Bannerbear V5 Full List of New Features

Bannerbear V5 is here! We've spent the past several months rebuilding the template engine, editor, and API from the ground up.

The result is a faster, more flexible Bannerbear with an even more powerful API.

How to Use V5

To switch to the new V5 interface and editor, use the green toggle in the top right of the Bannerbear interface. You can toggle between V3 and V5 anytime.

All existing V3 features and API endpoints will continue to work as normal.

Here's what's new:

AI

• Generate backgrounds from a text prompt at render time
• Remove backgrounds from any image at render time
• Face and subject AI detection with anchor and zoom controls

Editor

• Object attributes search
• New image features: PNG stroke, PNG shadow, blend modes
• Anchor any layer to any other with point and gap controls
• Adaptive layout per object, make templates resize gracefully

Image API

• Multi-format output: JPG, PNG, PDF, WebP, AVIF
• scale up to 4× for high-res renders
• Adaptive renders, override width / height per request

Batch API

• Generate up to 100 images per request
• Completion webhook

Instant URLs

• Two encoding styles: base64 or query params
• Two security levels: signed or unsigned
• Optional version pinning, rate limiting

API Keys

• Read / write modes per key
• Scope to all templates or specific templates

Webhooks

• Scope to all events or specific events
• Scope to all templates or specific templates
• Delivery history log

Storage Buckets

• S3 and Cloudflare R2 now supported
• Scope to all templates or specific templates

Logs

• Filtering options including date, API key used, status etc

OpenAPI

• Auto-generated specs at api.bannerbear.com/v5/openapi.json
• Always in sync with code