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Team $49 a month for 10 users with unlimited AWS accounts, API access, SSO and 20 automated diagrams. Enterprise (self-hosted, unlimited users) by quote. Annual billing is up to 30 per cent off, and AWS Marketplace billing is available (https://cloudviz.io/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$9.95 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://cloudviz.io/developers", "openapi": "https://cloudviz.io/assets/developers/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "diagram.create", "diagram.export", "diagram.architecture" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "openapi", "async-jobs", "enterprise" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 37.9, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 432, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 50, "maintenance": 5, "payments": 20, "reliability": 20, "schema": 58, "security": 53, "transparency": 47 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Diagrams come from the live AWS account through a read-only cross-account role with a per-customer external ID. AWS only, and API access starts at the $49 a month Team plan.", "strengths": [ "Diagrams come from the live AWS account through a read-only cross-account role with a per-customer external ID", "One GET returns svg, png, pdf, drawio, jsonDiagram or jsonSnapshot", "Public OpenAPI 3.0.3 file with 7 operations and documented status codes", "API keys can be read-only" ], "weaknesses": [ "AWS only, and API access starts at the $49 a month Team plan", "Throttling on rate, burst and daily count with no published numbers", "No status page, changelog, SLA or security.txt", "No dated product update found since March 2025" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `GET /aws/accounts/` first to get the Cloudviz account ID, then request `/aws/accounts/{account-id}/{region}/{format}`", "On a 202, wait and repeat the same GET until the diagram is ready", "Ask for `jsonSnapshot` or `jsonDiagram` (there is no plain `json` format) when the agent has to reason over resources", "Use a read-only key unless the agent has to add, change or delete AWS accounts" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 37.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 50, "maintenance": 5, "payments": 20, "reliability": 20, "schema": 58, "security": 53, "transparency": 38 }, "provenanceScore": 55 }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://api.cloudviz.io/aws/accounts/ -H \"x-api-key: $CLOUDVIZ_API_KEY\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/diagram.create", "tool": "https://letme.dev/cloudviz" }, "area": "design-diagrams", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Base plan", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 9.95, "note": "billed monthly, no API access" }, { "item": "Team plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 49, "note": "10 users, first plan with API access, billed monthly" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "SIA Cloudviz Solutions", "domain": "cloudviz.io", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://cloudviz.io/terms", "privacy": "https://cloudviz.io/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-01", "notes": [ "SIA is a Latvian limited company, registration number 44103120286, legal address Rīgas iela 22A-53, Limbaži, LV-4001 (firmas.lv)", "Terms are governed by Latvian law and were last updated on 26 March 2019", "No RDAP service answers for .io, so the registration date is unknown", "/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. 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OAuth 2.0 with scopes such as lucidchart.document.content, which sharing and embed endpoints require. Every call needs a `Lucid-Api-Version` header. The MCP server uses OAuth with dynamic client registration, and account admins can switch it on for the whole account.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan with limited editable documents. Individual $9 a month and Team $10 per user a month with a 3-user minimum, billed yearly. Enterprise custom. Lucid doesn't publish API or MCP limits by plan (https://lucid.app/pricing/lucidchart).", "priceSummary": "$9 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No payment support in the REST or MCP docs.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 9, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://lucid.readme.io/reference/overview", "llmsTxt": "https://lucid.readme.io/llms.txt", "registryName": "app.lucid.mcp/lucid", "capabilities": [ "diagram.create", "diagram.as-code", "diagram.edit", "diagram.export", "design.files", "design.canvas", "design.comments" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "closed-source", "mcp", "llms-txt", "diagram-as-code", "async-jobs", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-06-15", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 60.9, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 238, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 62, "maintenance": 33, "payments": 25, "reliability": 67, "schema": 73, "security": 80, "transparency": 63 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "OAuth 2.0 scopes with `:readonly` variants, and audit log endpoints in the REST API. No public changelog for the API or the MCP server.", "strengths": [ "OAuth 2.0 scopes with `:readonly` variants, and audit log endpoints in the REST API", "Mermaid in through REST, PlantUML sequence diagrams through MCP, both editable afterwards", "Per-operation rate limits in each reference page's OpenAPI fragment, such as 60 a minute on Create Mermaid Diagram", "Nine compact MCP tools, listed in the official registry as app.lucid.mcp/lucid at 1.0.0", "SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, FedRAMP Moderate and a HackerOne bug bounty" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public changelog for the API or the MCP server", "The status page doesn't monitor the API or the MCP server", "No single OpenAPI file and no official REST SDK", "Developer tools and MCP depend on user settings or admin approval", "No published price for API or MCP use beyond seat plans" ], "agentNotes": [ "Always send `Lucid-Api-Version: 1`, or prefix the path with /v1", "For flowcharts and sequence diagrams, post Mermaid markup (up to 100,000 characters) instead of building Standard Import JSON", "Request `:readonly` scopes when the agent only reads documents", "On 429, wait 60 seconds or back off. Create Mermaid Diagram allows 60 calls a minute", "Sharing and embed endpoints need an OAuth token. An API key won't work there" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 60.