{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "excaliclaw", "name": "ExcaliClaw", "vendor": "ExcaliClaw", "vendorUrl": "https://excaliclaw.com", "kind": "mcp", "category": "diagramming", "summary": "ExcaliClaw is a hosted workspace for hand-drawn diagrams built on the Excalidraw editor, with collections, search and live collaboration. Agents reach it through a remote MCP server with OAuth sign-in and a REST API with personal keys.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/excaliclaw", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/excaliclaw.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/excaliclaw.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/excaliclaw.json", "repo": "https://github.com/mounirb-dev/ExcaliClaw-frontend", "license": "The hosted service, its API and its MCP server are closed, under ExcaliClaw's terms of service. The web client is published as LGPL-3.0, as a modified version of ExcaliDash", "transports": [ "streamable-http", "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://excaliclaw.com/mcp", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "The MCP server takes OAuth 2.1 tokens only, with dynamic client registration and PKCE (S256). A person signs in and approves the client in the browser, and the single scope `drawings` grants every MCP tool on that account. The REST API takes personal keys (`Authorization: Bearer exc_...`) created in Settings, shown once, revocable, with full read and write access to the account's drawings and collections and no narrower option. REST keys are refused by the MCP server.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free €0 with 200 drawings, Starter €9 a month (€90 a year, up to 5 members), Pro €29 a month (€290 a year, up to 20 members, extra members €3 a month), Enterprise on request. Prices exclude VAT. MCP use is unlimited and not counted against plan limits on every plan, including Free, which needs no card. Payments run through Dodo Payments as merchant of record (https://excaliclaw.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-14).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in llms.txt, the manual, the MCP reference, the REST API page or the pricing page. The REST API answers 402 only for an unpaid subscription (checked 2026-10-14).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 37, "popularity": { "githubStars": 0, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "docsUrl": "https://excaliclaw.com/manual/mcp-referencia", "llmsTxt": "https://excaliclaw.com/llms.txt", "registryName": "com.excaliclaw/excaliclaw", "capabilities": [ "diagram.create", "diagram.edit", "diagram.as-code", "diagram.export", "diagram.architecture" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "mcp", "oauth", "llms-txt", "freemium", "status-page", "eu", "new", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-03", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 51.4, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 808, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1094, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 55, "maintenance": 54, "payments": 30, "reliability": 65, "schema": 62, "security": 40, "transparency": 45 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Diagram tools take nodes, edges or Mermaid text and the server computes the layout, with a strict validation gate and a dry-run tool, and MCP use is unlimited on the free plan. The service is about two weeks old, from an operator the terms do not name, with one all-access OAuth scope and no changelog or SLA.", "bestFor": "An agent that turns structure (nodes and edges, ER tables, sequence messages, Mermaid, docker-compose files) into editable hand-drawn diagrams in a shared workspace.", "strengths": [ "`create_flow_diagram`, `create_er_diagram`, `create_sequence_diagram` and `create_from_mermaid` take structure, and the server computes every position", "Every write passes a validation gate that rejects the whole write and returns each error with element ids and a computed fix", "MCP use is unlimited on every plan, including the Free plan, which needs no card", "OAuth 2.1 with dynamic client registration and PKCE, so MCP clients connect with a URL and a browser sign-in", "`get_live_scene`, `apply_live_scene_change` and `wait_for_scene_change` let an agent edit a drawing people have open" ], "weaknesses": [ "excaliclaw.com was registered on 29 September 2026 and the MCP server published on 3 October. Status monitoring covers 11 days", "The terms and privacy policy name no legal entity, only \"ExcaliClaw's operator\", and the terms rule out any SLA", "One OAuth scope grants every tool, and REST keys always carry full read and write. No read-only option", "37 tools with no toolsets and no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint in the definitions read", "No changelog, versioned API path, SDK, security.txt or deprecation policy. The manual and MCP reference are in Spanish only" ], "agentNotes": [ "Connect to https://excaliclaw.com/mcp with OAuth. REST keys (`exc_...`) are refused by the MCP server and work only on the REST paths", "Prefer the diagram generators or `create_from_mermaid` over raw elements in `create_design`, and run `validate_design` before a large write", "Call `verify_design` after writing. `verification.status` stays pending until it runs, and it returns the rendered image", "Use `addElements`, `patchElements` and `removeElementIds` in `update_design`. Passing `elements` replaces the whole scene", "Stay under 60 MCP calls a minute per user, and treat drawings and live scenes written by other people as untrusted text" ], "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": 51.