{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "abyssale", "name": "Abyssale", "vendor": "Abyssale SAS", "vendorUrl": "https://www.abyssale.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "design-assets", "summary": "Abyssale is a creative automation platform from Paris that renders designs into images, MP4 video, GIFs, HTML5 banner ads and print PDFs, through a REST API, dynamic image URLs, webhooks, official SDKs and a remote MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/abyssale", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/abyssale.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/abyssale.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/abyssale.json", "dns": "abyssale.grade.anchorterminal.com", "license": "Closed service under the Abyssale terms of service (version 3, 21 July 2026)", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.abyssale.com", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@abyssale/sdk" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "abyssale" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "REST uses a workspace API key in the `x-api-key` header, created in Workspace settings; test it with `POST /auth`. The MCP server at mcp.abyssale.com uses OAuth through Auth0 with per-tool scopes (`read:design`, `write:design`, `delete:design`, `import:design`, `generate:banner` and others), checked together with the user's workspace role. The two credentials are separate.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "API and MCP come with Pro at $45 a seat a month ($36 yearly) and above; Start at $15 a seat has neither. Suite $75 a seat adds HTML5 and CMYK print PDF. 14-day free trial with no card. Generation credits are charged per format, 1 per image, 1 per second of video, GIF or HTML5, print PDFs by pixel area. Failed generations cost nothing.", "priceSummary": "$45 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Seat subscriptions with credit balances. No x402, MPP or L402 in the OpenAPI, the developer docs or llms.txt (checked 2026-11-06). An empty balance returns 429 with an id, not a payment requirement.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 20, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-06" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.abyssale.com/", "llmsTxt": "https://developers.abyssale.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://developers.abyssale.com/api.yaml", "registryName": "com.abyssale/mcp", "capabilities": [ "design.render", "design.templates", "design.brand", "image.edit", "pdf.generate", "video.generate" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "openapi", "llms-txt", "mcp", "remote-mcp", "mcp-registry", "oauth", "api-key", "webhooks", "sdk", "trial", "no-card", "eu" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 65.6, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 411, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 85, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 35, "reliability": 41, "schema": 98, "security": 55, "transparency": 71 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-06" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Abyssale publishes a full OpenAPI file, dated versions, tiered rate limits with Retry-After, one error envelope and per-tool OAuth scopes on its MCP server. API access starts at $45 a seat a month after a 14-day trial, and no status page or published SLA was found.", "bestFor": "Multi-format ad creative, video, HTML5 banners and print PDFs from one design, for marketing teams and agencies with an agent in the loop.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI file, a detailed llms.txt and a dated changelog that lists breaking changes first", "Published rate-limit tiers with X-RateLimit headers, Retry-After and distinct 429 ids", "MCP scopes per tool group, so a client can read designs without spending credits or deleting", "Credit cost per output published to the format, and failed generations aren't charged", "Official Node.js and Python SDKs with retry and polling helpers, released October 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "API and MCP need the Pro plan at $45 a seat a month", "No status page found, and the SLA is negotiated for Enterprise only", "AI training on anonymised customer content is on by default", "Design import, the JSON authoring route, is alpha and outside the deprecation policy", "No security.txt, disclosure policy or certification found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Branch on the error `id`, never the message; `request_rate_limited` means wait Retry-After seconds", "Multiply credits by formats before a batch, since 200 products in 6 formats cost 1,200 credits", "Ask the MCP user to approve only `read:design` unless the task must generate or change designs", "Use asynchronous generation for several formats and deduplicate webhooks on `X-Abyssale-Delivery-Id`", "Check `GET /credits` first; it costs nothing and shows both balances" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 65.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 85, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 35, "reliability": 41, "schema": 98, "security": 55, "transparency": 69 }, "provenanceScore": 72, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-06", "maintenance": "2026-11-06", "payments": "2026-11-06", "reliability": "2026-11-06", "schema": "2026-11-06", "security": "2026-11-06", "transparency": "2026-11-06" }, "last": "2026-11-06", "oldest": "2026-11-06", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "npm install @abyssale/sdk", "http": "curl -X POST https://api.abyssale.com/auth -H \"x-api-key: $ABYSSALE_API_KEY\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http --client-id tpc_iJ7LWqVdzR7c7jf21gMqDQ --callback-port 3418 -s user abyssale_prod https://mcp.abyssale.com/mcp" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/design.render", "tool": "https://letme.dev/abyssale" }, "area": "design-diagrams", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Pro seat (API and MCP)", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 45, "note": "$36 billed yearly; the Start plan at $15 has no API" }, { "item": "Suite seat", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 75, "note": "$60 billed yearly; adds HTML5 ads and CMYK print PDF" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Abyssale SAS", "domain": "abyssale.com", "domainRegistered": "2018-07-10", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.abyssale.com/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.abyssale.com/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://developers.abyssale.com/rest-api/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-06", "notes": [ "The terms (version 3, 21 July 2026) and the legal notice name ABYSSALE, an SAS at 49 rue de Ponthieu, 75008 Paris, Paris RCS 878 526 573. The terms give share capital as €1,980.00 and the legal notice as €1,902.80.", "The terms forbid extracting, scraping or reusing the platform's databases, including the public template database. Public docs and policy pages were read as data.", "www.abyssale.com/robots.txt and developers.abyssale.com/robots.txt allow all paths.", "/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. No status page was linked from the site or the docs, and status.abyssale.com did not answer.", "RDAP gives abyssale.com a registration date of 10 July 2018." ], "score": 72 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/abyssale.json", "live": { "slug": "abyssale", "probe": { "target": "https://api.abyssale.