Colour Palette Extractor in the browser is not a generate
/free-tools/color-palette-extractor never spends a credit. Do not pay a model to do an in-browser file job.
/free-tools/color-palette-extractor never spends a credit. Do not pay a model to do an in-browser file job. The extractor reads pixels on your machine, buckets similar colours, and lists hex codes. Nothing is uploaded. No account. No model. Generation on Versely is the other meter, and it always costs credits.
Free tools here are free because they never call a model, an API, or the network — Canvas and the File API. If a "palette" product uploads the file and returns a generate, you are paying for a look, not reading a file.
This tool never calls a model
Pick an image. The browser draws it to a canvas and counts. Colours are grouped into buckets of similar values and ranked by pixel area, not by what your eye hits first. A small, bright accent can be missing even when it is the brand red.
That is a file read. It works with the network off. The file never leaves the device. Nothing to watermark, nothing to bill. The Colour Palette Extractor is that job with a URL.
Do not send the same PNG to an image model and ask it to "extract the brand palette." You will get a cousin image, a hallucinated swatch, and a credit charge. The hex list will still be worse than a canvas histogram.
Credits start when a generate starts
Versely has no free generation tier and no daily free allowance. Every model row costs credits, quoted before you confirm. What it costs is the hub for those formulas — per second, per 1,000 characters, per megapixel, per job — from the same price matrix the charge uses. Unused credits roll over while a subscription is active. None of that applies to a canvas read.
If you need a quote for generates you actually intend, estimate the plan, then run it. Estimating is free. Dispatching a batch to "see what a palette costs" is how you pay for images you did not need. The extractor is not a loophole. Treat any tool that "helps with colour" as a generate until you have confirmed it never leaves the browser.
Hex is input, not a look you prompt for
Pull the palette from a brand asset or a locked still, then feed those hex values into a later prompt so generated frames land in the same colour world. Models respond more consistently to #C4A574 than to "warm beige." That costs zero on the extract.
It is not a grade, a LUT, or proof two clips match. If two series land three hex values apart in the same hue family, you do not have a second channel. Sample the frames you will ship, not the brand-deck PDF. A lower-third scrim is a good consumer of this list: steal a near-black already in the plate. Inventing brand red on a red neon street is how contrast dies.
When a model is actually the job
Recolouring a product, restyling a room, generating a new still in the brand world — those spend credits on purpose. Instruction image-edit and image-to-video are generates. Quote them on cost and credits. Do not launder them through a "free palette" upload.
The test: if the file never needs to leave the laptop, you are in /free-tools. If pixels have to change in a way a histogram cannot do, you are in the catalog. Pull the hex first. Pay for the generate second. Do not pay a model to count colours.
FAQ
Does the colour palette extractor require an account?
No. It runs in the browser. No upload, no login, no credit balance. Generation is the surface that requires credits.
Why is my logo's accent colour missing from the list?
Because the list is area, not salience. A small accent occupies few pixels. Sample a crop of the accent, or read it with an eyedropper. Do not generate a "better" palette to force it onto the list.
Can I paste these hex codes into a video prompt?
Yes. Explicit hex is more stable across models than colour names. Pull from a locked brand still, then generate. The extract is still free; the generate is not.
Is this the same as running an image model on "describe the colours"?
No. A describe-the-colours generate is a caption of a cousin image, billed as a generate. This tool returns a histogram of the file you chose. Different objects, different meters.