generated: '2026-08-17'
method: probed
source: 'https://pixeltable.com/llms.txt, https://pixeltable.com/data-products, https://pixeltable.com/tools,
  plus live probes'
note: 'THERE IS NO TEST-VS-LIVE SANDBOX in the payments sense — no test-mode key prefixes, no magic test
  values, no test clocks, no fixture triggers. Recording that plainly rather than forcing the artifact shape.
  What Pixeltable offers instead is more unusual and arguably stronger: the entire product runs locally with no
  credential at all, and two public agent endpoints answer anonymously. This artifact captures what a developer
  or agent can actually exercise before signing up.'
test_live_separation:
  exists: false
  key_prefixes: []
  modes: []
  note: 'No test/live mode distinction is published. Cloud API keys are sent as X-api-key with no documented
    prefix convention, and there is no sandbox tenant.'
zero_credential_paths:
- name: Local install
  type: self-hosted
  auth: none
  command: pip install pixeltable
  note: 'The full product — storage, computed columns, embedding indexes, serving — runs locally with no account
    and no API key. It bundles its own Postgres (pixeltable-pgserver), so there are no external services to
    provision. This is the real "sandbox": Apache 2.0, free forever, feature-complete per the pricing page.'
  verified: searched
- name: Scaffolded starter app
  type: template
  auth: none
  command: uvx pixeltable-new myapp
  variants:
  - uvx pixeltable-new myapp             # declarative serving (default)
  - uvx pixeltable-new myapp --backend   # full FastAPI + React app
  - uvx pixeltable-new myapp --batch     # batch processing script
  - uvx pixeltable-new myapp --json      # structured output for AI tools
  note: Runs without installing Pixeltable first; fetches a template from the Starter Kit.
  repository: https://github.com/pixeltable/pixeltable-starter-kit
  verified: searched
- name: WebMCP server
  type: live-anonymous-endpoint
  url: https://pixeltable.com/mcp
  auth: none
  read_only: true
  note: 'Callable right now with no credential. An anonymous JSON-RPC tools/list returned HTTP 200 with both
    tools and their inputSchemas. This is the most directly exercisable surface Pixeltable has.'
  verified: probed
- name: Ask endpoint
  type: live-anonymous-endpoint
  url: https://pixeltable.com/ask
  auth: none
  method: POST
  required_body: '{"query": "<question>"}'
  rate_limit: 20 requests per minute per IP
  note: Answered an anonymous POST with HTTP 200 and grounded schema.org-typed results.
  verified: probed
consoles:
- name: Local dashboard
  type: local-console
  command: pxt dashboard
  auth: none
  note: 'Browser dashboard bundled with the library for browsing tables, media and pipeline DAGs. Redesigned
    with a sticky catalog switcher in v0.7.2. No account required.'
  verified: searched
- name: Pixeltable Cloud dashboard
  type: hosted-console
  url: https://pixeltable.com/dashboard
  auth: WorkOS AuthKit session
  note: '302s to signin.pixeltable.com — account required. Browses tables, media, pipeline DAGs and storage.'
  verified: probed
  http_status: 200
free_tier:
  exists: true
  plans:
  - Self-Hosted (free forever, Apache 2.0)
  - Community ($0 + usage, $30/mo compute credit)
  detail: plans/pixeltable-plans-pricing.yml
public_datasets:
  advertised: true
  available: false
  catalog_url: https://pixeltable.com/data-products
  advertised_example: "pxt.replicate(remote_uri='pxt://pixeltable:fiftyone/coco_mini_2017', local_path='coco')"
  advertised_at: https://pixeltable.com/llms.txt
  note: 'DIVERGENCE WORTH REPORTING. llms.txt presents public datasets as a Cloud feature and gives a concrete
    replicate example against pxt://pixeltable:fiftyone/coco_mini_2017, and states that public datasets require
    no account. The catalogue page itself says "No public datasets are currently available. Check back soon or
    browse our documentation." Separately, changelog v0.6.6 (2026-06-23) records that data sharing and replica
    functionality was REMOVED from the library, before v0.7.0 reintroduced cloud-hosted database support. So the
    example URI in llms.txt is not currently replicable and was NOT treated as a verified test fixture here.'
  verified: probed
demo_applications:
- name: Pixelbot
  url: https://agent.pixeltable.com/
  repository: https://github.com/pixeltable/pixelbot
  description: Multimodal AI agent and interactive data studio with on-demand ML inference, media generation and
    a database explorer.
  http_status: 522
  verified: probed
  note: 'CURRENTLY DOWN. Returned HTTP 522 (Cloudflare connection timed out) on 2026-08-17. It is linked from
    the site footer as "Pixelbot" and surfaced in search results as a live demo, so the outage is
    user-visible. The status page does not list it among its four monitored components.'
- name: Free tools
  url: https://pixeltable.com/tools
  http_status: 200
  verified: probed
  note: Linked from the footer as "Free Tools"; browser-based utilities built on Pixeltable.
test_values:
  published: []
  note: 'CHECKED, NOTHING TO RECORD. No test card numbers, test identifiers, magic values, sample tokens or
    fixture generators are published — consistent with an infrastructure library rather than a transactional
    API. Sample DATA is plentiful in the documentation (tutorial datasets, example media URLs), but those are
    teaching material, not sandbox fixtures, and were not harvested as such.'