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:08.122898698Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 152, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 66, "p95ms24h": 171, "samples24h": 200, "samples30d": 200, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-06", "probes": 13, "ok": 13 }, { "date": "2026-11-07", "probes": 187, "ok": 187 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "com.abyssale/mcp", "version": "1.0.1", "seenAt": "2026-11-07T18:16:28.95801333Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@abyssale/sdk", "version": "1.9.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:02:19.286863658Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "abyssale", "version": "1.7.0", "released": "2026-10-21", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:02:19.747808303Z" } ], "npmWeekly": 29, "pypiWeekly": 49, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://abyssale.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:00:33.168565397Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://developers.abyssale.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:31:04.477678741Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developers.abyssale.com/rest-api/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:03:36.173334461Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "1c916e422299" }, { "url": "https://www.abyssale.com/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:24:07.939253804Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "1756c40b8e19" }, { "url": "https://www.abyssale.com/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:24:10.078462035Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "982f9b4f8587" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:08.122898698Z" } }, "answer": "Abyssale scores 65.6 (B) on agent readiness against APITemplate.io's 30.1 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "apitemplate-io", "name": "APITemplate.io", "vendor": "Alphacloud Technologies Pte Ltd", "vendorUrl": "https://apitemplate.io", "kind": "http-api", "category": "design-assets", "summary": "APITemplate.io generates PDF documents and JPEG or PNG images from reusable templates filled with JSON data, and converts HTML, Markdown or a web page to PDF. Agents call its REST API with an API key.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/apitemplate-io", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/apitemplate-io.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/apitemplate-io.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/apitemplate-io.json", "dns": "apitemplate-io.grade.anchorterminal.com", "license": "Proprietary service under APITemplate.io's Terms of Use. The SDK repositories have no licence file, and the Python client's `setup.py` names Apache 2.0", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://rest.apitemplate.io/v2", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Calls send an API key in the `X-API-KEY` header, or as `Authorization: Token \u003ckey\u003e`. A browser signup at app.apitemplate.io creates the key, self-serve, and it can be regenerated under API Integration. Each team has its own key, separate from the personal one. No scopes or read-only keys were found. Direct URL image links carry a per-template `auth` code in the query string, with a quota and an expiry.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "The free plan gives 50 images or PDFs a month and 3 templates with no card, so an agent's owner can start without a contract. PDF-only plans run from $24 a month for 3,000 PDFs to $179 for 25,000, and image and PDF plans from $35 for 1,500 files to $179 for 20,000, billed monthly. Annual billing is up to 20 per cent less. Overage billing exists only on Enterprise plans by request, with no rate published (checked 2026-10-09).", "priceSummary": "$24 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Monthly subscriptions paid through Stripe. No x402, MPP or L402 in the API description, the docs or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 0, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://apitemplate.io/docs/", "openapi": "https://apitemplateio.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/redoc_apiv2/apitemplateiov2_api.yaml", "capabilities": [ "design.templates", "design.render", "pdf.generate", "pdf.convert", "pdf.merge" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "openapi", "no-card", "async-jobs", "webhooks", "images", "pdf", "regional-endpoints", "status-page", "sla" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 30.1, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1397, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 18, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 24, "maintenance": 11, "payments": 30, "reliability": 45, "schema": 5, "security": 48, "transparency": 60 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-05" }, "negative": -2, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-09. Two vendor documentation pages disagree on regional endpoints. The first-request guide (https://apitemplate.io/docs/getting-started/first-api-request) lists `rest.apitemplate.io` as the US default with `rest-eu` and `rest-sg` hosts. The API reference and REST guide (https://apitemplate.io/docs/integrations/rest-api) list it as the Singapore default with `rest-de` and `rest-us`. The vendor says data is processed and stored in the region of the endpoint, so the conflict affects data residency. We did not test which hostnames resolve. 