{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "layerre", "name": "Layerre", "vendor": "Layerre", "vendorUrl": "https://layerre.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "design-assets", "summary": "Layerre turns Canva designs into reusable templates with editable layers and renders PNG, JPEG, WebP or PDF variants from data, through a REST API, a hosted MCP server and no-code connectors.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/layerre", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/layerre.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/layerre.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/layerre.json", "dns": "layerre.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/Layerre/layerre-mcp", "license": "MIT for the MCP server. The Layerre API is a closed service under terms last updated 13 August 2026", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.layerre.com/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@layerre/mcp-server" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "REST uses an API key (`lyr_...`) created at layerre.com/app/api-keys and sent as `Authorization: Bearer`; keys can be rotated in the dashboard. The hosted MCP server at mcp.layerre.com signs in with OAuth 2.1 and PKCE through a Supabase authorisation server, or takes the same API key as a bearer header for headless use. No key scopes documented.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free $0 with 50 renders a month and API access. Starter $15 a month (500 renders), Plus $29 (2,000, up to 3 seats), Pro $99 (20,000, up to 10 seats); yearly plans give two months free. Each template import and each variant is one render. No overage; upgrade or wait for the reset.", "priceSummary": "$15 / mo", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Subscriptions billed through Stripe. No x402, MPP or L402 in the OpenAPI, llms.txt, auth.md or pricing.md (checked 2026-11-06).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 13, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 119, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-06" }, "docsUrl": "https://layerre.com/docs/", "llmsTxt": "https://layerre.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://layerre.com/openapi.json", "registryName": "com.layerre/layerre", "capabilities": [ "design.templates", "design.render", "pdf.generate" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "mcp", "remote-mcp", "mcp-registry", "openapi", "llms-txt", "oauth", "api-key", "freemium", "free-tier", "canva", "bulk" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 57.6, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 785, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 69, "maintenance": 78, "payments": 25, "reliability": 42, "schema": 87, "security": 48, "transparency": 63 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-06" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A public OpenAPI 3.1 contract, published rate limits with Retry-After, and 13 annotated MCP tools that can't delete anything make Layerre straightforward for an agent to call. It works only from Canva designs, is run by a sole proprietor with no status page or SLA, and its API and MCP server are at version 0.1.0.", "bestFor": "Bulk image and PDF variants from Canva designs a team already has.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.1 with examples, llms.txt and Markdown mirrors of key pages", "Rate limits in numbers, and 429 responses with Retry-After plus retry code samples", "Every MCP tool carries readOnly, destructive and idempotent hints, and the server has no delete or billing tools", "Free plan of 50 renders a month includes API access", "Privacy policy and DPA name ten subprocessors with locations" ], "weaknesses": [ "Imports Canva designs only; there is no template editor of its own", "No status page or SLA found", "API and MCP server are at version 0.1.0, with the MCP package first published on 29 October 2026", "No key scopes or read-only key documented", "Run by a sole proprietorship in Ontario with no named owner on its pages" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `layerre_auth_status` first to confirm the connection", "Read a template's layer IDs with `layerre_get_template` before creating variants", "Use the bulk variant endpoint for batches; each variant still costs one render", "On 429 wait for the Retry-After seconds; limits are per IP address", "Expect template import from a Canva link to take 10 to 30 seconds" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 57.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 69, "maintenance": 78, "payments": 25, "reliability": 42, "schema": 87, "security": 48, "transparency": 64 }, "provenanceScore": 62, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-06", "maintenance": "2026-11-06", "payments": "2026-11-06", "reliability": "2026-11-06", "schema": "2026-11-06", "security": "2026-11-06", "transparency": "2026-11-06" }, "last": "2026-11-06", "oldest": "2026-11-06", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://api.layerre.com/v1/templates -H \"Authorization: Bearer $LAYERRE_API_KEY\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http layerre https://mcp.layerre.com/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "layerre": { "url": "https://mcp.layerre.