# Clueso vs Magic Hour MCP (slim)

> Magic Hour MCP scores 50.7 (D) to Clueso's 36.3 (F) for video edit. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Magic Hour MCP scores 50.7 (D) on agent readiness against Clueso's 36.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Clueso leads on payments & pricing. Both do video edit.

- Clueso: F 36.3, rank #1389 of 1510 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clueso-video.min.md
- Magic Hour MCP: D 50.7, rank #1053 of 1510 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/magic-hour-mcp.min.md
- Clueso, good for Clueso creates editable videos and supporting articles from agent instructions. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 30 against 15.
- Magic Hour MCP, good for Agents making short-form video and images, from talking photos and ads to lip-synced translations, on a credit plan. Ahead on Reliability, 35 against 15; Schema & documentation, 82 against 60; Agent ergonomics, 55 against 50; Security & auth, 45 against 35; Maintenance & community, 75 against 15; Transparency & trust, 58 against 48.

| Category | Clueso | Magic Hour MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 15 | 35 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 60 | 82 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 50 | 55 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 35 | 45 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 15 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 15 | 75 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 48 | 58 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Clueso | Magic Hour MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Desklamp, Inc. | Magic Hour AI, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://connect.clueso.io/mcp` | `https://mcp.magichour.ai/` |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Licence | Proprietary service; see governing terms and the access limitations below. | none |
| Tools exposed | none | 50 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | `io.clueso/video` | `io.github.magichourhq/magic-hour` |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-08 | not read yet |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-08 | not read yet |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not read yet |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not read yet |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not read yet |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not read yet |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not read yet |
| Popularity | 13 stars | none |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | none |

Why the edge:
- Maintenance & community, Magic Hour MCP +60: Clueso 15 (Official io.clueso/video registry identity (15). No service release cadence, support-response sample or dependency health established (0). Metadata repository commits are not hosted product releases.); Magic Hour MCP 75 (Changelog entries on 3, 4 and 5 November 2026 (30). More than three dated entries in 90 days (20). Changelog and support; issues on the public MCP repository not read (10 of 25). Registry entry io.github.magichourhq/magic-hour (0.1.1, 4 November) (15). No package health read (0). 30 + 20 + 10 + 15 + 0 = 75. Registry presence read from Anchor Terminal's own daily import of the official MCP registry (/api/v1/registry.json, 6 November 2026), not the registry's API.)
- Schema & documentation, Magic Hour MCP +22: Clueso 60 (Historical Anchor schema inspection, not independently re-probed here (15 of 25), Markdown repository guide (10), detailed tool purposes (15), documented inputs but full constraints not inspected (10), examples and troubleshooting (10), no API deprecation policy established (0).); Magic Hour MCP 82 (All 50 tools read from tools/list with JSON Schema inputs and 29 enums, built from Magic Hour's OpenAPI specification (25). llms.txt (10). Long descriptions with a get_workflow_guide tool for choosing between them (17 of 20). Typed inputs with enums and no free-form objects (15). Worked examples; error responses not documented (5 of 15). Dated changelog with entries on 3 to 5 November 2026 (10 of 15, product changelog rather than MCP versions). 25 + 10 + 17 + 15 + 5 + 10 = 82.)
- Reliability, Magic Hour MCP +20: Clueso 15 (No readable service incident history established (5). No numeric API limits or general retry contract established (0), no public MCP SLA verified (0), documented production connector (10).); Magic Hour MCP 35 (Status page at status.magichour.ai, all services online, with maintenance and previous incidents sections; no MCP component read (15). Incident history not read (5). No API rate limits found (0). No retry guidance found; wait_for_* tools poll long jobs (5 of 15). No SLA found (0). Not labelled beta (10). 15 + 5 + 0 + 5 + 0 + 10 = 35.)
- Payments & pricing, Clueso +15: Clueso 30 (No machine payment protocol found (0). Public plan pricing (10), no-card free plan (20), owner signup and OAuth approval required (0).); Magic Hour MCP 15 (No machine payment protocol (0). Plan and credit-pack prices public, per-tool credit costs not read (10). 400 sign-up credits with no card, but API access sits on paid plans (5 of 20). A person signs up for a key in a browser (0). Tool discovery is open, but calls need a key (0). 0 + 10 + 5 + 0 = 15.)
- Security & auth, Magic Hour MCP +10: Clueso 35 (Revocable OAuth account connection (20), no scoped read-only mode established (0), no documented prompt-injection defence found (0), workspace project visibility (5 of 15), published security statements without a report audit (10).); Magic Hour MCP 45 (API keys as Bearer tokens or OAuth through the Claude and ChatGPT connectors (20 of 30). Destructive deletes are annotated; no read-only key (8 of 20). Tools return generated media, not third-party text (10). No audit log found (0). No security.txt or certifications found; face and voice tools come with policy limits in the terms (7 of 20). 20 + 8 + 10 + 0 + 7 = 45.)
- Transparency & trust, Magic Hour MCP +10: Clueso 48 (Closed service with legal terms (15), connector-specific privacy and content-processing disclosure (20 of 30). Deprecation policy and full subprocessor/location evidence not reviewed (0).); Magic Hour MCP 58 (Closed service under terms naming Magic Hour AI, Inc., revised 3 October 2026 (15). The privacy policy says prompts, uploads and outputs aren't sold or used to train models, for free and paid accounts, and MCP requests are handled the same way; retention periods aren't given (20 of 30). No deprecation policy found (5 of 20). Subprocessors not read (10 of 20, model providers named in tool docs). 15 + 20 + 5 + 10 = 50.)