Google Vertex Imagen, Stable Diffusion XL running on your own GPUs, or any provider you configure. Switch or load-balance without touching your application code.

Per-Team Image Budgets

Image generation is expensive. Set per-team and per-key monthly spend caps that apply specifically to image workloads. Hard limits prevent runaway spend; soft alerts warn before caps are reached.

Content Guardrails

Prompt screening applied before any image request leaves your infrastructure. Block restricted content categories, enforce style policies, and log every guardrail decision for audit.

Full Audit Trail

Every image request is logged with user, team, provider, model, cost, and guardrail outcome. Export to your data warehouse or SIEM. Useful for brand governance and compliance reviews.

Self-Hosted Image Models

Deploy Stable Diffusion XL or custom fine-tuned image models on your Kubernetes cluster and route them through the same governed gateway endpoint used for frontier providers.

Request flow

From prompt to governed image.

01
Application calls /v1/images/generations — no code change from OpenAI SDK
02
Gateway screens prompt against content guardrails and budget checks
03
Routing rules select provider: DALL-E, Imagen, SDXL, or custom
04
Image is generated and returned; cost recorded against team budget
05
Audit entry written: user, team, provider, prompt hash, cost, guardrail result

3+

Image providers supported

100%

Image spend tracked and governed

<1 ms

Gateway overhead before generation

“We had four teams calling image APIs independently with no shared controls. ManyLayers gave us one governed endpoint with per-team budgets and content policies in a day — and our image spend dropped 30% in the first month.”

VP of Engineering — Digital Media Platform

Govern every image generation request across your organisation.