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Hipsum vs Kroki
Hipsum is a small, keyless JSON API that generates hipster-themed lorem ipsum text — pure hipster jargon or a mix of hipster-speak and classic Latin filler, with control over paragraph or sentence counts. It's a single-maintainer WordPress-hosted side project with no published rate limit and no support commitment, but the endpoint responds reliably and sends permissive CORS headers.
Kroki puts a single unified HTTP API in front of two dozen open-source diagram-as-code renderers, including PlantUML, Mermaid, GraphViz, D2, BPMN, Excalidraw, and WaveDrom, so callers send diagram source text and get back an image with no local toolchain to install. A GET request embeds the (deflate+base64-encoded) diagram directly in the URL, making it trivial to drop live diagrams straight into Markdown or HTML. The project and its public instance at kroki.io are free and open source, with self-hosting via Docker documented for anyone who needs a private instance.
| Hipsum | Kroki | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | None | None |
| Pricing | free | free |
| Formats | JSON | SVG, PNG, PDF, JPEG |
| CORS | yes | yes |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |
Kroki supports 4 response formats, while Hipsum offers fewer — pick Kroki for more integration flexibility.