{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "canva", "name": "Canva REST APIs + MCP", "vendor": "Canva", "vendorUrl": "https://www.canva.dev", "kind": "http-api", "category": "design-assets", "summary": "Canva's REST APIs and hosted MCP server connect applications and agents to its design platform.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/canva", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/canva.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/canva.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/canva.json", "dns": "canva.grade.anchorterminal.com", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.canva.com/rest/v1", "packages": [], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "OAuth 2.0 authorisation code flow with PKCE (S256) against https://www.canva.com/api/oauth/authorize, with scopes such as design:content, asset:read and brandtemplate:meta chosen per app in the Developer Portal. Every call runs as one Canva user, so there's no server-to-server key. The MCP server also uses per-user OAuth. Integrators create an app in the Developer Portal and turn on Canva MCP, which issues a client ID and secret straight away; no waitlist was found on canva.dev on 24 October 2026.", "pricing": "byo-plan", "pricingNotes": "No separate API fee. What the API and MCP can do follows the user's Canva plan. Free covers design generation, image generation, editing, search, export, comments and asset upload. Pro, Business and Enterprise add autofill, brand templates, brand kits, resize and pro-quality export. Image generation, image transformation and design generation (preview APIs) consume the user's AI credit allowance. When it runs out, image generation returns a 429 and, since 28 October 2026, design generation returns a 402. Private apps need Enterprise (https://www.canva.com/pricing/, https://www.canva.dev/docs/apps/rest-apis/reference/generations/create-image-generation-job/).", "priceSummary": "Your plan", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Per-user OAuth on Canva plans. No x402 in the docs or OpenAPI description (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 46, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.canva.dev/docs/apps/rest-apis/", "llmsTxt": "https://www.canva.dev/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://www.canva.dev/sources/connect/api/latest/api.yml", "registryName": "com.canva.mcp/mcp", "capabilities": [ "design.templates", "design.render", "design.brand", "video.render", "image.generate", "image.edit" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "async-jobs", "webhooks" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-28", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 67.3, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 332, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 1, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 59, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 30, "reliability": 79, "schema": 95, "security": 63, "transparency": 83 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-02" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-09-18 and 2026-10-28. The MP4 `quality` parameter on the GA export job API changed from a fixed output size to a target pixel count without a new API version, which the deprecation policy requires for breaking changes; Canva logged it the same day as a bug fix. On 28 October the preview Create and Get design generation job APIs dropped `quota_usage` from the response and moved the out-of-credit answer from 429 to 402, posted the day it took effect. Same-day changes fold into one term, kept at the low end. https://www.canva.dev/docs/apps/rest-apis/changelog/" ], "verdict": "OpenAPI 3.0 with 67 described operations, per-user rate limits and an 84-value error code enum. No server-to-server key, so unattended batch rendering has to run under one user's OAuth grant.", "bestFor": "Agents working for people or teams who already use Canva and need editable, on-brand designs filled from data.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.0 with 67 described operations, per-user rate limits and an 84-value error code enum", "OAuth with PKCE and 18 read and write scopes, every action attributable to one user", "Written deprecation policy with at least 6 months' notice and a dated changelog updated on 28 October 2026", "Bugcrowd bug bounty, disclosure policy, SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and public CVE bulletins", "Exports to PNG, JPG, GIF, PDF, PPTX, MP4 and HTML, and the result stays editable in Canva", "Image generation API (preview) with Canva's own CRAFT-1 2K model, an idempotency key and per-job error codes" ], "weaknesses": [ "No server-to-server key, so unattended batch rendering has to run under one user's OAuth grant", "27 of 67 operations are preview and can change without a new version, image generation among them", "MP4 export quality changed meaning on 18 September 2026 without a new API version, and a preview API's out-of-credit answer moved from 429 to 402 on the day it was posted", "Content is used to train Canva's models by default unless the user opts out in settings", "No official SDK, and MCP edits need a start, operate and commit sequence" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call the user capabilities endpoint before autofill, brand templates or resize (Pro or above) and before image generation, which needs Canva AI and Magic Media allowed", "Poll export, upload, autofill and generation jobs with exponential backoff and download results within 24 hours", "Commit an MCP editing transaction after perform-editing-operations, or the changes don't land", "Expect license_required on export when a design holds premium elements", "Read `page_number`, not the deprecated `index`, from Get design pages", "For image generation omit `model` so Canva picks and falls back; pass `craft_v1_2k` only to pin CRAFT-1 2K, and reuse the idempotency_key on retries", "Treat both 402 and 429 as out of AI credits on design generation, which answers 402 and no longer returns quota_usage since 28 October" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3.3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 67.