A free alternative to Deep Pixels and Pixel GPT for Minecraft GUIs

Pixel GPT, the generator run by Deep Pixels, made AI pixel art for Minecraft popular: you type an item, and it returns a small PNG texture. Its free "newbie" section is openly presented as limited in image quality and text understanding, and the full model catalogue sits behind yearly plans. That is why so many players look for "Pixel GPT free" or "Deep Pixels free" before paying.

Most of those searches come from server owners, not texture artists. What they really want is a shop menu, a kit selector or a lobby screen that looks custom. An item generator can give the icons, but the menu itself, with its frame, its slots and its titles, still has to be assembled by hand in a pixel editor.

Spaleforce answers that exact need. The GUI generator draws the full menu texture from a description and writes your section names on it. It is part of the free plan, so you can judge the result on your own server before deciding anything.

A fair comparison has to say it: if your goal is hundreds of custom item icons, such as swords, potions or food, Deep Pixels is built for that. It lists 16×16 and 32×32 item modes, many models to choose from and large batches on its higher plans. Spaleforce does not generate standalone item icons.

Deep Pixels also offers a 128×128 pixel art mode and a profile picture mode, handy for avatars or small illustrations. If you already own one of its plans and only need items, keep it. The two tools can live side by side: items from one, menus and block textures from the other.

You describe what the menu is for, the style, the sections and the number of slots, in up to 800 characters. The decor is drawn first with no text on it; the names you wrote are then placed in a crisp bitmap font on plates kept free for them. The result is a 256×256 texture that reads cleanly in game.

Downloading the ZIP gives you gui.png, the finished texture, but also background.png without any text, text.png with the labels alone, layout.json with the position of each label and a four-times preview for Discord or your website. Translating a menu or renaming a section becomes a small edit instead of a new drawing.

Each account can make ten GUIs a day on every plan, one at a time, and a GUI that fails is given back. Drawing takes about five to fifteen minutes; you can close the tab and find the result later under the GUI tab of My Projects.

The same free account opens the resource pack studio. Pick your Minecraft Java version (1.13 or later), choose the blocks to repaint and describe the style: the AI draws each block in 16×16 pixel art or in 256×256 HD, and the pack is exported as a ready .zip.

On the free plan, textures are drawn one at a time after a short queue of about ten minutes, with up to 200 per day. Pro and Ultimate remove the queue and the Spaleforce logo stamped on the exported textures, but the tool itself stays open to everyone.

A texture alone does not react to clicks. Put gui.png in your resource pack, or show it through a custom-GUI plugin, then give each slot its action on the server side. That last part is usually where server owners get stuck.

Spaleforce can write that plugin too. Describe the menu, what each slot opens or sells and the permissions involved, and the plugin generator builds and compiles a Paper or Spigot plugin for your version. Plugins use your generation quota, unlike GUIs and textures, which stay free.