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 62, "maintenance": 33, "payments": 25, "reliability": 67, "schema": 73, "security": 80, "transparency": 61 }, "provenanceScore": 65 }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://api.lucid.co/users/me/profile -H \"Authorization: Bearer $LUCID_API_KEY\" -H \"Lucid-Api-Version: 1\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http lucid https://mcp.lucid.app/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "lucid": { "url": "https://mcp.lucid.app/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/diagram.create", "tool": "https://letme.dev/lucid" }, "alsoIn": [ "design" ], "area": "design-diagrams", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Individual plan", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 9, "note": "billed yearly" }, { "item": "Team plan", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 10, "note": "billed yearly, 3-user minimum" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Lucid Software Inc.", "domain": "lucid.co", "domainRegistered": "", "domainNote": "The .co registry has no RDAP service we could query, so the registration date is blank. The MCP server runs on lucid.app, Lucid's product domain.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://lucid.co/tos", "privacy": "https://lucid.co/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.lucid.co", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-01", "notes": [ "The status page has no API or MCP component", "security.txt not rechecked on 2026-10-01; none per the 30 September check" ], "score": 65 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lucid.json", "live": { "slug": "lucid", "probe": { "target": "https://api.lucid.co", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-05T01:43:40.60987448Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 251, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 200, "p95ms24h": 483, "samples24h": 272, "samples30d": 1122, "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": 20, "ok": 20 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.lucid.co", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T01:46:37.282733429Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "app.lucid.mcp/lucid", "version": "1.0.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T23:42:40.113054682Z" } ], "securityTxt": { "url": "https://lucid.co/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:47.429149689Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://lucid.readme.io/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:17:57.566091069Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "lucid.co", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:08:39.466296912Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://lucid.app/pricing/lucidchart", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:45:42.868386873Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "ba6244b9a39a" }, { "url": "https://lucid.co/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:45:45.033679014Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "42182e432bc9" }, { "url": "https://lucid.co/tos", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:45:47.182091401Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "522f8449b0a1" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-05T01:46:37.282733429Z" } }, "summary": "Lucid API + MCP has a score of 60.9 (C) against Cloudviz API's 37.9 (F). Both do diagram create. The largest gap is reliability, 47 points." }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudviz-vs-lucid", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudviz-vs-lucid.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudviz-vs-lucid.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudviz-vs-lucid.min.md" }, "markdown": "Lucid API + MCP has a score of 60.9 (C) against Cloudviz API's 37.9 (F). Both do diagram create. The largest gap is reliability, 47 points.\n\n- Cloudviz API: grade F, 37.9/100, rank #432 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudviz.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cloudviz.json\n- Lucid API + MCP: grade C, 60.9/100, rank #238 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lucid.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lucid.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Cloudviz API for nothing in particular (no category where it leads by five points or more).\n\nPick Lucid API + MCP for reliability (+47), schema \u0026 documentation (+15), agent ergonomics (+12), security \u0026 auth (+27), payments \u0026 pricing (+5), maintenance \u0026 community (+28), transparency \u0026 trust (+16).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cloudviz API | Lucid API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 20 | 67 | Lucid API + MCP +47 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 58 | 73 | Lucid API + MCP +15 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 50 | 62 | Lucid API + MCP +12 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 53 | 80 | Lucid API + MCP +27 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 25 | Lucid API + MCP +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 5 | 33 | Lucid API + MCP +28 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 47 | 63 | Lucid API + MCP +16 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **37.9 · F** | **60.9 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cloudviz API | Lucid API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Cloudviz | Lucid Software |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cloudviz.io` | `https://api.lucid.co` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | proprietary |\n| Tools exposed | none | 9 |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `app.lucid.mcp/lucid` |\n| Last release | none | 2026-06-15 |\n| Popularity | none | none |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | 3/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Cloudviz API.** Diagrams come from the live AWS account through a read-only cross-account role with a per-customer external ID. AWS only, and API access starts at the $49 a month Team plan.\n\n**Lucid API + MCP.** OAuth 2.0 scopes with `:readonly` variants, and audit log endpoints in the REST API. No public changelog for the API or the MCP server.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Cloudviz API\n\n1. Call `GET /aws/accounts/` first to get the Cloudviz account ID, then request `/aws/accounts/{account-id}/{region}/{format}`\n2. On a 202, wait and repeat the same GET until the diagram is ready\n3. Ask for `jsonSnapshot` or `jsonDiagram` (there is no plain `json` format) when the agent has to reason over resources\n4. Use a read-only key unless the agent has to add, change or delete AWS accounts\n\n### Lucid API + MCP\n\n1. Always send `Lucid-Api-Version: 1`, or prefix the path with /v1\n2. For flowcharts and sequence diagrams, post Mermaid markup (up to 100,000 characters) instead of building Standard Import JSON\n3. Request `:readonly` scopes when the agent only reads documents\n4. On 429, wait 60 seconds or back off. Create Mermaid Diagram allows 60 calls a minute\n5. Sharing and embed endpoints need an OAuth token. 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