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 59, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 30, "reliability": 79, "schema": 95, "security": 63, "transparency": 71 }, "provenanceScore": 95, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-02", "maintenance": "2026-11-02", "payments": "2026-11-02", "reliability": "2026-11-02", "schema": "2026-11-02", "security": "2026-11-02", "transparency": "2026-11-02" }, "last": "2026-11-02", "lastMoved": "2026-11-02", "oldest": "2026-11-02", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/users/me -H \"Authorization: Bearer $CANVA_ACCESS_TOKEN\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http canva https://mcp.canva.com/mcp" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/design.templates", "tool": "https://letme.dev/canva" }, "area": "design-diagrams", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Canva Pty Ltd", "domain": "canva.com", "domainRegistered": "2001-05-05", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.canva.com/policies/terms-of-use/", "privacy": "https://www.canva.com/policies/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "https://www.canvastatus.com", "changelog": "https://www.canva.dev/docs/apps/rest-apis/changelog/", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-11-02", "notes": [ "Developer docs live on canva.dev. The API is served from api.canva.com", "security.txt lists a bug bounty, disclosure policy and trust centre but has no Expires field (per the 1 October check)", "On 24 October and 2 November 2026 canva.com's robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai and Claude-Web, so the terms, privacy policy, pricing and security.txt weren't re-read; canva.dev, canvastatus.com and trust.canva.com were" ], "score": 95 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/canva.json", "live": { "slug": "canva", "probe": { "target": "https://api.canva.com/rest/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:15.937700091Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 225, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 131, "p95ms24h": 220, "samples24h": 239, "samples30d": 7910, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "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://www.canvastatus.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:37.790084431Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "com.canva.mcp/mcp", "version": "1.0.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-07T18:16:28.95801333Z" } ], "securityTxt": { "url": "https://canva.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:01:15.107047366Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://www.canva.dev/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:31:45.899040349Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "canva.com", "registered": "2001-05-05", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/canva.com", "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T14:07:36.016608314Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.canva.dev/docs/apps/rest-apis/changelog/", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:26:25.072332614Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-06T13:47:27.399490993Z", "fingerprint": "7cba6e86c4be" }, { "url": "https://www.canva.dev/docs/apps/llms.txt", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:26:23.03331506Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-06T13:47:25.224428925Z", "fingerprint": "bcef90ff7f51" }, { "url": "https://www.canva.com/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:26:27.12265415Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "9fd21481e687" }, { "url": "https://www.canva.com/policies/privacy-policy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:26:22.508254842Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-02T07:30:51.467266879Z", "fingerprint": "1003a84193bf" }, { "url": "https://www.canva.com/policies/terms-of-use/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:26:25.464499782Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-30T05:53:44.125586725Z", "fingerprint": "966159c50855" } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://mcp.canva.com/mcp", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T01:43:04.356309103Z", "status": "auth", "note": "asks for credentials before listing its tools", "changedAt": "2026-11-07T01:43:04.356309103Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:15.937700091Z" } }, "answer": "Canva REST APIs + MCP scores 67.3 (B) on agent readiness against Layerre's 57.6 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Layerre leads on agent ergonomics.", "b": { "slug": "layerre", "name": "Layerre", "vendor": "Layerre", "vendorUrl": "https://layerre.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "design-assets", "summary": "Layerre turns Canva designs into reusable templates with editable layers and renders PNG, JPEG, WebP or PDF variants from data, through a REST API, a hosted MCP server and no-code connectors.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/layerre", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/layerre.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/layerre.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/layerre.json", "dns": "layerre.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/Layerre/layerre-mcp", "license": "MIT for the MCP server. The Layerre API is a closed service under terms last updated 13 August 2026", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.layerre.com/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@layerre/mcp-server" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "REST uses an API key (`lyr_...`) created at layerre.com/app/api-keys and sent as `Authorization: Bearer`; keys can be rotated in the dashboard. The hosted MCP server at mcp.layerre.com signs in with OAuth 2.1 and PKCE through a Supabase authorisation server, or takes the same API key as a bearer header for headless use. No key scopes documented.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free $0 with 50 renders a month and API access. Starter $15 a month (500 renders), Plus $29 (2,000, up to 3 seats), Pro $99 (20,000, up to 10 seats); yearly plans give two months free. Each template import and each variant is one render. No overage; upgrade or wait for the reset.", "priceSummary": "$15 / mo", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Subscriptions billed through Stripe. No x402, MPP or L402 in the OpenAPI, llms.txt, auth.md or pricing.md (checked 2026-11-06).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 13, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 119, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-06" }, "docsUrl": "https://layerre.com/docs/", "llmsTxt": "https://layerre.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://layerre.com/openapi.json", "registryName": "com.layerre/layerre", "capabilities": [ "design.templates", "design.render", "pdf.generate" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "mcp", "remote-mcp", "mcp-registry", "openapi", "llms-txt", "oauth", "api-key", "freemium", "free-tier", "canva", "bulk" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 57.6, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 785, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 69, "maintenance": 78, "payments": 25, "reliability": 42, "schema": 87, "security": 48, "transparency": 63 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-06" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A public OpenAPI 3.1 contract, published rate limits with Retry-After, and 13 annotated MCP tools that can't delete anything make Layerre straightforward for an agent to call. It works only from Canva designs, is run by a sole proprietor with no status page or SLA, and its API and MCP server are at version 0.1.0.", "bestFor": "Bulk image and PDF variants from Canva designs a team already has.