{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "creatomate", "name": "Creatomate", "vendor": "Creatomate", "vendorUrl": "https://creatomate.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "design-assets", "summary": "Creatomate renders videos, images and GIFs from templates or from RenderScript, its JSON format. Agents reach it through a REST API with a project key or a hosted MCP server with OAuth.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/creatomate", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/creatomate.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/creatomate.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/creatomate.json", "repo": "https://github.com/creatomate/creatomate-node", "license": "Proprietary service under Creatomate's Terms and Conditions. The Node, PHP and Preview SDK libraries on GitHub are MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.creatomate.com/v2", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "creatomate" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@creatomate/preview" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "REST calls take a project API key as a bearer token. Each project has one key, copied from Project Settings after a browser signup, with no scopes found in the docs. The MCP server uses OAuth (authorisation code with PKCE S256, dynamic client registration, one scope, `mcp`), and each connection reaches one project. It also accepts the project key as a bearer token for headless use. Connections are listed and revoked under Account Settings.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Trial with 50 credits and no card, with output limited to 480 px per side. Paid plans are monthly credit allowances that do not carry over. The docs name Essential at $54 a month (2,000 credits) and Growth 10K at $129 (10,000 credits). Other plan prices are drawn by a Paddle script and were not read. An image is 1 credit and video is width x height x frame rate x seconds / 100,000,000 (checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$54 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Subscription credits billed through Paddle. No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, llms.txt or pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 8, "popularity": { "githubStars": 9, "npmWeekly": 12714, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://creatomate.com/docs/api/reference/introduction", "llmsTxt": "https://creatomate.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "design.templates", "design.render", "video.render" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "mcp", "oauth", "llms-txt", "async-jobs", "webhooks", "video", "images" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-03", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 47.7, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 829, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 34, "payments": 35, "reliability": 40, "schema": 53, "security": 48, "transparency": 51 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A hosted MCP server with eight tools, OAuth with PKCE and per-project connections sits beside a small REST API whose errors carry a hint and a documentation link, and `dry_run` validates a render at no cost. No status page, changelog, OpenAPI file or security contact was found, and the terms and privacy policy date from June 2022.", "bestFor": "Teams that render video, images and GIFs from templates or JSON and want an agent to draft templates and start renders through MCP.", "strengths": [ "Hosted MCP server at `https://api.creatomate.com/mcp` with eight named tools, OAuth authorisation code with PKCE and dynamic client registration", "Every API failure returns a `hint` and a `documentation` URL, confirmed first-hand on a 401", "`dry_run` on `POST /v2/renders` validates a request and returns the effective source with no credits spent", "Rate limit of 30 requests per 10 seconds is documented, with `X-RateLimit-*` headers on every response and `Retry-After` on 429", "Trial with 50 credits and no card, and a public credit formula (1 credit an image, 1 credit per 100 million video pixels)" ], "weaknesses": [ "No status page, incident history or SLA found. `status.creatomate.com` does not resolve", "No OpenAPI file and no changelog. `/v1` and `/v2` routes are both documented with no deprecation policy", "Plan prices on the pricing page are drawn by a Paddle script. The docs name only $54 (Essential) and $129 (Growth 10K)", "No security.txt, disclosure policy or certification found, and REST keys have no scopes", "Terms and privacy policy are dated 27 June 2022, define the Service as the website, and let Creatomate make user Content available to other users" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `\"dry_run\": true` to `POST /v2/renders` before a paid render. It returns `valid`, `errors`, `warnings` and the effective source", "Read `warnings` on every render response. A modification keyed to an unknown element or property name is ignored without an error", "Keep under 30 requests per 10 seconds across the whole account, and wait for `Retry-After` on a 429", "Download each file when the webhook fires. Renders, their URLs and their status records are deleted after 30 days", "Use `render_scale` 0.5 for draft videos, about a quarter of the credits, and remember MCP `create_render` spends credits without a confirmation step from the server" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 47.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 34, "payments": 35, "reliability": 40, "schema": 53, "security": 48, "transparency": 37 }, "provenanceScore": 65 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install creatomate", "http": "curl -X POST https://api.creatomate.com/v2/renders -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -H \"Authorization: Bearer $CREATOMATE_API_KEY\" -d '{\"template_id\": \"YOUR_TEMPLATE_ID\", \"dry_run\": true, \"modifications\": {\"Title-1\": \"Your headline here\"}}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add creatomate --transport http https://api.creatomate.com/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "creatomate": { "url": "https://api.creatomate.