PATINA
PATINA is a paid text- and image-driven tool for creating tiling PBR materials, with output resolution up to 8192 px.
What PATINA is
PATINA is a paid text- and image-driven tool for creating tiling PBR materials, with output resolution up to 8192 px. A prompt can generate a material, while an image URL can be used to create variations; supplying an image and mask lets users regenerate white areas while retaining black ones. The five available maps are basecolor, normal, roughness, metalness, and height. Tiling can cover both directions, horizontal, or vertical, with tile size and stride controls. Requests can produce one to four texture images and use one to eight denoising steps. Prompt expansion is enabled by default and adds approximately $0.0025. Export formats are PNG, JPEG, and WebP, and the listing marks commercial use as allowed. The API is available alongside the web platform, with JavaScript, Python, and cURL examples and FAL_KEY authentication. Per-request charges start with a $0.01 base, plus $0.02 per megapixel and $0.01 per megapixel for each map type; 2x or 4x upscaling adds $0.004 or $0.016 per pre-upscaling megapixel per map.
Good
- Creates seamless tiling PBR materials from prompts.
- Supports five PBR map types.
- Image variations and masked regeneration are available.
- Upscaling reaches 8192 px.
- Commercial use is marked on the listing.
Watch out
- Paid per-request pricing includes map and megapixel charges.
- Prompt expansion adds approximately $0.0025 by default.
Who it suits
PATINA suits artists and developers who need seamless material textures or PBR maps from prompts and image inputs. Its API examples may suit teams building texture generation into a workflow.
Verdict
PATINA combines text and image inputs with tiling controls, multiple PBR maps, and high-resolution output. Review its per-request and upscaling charges when estimating the cost of a workflow.
Plans and prices
From PATINA's own pricing page, checked 7 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| PATINA material inference | — | 1K material with all 5 maps: $0.08 · 8K material with all 5 maps and 4x upscaling: $0.61 · Per request; $0.01 base plus $0.02 per megapixel and $0.01 per megapixel per map type. 2x/4x upscaling adds $0.004/$0.016 per pre-upscaling megapixel per map. |
The facts
Each one read from PATINA's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Commercial use
- The model listing is marked for commercial use.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Dataset
- fal says PATINA's training dataset was built from CC0 material libraries including AmbientCG, Poly Haven, and other public-domain sources.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Developer access
- The API page provides JavaScript, Python, and cURL examples and uses a FAL_KEY environment variable for authentication.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Generation limits
- The endpoint supports 1–4 texture images per request and 1–8 denoising steps.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Inpainting
- An input image and mask can be used to regenerate white mask regions while preserving black regions.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Output maps
- The five available PBR maps are basecolor, normal, roughness, metalness, and height.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Prompt controls
- Prompt expansion is enabled by default and adds approximately $0.0025.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Related photo workflow
- The material extraction endpoint isolates a material from a photo, flattens it, makes it seamless, and predicts PBR maps.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Safety
- The endpoint has an enabled-by-default safety checker option for filtering outputs.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Support
- fal lists [email protected] as its contact address.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Text to material
- Generates complete, seamlessly tiling PBR materials from text prompts, with upscaling up to 8K.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Texture variations
- With an input image URL, the endpoint can create texture variations through image-to-image generation.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Tiling controls
- Tiling can be set to both directions, horizontal, or vertical; tile size and stride are configurable.checked 7 Oct 2026
The company
- Maker background
- fal says it was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco.checked 7 Oct 2026