2 points." ], "verdict": "APITemplate.io publishes rate limits, regional endpoints, a 99.9 per cent uptime SLA and a free plan of 50 files a month with no card. Each account or team has one unscoped API key, no changelog or deprecation notices were found, the SDK repositories date from September 2023, and two documentation pages name different regional hostnames.", "bestFor": "Owners who need invoices, certificates, reports and social images filled from templates, with HTML, URL and Markdown to PDF on the same key and a choice of storage region.", "strengths": [ "Rate limits are published as 100 requests per 10 seconds per IP address and 100 concurrent synchronous PDF requests per account", "Regional endpoints in Singapore, Frankfurt, N. Virginia and Sydney process and store requests and output in the region, per the REST guide", "The SLA page commits to 99.9 per cent monthly availability for the REST API and dashboard, with service credits of 10 to 50 per cent", "Free plan of 50 images or PDFs a month with no card, and `export_type=file` returns output without vendor storage" ], "weaknesses": [ "One API key per account or team with no scopes or read-only mode", "No changelog, release notes or dated deprecation notices were found, and the terms allow the service to change with or without notice", "The five SDK repositories each hold a generated client committed on 17 September 2023, with no tags, no licence file and placeholder install commands", "The first-request guide names `rest-eu` and `rest-sg` hostnames and a US default, while the REST guide names `rest-de` and `rest-us` and a Singapore default", "The terms of use forbid any robot or other automatic device accessing the Site or Service, and bar load or vulnerability testing without agreement" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send the key in the `X-API-KEY` header and pick the regional host first, because requests and output are processed and stored in that region", "Set `expiration` in minutes or `export_type=file` for sensitive output. By default the download URL does not expire", "On HTTP 429 pause and retry on your own schedule. The docs give no `Retry-After` header or backoff interval", "Use Direct URL `auth` codes only in page markup, with a quota and an expiry set, never the API key" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 30.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 24, "maintenance": 11, "payments": 30, "reliability": 45, "schema": 5, "security": 48, "transparency": 58 }, "provenanceScore": 61, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-05", "maintenance": "2026-11-05", "payments": "2026-11-05", "reliability": "2026-11-05", "schema": "2026-11-05", "security": "2026-11-05", "transparency": "2026-11-05" }, "last": "2026-11-05", "lastMoved": "2026-11-05", "oldest": "2026-11-05", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST \"https://rest.apitemplate.io/v2/create-image?template_id=TEMPLATE_ID\" -H \"X-API-KEY: YOUR_API_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"overrides\": [{\"name\": \"title\", \"text\": \"Hello World\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/design.templates", "tool": "https://letme.dev/apitemplate-io" }, "area": "design-diagrams", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "PDF Basic", "unit": "month", "usd": 24, "note": "3,000 PDFs a month, 20 templates. $19 a month billed annually" }, { "item": "PDF Standard", "unit": "month", "usd": 89, "note": "12,000 PDFs a month, 180 templates. $69 a month billed annually" }, { "item": "PDF Enterprise", "unit": "month", "usd": 179, "note": "25,000 PDFs a month, unlimited templates, own storage. $139 a month billed annually" }, { "item": "Starter (image and PDF)", "unit": "month", "usd": 35, "note": "1,500 images or PDFs a month, 15 templates. $29 a month billed annually" }, { "item": "Standard (image and PDF)", "unit": "month", "usd": 89, "note": "9,000 images or PDFs a month, 150 templates. $69 a month billed annually" }, { "item": "Enterprise (image and PDF)", "unit": "month", "usd": 179, "note": "20,000 images or PDFs a month, unlimited templates, own storage. $139 a month billed annually" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Alphacloud Technologies Pte Ltd", "domain": "apitemplate.io", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://apitemplate.io/terms-of-use/", "privacy": "https://apitemplate.io/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "https://status.apitemplate.io/", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-05", "notes": [ "The terms of use name Alphacloud Technologies Pte Ltd, a Singapore company. The DPA gives Unique Entity Number 201902224G and an address at 50 Lakeside Drive, Singapore 648315.", "The terms of use are dated 8 April 2022. They are the customer contract for the service and its APIs. Clause 8.1(b) bars any deep-link, page-scrape, robot, spider or other automatic device used to access, acquire, copy or monitor any portion of the Site or Service (read 5 November 2026).", "The privacy policy is dated 21 January 2024 and covers the websites, the app and the APIs. It holds the sub-processor list and the storage regions.", "A Data Processing Agreement with standard contractual clauses is at apitemplate.io/data-processing-agreement/, and an SLA dated 13 February 2020 at apitemplate.io/service-level-agreement/.", "The API answers at rest.apitemplate.io and regional hosts under apitemplate.io, per the guides. We sent no request to an API host.", "apitemplate.io/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 9 October 2026.", "The status page is hosted by UptimeRobot. Its figures load by script from a path its robots.txt disallows.", "The OpenAPI file sits on apitemplateio.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com, whose robots.txt answers 403 AccessDenied (5 November 2026).", "No changelog or release notes page was found on the site, in the docs or in the SDK repositories." ], "score": 61 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/apitemplate-io.json", "live": { "slug": "apitemplate-io", "probe": { "target": "https://rest.apitemplate.io/v2", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:10.601314604Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 585, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 544, "p95ms24h": 637, "samples24h": 239, "samples30d": 7205, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 85, "ok": 85 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-16", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 256, "ok": 256 }, { "date": "2026-10-19", "probes": 255, "ok": 255 }, { "date": "2026-10-20", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-22", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-23", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-24", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-10-25", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-26", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-27", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-28", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-10-29", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-30", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-31", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-11-01", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-11-02", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-11-03", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-11-04", "probes": 246, "ok": 246 }, { "date": "2026-11-05", "probes": 185, "ok": 185 }, { "date": "2026-11-06", "probes": 241, "ok": 241 }, { "date": "2026-11-07", "probes": 187, "ok": 187 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.apitemplate.io", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T04:47:06.454973681Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://apitemplate.