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/design.templates", "tool": "https://letme.dev/layerre" }, "area": "design-diagrams", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Starter plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 15, "note": "500 renders a month, about $0.03 a render" }, { "item": "Plus plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 29, "note": "2,000 renders a month, up to 3 seats" }, { "item": "Pro plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 99, "note": "20,000 renders a month, about $0.005 a render, up to 10 seats" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Layerre (sole proprietorship, Ontario, Canada)", "domain": "layerre.com", "domainRegistered": "2025-08-13", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://layerre.com/terms/", "privacy": "https://layerre.com/privacy/", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://layerre.com/whats-new/", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-06", "notes": [ "The terms, privacy policy and DPA, all last updated 13 August 2026, name Layerre, a sole proprietorship based in Ontario, Canada, under Ontario law. No owner is named on the site; the MCP repository's commits are by Nicole Streltsov.", "The terms forbid automated systems (bots, scrapers) without permission. Public pages were read as data.", "layerre.com/robots.txt disallows /app/, /reset-password and /oauth/, with Content-Signal ai-train=no, search=yes, ai-input=yes. layerre-landing.pages.dev serves the same robots.txt and site.", "RDAP gives layerre.com a registration date of 13 August 2025.", "/.well-known/security.txt answers 200 with the site's HTML shell, not a security.txt file. No status page found. The What's New pages are drawn by script; their dates come from the sitemap." ], "score": 62 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/layerre.json", "live": { "slug": "layerre", "probe": { "target": "https://api.layerre.com/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:34.768332322Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 361, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 308, "p95ms24h": 406, "samples24h": 200, "samples30d": 200, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-06", "probes": 13, "ok": 13 }, { "date": "2026-11-07", "probes": 187, "ok": 187 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "com.layerre/layerre", "version": "0.1.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-07T18:16:28.95801333Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@layerre/mcp-server", "version": "0.1.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:39:10.744093049Z" } ], "githubStars": 0, "npmWeekly": 119, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://layerre.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:00:04.824003957Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://layerre.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:32:52.000761574Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://layerre.com/whats-new/", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:12:39.384244794Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a76ef99f3a88" }, { "url": "https://layerre.com/privacy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:12:35.304236441Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a76ef99f3a88" }, { "url": "https://layerre.com/terms/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:12:37.533574445Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a76ef99f3a88" } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://mcp.layerre.com/mcp", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T01:51:50.188462603Z", "status": "auth", "note": "asks for credentials before listing its tools", "changedAt": "2026-11-06T01:38:41.856942389Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:34.768332322Z" } }, "answer": "Layerre scores 57.6 (C) on agent readiness against Photoroom API's 53.5 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Photoroom API leads on payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.", "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", "dns": "photoroom.grade.anchorterminal.com", "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": 53.5, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 940, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 64, "maintenance": 13, "payments": 40, "reliability": 42, "schema": 86, "security": 49, "transparency": 69 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-04" }, "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, over six months before this check, while the docs list Virtual Try-On, which has no entry", "The terms forbid scraping any part of the Services and any automated system that sends more requests than a person could from a browser" ], "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": "D", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 53.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 64, "maintenance": 13, "payments": 40, "reliability": 42, "schema": 86, "security": 49, "transparency": 57 }, "provenanceScore": 81, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-04", "maintenance": "2026-11-04", "payments": "2026-11-04", "reliability": "2026-11-04", "schema": "2026-11-04", "security": "2026-11-04", "transparency": "2026-11-04" }, "last": "2026-11-04", "lastMoved": "2026-11-04", "oldest": "2026-11-04", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "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": 81 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/photoroom.json", "live": { "slug": "photoroom", "probe": { "target": "https://image-api.photoroom.com/v2", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:46.822760207Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 140, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 137, "p95ms24h": 259, "samples24h": 239, "samples30d": 7205, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 