{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "adobe-photoshop-api", "name": "Adobe Photoshop API", "vendor": "Adobe", "vendorUrl": "https://developer.adobe.com/firefly-services/docs/photoshop/", "kind": "http-api", "category": "design-assets", "summary": "Photoshop as an async REST service inside Firefly Services.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-photoshop-api", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-photoshop-api.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-photoshop-api.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/adobe-photoshop-api.json", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://photoshop-api.adobe.io", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@adobe/photoshop-apis" } ], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "OAuth server-to-server credentials from the Adobe Developer Console. Exchange client ID and secret at https://ims-na1.adobelogin.com/ims/token/v3 (scopes openid, AdobeID, read_organizations) for a 24-hour bearer token, then send it with the client ID in x-api-key. Inputs and outputs are pre-signed URLs on your own storage.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No public price list and no self-serve plan. Access needs an active enterprise contract that includes Firefly Services, arranged through an Adobe representative. Creative Cloud plans don't include API access (https://business.adobe.com/products/firefly-business.html).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Enterprise contract billing only. No x402 in the docs or OpenAPI spec (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 498, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://developer.adobe.com/firefly-services/docs/photoshop/", "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AdobeDocs/ffs-photoshop-API/main/static/photoshopv2-api.json", "capabilities": [ "image.edit", "design.templates", "design.render" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "enterprise", "openapi", "async-jobs", "webhooks" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-08", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 43.9, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 780, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 36, "maintenance": 42, "payments": 0, "reliability": 55, "schema": 70, "security": 62, "transparency": 59 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": -4, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-01. Two months after the v1 end of life on 2026-07-31, the getting-started page's first API call is still https://image.adobe.io/pie/psdService/hello, and the actions and rendering guides still show v1 /pie/psdService endpoints with no deprecation notice. The only official SDK, @adobe/photoshop-apis 2.0.1, calls v1 paths only. https://developer.adobe.com/firefly-services/docs/photoshop/getting-started/ and https://github.com/AdobeDocs/ffs-photoshop-API" ], "verdict": "Edits real PSDs, including text layers, smart objects, layer effects, groups and artboards. Enterprise contract only. No self-serve sign-up, free tier or public price.", "bestFor": "Enterprise creative operations already on Adobe that automate PSD templating, actions and retouching at volume.", "strengths": [ "Edits real PSDs, including text layers, smart objects, layer effects, groups and artboards", "Runs Photoshop actions and UXP scripts server side", "Public OpenAPI 3.0.1 spec for v2 and a Markdown migration guide written for AI assistants", "Documented per-organisation limits and retry rules, including retry-after on 429", "OAuth server-to-server credentials with 24-hour tokens, and a signed security.txt with a bug bounty" ], "weaknesses": [ "Enterprise contract only. No self-serve sign-up, free tier or public price", "The getting-started page and the official SDK still call v1 endpoints that reached end of life on 2026-07-31", "The release notes page has no entries, so changes are visible only in the docs repo", "Adobe's usage notes say error messages may not be helpful", "Every input and output is a pre-signed URL on your own storage" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call v2 paths on photoshop-api.adobe.io. Remove background and its status live on image.adobe.io", "Skip @adobe/photoshop-apis and the getting-started curl, which still target v1 /pie/psdService paths", "Poll /v2/status/{jobId} or subscribe to I/O Events, since every call returns a job", "Retry only 5xx and 429, using retry-after and at most three attempts", "Cache the IMS token and refresh it before 24 hours run out" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 1.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 43.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 36, "maintenance": 42, "payments": 0, "reliability": 55, "schema": 70, "security": 62, "transparency": 32 }, "provenanceScore": 86 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST https://image.adobe.io/v2/remove-background \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $PS_FF_SERVICES_ACCESS_TOKEN\" -H \"x-api-key: $PS_FF_SERVICES_CLIENT_ID\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"image\":{\"source\":{\"url\":\"\u003csigned_get_url\u003e\"}},\"mode\":\"cutout\",\"output\":{\"mediaType\":\"image/png\"}}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/image.edit", "tool": "https://letme.dev/adobe-photoshop-api" }, "sameCompany": [ "adobe-firefly", "adobe-pdf-extract", "adobe-commerce", "adobe-acrobat-sign" ], "area": "design-diagrams", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Adobe Inc.", "domain": "adobe.com", "domainRegistered": "1986-11-17", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.adobe.com/legal/terms.html", "privacy": "https://www.adobe.com/privacy/policy.html", "statusPage": "https://status.adobe.com", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-01", "notes": [ "The API is served from