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:00:23.231253153Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "apitemplate.io", "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T14:21:47.267151528Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://apitemplate.io/privacy-policy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T13:59:25.281628541Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-21T00:19:55.227442573Z", "fingerprint": "29d83cd2f8ca" }, { "url": "https://apitemplate.io/terms-of-use/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T13:59:27.430632711Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-21T00:19:57.371218655Z", "fingerprint": "573b5c536079" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:10.601314604Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 93, "category": "schema", "leads": "abyssale", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "A 424 KB OpenAPI file at developers.abyssale.com/api.yaml with 34 operations, from which the reference pages are generated (25). A detailed llms.txt that states the base URL, auth, rate limits, error envelope and webhook signing up front (10). Pages say what each endpoint is for and when to use another, such as synchronous versus asynchronous generation and designs versus workspace templates, and the MCP permissions page says what each tool can break (19 of 20). Typed parameters with enums, ranges and required fields across layers and formats (14 of 15). One error envelope everywhere, an error catalogue with machine-readable ids and what to do for each, and worked examples (15). Date-based versions named in every response and a dated changelog in Keep a Changelog form with a Breaking section first; the MCP server has its own semver changelog (15). 25 + 10 + 19 + 14 + 15 + 15 = 98.", "b": "APITemplate.io's terms bar robots and other automatic devices on any portion of the Site or Service, so its sites were not re-read on 5 November, and the OpenAPI file's storage host answers robots.txt with an access-denied error, so readings of that file are struck. The REST guide links an OpenAPI 3.0.0 description for Postman or code generators, but every reading of the file is struck and none can be taken today (0). No llms.txt (404) and no Markdown docs for agents (0). The operation and parameter descriptions, types, enums, request samples and error schema were read from the file (0, 0 and 0). A `/v2` path in the guides, with no changelog (5). 0+0+0+0+0+5 = 5." }, "scores": { "a": 98, "b": 5 } }, { "by": 74, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "abyssale", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "API version v2026-10-29, eight days before this check (30). Fifteen dated API versions between 21 August and 29 October, MCP server releases 1.0.0 (1 September) to 1.2.0 (7 October), and SDK releases in October (20). Closed service with a changelog and RSS feed, help@abyssale.com and in-app chat, which we didn't test (12 of 15). com.abyssale/mcp is in the official MCP registry under a domain-verified namespace, and the Node.js (1.9.0) and Python (1.7.0) SDKs were both released on 21 October 2026 (15). Both SDKs are current; their repositories weren't read (8 of 10). 30 + 20 + 12 + 15 + 8 = 85.", "b": "APITemplate.io's terms bar robots and other automatic devices on any portion of the Site or Service, so its sites were not re-read on 5 November, and the OpenAPI file's storage host answers robots.txt with an access-denied error, so readings of that file are struck. Per the 9 October check. No changelog or release notes exist, and the file's Last-Modified header was metadata, not a dated release (0). No dated changelog entries in the last 90 days (0). Support by email with a stated reply within 24 hours and response times in the SLA, with no public changelog (6). Five SDK repositories, each a generated client committed on 17 September 2023; the Python and JavaScript clones on 5 November show no later commit (3). No tags, CI results or licence files in those repositories (2). 0+0+6+3+2 = 11." }, "scores": { "a": 85, "b": 11 } }, { "by": 61, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "abyssale", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "20 MCP tools (15 for 11 to 30), plus 5 because OAuth scopes per tool group let a client be approved for reads only (20 of 25). Design listings search by words in any order, filter by project, orientation, size, format and dates, sort and order, and say honestly when a page is past the end; listing tools refuse unsupported options rather than ignore them, per MCP 1.2.0 (19 of 20). One envelope with an `id` to branch on, and error docs that say which errors a retry never fixes (19 of 20). The permissions page marks each tool read-only, mutating or destructive, but MCP annotations couldn't be confirmed on the closed server, and generation has no idempotency key (12 of 20). Official Node.js and Python SDKs with retry behaviour and polling helpers (15). 20 + 19 + 19 + 12 + 15 = 85.", "b": "APITemplate.io's terms bar robots and other automatic devices on any portion of the Site or Service, so its sites were not re-read on 5 November, and the OpenAPI file's storage host answers robots.txt with an access-denied error, so readings of that file are struck. Per the 9 October check except where struck. `export_type=file` returns bytes rather than a stored file and `expiration` sets how long a download URL lasts, per the secure PDF FAQ (15 of 25, an earlier partial kept). Pagination and filters, the error object and the `meta` reference were read from the struck file (0, 0 and 0). Calls are synchronous by default, and the five SDK repositories are generated clients from September 2023 with placeholder install commands, confirmed from clones on 5 November (9 of 15, an earlier partial kept). 