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Framelink MCP for Figma vs Miro API + MCP
Framelink MCP for Figma scores 66.1 (B) on agent readiness against Miro API + MCP's 62.1 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Miro API + MCP leads on reliability, security & auth, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do design files.
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Which one, for what
Best for Reading a Figma frame into a coding agent to build matching UI.
Ahead on
- Agent ergonomics, 83 against 53
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
Also in its favour
- Runs on your own machine
- Open source
- No incidents deducted, where Miro API + MCP loses 3 points for them
Watch for
Last release 0.13.2 on 18 June 2026, and still below 1.0
Best for Agents that draw diagrams, maps and planning boards people will keep editing.
Ahead on
- Reliability, 73 against 68
- Security & auth, 67 against 55
- Maintenance & community, 67 against 41
- Transparency & trust, 77 against 47
Also in its favour
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- Free to start without a card
Watch for
Legacy MCP board tools were removed nine days after the deprecation notice
Why the edge
Each category where one leads by five points or more, with the reason behind each side's score from its assessment. The numbers are in the table below; this is what they stand for.
Agent ergonomics Framelink MCP for Figma +30
Framelink MCP for Figma 83
Two compact tools (25). Output is sized by nodeId and depth, and the default tree format drops default values and auto-generated layer names and deduplicates repeated styles and subtrees. No pagination, which a single-file read rarely needs (16 of 20). Errors are written for a model to recover from, with Figma's 403 body surfaced and guidance for wrong node IDs from prototype, branch and FigJam links, per the 0.12.0 changelog (16 of 20). get_figma_data carries readOnlyHint and download_figma_images openWorldHint, with no destructiveHint on the tool that writes files and no note on overwriting (14 of 20). Only fileKey is required and one npx line starts it, but there is no SDK, which a two-tool local server doesn't need (12 of 15). 25 + 16 + 16 + 14 + 12 = 83.
Miro API + MCP 53
The MCP tools page now lists 52 tools (24 read, 28 write), up from 18 on 1 October, which is the more-than-30 band. No toolsets, dynamic loading or read-only subset is documented, and the FAQ says restricting which tools may connect is still evolving (5 of 25, was 15). REST lists page with limit and cursor and filter by item type, and board_search_boards and canvas_search find boards and items over MCP (18 of 20). Errors carry a machine code and message (16 of 20). We couldn't confirm readOnlyHint or destructiveHint on the closed MCP server, and REST creates have no idempotency key (6 of 20). The official Node client, @mirohq/miro-api 2.2.4, was last released on 5 February 2025 (8 of 15). 5 + 18 + 16 + 6 + 8 = 53.
Payments & pricing Framelink MCP for Figma +30
Framelink MCP for Figma 60
By the self-hosted rule. A free MIT package with nothing to buy (20 + 20 + 20), and no payment protocol (0). Figma API use falls under the user's own Figma plan. 60.
Miro API + MCP 30
No machine payment protocol (0). Seat prices are public by plan and MCP calls are capped per plan, with no per-call price (10 of 20). Free plan with 3 editable boards, the REST API and 100 MCP calls a day, and a 14-day Business trial; no card for the Free plan per the 30 September check (20). A person creates the OAuth app or approves the MCP sign-in in a browser (0). 0 + 10 + 20 + 0 = 30.
Transparency & trust Miro API + MCP +30
Framelink MCP for Figma 47
MIT licence in the repository and on npm (30). No privacy policy or terms on framelink.ai or the docs. Design data goes from Figma to the local model client, and the docs describe what telemetry sends, but there is no data statement to agree with (8 of 30). No deprecation policy. Breaking defaults are called out in the changelog (5 of 20). Telemetry to PostHog (us.i.posthog.com) has been on by default since 0.10.0 on 10 April 2026. The configuration page discloses it with three ways to opt out, while the README doesn't mention it, and an open issue of 16 April 2026 reports that error_message can include file keys and node IDs, which the source's redaction (credentials only) doesn't cover (14 of 20). 30 + 8 + 5 + 14 = 57.
Miro API + MCP 77
Closed service under published terms. The miro-ai plugins and skills are MIT (17 of 30). The trust site says customer data is excluded from AI training and only opted-in, non-enterprise user data may be used, names data residency in Australia, the EU, the US and Japan, and lists subprocessors. We didn't read retention periods (22 of 30). Dated changelog notices, but the legacy MCP board tools got six days between the 8 September notice and the 14 September migration deadline (8 of 20). Subprocessors named, including AWS, Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft and Google, with four residency regions (20). 17 + 22 + 8 + 20 = 67.
