Head to head · Diagram creation · October 2026 research run

Kroki vs Mumble

Kroki scores 59.2 (C) on agent readiness against Mumble's 7.5 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do diagram creation.

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Which one, for what

Kroki C

Best for Agents that write diagrams in several text formats and want one render endpoint, on a private network or through the public instance for non-sensitive diagrams.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 74 against 5
  • Schema & documentation, 48 against 10
  • Agent ergonomics, 70 against 0
  • Security & auth, 56 against 0
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 86 against 0
  • Transparency & trust, 62 against 13

Also in its favour

  • Open source

Watch for

GHSA-wmpp-fj9c-w766 (CVSS 9.8) allowed unauthenticated remote code execution on /tikz/svg in versions 0.21.0 up to 0.32.0, whatever the safe mode. Fixed 3 August 2026

Mumble F

Best for A person on a Mac with early access who wants a live, transcript-linked diagram of a call or workshop, kept as plain files in git, and who already pays for Claude Code or Codex.

Also in its favour

  • No incidents deducted, where Kroki loses 5 points for them

Watch for

No API or MCP server an outside agent can call. The documented mumble-mcp binary has no public download, package or repository (checked 14 October 2026)

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runKrokiMumbleEdge
Reliability16%20745Kroki +69
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.24810Kroki +38
Agent ergonomics13%16.2700Kroki +70
Security & auth14%17.5560Kroki +56
Payments & pricing10%12.56030Kroki +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8860Kroki +86
Transparency & trust7%8.86213Kroki +49
Negative events≤15-50
TotalC 59.2/100F 7.5/100

Facts side by side

FactKrokiMumble
KindHTTP APIPlatform
VendorYuzu techtiny space
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTP
AuthNoneNone
PricingFreeYour plan
x402nono
LicenceMITNo licence, terms of use or source repository was found on tinyspace.ai or GitHub (checked 2026-10-14). The app and the mumble-mcp binary are not published as open source
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
Last release2026-10-05none
Terms last updatedno document linkedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno document linkedno date given
Customer content may train models
Terms restrict automated access
Terms restrict benchmarking
Terms or service can change without notice
Arbitration or class-action waiver
Popularity4.4k starsnone

Verdicts

Kroki

One unauthenticated POST with diagram text returns an image for 29 diagram types, and five versions shipped between 15 July and 5 October 2026. Four advisories were published in July and August 2026, one an unauthenticated remote code execution on /tikz/svg, all fixed. No OpenAPI file exists, and the public instance has no terms, privacy policy or status page.

Mumble

Mumble keeps audio on the Mac and stores each conversation as plain files in ~/Mumble, with canvas JSON that diffs cleanly. There is no API or MCP server an outside agent can call today. The documented mumble-mcp has no public download, package or repository, and the app is reached only through an early-access waitlist.

Before you call either

Kroki

  1. Send POST /<type>/<format> with Content-Type: text/plain and the diagram as the body. This avoids the deflate and base64 encoding that GET needs
  2. Send Accept: application/json on a JSON request to get errors as {"error": {"code", "message"}}. With an SVG Accept header the error arrives as an image
  3. Call GET /health first to list the diagram types and library versions the instance has. Mermaid, BPMN, Excalidraw and diagrams.net need companion containers
  4. Run 0.32.1 or later before rendering untrusted text. Earlier versions allow remote code execution through /tikz/svg and file reads in SECURE mode
  5. Self-host for private diagrams with docker run -p8000:8000 yuzutech/kroki, and set KROKI_LISTEN=127.0.0.1:8000 or a network rule, since the server has no authentication

Mumble

  1. Don't plan to call Mumble from another agent. Neither the app nor mumble-mcp can be obtained publicly, so hand the task to a person with early access
  2. Don't configure /path/to/mumble-mcp from the docs. It is a placeholder, and no binary is published
  3. If the person already has Mumble, read ~/Mumble/<capture>/ directly, capture.json for the transcript and diagram.canvas for the map
  4. Keep canvas keys in schema order and never rename a node id, or the edges that name it are orphaned and the canvas is refused. Use git as the undo
  5. Don't write to a capture that is being recorded. The app doesn't merge the two versions

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Kroki or Mumble?

Kroki scores 59.2 (C) on agent readiness against Mumble's 7.5 (F), and leads in every scored category.

Can an agent call Kroki and Mumble without installing anything?

No hosted endpoint is listed for Kroki. No hosted endpoint is listed for Mumble.

Are Kroki and Mumble open source?

Kroki is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Mumble.

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Disclosure

Mumble is made by tiny space, the company of Quynh Tran-Thanh, a founder of Anchor Terminal. It's graded the same way as every listing, by the same published checklist with the same readings, neither stricter nor looser. Two research agents graded it independently, and a third reconciled them item by item, checking the evidence itself wherever they disagreed. letme never picks it.

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