15+0+0+0+9 = 24." }, "scores": { "a": 85, "b": 24 } }, { "by": 11, "category": "transparency", "leads": "abyssale", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "Closed service under terms of service version 3 of 21 July 2026, from a Paris SAS with its register number (15). The privacy policy and terms agree on EU hosting on AWS Ireland, deletion timelines and breach notice within 72 hours, but AI model training on anonymised customer content is on by default with a workspace opt-out, and anonymised data may be kept indefinitely (20 of 30). The changelog has Deprecated and Removed sections and refers to a deprecation policy that covers stable endpoints but not alpha ones; the policy's notice period wasn't found (14 of 20). Subprocessors named with locations, among them AWS Ireland, Auth0, Brevo, Intercom and AI providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Black Forest Labs and Google, some outside the EEA (20). 15 + 20 + 14 + 20 = 69.", "b": "APITemplate.io's terms bar robots and other automatic devices on any portion of the Site or Service, so its sites were not re-read on 5 November, and the OpenAPI file's storage host answers robots.txt with an access-denied error, so readings of that file are struck. Per the 9 October check. Closed service under terms of use dated 8 April 2022, which can change without prior notice. The SDK repositories have no licence file (13). Privacy policy dated 21 January 2024 and a public DPA with standard contractual clauses. Request logs are kept two weeks, account data is deleted within 30 days of cancellation, and free accounts' files are purged after one year. Retention of personal data is otherwise stated only as long as reasonably needed (22). Clause 15.8 of the terms promises 60 days' written notice before a service is withdrawn, while clause 2.24 reserves the right to modify or discontinue any part with or without notice. No dated deprecation notices found (6, an earlier partial kept). Eleven sub-processors named with purpose and country, 14 days' notice of new ones in the DPA, and four storage regions listed (17). 13+22+6+17 = 58." }, "scores": { "a": 71, "b": 60 } }, { "by": 7, "category": "security", "leads": "abyssale", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "The MCP server uses OAuth through Auth0 with scopes per tool group (`read:design`, `write:design`, `delete:design`, `import:design`, `generate:banner`, `read:credits` and others), enforced alongside the user's workspace role, and approval is per client connection. The REST API uses a workspace `x-api-key` with no scopes documented (28 of 30). A client can be approved for reads only, and deleting needs its own scope, but nothing on the server asks for confirmation; the docs leave that to the client per the MCP spec (17 of 20). Tools return the workspace's own designs and fonts; image layers can point at outside URLs (10 of 15). No audit log or per-call record was found (0). No security.txt, disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification found (0). 28 + 17 + 10 + 0 + 0 = 55.", "b": "APITemplate.io's terms bar robots and other automatic devices on any portion of the Site or Service, so its sites were not re-read on 5 November, and the OpenAPI file's storage host answers robots.txt with an access-denied error, so readings of that file are struck. Per the 9 October check. One API key per account, regenerable in the console, with a separate key per team (20). The Direct URL `auth` code travels in a query string by design. It is tied to one template with a quota and an expiry and is not the API key, so we took no 10-point deduction. That is a judgement call. No scopes or read-only key; the Direct URL code is the only narrow credential (5). Calls return status and URLs, not third-party content (10). Request logs kept two weeks, visible in the console and switchable off (8). The site states a completed SOC 2 Type II audit with no auditor, period or report shown, plus a security policy page and 2FA. No security.txt (404), disclosure policy or bug bounty found, the value for a bare SOC 2 claim with no report or disclosure route (5). 20+5+10+8+5 = 48." }, "scores": { "a": 55, "b": 48 } }, { "by": 5, "category": "payments", "leads": "abyssale", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Seat prices are public and the credit cost of every output is published to the format, with worked examples, but a credit's price outside the plan wasn't found (15 of 20). 14-day free trial with no card (20). A person signs up in the browser; the MCP OAuth flow needs a human login (0). 0 + 15 + 20 + 0 = 35.", "b": "APITemplate.io's terms bar robots and other automatic devices on any portion of the Site or Service, so its sites were not re-read on 5 November, and the OpenAPI file's storage host answers robots.txt with an access-denied error, so readings of that file are struck. Per the 9 October check. No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices with monthly file counts are public without a login, and no per-file or overage rate is published (10). Free plan of 50 files a month with no card (20). A person signs up in a browser to get the key (0). 0+10+20+0 = 30." }, "scores": { "a": 35, "b": 30 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Abyssale SAS", "b": "Alphacloud Technologies Pte Ltd", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.abyssale.com", "b": "https://rest.apitemplate.io/v2", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Closed service under the Abyssale terms of service (version 3, 21 July 2026)", "b": "Proprietary service under APITemplate.io's Terms of Use. The SDK repositories have no licence file, and the Python client's `setup.py` names Apache 2.0", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "20", "b": "0", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "com.abyssale/mcp", "b": "not listed", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-10-29", "b": "none", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "2.8/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Abyssale scores 65.6 (B) on agent readiness against APITemplate.io's 30.1 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Abyssale or APITemplate.io?" }, { "answer": "Abyssale takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. APITemplate.io needs an API key.", "question": "Do Abyssale and APITemplate.io need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Abyssale has a hosted endpoint at https://api.abyssale.com and APITemplate.io at https://rest.apitemplate.io/v2.", "question": "Can an agent call Abyssale and APITemplate.io without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 98 against 5", "Agent ergonomics, 85 against 24", "Security \u0026 auth, 55 against 48", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 30", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 11", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 71 against 60" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Multi-format ad creative, video, HTML5 banners and print PDFs from one design, for marketing teams and agencies with an agent in the loop.", "slug": "abyssale", "watchFor": "API and MCP need the Pro plan at $45 a seat a