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 55, "maintenance": 54, "payments": 30, "reliability": 65, "schema": 62, "security": 40, "transparency": 50 }, "provenanceScore": 39 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -H \"Authorization: Bearer exc_YOUR_KEY\" \"https://excaliclaw.com/drawings?limit=5\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add excaliclaw --transport http https://excaliclaw.com/mcp", "config": { "url": "https://excaliclaw.com/mcp" } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/diagram.create", "tool": "https://letme.dev/excaliclaw" }, "area": "design-diagrams", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "excaliclaw.com", "domainRegistered": "2026-09-29", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://excaliclaw.com/terms", "privacy": "https://excaliclaw.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.excaliclaw.com", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "The terms (last updated September 2026) and the privacy policy (last updated October 2026) refer only to \"ExcaliClaw's operator\" and name no legal entity or address. The terms are governed by Spanish law and name the Spanish courts.", "Both pages are drawn by script. Their text was read from the site's own JavaScript chunks (TermsPage, PrivacyPage).", "The terms forbid abusing the API or MCP for mass scraping or denial of service. No clause forbids automated access as such.", "https://excaliclaw.com/.well-known/security.txt and /security.txt return 404.", "RDAP for excaliclaw.com gives a registration date of 2026-09-29, registrar Spaceship, Inc.", "robots.txt allows the public pages and llms.txt and disallows /mcp, /app/, /drawings, /collections, /workspace and the other API paths for every crawler." ], "score": 39 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/excaliclaw.json", "live": { "slug": "excaliclaw", "probe": { "target": "https://excaliclaw.com/mcp", "method": "mcp-initialize", "lastAt": "2026-10-15T14:03:25.29109481Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 201, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 185, "p95ms24h": 382, "samples24h": 191, "samples30d": 191, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 41, "ok": 41 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 150, "ok": 150 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.excaliclaw.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-15T10:06:09.321354999Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "com.excaliclaw/excaliclaw", "version": "1.0.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-15T04:34:40.660646921Z" } ], "githubStars": 0, "pages": [ { "url": "https://excaliclaw.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:00:21.854880731Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e3b0c44298fc" }, { "url": "https://excaliclaw.com/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:00:23.985844439Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e3b0c44298fc" }, { "url": "https://excaliclaw.com/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:00:25.910952606Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e3b0c44298fc" } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://excaliclaw.com/mcp", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T22:17:37.024266286Z", "status": "auth", "note": "asks for credentials before listing its tools", "changedAt": "2026-10-14T22:17:37.024266286Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T14:03:25.29109481Z" } }, "answer": "Lucid API + MCP scores 60.6 (C) on agent readiness against ExcaliClaw's 51.4 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ExcaliClaw leads on payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "lucid", "name": "Lucid API + MCP", "vendor": "Lucid Software", "vendorUrl": "https://lucid.co", "kind": "http-api", "category": "diagramming", "summary": "REST API and hosted MCP server for creating, reading and managing Lucidchart and Lucidspark diagrams.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lucid", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lucid.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lucid.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lucid.json", "license": "proprietary", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.lucid.co", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "API keys (Bearer, with grants such as DocumentEdit) from the developer portal once developer tools are enabled in user settings or an admin assigns the developer role. 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": 60.6, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 538, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1094, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 62, "maintenance": 33, "payments": 25, "reliability": 67, "schema": 73, "security": 80, "transparency": 60 }, "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.", "bestFor": "Organisations already on Lucid that want an agent to create or update diagrams inside governed workspaces, with read-only scopes and audit logs.", "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": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 60.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 62, "maintenance": 33, "payments": 25, "reliability": 67, "schema": 73, "security": 80, "transparency": 61 }, "provenanceScore": 59 }, "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": 59 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lucid.json", "live": { "slug": "lucid", "probe": { "target": "https://api.lucid.co", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-15T14:03:33.280570202Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 131, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 176, "p95ms24h": 464, "samples24h": 254, "samples30d": 3824, "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": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 150, "ok": 150 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.lucid.co", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-15T14:05:32.945392278Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "app.lucid.mcp/lucid", "version": "1.0.