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.1 with examples, llms.txt and Markdown mirrors of key pages", "Rate limits in numbers, and 429 responses with Retry-After plus retry code samples", "Every MCP tool carries readOnly, destructive and idempotent hints, and the server has no delete or billing tools", "Free plan of 50 renders a month includes API access", "Privacy policy and DPA name ten subprocessors with locations" ], "weaknesses": [ "Imports Canva designs only; there is no template editor of its own", "No status page or SLA found", "API and MCP server are at version 0.1.0, with the MCP package first published on 29 October 2026", "No key scopes or read-only key documented", "Run by a sole proprietorship in Ontario with no named owner on its pages" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `layerre_auth_status` first to confirm the connection", "Read a template's layer IDs with `layerre_get_template` before creating variants", "Use the bulk variant endpoint for batches; each variant still costs one render", "On 429 wait for the Retry-After seconds; limits are per IP address", "Expect template import from a Canva link to take 10 to 30 seconds" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 57.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 69, "maintenance": 78, "payments": 25, "reliability": 42, "schema": 87, "security": 48, "transparency": 64 }, "provenanceScore": 62, "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": { "http": "curl https://api.layerre.com/v1/templates -H \"Authorization: Bearer $LAYERRE_API_KEY\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http layerre https://mcp.layerre.com/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "layerre": { "url": "https://mcp.layerre.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/design.templates", "tool": "https://letme.dev/layerre" }, "area": "design-diagrams", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Starter plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 15, "note": "500 renders a month, about $0.03 a render" }, { "item": "Plus plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 29, "note": "2,000 renders a month, up to 3 seats" }, { "item": "Pro plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 99, "note": "20,000 renders a month, about $0.005 a render, up to 10 seats" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Layerre (sole proprietorship, Ontario, Canada)", "domain": "layerre.com", "domainRegistered": "2025-08-13", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://layerre.com/terms/", "privacy": "https://layerre.com/privacy/", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://layerre.com/whats-new/", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-06", "notes": [ "The terms, privacy policy and DPA, all last updated 13 August 2026, name Layerre, a sole proprietorship based in Ontario, Canada, under Ontario law. No owner is named on the site; the MCP repository's commits are by Nicole Streltsov.", "The terms forbid automated systems (bots, scrapers) without permission. Public pages were read as data.", "layerre.com/robots.txt disallows /app/, /reset-password and /oauth/, with Content-Signal ai-train=no, search=yes, ai-input=yes. layerre-landing.pages.dev serves the same robots.txt and site.", "RDAP gives layerre.com a registration date of 13 August 2025.", "/.well-known/security.txt answers 200 with the site's HTML shell, not a security.txt file. No status page found. The What's New pages are drawn by script; their dates come from the sitemap." ], "score": 62 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/layerre.json", "live": { "slug": "layerre", "probe": { "target": "https://api.layerre.com/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:34.768332322Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 361, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 308, "p95ms24h": 406, "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.layerre/layerre", "version": "0.1.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-07T18:16:28.95801333Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@layerre/mcp-server", "version": "0.1.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:39:10.744093049Z" } ], "githubStars": 0, "npmWeekly": 119, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://layerre.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:00:04.824003957Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://layerre.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:32:52.000761574Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://layerre.com/whats-new/", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:12:39.384244794Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a76ef99f3a88" }, { "url": "https://layerre.com/privacy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:12:35.304236441Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a76ef99f3a88" }, { "url": "https://layerre.com/terms/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:12:37.533574445Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a76ef99f3a88" } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://mcp.layerre.com/mcp", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T01:51:50.188462603Z", "status": "auth", "note": "asks for credentials before listing its tools", "changedAt": "2026-11-06T01:38:41.856942389Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:34.768332322Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 37, "category": "reliability", "leads": "canva", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Atlassian Statuspage at canvastatus.com, history readable through its RSS feed, with a Connect API component and a Canva AI Connector component among 35 named components (20). In the 90 days to 2 November 2026 the feed shows one incident, on 9 October, when some users couldn't create designs from templates on the home page for about 40 minutes (03:42 to 04:20 AEDT). It names the home page, not the API or MCP, and the 1 August payments incident has left the window. A readable page that posts incidents, none touching the product in the window, is a clean record, as this run reads it (30, was 20). Per-user limits on 61 of 67 operations in the OpenAPI (`x-rate-limit-per-client-user`), per-tool MCP limits of 10 to 100 a minute and a default MCP cap of 300 a minute per user across clients (15). 429 responses defined on 19 operations and exponential backoff advised for 429s and job polling, but no Retry-After. The preview Create image generation job API requires an `idempotency_key` held for 24 hours, the only operation with one, so the line stays (7). No SLA found (0). Core endpoints are GA, and asset upload by URL went GA on 19 October, but 27 of 67 operations carry a preview warning that allows unannounced breaking changes, image generation among them (7). 20+30+15+7+0+7 = 79.", "b": "Hosted lines, for the REST API and the hosted MCP server. No status page found on the site, in llms.txt or in the docs (0). No readable incident history (5). Rate limits published as 10 requests a second, a 20-request burst and 600 a minute per IP address (15). A 429 carries Retry-After and a `retry_after` field, and the docs give retry code samples. No idempotency key or safe-retry note for variant creation, which spends renders (12 of 15). No SLA found (0). Neither surface is labelled beta, though both are at version 0.1.0 (10). 