photoshop-api.adobe.io and image.adobe.io, Adobe's developer API domain, not adobe.com", "The v2 OpenAPI spec is published in the AdobeDocs/ffs-photoshop-API GitHub repo", "The release notes page at developer.adobe.com/firefly-services/docs/photoshop/guides/release-notes/ has a heading and no entries as of 2026-10-01", "security.txt is PGP-signed, expires 2027-07-30 and lists an Intigriti bug bounty" ], "score": 86 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-photoshop-api.json", "live": { "slug": "adobe-photoshop-api", "probe": { "target": "https://photoshop-api.adobe.io", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:20.562709152Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 53, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 61, "p95ms24h": 103, "samples24h": 259, "samples30d": 2311, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 35, "ok": 35 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 125, "ok": 125 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.adobe.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T10:02:50.202814968Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@adobe/photoshop-apis", "version": "2.0.1", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T15:56:39.709106616Z" } ], "npmWeekly": 409, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://adobe.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2027-07-30T01:00:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:56.613662215Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "adobe.com", "registered": "1986-11-17", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/adobe.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:03:40.934529293Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developer.adobe.com/firefly-services/docs/photoshop/guides/release-notes/", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-01T13:12:05.524417157Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "af0d1bcf59a1" }, { "url": "https://developer.adobe.com/firefly-services/docs/photoshop/getting-started/deprecation-announcement/", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:17:08.820377202Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "964e96b3de59" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:20.562709152Z" } }, "answer": "Creatomate scores 47.7 (D) on agent readiness against Adobe Photoshop API's 43.9 (E), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Adobe Photoshop API leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "creatomate", "name": "Creatomate", "vendor": "Creatomate", "vendorUrl": "https://creatomate.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "design-assets", "summary": "Creatomate renders videos, images and GIFs from templates or from RenderScript, its JSON format. Agents reach it through a REST API with a project key or a hosted MCP server with OAuth.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/creatomate", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/creatomate.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/creatomate.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/creatomate.json", "repo": "https://github.com/creatomate/creatomate-node", "license": "Proprietary service under Creatomate's Terms and Conditions. The Node, PHP and Preview SDK libraries on GitHub are MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.creatomate.com/v2", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "creatomate" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@creatomate/preview" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "REST calls take a project API key as a bearer token. Each project has one key, copied from Project Settings after a browser signup, with no scopes found in the docs. The MCP server uses OAuth (authorisation code with PKCE S256, dynamic client registration, one scope, `mcp`), and each connection reaches one project. It also accepts the project key as a bearer token for headless use. Connections are listed and revoked under Account Settings.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Trial with 50 credits and no card, with output limited to 480 px per side. Paid plans are monthly credit allowances that do not carry over. The docs name Essential at $54 a month (2,000 credits) and Growth 10K at $129 (10,000 credits). Other plan prices are drawn by a Paddle script and were not read. An image is 1 credit and video is width x height x frame rate x seconds / 100,000,000 (checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$54 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Subscription credits billed through Paddle. No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, llms.txt or pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 8, "popularity": { "githubStars": 9, "npmWeekly": 12714, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://creatomate.com/docs/api/reference/introduction", "llmsTxt": "https://creatomate.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "design.templates", "design.render", "video.render" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "mcp", "oauth", "llms-txt", "async-jobs", "webhooks", "video", "images" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-03", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 47.7, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 737, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 34, "payments": 35, "reliability": 40, "schema": 53, "security": 48, "transparency": 51 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A hosted MCP server with eight tools, OAuth with PKCE and per-project connections sits beside a small REST API whose errors carry a hint and a documentation link, and `dry_run` validates a render at no cost. No status page, changelog, OpenAPI file or security contact was found, and the terms and privacy policy date from June 2022.", "bestFor": "Teams that render video, images