month" }, { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "Owners who need invoices, certificates, reports and social images filled from templates, with HTML, URL and Markdown to PDF on the same key and a choice of storage region.", "slug": "apitemplate-io", "watchFor": "One API key per account or team with no scopes or read-only mode" } ], "history": { "abyssale": null, "apitemplate-io": [ { "causes": [ "evidence", "correction" ], "date": "2026-11-05", "delta": -16.6, "from": 46.7, "fromGrade": "D", "to": 30.1, "toGrade": "F" }, { "causes": [ "correction" ], "date": "2026-10-28", "delta": 0, "from": 46.7, "fromGrade": "D", "to": 46.7, "toGrade": "D" }, { "causes": [ "method" ], "date": "2026-10-27", "delta": 0.1, "from": 46.6, "fromGrade": "D", "to": 46.7, "toGrade": "D" } ] }, "job": { "capability": "design.render", "name": "Design rendering" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-photoshop-api-vs-apitemplate-io.json", "title": "Adobe Photoshop API vs APITemplate.io", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-photoshop-api-vs-apitemplate-io" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apitemplate-io-vs-bannerbear.json", "title": "APITemplate.io vs Bannerbear API + MCP", "url": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/abyssale-vs-dynapictures" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/abyssale-vs-layerre.json", "title": "Abyssale vs Layerre", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/abyssale-vs-layerre" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/abyssale-vs-osmo-cli.json", "title": "Abyssale vs Osmo CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/abyssale-vs-osmo-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/abyssale-vs-pictify.json", "title": "Abyssale vs Pictify", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/abyssale-vs-pictify" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/abyssale-vs-pixelixe.json", "title": "Abyssale vs Pixelixe", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/abyssale-vs-pixelixe" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/abyssale-vs-placid.json", "title": "Abyssale vs Placid API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/abyssale-vs-placid" }, { "json": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/abyssale-vs-photoroom.json", "title": "Abyssale vs Photoroom API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/abyssale-vs-photoroom" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "abyssale": 41, "apitemplate-io": 45, "by": 4, "edge": "apitemplate-io", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "abyssale": 98, "apitemplate-io": 5, "by": 93, "edge": "abyssale", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "abyssale": 85, "apitemplate-io": 24, "by": 61, "edge": "abyssale", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "abyssale": 55, "apitemplate-io": 48, "by": 7, "edge": "abyssale", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "abyssale": 35, "apitemplate-io": 30, "by": 5, "edge": "abyssale", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "abyssale": 85, "apitemplate-io": 11, "by": 74, "edge": "abyssale", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "abyssale": 71, "apitemplate-io": 60, "by": 11, "edge": "abyssale", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Abyssale scores 65.6 (B) on agent readiness against APITemplate.io's 30.1 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do design rendering.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "abyssale": "Abyssale publishes a full OpenAPI file, dated versions, tiered rate limits with Retry-After, one error envelope and per-tool OAuth scopes on its MCP server. API access starts at $45 a seat a month after a 14-day trial, and no status page or published SLA was found.", "apitemplate-io": "APITemplate.io publishes rate limits, regional endpoints, a 99.9 per cent uptime SLA and a free plan of 50 files a month with no card. Each account or team has one unscoped API key, no changelog or deprecation notices were found, the SDK repositories date from September 2023, and two documentation pages name different regional hostnames." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/abyssale-vs-apitemplate-io", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/abyssale-vs-apitemplate-io.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/abyssale-vs-apitemplate-io.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/abyssale-vs-apitemplate-io.min.md" }, "markdown": "Abyssale scores 65.6 (B) on agent readiness against APITemplate.io's 30.1 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do design rendering.\n\n- Abyssale: grade B, 65.6/100, rank #411 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/abyssale.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/abyssale.json\n- APITemplate.io: grade F, 30.1/100, rank #1397 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/apitemplate-io.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/apitemplate-io.json\n- Best programmatic image and design asset APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/design-assets/index.md\n- All 153 assets comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/design-assets/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Abyssale (B)\n\nGood for: Multi-format ad creative, video, HTML5 banners and print PDFs from one design, for marketing teams and agencies with an agent in the loop.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 98 against 5\n- Agent ergonomics, 85 against 24\n- Security \u0026 auth, 55 against 48\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 11\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 71 against 60\n\nWatch for: API and MCP need the Pro plan at $45 a seat a month\n\n### APITemplate.io (F)\n\nGood for: Owners who need invoices, certificates, reports and social images filled from templates, with HTML, URL and Markdown to PDF on the same key and a choice of storage region.\n\nWatch for: One API key per account or team with no scopes or read-only mode\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Abyssale +93\n\n- Abyssale (98): A 424 KB OpenAPI file at developers.abyssale.com/api.yaml with 34 operations, from which the reference pages are generated (25). A detailed llms.txt that states the base URL, auth, rate limits, error envelope and webhook signing up front (10). Pages say what each endpoint is for and when to use another, such as synchronous versus asynchronous generation and designs versus workspace templates, and the MCP permissions page says what each tool can break (19 of 20). Typed parameters with enums, ranges and required fields across layers and formats (14 of 15). One error envelope everywhere, an error catalogue with machine-readable ids and what to do for each, and worked examples (15). Date-based versions named in every response and a dated changelog in Keep a Changelog form with a Breaking section first; the MCP server has its own semver changelog (15). 