0 + 5 + 15 + 12 + 0 + 10 = 42." }, "scores": { "a": 79, "b": 42 } }, { "by": 20, "category": "transparency", "leads": "canva", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "Closed service under published terms (15). Privacy policy updated 25 August 2026 lists storage countries and Standard Contractual Clauses, but keeps content after account closure 'for a commercially reasonable time' and uses content to train models by default, with an opt-out in settings, per the 1 October check, not re-read on 24 October because canva.com's robots.txt disallows our fetcher (18). Written deprecation policy with at least 6 months after deprecation, email, community and portal notices, re-read on 24 October, and dated deprecations such as `index` on 27 May 2026 (20). Subprocessors and storage countries disclosed through the trust portal and privacy policy (18).", "b": "The MCP server is MIT. The service is closed under terms of 13 August 2026 that name a sole proprietorship in Ontario (20 of 30). The privacy policy and DPA of the same date agree. Data is kept while the account is active and deleted from production on account deletion, with limited backups. Design files aren't used to train public AI models. Google Analytics runs on accepted cookies (24 of 30). No deprecation policy or notice period (0). Ten subprocessors listed with purpose and location in both documents, including Supabase, Stripe, Cloudflare, Google, Resend, Canva and Slack (20). 20 + 24 + 0 + 20 = 64." }, "scores": { "a": 83, "b": 63 } }, { "by": 15, "category": "security", "leads": "canva", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "OAuth 2.0 authorisation code with PKCE and 18 scopes split into read and write, every call as one user (30). Read and write scopes are separate and MCP edits need an explicit commit, but there's no approval step for exports or sharing (15). Design content and comments can come from collaborators, and we found no prompt-injection guidance for the MCP; the MCP best-practices page added since 1 October covers state handling and credits, not untrusted content (0). No per-call audit log found (0). security.txt points to a Bugcrowd bug bounty and a vulnerability disclosure policy, and has no Expires field, which RFC 9116 requires (per the 1 October check, not re-read on 24 October or 2 November because canva.com's robots.txt disallows our fetcher). The trust portal, re-read on 24 October, lists SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO/IEC 27001 and publishes CVE bulletins, most recently for the desktop apps' compromised certificates on 26 October and three for the Ortto WordPress plugin on 28 October 2026, none for the REST APIs or MCP (re-read on 2 November) (18).", "b": "OAuth 2.1 with PKCE for MCP through a Supabase authorisation server, and revocable `lyr_` API keys with rotation in the dashboard. No scopes documented for either, and auth.md says the REST API has no OAuth yet (22 of 30). The MCP server cannot delete templates, change billing or manage API keys, but there is no read-only key or endpoint (12 of 20). Tools return the user's own templates and renders; template import fetches a Canva link the user gives (10 of 15). The open-source server emits audit log lines for each tool call for whoever runs it, and nothing per call is documented for the hosted service (4 of 15). No security.txt (the path returns the site's HTML shell), disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification (0). 22 + 12 + 10 + 4 + 0 = 48." }, "scores": { "a": 63, "b": 48 } }, { "by": 10, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "layerre", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "46 MCP tools on 24 October and 2 November (33 on 1 October) with no toolsets or dynamic loading (5), and REST lists take a limit (5). Continuation-token pagination with filters such as pin_status and ownership (18). Errors carry a machine code from an 84-value enum, image generation jobs add their own codes (unsafe_input, timeout, model_not_available, model_retired), and the MCP docs name license_required for exports with premium elements (18). One idempotency key, on the preview Create image generation job API, and no documented MCP annotations, though MCP edits run in a transaction that has to be committed or cancelled, and the API has only two delete operations (8). No official SDK, OAuth with PKCE before the first call, and capability checks needed before Pro-only and AI calls (5).", "b": "13 MCP tools (15 for 11 to 30), with no toolsets or read-only subset (15). Template and variant lists take `skip` and `limit`, and templates filter by `tag` and `q` and can leave out layers (16 of 20). 422 validation bodies and a JSON 429 with `retry_after` (17 of 20). Every tool is annotated, read tools with readOnlyHint and idempotentHint, updates idempotent, no tool destructive, and the server has no delete tool. The REST API has no idempotency keys for variant creation (16 of 20). Few required fields, but no official SDK; a Postman collection and the MCP package only (5 of 15). 15 + 16 + 17 + 16 + 5 = 69." }, "scores": { "a": 59, "b": 69 } }, { "by": 8, "category": "schema", "leads": "canva", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "OpenAPI 3.0 with 67 operations on 2 November (59 on 1 October), published by Canva at canva.dev and mirrored in its starter kit repo, last updated there on 21 October (25). llms.txt exists (www.canva.dev/llms.txt redirects to /docs/llms.txt), but robots.txt disallows /*/llms.txt, so we didn't read it (10). Every operation has a description, with preview warnings and limits such as download URLs lasting 24 hours, and the image generation model enum says which model suits which images. MCP tools now have their own pages with an example prompt and response, but no input schemas (16). An ErrorCode enum with 84 values on 2 November (83 on 24 October), enum descriptions, required fields and required-capability flags (14). Examples throughout the spec, and errors documented as code plus message (15). Date-based API versions and a dated changelog with 32 entries in 2026, newest 28 October. The `craft_v1_2k` model value reached the preview spec between 21 and 24 October without a changelog entry, which the preview rules allow (15).", "b": "Public OpenAPI 3.1 at layerre.com/openapi.json with 16 operations, and zod schemas on all 13 MCP tools in the open-source server (25). llms.txt, auth.md and Markdown mirrors of the pricing, FAQ and integration pages (10). Every operation has a description, and tool descriptions note costs such as 'an expensive operation that may take 10-30 seconds', without saying when not to use a tool (15 of 20). Layer properties have minimums, maximums and enums such as `text_align`, and list calls cap `limit` at 1,000 (14 of 15). 88 examples in the spec, and 404, 422 and 429 responses documented on most operations (13 of 15). Versioned /v1 paths and dated What's New pages, read from the sitemap since the pages are drawn by script; the API itself is version 0.1.0 (10 of 15). 