and GIFs from templates or JSON and want an agent to draft templates and start renders through MCP.", "strengths": [ "Hosted MCP server at `https://api.creatomate.com/mcp` with eight named tools, OAuth authorisation code with PKCE and dynamic client registration", "Every API failure returns a `hint` and a `documentation` URL, confirmed first-hand on a 401", "`dry_run` on `POST /v2/renders` validates a request and returns the effective source with no credits spent", "Rate limit of 30 requests per 10 seconds is documented, with `X-RateLimit-*` headers on every response and `Retry-After` on 429", "Trial with 50 credits and no card, and a public credit formula (1 credit an image, 1 credit per 100 million video pixels)" ], "weaknesses": [ "No status page, incident history or SLA found. `status.creatomate.com` does not resolve", "No OpenAPI file and no changelog. `/v1` and `/v2` routes are both documented with no deprecation policy", "Plan prices on the pricing page are drawn by a Paddle script. The docs name only $54 (Essential) and $129 (Growth 10K)", "No security.txt, disclosure policy or certification found, and REST keys have no scopes", "Terms and privacy policy are dated 27 June 2022, define the Service as the website, and let Creatomate make user Content available to other users" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `\"dry_run\": true` to `POST /v2/renders` before a paid render. It returns `valid`, `errors`, `warnings` and the effective source", "Read `warnings` on every render response. A modification keyed to an unknown element or property name is ignored without an error", "Keep under 30 requests per 10 seconds across the whole account, and wait for `Retry-After` on a 429", "Download each file when the webhook fires. Renders, their URLs and their status records are deleted after 30 days", "Use `render_scale` 0.5 for draft videos, about a quarter of the credits, and remember MCP `create_render` spends credits without a confirmation step from the server" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 47.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 34, "payments": 35, "reliability": 40, "schema": 53, "security": 48, "transparency": 37 }, "provenanceScore": 65 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install creatomate", "http": "curl -X POST https://api.creatomate.com/v2/renders -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -H \"Authorization: Bearer $CREATOMATE_API_KEY\" -d '{\"template_id\": \"YOUR_TEMPLATE_ID\", \"dry_run\": true, \"modifications\": {\"Title-1\": \"Your headline here\"}}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add creatomate --transport http https://api.creatomate.com/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "creatomate": { "url": "https://api.creatomate.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/design.templates", "tool": "https://letme.dev/creatomate" }, "area": "design-diagrams", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Essential", "unit": "month", "usd": 54, "note": "2,000 credits, price as stated in the docs" }, { "item": "Growth 10K", "unit": "month", "usd": 129, "note": "10,000 credits, price as stated in the docs" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Creatomate", "domain": "creatomate.com", "domainRegistered": "2021-03-27", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://creatomate.com/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://creatomate.com/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The terms and privacy policy name the company as Creatomate, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, with no legal form. The site footer gives the Dutch company number 90174356.", "Both documents are dated 27 June 2022 and define the Service as the website. They are the only terms and privacy policy published, and the terms cover subscriptions, so they govern API use. No DPA was found.", "The API and the MCP server answer at api.creatomate.com, and rendered files are served from cdn.creatomate.com.", "creatomate.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404.", "No status page was found. status.creatomate.com does not resolve, and no page we read links to one.", "No changelog was found. /changelog returns 404 and /docs/changelog redirects to the docs introduction.", "RDAP for creatomate.com gives a registration date of 2021-03-27 and Cloudflare, Inc. as registrar." ], "score": 65 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/creatomate.json", "live": { "slug": "creatomate", "probe": { "target": "https://api.creatomate.com/v2", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:26.08093682Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 481, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 477, "p95ms24h": 550, "samples24h": 44, "samples30d": 44, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 44, "ok": 44 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:26.08093682Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Adobe", "b": "Creatomate", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://photoshop-api.adobe.io", "b": "https://api.creatomate.com/v2", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "b": "Proprietary service under Creatomate's Terms and Conditions. The Node, PHP and Preview SDK libraries on GitHub are MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "8", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-08", "b": "2026-09-03", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "2022-06-27", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2025-10-24", "b": "2022-06-27", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "498 npm/wk", "b": "9 stars, 13k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "1.5/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Creatomate scores 47.7 (D) on agent readiness against Adobe Photoshop API's 43.9 (E), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Adobe