25 + 10 + 19 + 14 + 15 + 15 = 98.\n- APITemplate.io (5): APITemplate.io's terms bar robots and other automatic devices on any portion of the Site or Service, so its sites were not re-read on 5 November, and the OpenAPI file's storage host answers robots.txt with an access-denied error, so readings of that file are struck. The REST guide links an OpenAPI 3.0.0 description for Postman or code generators, but every reading of the file is struck and none can be taken today (0). No llms.txt (404) and no Markdown docs for agents (0). The operation and parameter descriptions, types, enums, request samples and error schema were read from the file (0, 0 and 0). A `/v2` path in the guides, with no changelog (5). 0+0+0+0+0+5 = 5.\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Abyssale +74\n\n- Abyssale (85): API version v2026-10-29, eight days before this check (30). Fifteen dated API versions between 21 August and 29 October, MCP server releases 1.0.0 (1 September) to 1.2.0 (7 October), and SDK releases in October (20). Closed service with a changelog and RSS feed, help@abyssale.com and in-app chat, which we didn't test (12 of 15). com.abyssale/mcp is in the official MCP registry under a domain-verified namespace, and the Node.js (1.9.0) and Python (1.7.0) SDKs were both released on 21 October 2026 (15). Both SDKs are current; their repositories weren't read (8 of 10). 30 + 20 + 12 + 15 + 8 = 85.\n- APITemplate.io (11): APITemplate.io's terms bar robots and other automatic devices on any portion of the Site or Service, so its sites were not re-read on 5 November, and the OpenAPI file's storage host answers robots.txt with an access-denied error, so readings of that file are struck. Per the 9 October check. No changelog or release notes exist, and the file's Last-Modified header was metadata, not a dated release (0). No dated changelog entries in the last 90 days (0). Support by email with a stated reply within 24 hours and response times in the SLA, with no public changelog (6). Five SDK repositories, each a generated client committed on 17 September 2023; the Python and JavaScript clones on 5 November show no later commit (3). No tags, CI results or licence files in those repositories (2). 0+0+6+3+2 = 11.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Abyssale +61\n\n- Abyssale (85): 20 MCP tools (15 for 11 to 30), plus 5 because OAuth scopes per tool group let a client be approved for reads only (20 of 25). Design listings search by words in any order, filter by project, orientation, size, format and dates, sort and order, and say honestly when a page is past the end; listing tools refuse unsupported options rather than ignore them, per MCP 1.2.0 (19 of 20). One envelope with an `id` to branch on, and error docs that say which errors a retry never fixes (19 of 20). The permissions page marks each tool read-only, mutating or destructive, but MCP annotations couldn't be confirmed on the closed server, and generation has no idempotency key (12 of 20). Official Node.js and Python SDKs with retry behaviour and polling helpers (15). 20 + 19 + 19 + 12 + 15 = 85.\n- APITemplate.io (24): APITemplate.io's terms bar robots and other automatic devices on any portion of the Site or Service, so its sites were not re-read on 5 November, and the OpenAPI file's storage host answers robots.txt with an access-denied error, so readings of that file are struck. Per the 9 October check except where struck. `export_type=file` returns bytes rather than a stored file and `expiration` sets how long a download URL lasts, per the secure PDF FAQ (15 of 25, an earlier partial kept). Pagination and filters, the error object and the `meta` reference were read from the struck file (0, 0 and 0). Calls are synchronous by default, and the five SDK repositories are generated clients from September 2023 with placeholder install commands, confirmed from clones on 5 November (9 of 15, an earlier partial kept). 15+0+0+0+9 = 24.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Abyssale +11\n\n- Abyssale (71): Closed service under terms of service version 3 of 21 July 2026, from a Paris SAS with its register number (15). The privacy policy and terms agree on EU hosting on AWS Ireland, deletion timelines and breach notice within 72 hours, but AI model training on anonymised customer content is on by default with a workspace opt-out, and anonymised data may be kept indefinitely (20 of 30). The changelog has Deprecated and Removed sections and refers to a deprecation policy that covers stable endpoints but not alpha ones; the policy's notice period wasn't found (14 of 20). Subprocessors named with locations, among them AWS Ireland, Auth0, Brevo, Intercom and AI providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Black Forest Labs and Google, some outside the EEA (20). 15 + 20 + 14 + 20 = 69.\n- APITemplate.io (60): APITemplate.io's terms bar robots and other automatic devices on any portion of the Site or Service, so its sites were not re-read on 5 November, and the OpenAPI file's storage host answers robots.txt with an access-denied error, so readings of that file are struck. Per the 9 October check. Closed service under terms of use dated 8 April 2022, which can change without prior notice. The SDK repositories have no licence file (13). Privacy policy dated 21 January 2024 and a public DPA with standard contractual clauses. Request logs are kept two weeks, account data is deleted within 30 days of cancellation, and free accounts' files are purged after one year. Retention of personal data is otherwise stated only as long as reasonably needed (22). Clause 15.8 of the terms promises 60 days' written notice before a service is withdrawn, while clause 2.24 reserves the right to modify or discontinue any part with or without notice. No dated deprecation notices found (6, an earlier partial kept). Eleven sub-processors named with purpose and country, 14 days' notice of new ones in the DPA, and four storage regions listed (17). 13+22+6+17 = 58.\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Abyssale +7\n\n- Abyssale (55): The MCP server uses OAuth through Auth0 with scopes per tool group (`read:design`, `write:design`, `delete:design`, `import:design`, `generate:banner`, `read:credits` and others), enforced alongside the user's workspace role, and approval is per client connection. The REST API uses a workspace `x-api-key` with no scopes documented (28 of 30). A client can be approved for reads only, and deleting needs its own scope, but nothing on the server asks for confirmation; the docs leave that to the client per the MCP spec (17 of 20). Tools return the workspace's own designs and fonts; image layers can point at outside URLs (10 of 15). No audit log or per-call record was found (0). No security.txt, disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification found (0). 