Quote a task before reserving funds

Validated against the selected model's inputSchema. Declared image fields accept public HTTPS URLs, committed spicy:// file URIs, legacy persona image references spicy://p/<id> (personas became characters in your personal asset library on 2026-10-12; these references keep resolving to the same images, only in your personal library and only with API keys you created in your personal workspace, so team workspace keys, another account's id and an unknown id all get the same rejection, and they are refused in video, audio and file fields), saved assets as spicy://a/<id> in the media field of the matching kind (the asset must be in the library of the key's workspace: a personal key uses your personal library, a team key uses that team's library; any other asset gets the same rejection as an unknown id), or standard Base64 Data URIs (image/jpeg, image/png, image/webp, image/gif). Inline images are limited to 1048576 decoded bytes and 8388608 pixels each, 8192 pixels per side, and 16 images / 16777216 pixels in total. The complete JSON request must fit within 2097152 bytes. Model-specific limits still apply. Bare Base64, SVG and inline audio/video are not accepted; use HTTPS or file uploads instead. Inline images are stored as account-bound uploaded files; returned input contains file URIs, never the original Base64 bytes. Quote validation does not upload or reserve funds. If the model's inputSchema declares seed and you omit it, we pick a random seed for this task, so two identical requests do not come back with the same output. The chosen seed is returned in the task's input; pass it back to hold the draw steady (a fixed seed keeps runs comparable, it does not guarantee an identical result). On the few models that cannot honour seed on every request, we still vary it where it applies but do not echo it. A seed you send yourself is always used as given. Models that offer an economy route declare the boolean official_fallback (default true): the request runs on the economy route first and, if that fails and the field is true, is retried once on the official route. The hold is the highest price the request can be billed at (the official price while the fallback is allowed); you are billed the price of the route that actually produced the result and the rest of the hold is released. With false, only the economy route is tried and the hold is the economy price.