25 + 10 + 15 + 14 + 13 + 10 = 87." }, "scores": { "a": 95, "b": 87 } }, { "by": 7, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "canva", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "Newest changelog entry 28 October 2026 (30). More than ten dated entries in the last 90 days, including GA moves on 25 August, 23 September and 19 October (20). Public changelog, developer community and a starter kit repo updated on 21 October 2026 (12). MCP server listed in the official registry as com.canva.mcp/mcp, active, published 25 September 2026, re-read on 2 November (15). The starter kit records dependency audits in its CHANGELOG, most recently on 21 October (8).", "b": "@layerre/mcp-server 0.1.0 published to npm on 29 October 2026, 8 days before this check (30). MCP server commits from 19 to 24 October, the registry entry of 29 October, and What's New entries dated 21 August and 18 October in the sitemap (20). The repository is a week old with no issues to judge; support by email and in-app chat (5 of 25). com.layerre/layerre is in the official MCP registry under a domain-verified namespace (15). CI runs the vitest suite on push and pull requests to main on Node 22 (8 of 10). 30 + 20 + 5 + 15 + 8 = 78." }, "scores": { "a": 85, "b": 78 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Canva", "b": "Layerre", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.canva.com/rest/v1", "b": "https://api.layerre.com/v1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Your plan", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "b": "MIT for the MCP server. The Layerre API is a closed service under terms last updated 13 August 2026", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "46", "b": "13", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "com.canva.mcp/mcp", "b": "com.layerre/layerre", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-10-28", "b": "2026-10-29", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-08-19", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-08-25", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes, with an opt-out", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "119 npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3.3/5 (4)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Canva REST APIs + MCP scores 67.3 (B) on agent readiness against Layerre's 57.6 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Layerre leads on agent ergonomics.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Canva REST APIs + MCP or Layerre?" }, { "answer": "Canva REST APIs + MCP uses an OAuth sign-in. Layerre takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Canva REST APIs + MCP and Layerre need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Canva REST APIs + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.canva.com/rest/v1 and Layerre at https://api.layerre.com/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call Canva REST APIs + MCP and Layerre without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 79 against 42", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 95 against 87", "Security \u0026 auth, 63 against 48", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 25", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 78", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 83 against 63" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Agents working for people or teams who already use Canva and need editable, on-brand designs filled from data.", "slug": "canva", "watchFor": "No server-to-server key, so unattended batch rendering has to run under one user's OAuth grant" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 69 against 59" ], "also": [ "Runs on your own machine", "No incidents deducted, where Canva REST APIs + MCP loses 3 points for them" ], "goodFor": "Bulk image and PDF variants from Canva designs a team already has.", "slug": "layerre", "watchFor": "Imports Canva designs only; there is no template editor of its own" } ], "history": { "canva": [ { "causes": [ "correction" ], "date": "2026-11-02", "delta": 2, "from": 65.3, "fromGrade": "B", "to": 67.3, "toGrade": "B" }, { "causes": [ "reliability" ], "date": "2026-10-24", "delta": 1, "from": 64.3, "fromGrade": "B", "to": 65.3, "toGrade": "B" }, { "causes": [ "method" ], "date": "2026-10-08", "delta": -0.3, "from": 64.6, "fromGrade": "B", "to": 64.3, "toGrade": "B" } ], "layerre": null }, "job": { "capability": "design.templates", "name": "Design templates" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-photoshop-api-vs-layerre.json", "title": "Adobe Photoshop API vs Layerre", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-photoshop-api-vs-layerre" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apitemplate-io-vs-canva.json", "title": "APITemplate.io vs Canva REST APIs + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apitemplate-io-vs-canva" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apitemplate-io-vs-layerre.json", "title": "APITemplate.io vs Layerre", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apitemplate-io-vs-layerre" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bannerbear-vs-canva.json", "title": "Bannerbear API + MCP vs Canva REST APIs + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bannerbear-vs-canva" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bannerbear-vs-layerre.json", "title": "Bannerbear API + MCP vs Layerre", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bannerbear-vs-layerre" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/canva-vs-contentdrips.json", "title": "Canva REST APIs + MCP vs Contentdrips API and MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/canva-vs-contentdrips" }, { "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/canva-vs-dynapictures.json", "title": "Canva REST APIs + MCP vs DynaPictures", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/canva-vs-dynapictures" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/canva-vs-photoroom.json", "title": "Canva REST APIs + MCP vs Photoroom API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/canva-vs-photoroom" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/canva-vs-pictify.json", "title": "Canva REST APIs + MCP vs Pictify", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/canva-vs-pictify" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/canva-vs-pixelixe.json", "title": "Canva REST APIs + MCP vs Pixelixe", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/canva-vs-pixelixe" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/canva-vs-placid.json", "title": "Canva REST APIs + MCP vs Placid API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/canva-vs-placid" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/canva-vs-postnitro.json", "title": "Canva REST APIs + MCP vs PostNitro", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/canva-vs-postnitro" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/canva-vs-robolly.json", "title": "Canva REST APIs + MCP vs