Photoshop API leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Adobe Photoshop API or Creatomate?" }, { "answer": "Adobe Photoshop API uses an OAuth sign-in. Creatomate takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Adobe Photoshop API and Creatomate need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Adobe Photoshop API has a hosted endpoint at https://photoshop-api.adobe.io and Creatomate at https://api.creatomate.com/v2.", "question": "Can an agent call Adobe Photoshop API and Creatomate without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 55 against 40", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 70 against 53", "Security \u0026 auth, 62 against 48", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 42 against 34", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 59 against 51" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Enterprise creative operations already on Adobe that automate PSD templating, actions and retouching at volume.", "slug": "adobe-photoshop-api", "watchFor": "Enterprise contract only. No self-serve sign-up, free tier or public price" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 67 against 36", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 0" ], "also": [ "No incidents deducted, where Adobe Photoshop API loses 4 points for them" ], "goodFor": "Teams that render video, images and GIFs from templates or JSON and want an agent to draft templates and start renders through MCP.", "slug": "creatomate", "watchFor": "No status page, incident history or SLA found. `status.creatomate.com` does not resolve" } ], "job": { "capability": "design.templates", "name": "Design templates" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-photoshop-api-vs-canva.json", "title": "Adobe Photoshop API vs Canva REST APIs + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-photoshop-api-vs-canva" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-photoshop-api-vs-placid.json", "title": "Adobe Photoshop API vs Placid API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-photoshop-api-vs-placid" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-photoshop-api-vs-shotstack.json", "title": "Adobe Photoshop API vs Shotstack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-photoshop-api-vs-shotstack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-photoshop-api-vs-templated.json", "title": "Adobe Photoshop API vs Templated API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-photoshop-api-vs-templated" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bannerbear-vs-creatomate.json", "title": "Bannerbear API + MCP vs Creatomate", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bannerbear-vs-creatomate" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/canva-vs-creatomate.json", "title": "Canva REST APIs + MCP vs Creatomate", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/canva-vs-creatomate" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/creatomate-vs-placid.json", "title": "Creatomate vs Placid API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/creatomate-vs-placid" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/creatomate-vs-shotstack.json", "title": "Creatomate vs Shotstack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/creatomate-vs-shotstack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/creatomate-vs-templated.json", "title": "Creatomate vs Templated API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/creatomate-vs-templated" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/creatomate-vs-osmo-cli.json", "title": "Creatomate vs Osmo CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/creatomate-vs-osmo-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-photoshop-api-vs-bannerbear.json", "title": "Adobe Photoshop API vs Bannerbear API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-photoshop-api-vs-bannerbear" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-photoshop-api-vs-osmo-cli.json", "title": "Adobe Photoshop API vs Osmo CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-photoshop-api-vs-osmo-cli" } ], "scores": [ { "adobe-photoshop-api": 55, "by": 15, "creatomate": 40, "edge": "adobe-photoshop-api", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "adobe-photoshop-api": 70, "by": 17, "creatomate": 53, "edge": "adobe-photoshop-api", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "adobe-photoshop-api": 36, "by": 31, "creatomate": 67, "edge": "creatomate", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "adobe-photoshop-api": 62, "by": 14, "creatomate": 48, "edge": "adobe-photoshop-api", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "adobe-photoshop-api": 0, "by": 35, "creatomate": 35, "edge": "creatomate", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "adobe-photoshop-api": 42, "by": 8, "creatomate": 34, "edge": "adobe-photoshop-api", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "adobe-photoshop-api": 59, "by": 8, "creatomate": 51, "edge": "adobe-photoshop-api", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Creatomate scores 47.7 (D) on agent readiness against Adobe Photoshop API's 43.9 (E), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. 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No status page, changelog, OpenAPI file or security contact was found, and the terms and privacy policy date from June 2022." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-photoshop-api-vs-creatomate", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-photoshop-api-vs-creatomate.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-photoshop-api-vs-creatomate.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-photoshop-api-vs-creatomate.min.md" }, "markdown": "Creatomate scores 47.7 (D) on agent readiness against Adobe Photoshop API's 43.9 (E), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Adobe Photoshop API leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do design templates.