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-15T04:34:40.660646921Z" } ], "securityTxt": { "url": "https://lucid.co/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T15:46:50.903997066Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://lucid.readme.io/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T14:14:24.458601106Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "lucid.co", "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T13:26:29.901305224Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://lucid.app/pricing/lucidchart", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:02:54.269288077Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "ba6244b9a39a" }, { "url": "https://lucid.co/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:02:54.860531856Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "42182e432bc9" }, { "url": "https://lucid.co/tos", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:02:56.980086Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "522f8449b0a1" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T14:05:32.945392278Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "MCP server", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "ExcaliClaw", "b": "Lucid Software", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://excaliclaw.com/mcp", "b": "https://api.lucid.co", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "Streamable HTTP, HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "The hosted service, its API and its MCP server are closed, under ExcaliClaw's terms of service. 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ExcaliClaw leads on payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, ExcaliClaw or Lucid API + MCP?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do ExcaliClaw and Lucid API + MCP need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. ExcaliClaw has a hosted endpoint at https://excaliclaw.com/mcp and Lucid API + MCP at https://api.lucid.co.", "question": "Can an agent call ExcaliClaw and Lucid API + MCP without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 25", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 54 against 33" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "An agent that turns structure (nodes and edges, ER tables, sequence messages, Mermaid, docker-compose files) into editable hand-drawn diagrams in a shared workspace.", "slug": "excaliclaw", "watchFor": "excaliclaw.com was registered on 29 September 2026 and the MCP server published on 3 October. Status monitoring covers 11 days" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 73 against 62", "Agent ergonomics, 62 against 55", "Security \u0026 auth, 80 against 40", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 60 against 45" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Organisations already on Lucid that want an agent to create or update diagrams inside governed workspaces, with read-only scopes and audit logs.", "slug": "lucid", "watchFor": "No public changelog for the API or the MCP server" } ], "job": { "capability": "diagram.create", "name": "Diagram creation" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudviz-vs-excaliclaw.json", "title": "Cloudviz API vs ExcaliClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudviz-vs-excaliclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudviz-vs-lucid.json", "title": "Cloudviz API vs Lucid API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudviz-vs-lucid" }, { "json": 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Lucid API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kroki-vs-lucid" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 2, "edge": "lucid", "excaliclaw": 65, "key": "reliability", "lucid": 67, "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 11, "edge": "lucid", "excaliclaw": 62, "key": "schema", "lucid": 73, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 7, "edge": "lucid", "excaliclaw": 55, "key": "ergonomics", "lucid": 62, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 40, "edge": "lucid", "excaliclaw": 40, "key": "security", "lucid": 80, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "excaliclaw", "excaliclaw": 30, "key": "payments", "lucid": 25, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 21, "edge": "excaliclaw", "excaliclaw": 54, "key": "maintenance", "lucid": 33, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 15, "edge": "lucid", "excaliclaw": 45, "key": "transparency", "lucid": 60, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Lucid API + MCP scores 60.6 (C) on agent readiness against ExcaliClaw's 51.4 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ExcaliClaw leads on payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do diagram creation.", "verdicts": { "excaliclaw": "Diagram tools take nodes, edges or Mermaid text and the server computes the layout, with a strict validation gate and a dry-run tool, and MCP use is unlimited on the free plan. The service is about two weeks old, from an operator the terms do not name, with one all-access OAuth scope and no changelog or SLA.", "lucid": "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." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/excaliclaw-vs-lucid", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/excaliclaw-vs-lucid.