# Creatomate vs Robolly (slim)

> Creatomate scores 49.6 (D) to Robolly's 48.4 (D) for design templates. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Creatomate scores 49.6 (D) on agent readiness against Robolly's 48.4 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Robolly leads on reliability and agent ergonomics. Both do design templates.

- Creatomate: D 49.6, rank #1078 of 1486 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/creatomate.min.md
- Robolly: D 48.4, rank #1115 of 1486 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/robolly.min.md
- Creatomate, good for Teams that render video, images and GIFs from templates or JSON and want an agent to draft templates and start renders through MCP. Ahead on Maintenance & community, 54 against 5.
- Robolly, good for Template-driven images, PDFs and short videos for marketers and developers who want a hosted editor and simple synchronous calls. Ahead on Reliability, 48 against 40; Agent ergonomics, 75 against 67. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Creatomate | Robolly |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 40 | 48 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 53 | 57 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 67 | 75 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 48 | 47 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 54 | 5 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 52 | 49 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Creatomate | Robolly |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Creatomate | Avantis Innovations LLC (Robolly) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.creatomate.com/v2` | `https://api.robolly.com/v1` |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Creatomate's Terms and Conditions. The Node, PHP and Preview SDK libraries on GitHub are MIT | Closed service under the Robolly terms of use (effective 8 April 2026) |
| Tools exposed | 8 | 9 |
| Last release | 2026-09-19 | none |
| Terms last updated | 2022-06-27 | 2026-04-08 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2022-06-27 | 2026-04-08 |
| 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 | 9 stars, 13k npm/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | 3.3/5 (4) | none |

Why the edge:
- Maintenance & community, Creatomate +49: Creatomate 54 (No changelog. Dated releases since 6 August are the n8n node 0.2.0 (11 August, per the 8 October npm reading), the rebuilt n8n node v1.0.0 (11 September) and v1.0.1 (19 September, a category metadata fix, half), and `@creatomate/preview` 1.6.1 (3 September, removing a dependency and type definitions from the build, half). The newest release that changes code is n8n v1.0.0, 54 days before the check (20). Three counted entries in 90 days (20, cause evidence; it drops to 0 after 9 November when 0.2.0 leaves the window). Support by email, no public changelog or forum found, and two open GitHub issues across the libraries per the 8 October check (5). The Node library was last tagged 1.2.1 on 23 September 2024 and calls `/v1`, the PHP library was last pushed on 21 October 2024, and the Preview SDK is current (7). No CI in the Node repository (2). 20+20+5+7+2 = 54.); Robolly 5 (No changelog, release notes or dated API change was found. The sitemap marks every docs page as modified on 4 November 2026, which reads as a site rebuild rather than a change, so it isn't counted (0). No dated changes since 8 August (0). Support by email, with chat on higher plans; not tested (5 of 15). Not in the official MCP registry and no SDKs (0). No public package or repository (0). 0 + 0 + 5 + 0 + 0 = 5.)
- Reliability, Robolly +8: Creatomate 40 (Hosted lines. No status page found. status.creatomate.com still has no DNS record and no page we read links to one (0). No readable incident history (5). 30 requests per 10 seconds per account, documented in the API reference for agents (15). The same page documents `X-RateLimit-*` headers on every response and `Retry-After` on 429 with "wait that long, do not retry immediately", but no idempotency key for renders, which are writes (10). The 8 October first-hand header reading came from a request to the product's API and is struck; the docs carry the same facts. No SLA found (0). The REST API and MCP server carry no beta label (10). 0+5+15+10+0+10 = 40.); Robolly 48 (Hosted lines. The footer links an UptimeRobot status page, but it loads its figures from /api/, which stats.uptimerobot.com's robots.txt disallows, so the page showed no monitors or history (10 of 20 for a page that exists) and no history was read (5). A hard limit of 3 renders a second is published (15). The `rate-limit` error code and advice to send renders one at a time, and identical renders are cached for 45 days at no cost, which makes a retry safe; there's no Retry-After or backoff interval (8 of 15). No SLA found (0). The API isn't labelled beta (10). 10 + 5 + 15 + 8 + 0 + 10 = 48.)
- Agent ergonomics, Robolly +8: Creatomate 67 (Eight MCP tools on the vendor's list, re-read on 4 November, definitions unseen, and the template list omits sources (22). A `tags` filter on the template list, with no pagination, limit or render list found (6). The API reference documents a `hint` and a `documentation` URL on 400, 401, 404 and 429, a `hint` on 402 and 500, plus advisory `errors` and `warnings` and a free `dry_run` (20). No idempotency key. `dry_run` and status polling are safe, and template delete is now described as a soft delete that an open editor can restore; MCP annotations were not readable (8). `template_id` alone starts a render, and the Node and PHP libraries are official but last published in 2024 (11). 22+6+20+8+11 = 67.); Robolly 75 (Nine MCP tools (25). The renders list pages with a cursor, and templates are found by name (14 of 20). Errors carry `errorCode` and `developerMessage` with eight documented codes (17 of 20). Identical renders are cached for 45 days, so repeats are free and safe, the MCP server has no delete tool, and annotations couldn't be read on the closed server (12 of 20). Renders return the file synchronously by default, but there's no SDK (7 of 15). 25 + 14 + 17 + 12 + 7 = 75.)