\n\n- Adobe Photoshop API: grade E, 43.9/100, rank #780 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-photoshop-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/adobe-photoshop-api.json\n- Creatomate: grade D, 47.7/100, rank #737 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/creatomate.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/creatomate.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Adobe Photoshop API (E)\n\nGood for: Enterprise creative operations already on Adobe that automate PSD templating, actions and retouching at volume.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 55 against 40\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 70 against 53\n- Security \u0026 auth, 62 against 48\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 42 against 34\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 59 against 51\n\nWatch for: Enterprise contract only. No self-serve sign-up, free tier or public price\n\n### Creatomate (D)\n\nGood for: Teams that render video, images and GIFs from templates or JSON and want an agent to draft templates and start renders through MCP.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 67 against 36\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 0\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where Adobe Photoshop API loses 4 points for them\n\nWatch for: No status page, incident history or SLA found. `status.creatomate.com` does not resolve\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Adobe Photoshop API | Creatomate | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 55 | 40 | Adobe Photoshop API +15 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 70 | 53 | Adobe Photoshop API +17 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 36 | 67 | Creatomate +31 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 62 | 48 | Adobe Photoshop API +14 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 35 | Creatomate +35 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 42 | 34 | Adobe Photoshop API +8 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 59 | 51 | Adobe Photoshop API +8 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -4 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **43.9 · E** | **47.7 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Adobe Photoshop API | Creatomate |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Adobe | Creatomate |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://photoshop-api.adobe.io` | `https://api.creatomate.com/v2` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Proprietary service under Creatomate's Terms and Conditions. The Node, PHP and Preview SDK libraries on GitHub are MIT |\n| Tools exposed | none | 8 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-08 | 2026-09-03 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2022-06-27 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-10-24 | 2022-06-27 |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 498 npm/wk | 9 stars, 13k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 1.5/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Adobe Photoshop API.** Edits real PSDs, including text layers, smart objects, layer effects, groups and artboards. Enterprise contract only. No self-serve sign-up, free tier or public price.\n\n**Creatomate.** A hosted MCP server with eight tools, OAuth with PKCE and per-project connections sits beside a small REST API whose errors carry a hint and a documentation link, and `dry_run` validates a render at no cost. No status page, changelog, OpenAPI file or security contact was found, and the terms and privacy policy date from June 2022.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Adobe Photoshop API\n\n1. Call v2 paths on photoshop-api.adobe.io. Remove background and its status live on image.adobe.io\n2. Skip @adobe/photoshop-apis and the getting-started curl, which still target v1 /pie/psdService paths\n3. Poll /v2/status/{jobId} or subscribe to I/O Events, since every call returns a job\n4. Retry only 5xx and 429, using retry-after and at most three attempts\n5. Cache the IMS token and refresh it before 24 hours run out\n\n### Creatomate\n\n1. Send `\"dry_run\": true` to `POST /v2/renders` before a paid render. It returns `valid`, `errors`, `warnings` and the effective source\n2. Read `warnings` on every render response. A modification keyed to an unknown element or property name is ignored without an error\n3. Keep under 30 requests per 10 seconds across the whole account, and wait for `Retry-After` on a 429\n4. Download each file when the webhook fires. Renders, their URLs and their status records are deleted after 30 days\n5. Use `render_scale` 0.5 for draft videos, about a quarter of the credits, and remember MCP `create_render` spends credits without a confirmation step from the server\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Adobe Photoshop API or Creatomate?\n\nCreatomate scores 47.7 (D) on agent readiness against Adobe Photoshop API's 43.9 (E), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Adobe Photoshop API leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do Adobe Photoshop API and Creatomate need an API key?\n\nAdobe Photoshop API uses an OAuth sign-in. Creatomate takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Adobe Photoshop API and Creatomate without installing anything?\n\nYes. Adobe Photoshop API has a hosted endpoint at https://photoshop-api.adobe.io and Creatomate at https://api.creatomate.com/v2.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-photoshop-api-vs-creatomate.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-photoshop-api-vs-creatomate.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"adobe-photoshop-api\", \"b\": \"creatomate\"}`. 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