85, "ok": 85 }, { "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": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-16", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 256, "ok": 256 }, { "date": "2026-10-19", "probes": 255, "ok": 255 }, { "date": "2026-10-20", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-22", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-23", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-24", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-10-25", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-26", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-27", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-28", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-29", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-30", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-31", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-11-01", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-11-02", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-11-03", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-11-04", "probes": 246, "ok": 246 }, { "date": "2026-11-05", "probes": 185, "ok": 185 }, { "date": "2026-11-06", "probes": 241, "ok": 241 }, { "date": "2026-11-07", "probes": 187, "ok": 187 } ] }, "githubStars": 24, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://photoroom.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:01:35.89437457Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.photoroom.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:33:37.194036648Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "photoroom.com", "registered": "1998-11-21", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/photoroom.com", "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T14:12:33.896950657Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.photoroom.com/getting-started/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:07:28.307252855Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-06T13:29:48.972922049Z", "fingerprint": "a17c1caf21bf" }, { "url": "https://docs.photoroom.com/getting-started/pricing.md", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:07:31.146352808Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "eb0f8c798163" }, { "url": "https://www.photoroom.com/api/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:32:54.648856889Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-06T13:53:27.363817008Z", "fingerprint": "af3f154124c6" }, { "url": "https://www.photoroom.com/legal/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:32:57.117656306Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-06T13:53:29.91034674Z", "fingerprint": "be888e2e5930" }, { "url": "https://www.photoroom.com/legal/terms-and-conditions", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:32:58.93275316Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-06T13:53:31.913116161Z", "fingerprint": "bea5b5dfb8cb" } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://mcp.photoroom.com/mcp", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T01:46:49.301089544Z", "status": "auth", "note": "asks for credentials before listing its tools", "changedAt": "2026-11-07T01:46:49.301089544Z" }, "github": { "repo": "photoroom/api-code-samples", "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T09:16:04.901854889Z", "stars": 26, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-04-23T14:21:35Z", "openIssues": 3, "openPRs": 0, "issuesOpened90d": 2, "issuesClosed90d": 0, "prsMerged90d": 0, "replies": { "sampled": 2, "unanswered": 2 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:46.822760207Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 65, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "layerre", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "@layerre/mcp-server 0.1.0 published to npm on 29 October 2026, 8 days before this check (30). MCP server commits from 19 to 24 October, the registry entry of 29 October, and What's New entries dated 21 August and 18 October in the sitemap (20). The repository is a week old with no issues to judge; support by email and in-app chat (5 of 25). com.layerre/layerre is in the official MCP registry under a domain-verified namespace (15). CI runs the vitest suite on push and pull requests to main on Node 22 (8 of 10). 30 + 20 + 5 + 15 + 8 = 78.", "b": "The last dated changelog entry is 21 April 2026 by the 9 October reading, 197 days before 4 November. The changelog sits on a paused host and was not re-read (0, cause time). No dated changelog entry in the 90 days from 6 August by that reading, and no other dated Photoroom source was found (0). A public changelog and a Discourse community where each of the 17 topics dated 30 September to 3 October 2026 had a reply, per the 9 October check. We did not open the topics to see who replied (11). No official SDK, and the official MCP registry search for photoroom returned no entry on 4 November (0). The sample code repository's last commit is a README change on 23 April 2026 and it has no CI, per a clone on 4 November (2)." }, "scores": { "a": 78, "b": 13 } }, { "by": 15, "category": "payments", "leads": "photoroom", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices are public with render counts, and one import or one variant is one render, so the price a render follows from the plan (about $0.03 on Starter, $0.005 on Pro) without being published per unit (15 of 20). Free plan of 50 renders a month with API access; the pricing page doesn't say whether a card is needed (10 of 20, half as with an unstated card rule). A person signs up and creates the key, or approves OAuth in a browser (0). 