seven canvases
one table
checked against each source

Pixel canvas sites, compared.

Place Pixels, wplace, bplace, pxls.space, pixelplace.io, Our World of Pixels and r/place, on the four things that decide it: what you paint on, what a pixel costs, when it ends, and whether it is open at all. Four of the seven are blank boards. This one is your street.

Paint your street, free Jump to the table

Your pixel has an address, and a link opens the map on it
No account for your first 50 pixels
Open every day, and nothing resets

Site	What you paint on	What a pixel costs	When it ends
Place Pixels	The real world, in ten-meter squares	A wallet of 200 that refills 1 every 20 seconds	Never. The map is permanent and work weathers rather than resets
wplace	The real world, on an OpenStreetMap base	A pool of paint that refills 1 every 30 seconds, expanded by leveling or by spending droplets	Never, and finished work stays finished
Better Place	The real world, on an OpenStreetMap base	A pool of 200 that refills 1 every 15 seconds, raised by leveling or by spending chromas	Never. The canvas is permanent
pxls.space	One fixed rectangular canvas, numbered and replaced every few months	A cooldown that gets longer as more people come online, stacking up to 6 pixels	Every canvas ends and is archived, then a new one opens
pixelplace.io	Many separate canvases, most of them made by players, plus a shared Pixel World War map	A 5 second cooldown on the free tier, shortened by premium	Per canvas, at whatever the owner decides
Our World of Pixels	An almost infinite blank canvas, plus custom worlds anyone can open at a URL	No cooldown. A rate limit caps drawing speed	No editions and no published reset schedule. Worlds persist at their URLs
r/place	One square canvas, up to 3,000 by 2,000 in its last edition	A cooldown of several minutes, varying by edition	After a few days, with the palette cut to white

How to choose

One question settles most of it: do you want to paint a place that exists, or a blank rectangle? A blank rectangle asks you what to draw. A map already knows where your school is, which is why most people here start on a street they have walked down, and why the thing they paint is one nobody else could have.

Four of the seven are blank boards with no geography. Of the two other maps, wplace charges nothing extra to paint over your work an hour after you finish it and places one pixel at a time, and bplace publishes neither figure.

The other question is whether you want an ending. The yearly canvas here is a fixed square with a fixed palette, a start and an end, so a deadline is something you can opt into. The map underneath it never resets, which means the work is still there next year instead of archived as a screenshot.

Feature	Place Pixels	wplace	Better Place	pxls.space	pixelplace.io	Our World of Pixels	r/place
Open right now	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	no
You paint the real world	yes	yes	yes	no	partly	no	no
Paint before making an account	yes	no	not published	no	no	yes	no
Many pixels in one save	yes	no	not published	partly	no	no	no
No cooldown between pixels	yes	no	not published	no	no	yes	no
Fresh work costs more to paint over	yes	no	not published	no	partly	no	no
The work never resets	yes	yes	yes	no	partly	not published	no
Free to paint	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
The canvas ends and is archived	no	no	no	yes	partly	no	yes
Make your own private canvas	no	no	no	no	yes	yes	no

Start on your own street

Find your street
Search a place or share your location, then zoom in to 15. The grid appears over the buildings, each square 10 meters across.
Pick a color and paint
No cooldown between pixels. Stage as many as you like and commit them in one save, so a whole building goes down at once instead of over a week.
Sign in only when you want to keep it
Your first 50 pixels go down before any of that, and they survive making an account. Google or Discord, no password.

Where these numbers come from

Sources

Place Pixels figures are the values the game enforces today.

Everything else comes from each project's own site or wiki: wplace.live and its community guidelines for wplace, bplace.art and its in-app chroma store for Better Place, the pxls.space FAQ and wiki for pxls.space, pixelplace.io and the pixelplace wiki for pixelplace.io, ourworldofpixels.com and its community wikis for Our World of Pixels, Wikipedia and Reddit's own announcements for r/place.

Its an Aralyn! — Work people finished on the map and submitted to the gallery, frozen as it was at the moment they sent it.

Doctor Who Tardis in Cardiff, Fallout Sprite — Work people finished on the map and submitted to the gallery, frozen as it was at the moment they sent it.

Paint your own street

One shared map of the real world, cut into 10-meter squares. Find the street you live on, pick a color, and paint it.

start painting

Pixel canvas sites, compared.

How to choose

Ten things that decide it

Your pixel has an address

Start on your own street

Where these numbers come from