Robolly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/canva-vs-robolly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/canva-vs-shotstack.json", "title": "Canva REST APIs + MCP vs Shotstack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/canva-vs-shotstack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/canva-vs-templated.json", "title": "Canva REST APIs + MCP vs Templated API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/canva-vs-templated" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/contentdrips-vs-layerre.json", "title": "Contentdrips API and MCP vs Layerre", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/contentdrips-vs-layerre" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/creatomate-vs-layerre.json", "title": "Creatomate vs Layerre", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/creatomate-vs-layerre" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dynapictures-vs-layerre.json", "title": "DynaPictures vs Layerre", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dynapictures-vs-layerre" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/layerre-vs-photoroom.json", "title": "Layerre vs Photoroom API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/layerre-vs-photoroom" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/layerre-vs-pictify.json", "title": "Layerre vs Pictify", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/layerre-vs-pictify" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/layerre-vs-pixelixe.json", "title": "Layerre vs Pixelixe", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/layerre-vs-pixelixe" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/layerre-vs-placid.json", "title": "Layerre vs Placid API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/layerre-vs-placid" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/layerre-vs-postnitro.json", "title": "Layerre vs PostNitro", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/layerre-vs-postnitro" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/layerre-vs-robolly.json", "title": "Layerre vs Robolly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/layerre-vs-robolly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/layerre-vs-shotstack.json", "title": "Layerre vs Shotstack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/layerre-vs-shotstack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/layerre-vs-templated.json", "title": "Layerre vs Templated API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/layerre-vs-templated" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/abyssale-vs-canva.json", "title": "Abyssale vs Canva REST APIs + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/abyssale-vs-canva" }, { "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/canva-vs-osmo-cli.json", "title": "Canva REST APIs + MCP vs Osmo CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/canva-vs-osmo-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/layerre-vs-osmo-cli.json", "title": "Layerre vs Osmo CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/layerre-vs-osmo-cli" }, { "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" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 37, "canva": 79, "edge": "canva", "key": "reliability", "layerre": 42, "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 8, "canva": 95, "edge": "canva", "key": "schema", "layerre": 87, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 10, "canva": 59, "edge": "layerre", "key": "ergonomics", "layerre": 69, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 15, "canva": 63, "edge": "canva", "key": "security", "layerre": 48, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 5, "canva": 30, "edge": "canva", "key": "payments", "layerre": 25, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 7, "canva": 85, "edge": "canva", "key": "maintenance", "layerre": 78, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 20, "canva": 83, "edge": "canva", "key": "transparency", "layerre": 63, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Canva REST APIs + MCP scores 67.3 (B) on agent readiness against Layerre's 57.6 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Layerre leads on agent ergonomics. Both do design templates.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "canva": "OpenAPI 3.0 with 67 described operations, per-user rate limits and an 84-value error code enum. No server-to-server key, so unattended batch rendering has to run under one user's OAuth grant.", "layerre": "A public OpenAPI 3.1 contract, published rate limits with Retry-After, and 13 annotated MCP tools that can't delete anything make Layerre straightforward for an agent to call. It works only from Canva designs, is run by a sole proprietor with no status page or SLA, and its API and MCP server are at version 0.1.0." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/canva-vs-layerre", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/canva-vs-layerre.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/canva-vs-layerre.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/canva-vs-layerre.min.md" }, "markdown": "Canva REST APIs + MCP scores 67.3 (B) on agent readiness against Layerre's 57.6 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Layerre leads on agent ergonomics. Both do design templates.\n\n- Canva REST APIs + MCP: grade B, 67.3/100, rank #332 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/canva.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/canva.json\n- Layerre: grade C, 57.6/100, rank #785 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/layerre.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/layerre.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### Canva REST APIs + MCP (B)\n\nGood for: Agents working for people or teams who already use Canva and need editable, on-brand designs filled from data.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 79 against 42\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 95 against 87\n- Security \u0026 auth, 63 against 48\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 25\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 78\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 83 against 63\n\nWatch for: No server-to-server key, so unattended batch rendering has to run under one user's OAuth grant\n\n### Layerre (C)\n\nGood for: Bulk image and PDF variants from Canva designs a team already has.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 69 against 59\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n- No incidents deducted, where Canva REST APIs + MCP loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: Imports Canva designs only; there is no template editor of its own\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Reliability: Canva REST APIs + MCP +37\n\n- Canva REST APIs + MCP (79): Atlassian Statuspage at canvastatus.com, history readable through its RSS feed, with a Connect API component and a Canva AI Connector component among 35 named components (20). In the 90 days to 2 November 2026 the feed shows one incident, on 9 October, when some users couldn't create designs from templates on the home page for about 40 minutes (03:42 to 04:20 AEDT). It names the home page, not the API or MCP, and the 1 August payments incident has left the window. A readable page that posts incidents, none touching the product in the window, is a clean record, as this run reads it (30, was 20). Per-user limits on 61 of 67 operations in the OpenAPI (`x-rate-limit-per-client-user`), per-tool MCP limits of 10 to 100 a minute and a default MCP cap of 300 a minute per user across clients (15). 