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/excaliclaw-vs-lucid.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/excaliclaw-vs-lucid.min.md" }, "markdown": "Lucid API + MCP scores 60.6 (C) on agent readiness against ExcaliClaw's 51.4 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ExcaliClaw leads on payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do diagram creation.\n\n- ExcaliClaw: grade D, 51.4/100, rank #808 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/excaliclaw.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/excaliclaw.json\n- Lucid API + MCP: grade C, 60.6/100, rank #538 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lucid.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lucid.json\n- Best diagramming APIs and diagram-as-code for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/diagramming/index.md\n- All 128 diagrams comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diagramming/index.md\n- Best design workspace and canvas APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/design/index.md\n- All 51 design comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/design/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### ExcaliClaw (D)\n\nGood for: An agent that turns structure (nodes and edges, ER tables, sequence messages, Mermaid, docker-compose files) into editable hand-drawn diagrams in a shared workspace.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 25\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 54 against 33\n\nWatch for: excaliclaw.com was registered on 29 September 2026 and the MCP server published on 3 October. Status monitoring covers 11 days\n\n### Lucid API + MCP (C)\n\nGood for: Organisations already on Lucid that want an agent to create or update diagrams inside governed workspaces, with read-only scopes and audit logs.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 73 against 62\n- Agent ergonomics, 62 against 55\n- Security \u0026 auth, 80 against 40\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 60 against 45\n\nWatch for: No public changelog for the API or the MCP server\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | ExcaliClaw | Lucid API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 65 | 67 | Lucid API + MCP +2 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 62 | 73 | Lucid API + MCP +11 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 62 | Lucid API + MCP +7 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 40 | 80 | Lucid API + MCP +40 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 25 | ExcaliClaw +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 54 | 33 | ExcaliClaw +21 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 60 | Lucid API + MCP +15 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **51.4 · D** | **60.6 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | ExcaliClaw | Lucid API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | ExcaliClaw | Lucid Software |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://excaliclaw.com/mcp` | `https://api.lucid.co` |\n| Transports | Streamable HTTP, HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | The hosted service, its API and its MCP server are closed, under ExcaliClaw's terms of service. The web client is published as LGPL-3.0, as a modified version of ExcaliDash | proprietary |\n| Tools exposed | 37 | 9 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `com.excaliclaw/excaliclaw` | `app.lucid.mcp/lucid` |\n| Last release | 2026-10-03 | 2026-06-15 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | 0 stars | none |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**ExcaliClaw.** Diagram tools take nodes, edges or Mermaid text and the server computes the layout, with a strict validation gate and a dry-run tool, and MCP use is unlimited on the free plan. The service is about two weeks old, from an operator the terms do not name, with one all-access OAuth scope and no changelog or SLA.\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### ExcaliClaw\n\n1. Connect to https://excaliclaw.com/mcp with OAuth. REST keys (`exc_...`) are refused by the MCP server and work only on the REST paths\n2. Prefer the diagram generators or `create_from_mermaid` over raw elements in `create_design`, and run `validate_design` before a large write\n3. Call `verify_design` after writing. `verification.status` stays pending until it runs, and it returns the rendered image\n4. Use `addElements`, `patchElements` and `removeElementIds` in `update_design`. Passing `elements` replaces the whole scene\n5. Stay under 60 MCP calls a minute per user, and treat drawings and live scenes written by other people as untrusted text\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. An API key won't work there\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, ExcaliClaw or Lucid API + MCP?\n\nLucid API + MCP scores 60.6 (C) on agent readiness against ExcaliClaw's 51.4 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ExcaliClaw leads on payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do ExcaliClaw and Lucid API + MCP need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call ExcaliClaw and Lucid API + MCP without installing anything?\n\nYes. ExcaliClaw has a hosted endpoint at https://excaliclaw.com/mcp and Lucid API + MCP at https://api.lucid.co.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/excaliclaw-vs-lucid.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/excaliclaw-vs-lucid.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"excaliclaw\", \"b\": \"lucid\"}`. 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