0 + 15 + 10 + 0 = 25.", "b": "Per the 9 October check, not re-read on 4 November. No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, the OpenAPI description or the pricing pages (0). Per-image prices are public, $0.02 for background removal and $0.10 for an Image Editing call (20). Sandbox mode gives 1,000 free watermarked calls a month and a new account 10 free production calls on the Remove Background API, with no card, per the pricing page (20). A person has to create an account and activate the API in the dashboard. The MCP server also needs a Photoroom sign-in (0)." }, "scores": { "a": 25, "b": 40 } }, { "by": 6, "category": "transparency", "leads": "photoroom", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "The MCP server is MIT. The service is closed under terms of 13 August 2026 that name a sole proprietorship in Ontario (20 of 30). The privacy policy and DPA of the same date agree. Data is kept while the account is active and deleted from production on account deletion, with limited backups. Design files aren't used to train public AI models. Google Analytics runs on accepted cookies (24 of 30). No deprecation policy or notice period (0). Ten subprocessors listed with purpose and location in both documents, including Supabase, Stripe, Cloudflare, Google, Resend, Canva and Slack (20). 20 + 24 + 0 + 20 = 64.", "b": "Per the 9 October check, not re-read on 4 November. Closed hosted service under the Photoroom Terms and Conditions effective 29 July 2026, which name the application programming interface. Sample code is MIT (15). The security page gives retention figures (images discarded after the call, operational logs 15 days, API access logs one year). The statements on training disagree. The privacy policy of March 2026 says model improvement does not apply to API images, the security page says self-serve API plans train by default with an opt-out, and the terms authorise training on user content with an opt-out. A DPA is for Enterprise customers only (14). Preview and alpha functions carry a two-week notice, the 2024 base URL change gave a dated deadline, and the AI Backgrounds v2 model is marked deprecated with no removal date (12). The security page names GCP, AWS, Cloudflare, Datadog and Vercel and says hosting is in the United States. The full list is in the trust centre, which was not read (16)." }, "scores": { "a": 63, "b": 69 } }, { "by": 5, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "layerre", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "13 MCP tools (15 for 11 to 30), with no toolsets or read-only subset (15). Template and variant lists take `skip` and `limit`, and templates filter by `tag` and `q` and can leave out layers (16 of 20). 422 validation bodies and a JSON 429 with `retry_after` (17 of 20). Every tool is annotated, read tools with readOnlyHint and idempotentHint, updates idempotent, no tool destructive, and the server has no delete tool. The REST API has no idempotency keys for variant creation (16 of 20). Few required fields, but no official SDK; a Postman collection and the MCP package only (5 of 15). 15 + 16 + 17 + 16 + 5 = 69.", "b": "Per the 9 October check, not re-read on 4 November. The response body is the image itself, so an agent saves a file and reads nothing into context. `outputSize`, `maxWidth`, `maxHeight`, `export.format` and the `size` presets set what comes back, and the MCP server has one tool, per Photoroom (18). Nothing to paginate. Output size, format and DPI controls (15). JSON errors with a message and a documented meaning for 400, 401, 403, 402, 429 and 500, but the two APIs use different shapes and `Unauthorized` covers both a missing key and an empty balance (13). No idempotency key. Calls keep no state, failed calls are not billed and `background.seed` repeats a generated background, but a retried success is billed again. The MCP tool's annotations were not read (10). Only the image is required and defaults are sensible. No official SDK, only sample code for four platforms (8)." }, "scores": { "a": 69, "b": 64 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Layerre", "b": "Photoroom", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.layerre.com/v1", "b": "https://image-api.photoroom.com/v2", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio", "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": "MIT for the MCP server. The Layerre API is a closed service under terms last updated 13 August 2026", "b": "Proprietary service under the Photoroom Terms and Conditions. The sample code repository is MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "13", "b": "1", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "com.layerre/layerre", "b": "not listed", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-10-29", "b": "2026-04-21", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "2026-07-29", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "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": "119 npm/wk", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Layerre scores 57.6 (C) on agent readiness against Photoroom API's 53.5 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Photoroom API leads on payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Layerre or Photoroom API?