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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": 439, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 460, "categoryRank": 9, "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.", "bestFor": "Documenting what already runs in AWS, for example regenerating a diagram after each deploy and posting it to Confluence or Slack.", "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. The security page names security@cloudviz.io" ], "score": 55 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudviz.json", "live": { "slug": "cloudviz", "probe": { "target": "https://api.cloudviz.io", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-06T01:46:27.63467031Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 403, "lastMs": 43, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 56, "p95ms24h": 121, "samples24h": 273, "samples30d": 1395, "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": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 } ] }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://cloudviz.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T15:16:08.724246498Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "cloudviz.io", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:03:55.142223054Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://cloudviz.io/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T15:54:11.291125943Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "65ac1cddb5ad" }, { "url": "https://cloudviz.io/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T15:54:13.375865711Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "b4c608710d46" }, { "url": "https://cloudviz.io/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T15:54:15.363678458Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "f319fbc0e66d" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-06T01:46:27.63467031Z" } }, "answer": "Mural MCP scores 42 (E) on agent readiness against Cloudviz API's 37.9 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. 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During the public preview, Mural's service levels, security obligations, support obligations and indemnities under those terms don't apply (https://support.mural.co/s/article/MCP-preview)", "transports": [ "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://mcp-canvas.mural.co/mcp", "packages": [], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "OAuth only, no API keys. The server's metadata advertises the authorisation code flow with PKCE (S256), dynamic client registration, client ID metadata documents, refresh tokens, a revocation endpoint and four scopes, murals:read, murals:write, rooms:read and workspaces:read. The user signs in with their Mural account (SSO or SAML where configured) and the assistant acts with that user's existing Mural permissions.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Free during the public preview, but only for members of paid workspaces. Team+ is $9.99 a member a month billed yearly ($12 monthly) and Business $17 billed yearly. The Free plan is excluded. Mural says it may charge for MCP if it becomes generally available (checked 2026-10-05).", "priceSummary": "$9.99 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the MCP help article, the MCP landing page, the pricing page or the server's OAuth metadata (checked 2026-10-05).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-05" }, "docsUrl": "https://support.mural.co/s/article/MCP-preview", "registryName": "co.mural/mural", "capabilities": [ "diagram.create", "diagram.edit", "design.canvas" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "mcp", "oauth", "preview", "closed-source", "paid-plan", "status-page", "bug-bounty", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-05", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 42, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 422, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 460, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 26, "maintenance": 75, "payments": 10, "reliability": 35, "schema": 30, "security": 72, "transparency": 63 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-10-05" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Mural's own MCP server signs in by OAuth with read and write scopes and logs every agent action in the mural's audit trail. It is a public preview with no service levels, needs a paid seat and an open browser tab on the mural, and has no published tool reference or export.", "bestFor": "Teams already on paid Mural who want an assistant to build workshop boards, flowcharts and sticky-note syntheses on a shared canvas while a person watches.", "strengths": [ "OAuth with PKCE, dynamic client registration, revocation and separate read and write scopes", "Agent actions land in the activity and audit logs with a 'with AI' attribution", "Writes stickies, shapes, connectors, tables, areas and full library templates, including LUMA methods", "SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001, with a private HackerOne bug bounty", "In the official MCP registry under Mural's verified co.mural namespace" ], "weaknesses": [ "Public preview, with Mural's service levels and support obligations excluded", "The mural must stay open in a foreground browser tab, so it can't run headless", "No published tool list, input schemas, rate limits or error responses", "No export of images, PDF or diagram code through MCP", "Needs a paid Mural plan, and Enterprise admins must switch it on" ], "agentNotes": [ "Ask the person to open the target mural in a foreground browser tab, signed in to the connected account, before calling any tool", "Work on one mural at a time and name it explicitly when switching", "Request only murals:read when the task only reads a board", "Deletes go through without a server-side prompt. 