28 + 17 + 10 + 0 + 0 = 55.\n- APITemplate.io (48): APITemplate.io's terms bar robots and other automatic devices on any portion of the Site or Service, so its sites were not re-read on 5 November, and the OpenAPI file's storage host answers robots.txt with an access-denied error, so readings of that file are struck. Per the 9 October check. One API key per account, regenerable in the console, with a separate key per team (20). The Direct URL `auth` code travels in a query string by design. It is tied to one template with a quota and an expiry and is not the API key, so we took no 10-point deduction. That is a judgement call. No scopes or read-only key; the Direct URL code is the only narrow credential (5). Calls return status and URLs, not third-party content (10). Request logs kept two weeks, visible in the console and switchable off (8). The site states a completed SOC 2 Type II audit with no auditor, period or report shown, plus a security policy page and 2FA. No security.txt (404), disclosure policy or bug bounty found, the value for a bare SOC 2 claim with no report or disclosure route (5). 20+5+10+8+5 = 48.\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Abyssale +5\n\n- Abyssale (35): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Seat prices are public and the credit cost of every output is published to the format, with worked examples, but a credit's price outside the plan wasn't found (15 of 20). 14-day free trial with no card (20). A person signs up in the browser; the MCP OAuth flow needs a human login (0). 0 + 15 + 20 + 0 = 35.\n- APITemplate.io (30): APITemplate.io's terms bar robots and other automatic devices on any portion of the Site or Service, so its sites were not re-read on 5 November, and the OpenAPI file's storage host answers robots.txt with an access-denied error, so readings of that file are struck. Per the 9 October check. No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices with monthly file counts are public without a login, and no per-file or overage rate is published (10). Free plan of 50 files a month with no card (20). A person signs up in a browser to get the key (0). 0+10+20+0 = 30.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Abyssale | APITemplate.io | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 41 | 45 | APITemplate.io +4 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 98 | 5 | Abyssale +93 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 24 | Abyssale +61 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 55 | 48 | Abyssale +7 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 30 | Abyssale +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 11 | Abyssale +74 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 60 | Abyssale +11 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **65.6 · B** | **30.1 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Abyssale | APITemplate.io |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Abyssale SAS | Alphacloud Technologies Pte Ltd |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.abyssale.com` | `https://rest.apitemplate.io/v2` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Closed service under the Abyssale terms of service (version 3, 21 July 2026) | Proprietary service under APITemplate.io's Terms of Use. The SDK repositories have no licence file, and the Python client's `setup.py` names Apache 2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | 20 | 0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| MCP registry | `com.abyssale/mcp` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-10-29 | none |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Agent reviews | none | 2.8/5 (4) |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Abyssale\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### APITemplate.io\n\n- -16.6 on 5 November 2026 (D to F): new evidence, correction\n- no change on 28 October 2026: correction\n- +0.1 on 27 October 2026: checklist\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Abyssale.** Abyssale publishes a full OpenAPI file, dated versions, tiered rate limits with Retry-After, one error envelope and per-tool OAuth scopes on its MCP server. API access starts at $45 a seat a month after a 14-day trial, and no status page or published SLA was found.\n\n**APITemplate.io.** APITemplate.io publishes rate limits, regional endpoints, a 99.9 per cent uptime SLA and a free plan of 50 files a month with no card. Each account or team has one unscoped API key, no changelog or deprecation notices were found, the SDK repositories date from September 2023, and two documentation pages name different regional hostnames.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Abyssale\n\n1. Branch on the error `id`, never the message; `request_rate_limited` means wait Retry-After seconds\n2. Multiply credits by formats before a batch, since 200 products in 6 formats cost 1,200 credits\n3. Ask the MCP user to approve only `read:design` unless the task must generate or change designs\n4. Use asynchronous generation for several formats and deduplicate webhooks on `X-Abyssale-Delivery-Id`\n5. Check `GET /credits` first; it costs nothing and shows both balances\n\n### APITemplate.io\n\n1. Send the key in the `X-API-KEY` header and pick the regional host first, because requests and output are processed and stored in that region\n2. Set `expiration` in minutes or `export_type=file` for sensitive output. By default the download URL does not expire\n3. On HTTP 429 pause and retry on your own schedule. The docs give no `Retry-After` header or backoff interval\n4. Use Direct URL `auth` codes only in page markup, with a quota and an expiry set, never the API key\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Abyssale or APITemplate.io?\n\nAbyssale scores 65.6 (B) on agent readiness against APITemplate.io's 30.1 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do Abyssale and APITemplate.io need an API key?\n\nAbyssale takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. APITemplate.io needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Abyssale and APITemplate.io without installing anything?\n\nYes. Abyssale has a hosted endpoint at https://api.abyssale.com and APITemplate.io at https://rest.apitemplate.io/v2.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/abyssale-vs-apitemplate-io.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/abyssale-vs-apitemplate-io.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"abyssale\", \"b\": \"apitemplate-io\"}`. 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