# Cloudviz API vs Excalidraw (slim)

> Excalidraw scores 54.5 (C) to Cloudviz's 37.7 (F) for diagram creation. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-09

Excalidraw scores 54.5 (C) on agent readiness against Cloudviz API's 37.7 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do diagram creation.

- Cloudviz API: F 37.7, rank #925 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudviz.min.md
- Excalidraw: C 54.5, rank #683 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/excalidraw.min.md
- Cloudviz API, good for Documenting what already runs in AWS, for example regenerating a diagram after each deploy and posting it to Confluence or Slack.
- Excalidraw, good for Teams already on Excalidraw+ that want agents to create and edit hand-drawn diagrams, slides and wireframes in a shared workspace, and one-off sketches through the free MCP App. Ahead on Reliability, 50 against 20; Schema & documentation, 65 against 58; Agent ergonomics, 58 against 50; Security & auth, 73 against 53; Payments & pricing, 35 against 20; Maintenance & community, 44 against 5; Transparency & trust, 63 against 45. Also Open source.

| Category | Cloudviz API | Excalidraw |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 20 | 50 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 58 | 65 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 50 | 58 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 53 | 73 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 5 | 44 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 45 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cloudviz API | Excalidraw |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cloudviz | Excalidraw s.r.o. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cloudviz.io` | `https://api.excalidraw.com/api/v1/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | none | Excalidraw+ is a proprietary service under Excalidraw's terms of use. The editor and the MCP App on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 37 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | none | 2026-09-01 |
| Terms last updated | 2019-03-26 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2021-04-29 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | none | 134k stars, 676k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | none |