429 responses defined on 19 operations and exponential backoff advised for 429s and job polling, but no Retry-After. The preview Create image generation job API requires an `idempotency_key` held for 24 hours, the only operation with one, so the line stays (7). No SLA found (0). Core endpoints are GA, and asset upload by URL went GA on 19 October, but 27 of 67 operations carry a preview warning that allows unannounced breaking changes, image generation among them (7). 20+30+15+7+0+7 = 79.\n- Layerre (42): Hosted lines, for the REST API and the hosted MCP server. No status page found on the site, in llms.txt or in the docs (0). No readable incident history (5). Rate limits published as 10 requests a second, a 20-request burst and 600 a minute per IP address (15). A 429 carries Retry-After and a `retry_after` field, and the docs give retry code samples. No idempotency key or safe-retry note for variant creation, which spends renders (12 of 15). No SLA found (0). Neither surface is labelled beta, though both are at version 0.1.0 (10). 0 + 5 + 15 + 12 + 0 + 10 = 42.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Canva REST APIs + MCP +20\n\n- Canva REST APIs + MCP (83): Closed service under published terms (15). Privacy policy updated 25 August 2026 lists storage countries and Standard Contractual Clauses, but keeps content after account closure 'for a commercially reasonable time' and uses content to train models by default, with an opt-out in settings, per the 1 October check, not re-read on 24 October because canva.com's robots.txt disallows our fetcher (18). Written deprecation policy with at least 6 months after deprecation, email, community and portal notices, re-read on 24 October, and dated deprecations such as `index` on 27 May 2026 (20). Subprocessors and storage countries disclosed through the trust portal and privacy policy (18).\n- Layerre (63): The MCP server is MIT. The service is closed under terms of 13 August 2026 that name a sole proprietorship in Ontario (20 of 30). The privacy policy and DPA of the same date agree. Data is kept while the account is active and deleted from production on account deletion, with limited backups. Design files aren't used to train public AI models. Google Analytics runs on accepted cookies (24 of 30). No deprecation policy or notice period (0). Ten subprocessors listed with purpose and location in both documents, including Supabase, Stripe, Cloudflare, Google, Resend, Canva and Slack (20). 20 + 24 + 0 + 20 = 64.\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Canva REST APIs + MCP +15\n\n- Canva REST APIs + MCP (63): OAuth 2.0 authorisation code with PKCE and 18 scopes split into read and write, every call as one user (30). Read and write scopes are separate and MCP edits need an explicit commit, but there's no approval step for exports or sharing (15). Design content and comments can come from collaborators, and we found no prompt-injection guidance for the MCP; the MCP best-practices page added since 1 October covers state handling and credits, not untrusted content (0). No per-call audit log found (0). security.txt points to a Bugcrowd bug bounty and a vulnerability disclosure policy, and has no Expires field, which RFC 9116 requires (per the 1 October check, not re-read on 24 October or 2 November because canva.com's robots.txt disallows our fetcher). The trust portal, re-read on 24 October, lists SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO/IEC 27001 and publishes CVE bulletins, most recently for the desktop apps' compromised certificates on 26 October and three for the Ortto WordPress plugin on 28 October 2026, none for the REST APIs or MCP (re-read on 2 November) (18).\n- Layerre (48): OAuth 2.1 with PKCE for MCP through a Supabase authorisation server, and revocable `lyr_` API keys with rotation in the dashboard. No scopes documented for either, and auth.md says the REST API has no OAuth yet (22 of 30). The MCP server cannot delete templates, change billing or manage API keys, but there is no read-only key or endpoint (12 of 20). Tools return the user's own templates and renders; template import fetches a Canva link the user gives (10 of 15). The open-source server emits audit log lines for each tool call for whoever runs it, and nothing per call is documented for the hosted service (4 of 15). No security.txt (the path returns the site's HTML shell), disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification (0). 22 + 12 + 10 + 4 + 0 = 48.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Layerre +10\n\n- Canva REST APIs + MCP (59): 46 MCP tools on 24 October and 2 November (33 on 1 October) with no toolsets or dynamic loading (5), and REST lists take a limit (5). Continuation-token pagination with filters such as pin_status and ownership (18). Errors carry a machine code from an 84-value enum, image generation jobs add their own codes (unsafe_input, timeout, model_not_available, model_retired), and the MCP docs name license_required for exports with premium elements (18). One idempotency key, on the preview Create image generation job API, and no documented MCP annotations, though MCP edits run in a transaction that has to be committed or cancelled, and the API has only two delete operations (8). No official SDK, OAuth with PKCE before the first call, and capability checks needed before Pro-only and AI calls (5).\n- Layerre (69): 13 MCP tools (15 for 11 to 30), with no toolsets or read-only subset (15). Template and variant lists take `skip` and `limit`, and templates filter by `tag` and `q` and can leave out layers (16 of 20). 422 validation bodies and a JSON 429 with `retry_after` (17 of 20). Every tool is annotated, read tools with readOnlyHint and idempotentHint, updates idempotent, no tool destructive, and the server has no delete tool. The REST API has no idempotency keys for variant creation (16 of 20). Few required fields, but no official SDK; a Postman collection and the MCP package only (5 of 15). 15 + 16 + 17 + 16 + 5 = 69.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Canva REST APIs + MCP +8\n\n- Canva REST APIs + MCP (95): OpenAPI 3.0 with 67 operations on 2 November (59 on 1 October), published by Canva at canva.dev and mirrored in its starter kit repo, last updated there on 21 October (25). llms.txt exists (www.canva.dev/llms.txt redirects to /docs/llms.txt), but robots.txt disallows /*/llms.txt, so we didn't read it (10). Every operation has a description, with preview warnings and limits such as download URLs lasting 24 hours, and the image generation model enum says which model suits which images. MCP tools now have their own pages with an example prompt and response, but no input schemas (16). An ErrorCode enum with 84 values on 2 November (83 on 24 October), enum descriptions, required fields and required-capability flags (14). Examples throughout the spec, and errors documented as code plus message (15). Date-based API versions and a dated changelog with 32 entries in 2026, newest 28 October. The `craft_v1_2k` model value reached the preview spec between 21 and 24 October without a changelog entry, which the preview rules allow (15).