Maintenance & community Miro API + MCP +26
Framelink MCP for Figma 41
Last release 0.13.2 on 18 June 2026, 141 days before this check (10). No release in the 90 days since 8 August (0). The maintainer merged his own pull requests through June and closed four outside pull requests between July and September, but the three open issues filed since May have no reply and seven outside pull requests from July to October are open without one (8 of 25). In the official MCP registry under the GitHub-verified namespace io.github.GLips, with 0.13.2 as the latest entry (15). CI and tests exist, and the MCP SDK is pinned at 1.29.0 with current dependencies (8 of 10). 10 + 0 + 8 + 15 + 8 = 41.
Miro API + MCP 67
The newest changelog entry is 17 September 2026, 46 days before 2 November, so the recency line is in the within-90-days band (20 of 30, was 30, cause time). Four dated entries since 4 August, on 12 and 19 August and 8 and 17 September; the MCP registry entry (1.0.2, 6 March 2026) and the Node client (2.2.4, February 2025) add nothing in the window (20). Closed service with a public changelog and a developer community. The miro-ai repository of plugins and skills last had commits on 16 and 17 September (10 of 15). io.github.miroapp/mcp-server is in the official registry under a GitHub-verified namespace, latest 1.0.2, but the Node client hasn't had a release since February 2025 (13 of 15). Node client stale for 21 months; the api-clients repository gets only dependency bumps (4 of 10). 20 + 20 + 10 + 13 + 4 = 67.
Security & auth Miro API + MCP +12
Framelink MCP for Figma 55
The credential is the user's own Figma token. Figma personal access tokens are scoped and revocable, and the docs say file_content:read is the one scope the server needs. OAuth tokens are accepted but not refreshed, and the token is passed in the client config's args or env, not a URL (25 of 30). The server only reads Figma. Its one write is image files, confined to --image-dir, and --skip-image-downloads removes that tool; the local HTTP mode has no authentication of its own and binds 127.0.0.1 by default (16 of 20). Layer names and text written by collaborators reach the model as they are, and no prompt-injection guidance was found (3 of 15). Logs go to the local console only, with no per-call audit record (3 of 15). SECURITY.md asks for private reports through GitHub security advisories with a 48-hour acknowledgement. No security.txt, bug bounty or certification (8 of 20). 25 + 16 + 3 + 3 + 8 = 55.
Miro API + MCP 67
REST uses OAuth 2.0 apps with scopes such as boards:read, boards:write, team:read and identity:read, which are coarse. The MCP server uses OAuth 2.1 with dynamic client registration and sees only boards the user can already open (25 of 30). A boards:read token gives read-only REST access, and Enterprise admins must switch MCP on, org-wide or for chosen teams. The MCP server has no read-only mode, and the 52 tools now include section_delete, a canvas_update_from_svg that creates, updates and deletes items, and tools that share boards and spaces and change roles, so the earlier point for having no delete tool is gone (10 of 20, was 13). Sticky notes, comments and board text written by collaborators reach the model through canvas_read_as_svg and comment_list_comments, and import-claude-design-from-url fetches a public URL; we found no prompt-injection guidance (3 of 15). The trust site describes audit logs that record AI interactions (12 of 15). ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 42001:2023, SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3, Cyber Essentials, a public bug bounty and security@miro.com on the trust site. No security.txt (miro.com/.well-known/security.txt answers 404) (17 of 20). 25 + 10 + 3 + 12 + 17 = 67.
Reliability Miro API + MCP +5
Framelink MCP for Figma 68
Read with the local-software lines, because the server runs on the user's machine and calls the Figma REST API. Installs from the official npm package figma-developer-mcp, with Node 20.20 or later stated in package.json (20). A CI workflow runs prettier, eslint, a type check and the vitest suite, but only on pull requests, and the five newest runs (outside pull requests from 22 August to 2 October) all failed, so passing on the default branch couldn't be confirmed (15). Eight open issues, the oldest open one a 429 rate-limit thread from November 2025 with 30 comments, and nothing open that reports a crash in the current release (18). Release-please changelog with semver tags and breaking defaults called out, such as the switch to tree output in 0.13.0 (15). Version 0.13.2, below 1.0 and not declared stable (0). 20 + 15 + 18 + 15 + 0 = 68.