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/design.templates", "tool": "https://letme.dev/creatomate" }, "area": "design-diagrams", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Essential", "unit": "month", "usd": 54, "note": "2,000 credits, price as stated in the docs" }, { "item": "Growth 10K", "unit": "month", "usd": 129, "note": "10,000 credits, price as stated in the docs" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Creatomate", "domain": "creatomate.com", "domainRegistered": "2021-03-27", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://creatomate.com/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://creatomate.com/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The terms and privacy policy name the company as Creatomate, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, with no legal form. The site footer gives the Dutch company number 90174356.", "Both documents are dated 27 June 2022 and define the Service as the website. They are the only terms and privacy policy published, and the terms cover subscriptions, so they govern API use. No DPA was found.", "The API and the MCP server answer at api.creatomate.com, and rendered files are served from cdn.creatomate.com.", "creatomate.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404.", "No status page was found. status.creatomate.com does not resolve, and no page we read links to one.", "No changelog was found. /changelog returns 404 and /docs/changelog redirects to the docs introduction.", "RDAP for creatomate.com gives a registration date of 2021-03-27 and Cloudflare, Inc. as registrar." ], "score": 65 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/creatomate.json", "live": { "slug": "creatomate", "probe": { "target": "https://api.creatomate.com/v2", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T01:37:48.755293033Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 462, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 480, "p95ms24h": 583, "samples24h": 186, "samples30d": 186, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 169, "ok": 169 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 17, "ok": 17 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "creatomate/creatomate-node", "version": "1.2.1", "released": "2024-09-23", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:47:50.208203232Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@creatomate/preview", "version": "1.6.1", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:47:48.847395889Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "creatomate", "version": "1.2.1", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:47:47.971244135Z" } ], "githubStars": 9, "npmWeekly": 10166, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://creatomate.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T15:39:32.389741363Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://creatomate.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T14:01:44.779402276Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://creatomate.com/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:34:24.174070325Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "7679daa5c968" }, { "url": "https://creatomate.com/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:34:26.526401652Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a4b5ce36278d" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T01:37:48.755293033Z" } }, "answer": "Photoroom API scores 56 (C) on agent readiness against Creatomate's 47.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Creatomate leads on maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "photoroom", "name": "Photoroom API", "vendor": "Photoroom", "vendorUrl": "https://www.photoroom.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "design-assets", "summary": "Photoroom's API edits product photos over HTTP. One call removes a background, adds a shadow or generated background, relights, expands, resizes or fills a template, and returns the image. A hosted MCP server wraps the same API.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/photoroom", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/photoroom.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/photoroom.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/photoroom.json", "repo": "https://github.com/PhotoRoom/api-code-samples", "license": "Proprietary service under the Photoroom Terms and Conditions. The sample code repository is MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://image-api.photoroom.com/v2", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Self-serve API key, sent in the `x-api-key` header. A person creates a Photoroom account and activates the API in the dashboard at app.photoroom.com/api-dashboard. A team can create several keys and revoke each one. No scopes were found. Prefixing the key with `sandbox_` makes free, watermarked calls. The hosted MCP server uses an OAuth authorisation code grant with PKCE and dynamic client registration, and creates its own API key for the connection (https://docs.photoroom.com/getting-started/introduction.md, https://www.photoroom.com/api/claude).", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "$0.02 an image on the Remove Background API (Basic plan) and $0.10 a call on the Image Editing API (Plus plan), bought as a monthly subscription of images that do not roll over. Sandbox mode is free for 1,000 watermarked calls a month, and a new account gets 10 free production background removals, with no card. Failed calls are not billed. Enterprise pricing from 200,000 images a year is by sales (https://www.photoroom.com/api/pricing, https://docs.photoroom.com/getting-started/pricing.md).", "priceSummary": "$20 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API docs, the OpenAPI description or the pricing pages (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 1, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.photoroom.com", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.photoroom.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://image-api.photoroom.com/openapi", "capabilities": [ "image.edit", "design.templates", "image.generate", "image.upscale" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "sandbox", "background-removal", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-04-21", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 56, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 642, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 64, "maintenance": 23, "payments": 40, "reliability": 46, "schema": 86, "security": 54, "transparency": 68 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A call costs $0.02 for background removal or $0.10 for any combination of edits, and a sandbox key gives 1,000 free watermarked calls a month without a card. No status page or official SDK was found, and Photoroom's privacy policy and security page disagree on whether API images train its models.", "bestFor": "Product-photo work at volume, such as cutouts, white backgrounds, shadows, generated scenes and