\n- Layerre (87): Public OpenAPI 3.1 at layerre.com/openapi.json with 16 operations, and zod schemas on all 13 MCP tools in the open-source server (25). llms.txt, auth.md and Markdown mirrors of the pricing, FAQ and integration pages (10). Every operation has a description, and tool descriptions note costs such as 'an expensive operation that may take 10-30 seconds', without saying when not to use a tool (15 of 20). Layer properties have minimums, maximums and enums such as `text_align`, and list calls cap `limit` at 1,000 (14 of 15). 88 examples in the spec, and 404, 422 and 429 responses documented on most operations (13 of 15). Versioned /v1 paths and dated What's New pages, read from the sitemap since the pages are drawn by script; the API itself is version 0.1.0 (10 of 15). 25 + 10 + 15 + 14 + 13 + 10 = 87.\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Canva REST APIs + MCP +7\n\n- Canva REST APIs + MCP (85): Newest changelog entry 28 October 2026 (30). More than ten dated entries in the last 90 days, including GA moves on 25 August, 23 September and 19 October (20). Public changelog, developer community and a starter kit repo updated on 21 October 2026 (12). MCP server listed in the official registry as com.canva.mcp/mcp, active, published 25 September 2026, re-read on 2 November (15). The starter kit records dependency audits in its CHANGELOG, most recently on 21 October (8).\n- Layerre (78): @layerre/mcp-server 0.1.0 published to npm on 29 October 2026, 8 days before this check (30). MCP server commits from 19 to 24 October, the registry entry of 29 October, and What's New entries dated 21 August and 18 October in the sitemap (20). The repository is a week old with no issues to judge; support by email and in-app chat (5 of 25). com.layerre/layerre is in the official MCP registry under a domain-verified namespace (15). CI runs the vitest suite on push and pull requests to main on Node 22 (8 of 10). 30 + 20 + 5 + 15 + 8 = 78.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Canva REST APIs + MCP | Layerre | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 79 | 42 | Canva REST APIs + MCP +37 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 95 | 87 | Canva REST APIs + MCP +8 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 59 | 69 | Layerre +10 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 63 | 48 | Canva REST APIs + MCP +15 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 25 | Canva REST APIs + MCP +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 78 | Canva REST APIs + MCP +7 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 83 | 63 | Canva REST APIs + MCP +20 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **67.3 · B** | **57.6 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Canva REST APIs + MCP | Layerre |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Canva | Layerre |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.canva.com/rest/v1` | `https://api.layerre.com/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Your plan | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | MIT for the MCP server. The Layerre API is a closed service under terms last updated 13 August 2026 |\n| Tools exposed | 46 | 13 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `com.canva.mcp/mcp` | `com.layerre/layerre` |\n| Last release | 2026-10-28 | 2026-10-29 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-08-19 | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-25 | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | none | 119 npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.3/5 (4) | none |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Canva REST APIs + MCP\n\n- +2.0 on 2 November 2026: correction\n- +1.0 on 24 October 2026: reliability\n- -0.3 on 8 October 2026: checklist\n\n### Layerre\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Canva REST APIs + MCP.** OpenAPI 3.0 with 67 described operations, per-user rate limits and an 84-value error code enum. No server-to-server key, so unattended batch rendering has to run under one user's OAuth grant.\n\n**Layerre.** A public OpenAPI 3.1 contract, published rate limits with Retry-After, and 13 annotated MCP tools that can't delete anything make Layerre straightforward for an agent to call. It works only from Canva designs, is run by a sole proprietor with no status page or SLA, and its API and MCP server are at version 0.1.0.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Canva REST APIs + MCP\n\n1. Call the user capabilities endpoint before autofill, brand templates or resize (Pro or above) and before image generation, which needs Canva AI and Magic Media allowed\n2. Poll export, upload, autofill and generation jobs with exponential backoff and download results within 24 hours\n3. Commit an MCP editing transaction after perform-editing-operations, or the changes don't land\n4. Expect license_required on export when a design holds premium elements\n5. Read `page_number`, not the deprecated `index`, from Get design pages\n6. For image generation omit `model` so Canva picks and falls back; pass `craft_v1_2k` only to pin CRAFT-1 2K, and reuse the idempotency_key on retries\n7. Treat both 402 and 429 as out of AI credits on design generation, which answers 402 and no longer returns quota_usage since 28 October\n\n### Layerre\n\n1. Call `layerre_auth_status` first to confirm the connection\n2. Read a template's layer IDs with `layerre_get_template` before creating variants\n3. Use the bulk variant endpoint for batches; each variant still costs one render\n4. On 429 wait for the Retry-After seconds; limits are per IP address\n5. Expect template import from a Canva link to take 10 to 30 seconds\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Canva REST APIs + MCP or Layerre?\n\nCanva REST APIs + MCP scores 67.3 (B) on agent readiness against Layerre's 57.6 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Layerre leads on agent ergonomics.\n\n### Do Canva REST APIs + MCP and Layerre need an API key?\n\nCanva REST APIs + MCP uses an OAuth sign-in. Layerre takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Canva REST APIs + MCP and Layerre without installing anything?\n\nYes. Canva REST APIs + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.canva.com/rest/v1 and Layerre at https://api.layerre.com/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/canva-vs-layerre.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/canva-vs-layerre.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"canva\", \"b\": \"layerre\"}`. 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