# Why Refabric

> What you get from one API built for fashion work.

Refabric's tasks are the steps of a fashion workflow — design, edit, shoot, animate, prepare for
production — and each one takes and returns the things that workflow uses: garments, products,
fabrics, moodboards, models and poses. This page lists what that means for your integration, and
where each point is documented.

**One API for the fashion workflow.** Every task is called the same way: `POST /v1/tasks/{name}`
with its input, a job, a result. The categories and tasks are the live catalogue
([Task API Reference](https://docs.refabric.com/task-api-reference)); a task added to it is called like every other one.

**Garment-faithful edits.** An edit task changes one thing and states what it keeps. For example,
`image.change_background` replaces the backdrop and keeps the person, the garment and the styling;
`image.repose` changes the pose and keeps the person and the clothes. Each task's page says what
it keeps and what it changes ([Task API Reference](https://docs.refabric.com/task-api-reference)).

**Records, not just images.** A moodboard, a fabric, a brand kit or a range plan comes back as a
record with an id (`moodboard:…`), structured `data` and a preview image. You pass the id to the
next task instead of re-sending pictures ([Records & libraries](https://docs.refabric.com/records-and-libraries/overview)).

**Maximum cost before you run.** `POST /v1/tasks/{name}/estimate` takes the same body as a run and
answers the most that request can cost. Submitting holds that amount; only what is delivered is
charged, and the rest of the hold comes back when the job ends ([Pricing](https://docs.refabric.com/task-apis/pricing#what-is-charged)).

**One error shape everywhere.** A refused request, a failed job, a webhook for a failed job and a
`Prefer: wait` answer all carry the same error object, with a stable `code`, a `field` and a
`retryable` flag ([Task errors](https://docs.refabric.com/task-apis/errors/task-errors)).

## Next steps

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Run your first job.
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How every task call works.
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:::card{title="Pricing" href="/task-apis/pricing"}
How credits are held and charged.
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