clothing shots, one image a call.", "strengths": [ "Prices are per image and public, $0.02 for the Remove Background API and $0.10 for an Image Editing call with any number of edits combined", "A `sandbox_` key prefix gives 1,000 free watermarked Image Editing calls a month (100 a day) with no card, per the docs and pricing page", "Calls that end in an error do not consume an image, per the pricing page of the docs", "A public OpenAPI 3.1 file, an `llms.txt` index and a Markdown twin of every docs page, plus a ready-made prompt for coding agents", "The security page says images sent to the API are discarded when the response returns and names five sub-processors and US hosting" ], "weaknesses": [ "No status page was found on the site or in the docs, so there is no public incident history to read", "The privacy policy says model improvement does not apply to API images. The security page says self-serve API plans train by default with an opt-out", "No official SDK. The vendor publishes MIT sample code for web, Node.js, Python and iOS and tells callers to use a plain HTTP client", "The changelog's last dated entry is 21 April 2026, while the docs list Virtual Try-On, which has no changelog entry", "The terms forbid any automated system that sends more requests than a person could from a browser. This matters before any probe is run" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send the key in the `x-api-key` header. Prefix it with `sandbox_` while testing, because calls with the plain key consume paid images", "Save the response body as a file. A 200 returns image bytes, PNG by default, and any other status returns JSON with `error.message` or `detail`", "Send model selectors such as `pr-ai-shadows-model-version: 2026-04-15` as HTTP headers, not form fields. They are not in the OpenAPI file", "Stay under 60 images a minute. On 429 back off with an exponential delay, and set a client timeout of at least 60 seconds for AI edits", "Use `POST /v2/edit` with `imageFile` for local files and `GET /v2/edit` with `imageUrl` for hosted ones. Each call takes one image" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 56 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 64, "maintenance": 23, "payments": 40, "reliability": 46, "schema": 86, "security": 54, "transparency": 57 }, "provenanceScore": 78 }, "connect": { "http": "curl --request POST \\\n --url https://image-api.photoroom.com/v2/edit \\\n --header 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \\\n --form imageFile=@/absolute/path/to/image.jpg \\\n --form removeBackground=true \\\n --form background.color=FFFFFF \\\n --form padding=0.15 \\\n --form shadow.mode=ai.soft \\\n --output result.png", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http Photoroom https://mcp.photoroom.com/mcp" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/image.edit", "tool": "https://letme.dev/photoroom" }, "area": "design-diagrams", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Remove Background API", "unit": "image", "usd": 0.02, "note": "Basic plan, `/v1/segment`" }, { "item": "Image Editing API", "unit": "image", "usd": 0.1, "note": "Plus plan, `/v2/edit`, any number of edits in the call" }, { "item": "Basic plan, 1,000 images", "unit": "month", "usd": 20, "note": "example from the pricing page FAQ" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Photoroom SAS", "domain": "photoroom.com", "domainRegistered": "1998-11-21", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.photoroom.com/legal/terms-and-conditions", "privacy": "https://www.photoroom.com/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://docs.photoroom.com/getting-started/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The Terms and Conditions, effective 29 July 2026, cover the platform, the application programming interface and related services of Photoroom SAS. No separate API terms were found.", "The legal notice gives PHOTOROOM, SAS, RCS Paris 853 059 384, 229 rue Saint-Honoré, 75001 Paris. The site footer reads Photoroom, Inc.", "The privacy policy, updated March 2026, names Photoroom as controller for photoroom.com, app.photoroom.com and the apps, and has one sentence on API images.", "The API answers at image-api.photoroom.com and sdk.photoroom.com and the MCP server at mcp.photoroom.com.", "https://www.photoroom.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404.", "RDAP for photoroom.com gives a registration date of 1998-11-21, which predates the company.", "No status page was found. status.photoroom.com did not answer one request." ], "score": 78 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/photoroom.json", "live": { "slug": "photoroom", "probe": { "target": "https://image-api.photoroom.com/v2", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T01:38:02.369886529Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 131, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 135, "p95ms24h": 247, "samples24h": 102, "samples30d": 102, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 85, "ok": 85 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 17, "ok": 17 } ] }, "githubStars": 25, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.photoroom.com/getting-started/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:38:01.676305945Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "1f86895e2d75" }, { "url": "https://docs.photoroom.com/getting-started/pricing.md", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:38:04.09337971Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "eb0f8c798163" }, { "url": "https://www.photoroom.com/api/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:53:00.228391694Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "7774b6bf0d79" }, { "url": "https://www.photoroom.com/legal/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:53:02.426751592Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "d41a425b8f9c" }, { "url": "https://www.photoroom.com/legal/terms-and-conditions", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:53:04.386172113Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "9874ac57ac8b" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T01:38:02.369886529Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Creatomate", "b": "Photoroom", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.creatomate.com/v2", "b": "https://image-api.photoroom.com/v2", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under Creatomate's Terms and Conditions. The Node, PHP and Preview SDK libraries on GitHub are MIT", "b": "Proprietary service under the Photoroom Terms and Conditions. The sample code repository is MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "8", "b": "1", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-03", "b": "2026-04-21", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2022-06-27", "b": "2026-07-29", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2022-06-27", "b": "2026-03-01", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes, with an opt-out", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "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": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "9 stars, 13k npm/wk", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Photoroom API scores 56 (C) on agent readiness against Creatomate's 47.