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          "429 responses carry `Retry-After` and `retryAfterSeconds`, and the docs give a bounded retry policy",
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          "The MCP reference lists 75 tools, and the setup guide tells users to select Always Allow for all of them",
          "Per-model credit costs are returned by an authenticated endpoint and shown in the app, not on the pricing page",
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          "reliability": 69,
          "schema": 70,
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          "transparency": 38
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/melius.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/melius.json\n- Best design workspace and canvas APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/design/index.md\n- All 66 design comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/design/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### ArtCraft (F)\n\nGood for: ArtCraft is a visual workspace for AI images and video.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 20\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n\nWatch for: No external-agent API verified\n\n### Melius (C)\n\nGood for: An agent producing batches of ad creative, product images or short videos on a shared canvas that people then review, with many models behind one key.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 69 against 30\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 70 against 25\n- Agent ergonomics, 51 against 15\n- Security \u0026 auth, 43 against 10\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 66 against 30\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 55 against 25\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: API keys have no scopes. A key works with its creator's role in every team the creator belongs to\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | ArtCraft | Melius | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 30 | 69 | Melius +39 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 25 | 70 | Melius +45 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 15 | 51 | Melius +36 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 10 | 43 | Melius +33 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 20 | ArtCraft +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 30 | 66 | Melius +36 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 25 | 55 | Melius +30 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **22.8 · F** | **54.1 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | ArtCraft | Melius |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Platform | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Storyteller | Melius AI, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.melius.com/api/v1` |\n| Transports |  | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | None | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT OR Apache-2.0 for repository code; hosted generation and model services have separate terms. | Proprietary service under Melius's terms of service. The mel CLI on npm is MIT, with no public source repository found |\n| Tools exposed | none | 75 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-26 | 2026-09-10 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | 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 | yes |\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 | yes |\n| Popularity | 33k stars | 9 npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2/5 (4) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**ArtCraft.** Public source under permissive licences. No external-agent API verified.\n\n**Melius.** One backend serves a 59-operation REST API with a public OpenAPI spec, a hosted MCP server with OAuth sign-in and a JSON-only CLI, and the status page shows no incidents since July 2026. API keys carry no scopes and work with their creator's role, and no rate-limit numbers, changelog or per-model credit prices are published.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### ArtCraft\n\n1. Use the interactive application unless an official automation interface is confirmed.\n2. Check the model service terms before sending private reference media.\n\n### Melius\n\n1. Generate by creating a node on a canvas, starting a run with POST /nodes/{nodeId}/runs, then polling GET /node-runs/{nodeRunId} until `status` is finished or failed\n2. Over MCP, call `get_guide` first, `show_presence` before node changes and `canvas_plan_layout` before `bulk_create_nodes`\n3. On 429 wait `Retry-After` seconds. 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