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Layerre and Photoroom API need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Layerre has a hosted endpoint at https://api.layerre.com/v1 and Photoroom API at https://image-api.photoroom.com/v2.", "question": "Can an agent call Layerre and Photoroom API without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 69 against 64", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 78 against 13" ], "also": [ "Runs on your own machine" ], "goodFor": "Bulk image and PDF variants from Canva designs a team already has.", "slug": "layerre", "watchFor": "Imports Canva designs only; there is no template editor of its own" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 25", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 69 against 63" ], "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" } ], "history": { "layerre": null, "photoroom": [ { 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/abyssale-vs-photoroom" }, { "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" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/photoroom-vs-pixelixe.json", "title": "Photoroom API vs Pixelixe", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/photoroom-vs-pixelixe" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 0, "edge": "", "key": "reliability", "layerre": 42, "name": "Reliability", "photoroom": 42, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 1, "edge": "layerre", "key": "schema", "layerre": 87, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "photoroom": 86, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "layerre", "key": "ergonomics", "layerre": 69, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "photoroom": 64, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 1, "edge": "photoroom", "key": "security", "layerre": 48, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "photoroom": 49, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 15, "edge": "photoroom", "key": "payments", "layerre": 25, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "photoroom": 40, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 65, "edge": "layerre", "key": "maintenance", "layerre": 78, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "photoroom": 13, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 6, "edge": "photoroom", "key": "transparency", "layerre": 63, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "photoroom": 69, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Layerre scores 57.6 (C) on agent readiness against Photoroom API's 53.5 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Photoroom API leads on payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do design templates.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "layerre": "A public OpenAPI 3.1 contract, published rate limits with Retry-After, and 13 annotated MCP tools that can't delete anything make Layerre straightforward for an agent to call. It works only from Canva designs, is run by a sole proprietor with no status page or SLA, and its API and MCP server are at version 0.1.0.", "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/layerre-vs-photoroom", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/layerre-vs-photoroom.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/layerre-vs-photoroom.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/layerre-vs-photoroom.min.md" }, "markdown": "Layerre scores 57.6 (C) on agent readiness against Photoroom API's 53.5 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Photoroom API leads on payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do design templates.\n\n- Layerre: grade C, 57.6/100, rank #785 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/layerre.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/layerre.json\n- Photoroom API: grade D, 53.5/100, rank #940 of 1486. 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 153 assets comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/design-assets/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Layerre (C)\n\nGood for: Bulk image and PDF variants from Canva designs a team already has.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 69 against 64\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 78 against 13\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: Imports Canva designs only; there is no template editor of its own\n\n### Photoroom API (D)\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- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 25\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 69 against 63\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## Why the edge\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Layerre +65\n\n- Layerre (78): @layerre/mcp-server 0.1.0 published to npm on 29 October 2026, 8 days before this check (30). MCP server commits from 19 to 24 October, the registry entry of 29 October, and What's New entries dated 21 August and 18 October in the sitemap (20). The repository is a week old with no issues to judge; support by email and in-app chat (5 of 25). com.layerre/layerre is in the official MCP registry under a domain-verified namespace (15). CI runs the vitest suite on push and pull requests to main on Node 22 (8 of 10). 30 + 20 + 5 + 15 + 8 = 78.\n- Photoroom API (13): The last dated changelog entry is 21 April 2026 by the 9 October reading, 197 days before 4 November. The changelog sits on a paused host and was not re-read (0, cause time). No dated changelog entry in the 90 days from 6 August by that reading, and no other dated Photoroom source was found (0). A public changelog and a Discourse community where each of the 17 topics dated 30 September to 3 October 2026 had a reply, per the 9 October check. We did not open the topics to see who replied (11). No official SDK, and the official MCP registry search for photoroom returned no entry on 4 November (0). The sample code repository's last commit is a README change on 23 April 2026 and it has no CI, per a clone on 4 November (2).