Miro API + MCP 73
incident.io status page at status.miro.com with components (Application, Log in ability, MCP server, Web Site, Mail System, Billing) and history (20). In the 90 days from 4 August the history lists intermittent registration and login problems on 31 August and username-and-password sign-in unavailable on 9 September, both login only, and a scheduled CDN maintenance notice on 3 October, with no API, board or MCP incident (20 of 30). REST limits are published as credits, 100,000 a minute with calls costing 50 to 2,000 credits by level, and MCP calls are capped per day by plan (15). 429s return a JSON body with code: tooManyRequests and X-RateLimit-Limit, -Remaining and -Reset headers, and the docs advise exponential backoff. No Retry-After and no idempotency guidance for creates (10 of 15). No SLA found (0). REST v2 is GA. We didn't see a beta label on the MCP tools page, but didn't confirm the server's status either (8 of 10). 20 + 20 + 15 + 10 + 0 + 8 = 73.
Score by category
| Category | Weight this run | Framelink MCP for Figma | Miro API + MCP | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 16%20 | 68 | 73 | Miro API + MCP +5 |
| Performance | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13%16.2 | 87 | 85 | Framelink MCP for Figma +2 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13%16.2 | 83 | 53 | Framelink MCP for Figma +30 |
| Security & auth | 14%17.5 | 55 | 67 | Miro API + MCP +12 |
| Payments & pricing | 10%12.5 | 60 | 30 | Framelink MCP for Figma +30 |
| Task success | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7%8.8 | 41 | 67 | Miro API + MCP +26 |
| Transparency & trust | 7%8.8 | 47 | 77 | Miro API + MCP +30 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |
| Total | B 66.1/100 | B 62.1/100 |
Facts side by side
| Fact | Framelink MCP for Figma | Miro API + MCP |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Framelink (Graham Lipsman) | Miro |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | https://api.miro.com/v2 |
| Transports | stdio, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | Token | OAuth |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT | proprietary |
| Tools exposed | 2 | 52 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | io.github.GLips/Figma-Context-MCP | io.github.miroapp/mcp-server |
| Last release | 2026-06-18 | 2026-09-17 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2021-09-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2025-08-01 |
| Customer content may train models | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not read yet | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not read yet | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 16k stars, 162k npm/wk | 156 stars, 19k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 4/5 (2) |
How the scores have moved
Framelink MCP for Figma
No score change since it was listed.
Verdicts
Framelink MCP for Figma
Two compact, typed tools return Figma layout and styles in a token-saving tree format and save image assets, with a read-only hint and a flag that removes the writing tool. There has been no release since 18 June 2026, issues and outside pull requests since July have gone unanswered, and telemetry is on by default.
Miro API + MCP
REST creates shapes, connectors and frames, so flowcharts and architecture sketches can be drawn directly, and a hosted MCP server works on every plan. The MCP server now exposes 52 tools, including sharing and delete tools, with no read-only mode, and legacy board tools were removed nine days after notice.
Before you call either
Framelink MCP for Figma
- Pass the
node-idfrom the Figma link asnodeIdso the call returns one frame, not the whole file - Leave
depthunset unless the user asks, as the tool description says - Set
--image-dirto the project folder in stdio mode, or--skip-image-downloadswhen the task only reads - Set
FRAMELINK_TELEMETRY=offorDO_NOT_TRACK=1in the server's env if the user's policy forbids usage reporting - On a 429 from Figma, wait and retry later; the limit is the user's Figma plan, not the server's
Miro API + MCP
- Create shapes first, then connectors with
startItemandendItemids - Put related items in a frame and set
parentso they move together - Watch
X-RateLimit-Remaining. There's noRetry-After, so back off exponentially on 429 - Through MCP, call
canvas_read_as_svgbeforecanvas_update_from_svg; an update applies a diff and can delete items missing from your SVG - Ask before calling
board_share,space_share, role updates orsection_delete, which change who can see work or remove it
Questions
Which is better for AI agents, Framelink MCP for Figma or Miro API + MCP?
Framelink MCP for Figma scores 66.1 (B) on agent readiness against Miro API + MCP's 62.1 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Miro API + MCP leads on reliability, security & auth, maintenance & community and transparency & trust.
Do Framelink MCP for Figma and Miro API + MCP need an API key?
Framelink MCP for Figma needs an access token. Miro API + MCP uses an OAuth sign-in.
Can an agent call Framelink MCP for Figma and Miro API + MCP without installing anything?
Framelink MCP for Figma runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. Miro API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.miro.com/v2.
Are Framelink MCP for Figma and Miro API + MCP open source?
Framelink MCP for Figma is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Miro API + MCP.
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