Pilot AI: Free Chat, Vision and Image Generation With a Public API

Pilot AI is the assistant built into TelePilot Pro. It answers questions, writes and explains code, generates images and thumbnails, and reads images you upload. It is free to use, and it exposes a public API so you can call it from your own software.

This is a plain description of what it does, how to call it, and where the limits actually are.

Getting Started Takes No Account

You can send one message as a guest — no signup, no email. That is enough to see whether the answers are useful to you.

Signing up (free) removes the single-message limit and gives you unlimited chat under fair-use protection. It also turns on chat history, so past conversations stay in the left sidebar instead of disappearing when you close the tab.

What It Handles

Chat and reasoning. General questions, explanations, drafting and rewriting. The suggested prompts on the landing screen give a fair sense of the range — everything from *Explain Telegram FloodWait simply* to open-ended research questions.

Code. Writing scripts, explaining unfamiliar code, and debugging. It handles the common languages you would expect, and it is genuinely useful for the small automation jobs that are tedious to write from scratch — file renaming, log parsing, API glue.

Image generation. Describe what you want and it produces it. It has specific handling for YouTube thumbnails, where the title text is composited over the generated background rather than being drawn by the image model — which is why the text comes out sharp and readable instead of the garbled lettering image models usually produce.

Vision. Upload an image and ask about it. Counting objects, reading text out of a screenshot or invoice, transcribing a document, explaining a diagram, or translating text in a photo.

Background removal. Ask it to remove the background from an image you upload and it will return a cutout.

The Free Public API

There is a public endpoint you can call from your own applications:

POST https://telepilotpro.com/api/pilot-ai/chat
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_PILOT_AI_KEY
Content-Type: application/json

{ "message": "Explain Telegram FloodWait in one paragraph.", "model": "standard" }

A successful call returns:

{ "reply": "…", "ok": true }

Or with curl:

curl -X POST "https://telepilotpro.com/api/pilot-ai/chat" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer pai_…" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"message":"Hello Pilot AI","model":"standard"}'

Sign in to create a key. Authentication works with either an Authorization: Bearer header or X-Api-Key. The model field accepts standard (the default) or unrestricted.

Note that your Pilot AI key is separate from your marketplace Customer API key. They are different systems and the keys are not interchangeable.

The Limits, Stated Honestly

Free means fair-use limited, not unmetered. The published soft limits are roughly 60 requests per minute and 2,000 per day per key. Exceed them and you get an HTTP 429 with a Retry-After header telling you how long to wait — so build that into your retry logic rather than hammering the endpoint.

There is also no uptime warranty. Free capacity varies under load. If you are putting Pilot AI behind something a customer depends on, handle failures gracefully and have a fallback. That is not a criticism of the service — it is the honest trade for a free tier with no billing attached.

Rate limits apply per IP as well as per key, so sharing a key across many machines will hit the ceiling faster than you expect.

Reasonable Use

The service is free so that everyone can use it, which only works if nobody abuses it. Do not use it for illegal activity, harassment, or probing infrastructure. Accounts that do get cut off, and that is the whole policy.

Where It Fits

If you already run TelePilot Pro tools, Pilot AI is the fastest way to get help with the surrounding work — writing broadcast copy for Telegram Bulk Sender PRO, producing thumbnails and creatives for a channel you are growing with Telegram Member Adder & Scraper PRO, or generating product images for a storefront you run on Universal Digital Shop Bot PRO.

If you are building something of your own, the free API is the more interesting part. It is a working chat endpoint with no card required, which is a reasonable place to prototype before committing to a paid provider.

Related

• Try Pilot AI — one free message as a guest, unlimited when signed in
• All TelePilot Pro products
• Documentation