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Creatomate leads on maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Creatomate or Photoroom API?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Creatomate and Photoroom API need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Creatomate has a hosted endpoint at https://api.creatomate.com/v2 and Photoroom API at https://image-api.photoroom.com/v2.", "question": "Can an agent call Creatomate and Photoroom API without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Maintenance \u0026 community, 34 against 23" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Teams that render video, images and GIFs from templates or JSON and want an agent to draft templates and start renders through MCP.", "slug": "creatomate", "watchFor": "No status page, incident history or SLA found. `status.creatomate.com` does not resolve" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 46 against 40", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 86 against 53", "Security \u0026 auth, 54 against 48", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 35", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 68 against 51" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Product-photo work at volume, such as cutouts, white backgrounds, shadows, generated scenes and clothing shots, one image a call.", "slug": "photoroom", "watchFor": "No status page was found on the site or in the docs, so there is no public incident history to read" } ], "job": { "capability": "design.templates", "name": "Design templates" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-photoshop-api-vs-creatomate.json", "title": "Adobe Photoshop API vs Creatomate", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-photoshop-api-vs-creatomate" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apitemplate-io-vs-creatomate.json", "title": "APITemplate.io vs Creatomate", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apitemplate-io-vs-creatomate" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apitemplate-io-vs-photoroom.json", "title": "APITemplate.io vs Photoroom API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apitemplate-io-vs-photoroom" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bannerbear-vs-creatomate.json", "title": "Bannerbear API + MCP vs Creatomate", "url": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/creatomate-vs-shotstack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/creatomate-vs-templated.json", "title": "Creatomate vs Templated API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/creatomate-vs-templated" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/photoroom-vs-placid.json", "title": "Photoroom API vs Placid API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/photoroom-vs-placid" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/photoroom-vs-shotstack.json", "title": "Photoroom API vs Shotstack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/photoroom-vs-shotstack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/photoroom-vs-templated.json", "title": "Photoroom API vs Templated API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/photoroom-vs-templated" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/creatomate-vs-osmo-cli.json", "title": "Creatomate vs Osmo CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/creatomate-vs-osmo-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-photoshop-api-vs-photoroom.json", "title": "Adobe Photoshop API vs Photoroom API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-photoshop-api-vs-photoroom" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/osmo-cli-vs-photoroom.json", "title": "Osmo CLI vs Photoroom API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/osmo-cli-vs-photoroom" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 6, "creatomate": 40, "edge": "photoroom", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "photoroom": 46, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 33, "creatomate": 53, "edge": "photoroom", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "photoroom": 86, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 3, "creatomate": 67, "edge": "creatomate", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "photoroom": 64, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 6, "creatomate": 48, "edge": "photoroom", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "photoroom": 54, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 5, "creatomate": 35, "edge": "photoroom", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "photoroom": 40, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 11, "creatomate": 34, "edge": "creatomate", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "photoroom": 23, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 17, "creatomate": 51, "edge": "photoroom", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "photoroom": 68, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Photoroom API scores 56 (C) on agent readiness against Creatomate's 47.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Creatomate leads on maintenance \u0026 community. Both do design templates.", "verdicts": { "creatomate": "A hosted MCP server with eight tools, OAuth with PKCE and per-project connections sits beside a small REST API whose errors carry a hint and a documentation link, and `dry_run` validates a render at no cost. No status page, changelog, OpenAPI file or security contact was found, and the terms and privacy policy date from June 2022.", "photoroom": "A call costs $0.02 for background removal or $0.10 for any combination of edits, and a sandbox key gives 1,000 free watermarked calls a month without a card. No status page or official SDK was found, and Photoroom's privacy policy and security page disagree on whether API images train its models." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/creatomate-vs-photoroom", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/creatomate-vs-photoroom.