# ArtCraft vs SurgePix API (slim)

> SurgePix scores 36 (F) to ArtCraft's 23.3 (F) for image generation. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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SurgePix API scores 36 (F) on agent readiness against ArtCraft's 23.3 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. ArtCraft leads on reliability and payments & pricing. Both do image generation.

- ArtCraft: F 23.3, rank #1205 of 1266 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/artcraft.min.md
- SurgePix API: F 36, rank #1173 of 1266 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/surgepix.min.md
- ArtCraft, good for ArtCraft is a visual workspace for AI images and video. Ahead on Reliability, 30 against 15; Payments & pricing, 30 against 20. Also No key needed to call it.
- SurgePix API, good for An agent that needs finished marketing assets, such as posters, slide decks, Xiaohongshu carousels, logos and translated images, as one file from a short request. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 40 against 25; Agent ergonomics, 53 against 15; Security & auth, 41 against 10; Maintenance & community, 66 against 30. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | ArtCraft | SurgePix API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 30 | 15 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 25 | 40 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 15 | 53 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 10 | 41 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 30 | 66 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 31 | 28 |

| Fact (where they differ) | ArtCraft | SurgePix API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Storyteller | SurgePix |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.surgepix.ai/api` |
| Transports |  | HTTP |
| Auth | None | API key |
| Licence | MIT OR Apache-2.0 for repository code; hosted generation and model services have separate terms. | Proprietary hosted service under the Surgepix User Agreement, which names no company and restricts commercial use without SurgePix's permission. The agent skills repository is MIT |
| Last release | 2026-09-26 | 2026-10-23 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-06-10 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 33k stars | none |
| Agent reviews | 2/5 (4) | none |

Why the edge:
- Agent ergonomics, SurgePix API +38: ArtCraft 15 (Interactive composition and reusable references (10), documented setup (5). External-agent output controls, retries and tool annotations were not verified (0).); SurgePix API 53 (Every task returns one download URL, or one ZIP for an image set, and status responses are a few fields, so little enters context (18). Nothing to paginate. `noWait` chooses sync or async, and the skills pass size, aspect ratio, count and language, but none of these are in the public reference (10). Errors come back as a JSON `code` and `msg`, with 401 and 404 documented and an NSFW error on upload, but a failure can arrive as HTTP 200 with a non-zero `code` and failed task states carry no documented reason (12). Upload deduplicates by MD5 and returns the existing URL. Tasks have no idempotency key, and a retried task is a new task that spends credits again (5). Few required parameters (`fileUrl` for background removal). No official SDK, only the Node scripts inside the skills (8). 18+10+12+5+8 = 53.)
- Maintenance & community, SurgePix API +36: ArtCraft 30 (26 September release within 30 days (30). Only two inspected releases fall within 90 days, so no cadence credit (0). Response quality and package health were not assessed (0).); SurgePix API 66 (The last dated change is GPT-Image-2.5 on 23 October 2026, 10 days before the check (30). Changelog entries on 15, 22 and 23 October, 16, 9 and 2 September 2026, more than three in 90 days (20). For a closed service, a dated changelog, a Discord server and a contact email. We didn't open Discord or the GitHub issues, so answering isn't confirmed (8). No official SDK. The skills are maintained client scripts with tags from v1.0.0 (4 June 2026) to v1.5.0 (2 September 2026), a judgement call (5). The repository's CI checks SKILL.md front matter only, with no tests, and the skills aren't published as a package (3). 30+20+8+5+3 = 66.)
- Security & auth, SurgePix API +31: ArtCraft 10 (Local source can be inspected and provider connections chosen by the operator (10). No agent-specific scopes, injection controls or security audit was established (0).); SurgePix API 41 (Plain API keys created in the account settings, which the docs say can be revoked and reset. The key goes in the `authorization` header, never in a URL. No scopes found (20). No read-only key or spend cap. The plan's credit allowance bounds spend. Every uploaded file becomes a publicly accessible URL on Tencent Cloud storage, which counts against least privilege (3). The API returns image and file URLs, not untrusted text (10). The billing page's credit statement lists each request with its model and token counts, and sessions group calls in the web app, per the docs (8). No security.txt, disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification was found (0). 20+3+10+8+0 = 41.)
- Reliability, ArtCraft +15: ArtCraft 30 (Documented desktop releases and build instructions (20), versioned 0.x release history (10). Passing application tests, issue handling and stable 1.0 were not established (0).); SurgePix API 15 (Read with the hosted lines. No status page was found on surgepix.ai or in the docs, and status.surgepix.ai doesn't resolve (0). With no history to read, the incident line takes the floor (5). No rate limits with numbers are documented. The terms say "non-human continuous or frequent query operations" lead to automatic account suspension, with no threshold given (0). No 429 or backoff guidance. The skill scripts poll every 2 seconds for up to 5 to 15 minutes, but that is client code, not a documented policy (0). No SLA, and the terms disclaim uninterrupted service (0). The API isn't labelled beta or preview, and API keys have been self-serve since 2 June 2026 per the changelog (10). 0+5+0+0+0+10 = 15.)
- Schema & documentation, SurgePix API +15: ArtCraft 25 (Repository documentation (10), product workflows (10), usage examples (5). No external-agent machine contract, input constraints or API error reference verified (0).); SurgePix API 40 (No OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract was found (0). surgepix.ai/llms.txt returns 404. The docs are HTML pages, but the 15 SKILL.md files in the MIT repository are Markdown written for agents, so half (5). The API reference states the purpose of each of its five operations and the async and session model. The SKILL.md files add trigger phrases and explicit do-not-use routing between skills, but 11 of the task endpoints the skills call appear only in their scripts, with no reference (10). Parameter tables give type and required for the documented operations, with no enums or limits, and the undocumented endpoints have no schema at all (7). JSON examples for every documented operation and an error table with 401, 404 and `error.file.sensitive_content` (10). A dated public changelog from 11 March 2026, but no version in the API path and no API-specific change notes (8). 0+5+10+7+10+8 = 40.)
- Payments & pricing, ArtCraft +10: ArtCraft 30 (No machine payment protocol found (0), public credit plans (10), free local editor (20), hosted credit purchase needs a user account (0).); SurgePix API 20 (No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices and monthly credits are public, but credits are spent per token with no per-call price for any API task, so plan-only pricing (10). A free plan with 25 credits a day. The pages don't say whether a card is needed or whether a free account can create API keys, so half, a judgement call (10). A person signs up in a browser and creates the key in settings (0). 0+10+10+0 = 20.)