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mural-mcp-vs-tldraw.json", "title": "Mural MCP vs tldraw SDK + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mural-mcp-vs-tldraw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mural-mcp-vs-whimsical.json", "title": "Mural MCP vs Whimsical MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mural-mcp-vs-whimsical" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 15, "cloudviz": 20, "edge": "mural-mcp", "key": "reliability", "mural-mcp": 35, "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 28, "cloudviz": 58, "edge": "cloudviz", "key": "schema", "mural-mcp": 30, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 24, "cloudviz": 50, "edge": "cloudviz", "key": "ergonomics", "mural-mcp": 26, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 19, "cloudviz": 53, "edge": "mural-mcp", "key": "security", "mural-mcp": 72, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 10, "cloudviz": 20, "edge": "cloudviz", "key": "payments", "mural-mcp": 10, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 70, "cloudviz": 5, "edge": "mural-mcp", "key": "maintenance", "mural-mcp": 75, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 16, "cloudviz": 47, "edge": "mural-mcp", "key": "transparency", "mural-mcp": 63, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Mural MCP scores 42 (E) on agent readiness against Cloudviz API's 37.9 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Cloudviz API leads on schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do diagram create.", "verdicts": { "cloudviz": "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.", "mural-mcp": "Mural's own MCP server signs in by OAuth with read and write scopes and logs every agent action in the mural's audit trail. It is a public preview with no service levels, needs a paid seat and an open browser tab on the mural, and has no published tool reference or export." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudviz-vs-mural-mcp", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudviz-vs-mural-mcp.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudviz-vs-mural-mcp.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudviz-vs-mural-mcp.min.md" }, "markdown": "Mural MCP scores 42 (E) on agent readiness against Cloudviz API's 37.9 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Cloudviz API leads on schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do diagram create.\n\n- Cloudviz API: grade F, 37.9/100, rank #439 of 460. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudviz.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cloudviz.json\n- Mural MCP: grade E, 42/100, rank #422 of 460. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mural-mcp.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mural-mcp.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Cloudviz API (F)\n\nGood for: Documenting what already runs in AWS, for example regenerating a diagram after each deploy and posting it to Confluence or Slack.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 58 against 30\n- Agent ergonomics, 50 against 26\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 20 against 10\n\nWatch for: AWS only, and API access starts at the $49 a month Team plan\n\n### Mural MCP (E)\n\nGood for: Teams already on paid Mural who want an assistant to build workshop boards, flowcharts and sticky-note syntheses on a shared canvas while a person watches.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 35 against 20\n- Security \u0026 auth, 72 against 53\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 75 against 5\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 63 against 47\n\nWatch for: Public preview, with Mural's service levels and support obligations excluded\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cloudviz API | Mural MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 20 | 35 | Mural MCP +15 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 58 | 30 | Cloudviz API +28 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 50 | 26 | Cloudviz API +24 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 53 | 72 | Mural MCP +19 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 10 | Cloudviz API +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 5 | 75 | Mural MCP +70 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 47 | 63 | Mural MCP +16 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **37.9 · F** | **42 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cloudviz API | Mural MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | MCP server |\n| Vendor | Cloudviz | Tactivos, Inc. (d/b/a Mural) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cloudviz.io` | `https://mcp-canvas.mural.co/mcp` |\n| Transports | HTTP | Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Paid | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Proprietary hosted service under Mural's Terms of Service. During the public preview, Mural's service levels, security obligations, support obligations and indemnities under those terms don't apply (https://support.mural.co/s/article/MCP-preview) |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `co.mural/mural` |\n| Last release | none | 2026-10-05 |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | 2/5 (1) |\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**Mural MCP.** Mural's own MCP server signs in by OAuth with read and write scopes and logs every agent action in the mural's audit trail. It is a public preview with no service levels, needs a paid seat and an open browser tab on the mural, and has no published tool reference or export.\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### Mural MCP\n\n1. Ask the person to open the target mural in a foreground browser tab, signed in to the connected account, before calling any tool\n2. Work on one mural at a time and name it explicitly when switching\n3. Request only murals:read when the task only reads a board\n4. Deletes go through without a server-side prompt. Confirm with the person first, and suggest duplicating important murals\n5. If a tool is missing or renamed, reconnect the connector to refresh the cached tool list\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Cloudviz API or Mural MCP?\n\nMural MCP scores 42 (E) on agent readiness against Cloudviz API's 37.9 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Cloudviz API leads on schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics and payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do Cloudviz API and Mural MCP need an API key?\n\nCloudviz API needs an API key. Mural MCP uses an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Cloudviz API and Mural MCP without installing anything?\n\nYes. Cloudviz API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cloudviz.io and Mural MCP at https://mcp-canvas.mural.co/mcp.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudviz-vs-mural-mcp.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudviz-vs-mural-mcp.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cloudviz\", \"b\": \"mural-mcp\"}`. 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