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/creatomate-vs-photoroom.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/creatomate-vs-photoroom.min.md" }, "markdown": "Photoroom API scores 56 (C) on agent readiness against Creatomate's 47.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Creatomate leads on maintenance \u0026 community. Both do design templates.\n\n- Creatomate: grade D, 47.7/100, rank #829 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/creatomate.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/creatomate.json\n- Photoroom API: grade C, 56/100, rank #642 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/photoroom.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/photoroom.json\n- Best programmatic image and design asset APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/design-assets/index.md\n- All 45 assets comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/design-assets/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Creatomate (D)\n\nGood for: Teams that render video, images and GIFs from templates or JSON and want an agent to draft templates and start renders through MCP.\n\nAhead on:\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 34 against 23\n\nWatch for: No status page, incident history or SLA found. `status.creatomate.com` does not resolve\n\n### Photoroom API (C)\n\nGood for: Product-photo work at volume, such as cutouts, white backgrounds, shadows, generated scenes and clothing shots, one image a call.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 46 against 40\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 86 against 53\n- Security \u0026 auth, 54 against 48\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 35\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 68 against 51\n\nWatch for: No status page was found on the site or in the docs, so there is no public incident history to read\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Creatomate | Photoroom API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 40 | 46 | Photoroom API +6 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 53 | 86 | Photoroom API +33 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 64 | Creatomate +3 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 48 | 54 | Photoroom API +6 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 40 | Photoroom API +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 34 | 23 | Creatomate +11 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 51 | 68 | Photoroom API +17 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **47.7 · D** | **56 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Creatomate | Photoroom API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Creatomate | Photoroom |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.creatomate.com/v2` | `https://image-api.photoroom.com/v2` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Creatomate's Terms and Conditions. The Node, PHP and Preview SDK libraries on GitHub are MIT | Proprietary service under the Photoroom Terms and Conditions. The sample code repository is MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 8 | 1 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-03 | 2026-04-21 |\n| Terms last updated | 2022-06-27 | 2026-07-29 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2022-06-27 | 2026-03-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes, with an opt-out |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | 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 | not found in the text | yes |\n| Popularity | 9 stars, 13k npm/wk | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Creatomate.** A hosted MCP server with eight tools, OAuth with PKCE and per-project connections sits beside a small REST API whose errors carry a hint and a documentation link, and `dry_run` validates a render at no cost. No status page, changelog, OpenAPI file or security contact was found, and the terms and privacy policy date from June 2022.\n\n**Photoroom API.** A call costs $0.02 for background removal or $0.10 for any combination of edits, and a sandbox key gives 1,000 free watermarked calls a month without a card. No status page or official SDK was found, and Photoroom's privacy policy and security page disagree on whether API images train its models.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Creatomate\n\n1. Send `\"dry_run\": true` to `POST /v2/renders` before a paid render. It returns `valid`, `errors`, `warnings` and the effective source\n2. Read `warnings` on every render response. A modification keyed to an unknown element or property name is ignored without an error\n3. Keep under 30 requests per 10 seconds across the whole account, and wait for `Retry-After` on a 429\n4. Download each file when the webhook fires. Renders, their URLs and their status records are deleted after 30 days\n5. Use `render_scale` 0.5 for draft videos, about a quarter of the credits, and remember MCP `create_render` spends credits without a confirmation step from the server\n\n### Photoroom API\n\n1. Send the key in the `x-api-key` header. Prefix it with `sandbox_` while testing, because calls with the plain key consume paid images\n2. Save the response body as a file. A 200 returns image bytes, PNG by default, and any other status returns JSON with `error.message` or `detail`\n3. Send model selectors such as `pr-ai-shadows-model-version: 2026-04-15` as HTTP headers, not form fields. They are not in the OpenAPI file\n4. Stay under 60 images a minute. On 429 back off with an exponential delay, and set a client timeout of at least 60 seconds for AI edits\n5. Use `POST /v2/edit` with `imageFile` for local files and `GET /v2/edit` with `imageUrl` for hosted ones. Each call takes one image\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Creatomate or Photoroom API?\n\nPhotoroom API scores 56 (C) on agent readiness against Creatomate's 47.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Creatomate leads on maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Creatomate and Photoroom API need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Creatomate and Photoroom API without installing anything?\n\nYes. Creatomate has a hosted endpoint at https://api.creatomate.com/v2 and Photoroom API at https://image-api.photoroom.com/v2.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/creatomate-vs-photoroom.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/creatomate-vs-photoroom.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"creatomate\", \"b\": \"photoroom\"}`. 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