FOTOhub in ChatGPT
FOTOhub is published in the ChatGPT app directory. Turn it on once and ChatGPT can generate and edit images, video, speech, music and 3D on FOTOhub's own GPUs, show the results inline in the conversation, and tell you what each one cost.
Turn it on
- Open ChatGPT → Settings → Apps & Connectors (or the + menu in the composer → Apps).
- Search for FOTOhub and enable it.
- ChatGPT opens a FOTOhub sign-in page. Approve it.
That is the whole setup. You do not paste an API key and you do not copy a server URL — signing in is the credential step, and it is what makes the billing behave correctly (see below).
Prefer to connect it by URL?
You can add it as a custom connector instead, pointing at https://apis.fotohub.app/mcp/. Same server, same 57 tools. The directory app is easier and gets you the inline widgets and starter prompts; the manual route is there if your workspace restricts directory apps.
What ChatGPT can do once it is connected
| Area | Examples |
|---|---|
| Images | Generate, edit, inpaint, remove or replace a background, add a shadow, upscale, denoise, restore faces, style transfer, depth map, analyse |
| Video | Text-to-video, image-to-video, extend a clip, multi-scene story, burn subtitles, upscale, transcode, watermark, retime |
| Audio | Speech from text, music, sound effects, transcription |
| 3D | Textured mesh from a prompt or a photo, in GLB / OBJ / STL / USDZ |
| Money | Price a job before running it, estimate a batch, compare models, check balance, list transactions |
| Your library | Search your photos, list past generations, save a result to your own bucket, get a fresh download link |
Three good first prompts, the same three shown on the app's directory page:
Turn my product photo into a clean white-background listing image
Make a 5-second vertical clip of my product for Reels, with captions
What would a 10-second 1080p video cost me, and what's my balance?
The third one is worth trying first. Quoting is free and takes nothing from your account, so it is a safe way to see how the app behaves before it spends anything.
Results appear in the chat, not as a link dump
FOTOhub ships three inline widgets, so certain answers render as a component rather than a wall of text:
| Widget | Used by |
|---|---|
| Gallery | generate_image, edit_image, inpaint_image, style_transfer, remove_background, replace_background, blur_background, add_shadow, enhance_image, denoise_image, restore_faces, depth_map, list_generations |
| Player | generate_video, image_to_video, extend_video, generate_story, add_subtitles, upscale_video, transcode_video, add_watermark, change_video_speed, text_to_speech, generate_music, generate_sfx, get_job_status |
| Price table | compare_prices |
The plain-text answer is always sent alongside the widget, so nothing is lost if your client does not render it.
upscale_image deliberately has no gallery: it runs through an image route that answers with base64 rather than a URL, and pushing a multi-megabyte data URI through the transport on every call would cost more than the picture is worth.
Skills come with the app
Four workflow skills are served by the FOTOhub server itself, so ChatGPT picks up the right sequence of calls without you explaining it:
| Skill | When it applies |
|---|---|
fotohub-generation-basics | Any make / edit / price request. Choosing a real model id, quoting first, reading the billing line, polling async jobs, rescuing links before they expire. |
fotohub-product-photography | A product photo turned into sellable imagery — cut-out, background, shadow, finishing, in the right order. |
fotohub-short-video-ad | A short promo or social video: write the shot, run the async job, then add voice, music and subtitles in the correct order. |
fotohub-brand-kit | A consistent set of assets rather than one file — holding a style across calls and sizing per platform. |
How you are billed
This is the part worth reading before you generate anything expensive.
When you connect through the directory app (or any OAuth sign-in), FOTOhub mints a key marked credits_first. That means:
- Your subscription credits are spent first.
- When they run out, the prepaid USD wallet takes over.
- A single call can be split across both.
A raw fh_live_* API key behaves differently — it only ever spends the USD wallet. So the same prompt can settle differently depending on how you connected.
Every result states what was actually charged and what is left. Report that figure rather than an estimate; it is the one the ledger recorded.
Generated links expire
Results come back as signed URLs that stop working after about an hour. If you want to keep something, ask FOTOhub to save it to your storage while the link is fresh — save_to_storage copies it into your own bucket, and get_download_link mints a new link for it later.
Long jobs
Video and 3D are asynchronous: the first call returns a job_id, and ChatGPT polls get_job_status until it is done. A 10-second clip is typically a minute or two. You can keep talking while it runs; ask for the status and it will check.
Three tools you will not see
The server defines 60 tools and registers 57. These three are switched off because the service behind them is not deployed, and a tool that appears and then fails is worse than one that is absent:
generate_shortscreate_training_jobget_training_status
Two more are registered but inert — voice_clone and separate_stems answer with a "not yet available" message rather than doing the work. Both capabilities exist in the FOTOhub web app; neither has a public endpoint behind it yet.
If something goes wrong
| Symptom | Cause |
|---|---|
| "Insufficient funds" | Credits and wallet are both empty. Top up at fotohub.app/console. |
| A tool is missing | It is one of the three gated tools above. |
| A result link 404s | The signed URL expired. Re-generate, or use get_download_link if it was saved. |
| Sign-in loops | Sign out of the app in Settings → Apps & Connectors and reconnect. |