\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Photoroom API +15\n\n- Layerre (25): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices are public with render counts, and one import or one variant is one render, so the price a render follows from the plan (about $0.03 on Starter, $0.005 on Pro) without being published per unit (15 of 20). Free plan of 50 renders a month with API access; the pricing page doesn't say whether a card is needed (10 of 20, half as with an unstated card rule). A person signs up and creates the key, or approves OAuth in a browser (0). 0 + 15 + 10 + 0 = 25.\n- Photoroom API (40): Per the 9 October check, not re-read on 4 November. No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, the OpenAPI description or the pricing pages (0). Per-image prices are public, $0.02 for background removal and $0.10 for an Image Editing call (20). Sandbox mode gives 1,000 free watermarked calls a month and a new account 10 free production calls on the Remove Background API, with no card, per the pricing page (20). A person has to create an account and activate the API in the dashboard. The MCP server also needs a Photoroom sign-in (0).\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Photoroom API +6\n\n- Layerre (63): The MCP server is MIT. The service is closed under terms of 13 August 2026 that name a sole proprietorship in Ontario (20 of 30). The privacy policy and DPA of the same date agree. Data is kept while the account is active and deleted from production on account deletion, with limited backups. Design files aren't used to train public AI models. Google Analytics runs on accepted cookies (24 of 30). No deprecation policy or notice period (0). Ten subprocessors listed with purpose and location in both documents, including Supabase, Stripe, Cloudflare, Google, Resend, Canva and Slack (20). 20 + 24 + 0 + 20 = 64.\n- Photoroom API (69): Per the 9 October check, not re-read on 4 November. Closed hosted service under the Photoroom Terms and Conditions effective 29 July 2026, which name the application programming interface. Sample code is MIT (15). The security page gives retention figures (images discarded after the call, operational logs 15 days, API access logs one year). The statements on training disagree. The privacy policy of March 2026 says model improvement does not apply to API images, the security page says self-serve API plans train by default with an opt-out, and the terms authorise training on user content with an opt-out. A DPA is for Enterprise customers only (14). Preview and alpha functions carry a two-week notice, the 2024 base URL change gave a dated deadline, and the AI Backgrounds v2 model is marked deprecated with no removal date (12). The security page names GCP, AWS, Cloudflare, Datadog and Vercel and says hosting is in the United States. The full list is in the trust centre, which was not read (16).\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Layerre +5\n\n- Layerre (69): 13 MCP tools (15 for 11 to 30), with no toolsets or read-only subset (15). Template and variant lists take `skip` and `limit`, and templates filter by `tag` and `q` and can leave out layers (16 of 20). 422 validation bodies and a JSON 429 with `retry_after` (17 of 20). Every tool is annotated, read tools with readOnlyHint and idempotentHint, updates idempotent, no tool destructive, and the server has no delete tool. The REST API has no idempotency keys for variant creation (16 of 20). Few required fields, but no official SDK; a Postman collection and the MCP package only (5 of 15). 15 + 16 + 17 + 16 + 5 = 69.\n- Photoroom API (64): Per the 9 October check, not re-read on 4 November. The response body is the image itself, so an agent saves a file and reads nothing into context. `outputSize`, `maxWidth`, `maxHeight`, `export.format` and the `size` presets set what comes back, and the MCP server has one tool, per Photoroom (18). Nothing to paginate. Output size, format and DPI controls (15). JSON errors with a message and a documented meaning for 400, 401, 403, 402, 429 and 500, but the two APIs use different shapes and `Unauthorized` covers both a missing key and an empty balance (13). No idempotency key. Calls keep no state, failed calls are not billed and `background.seed` repeats a generated background, but a retried success is billed again. The MCP tool's annotations were not read (10). Only the image is required and defaults are sensible. No official SDK, only sample code for four platforms (8).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Layerre | Photoroom API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 42 | 42 | even |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 87 | 86 | Layerre +1 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 64 | Layerre +5 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 48 | 49 | Photoroom API +1 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 40 | Photoroom API +15 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 78 | 13 | Layerre +65 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 63 | 69 | Photoroom API +6 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **57.6 · C** | **53.5 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Layerre | Photoroom API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Layerre | Photoroom |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.layerre.com/v1` | `https://image-api.photoroom.com/v2` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT for the MCP server. The Layerre API is a closed service under terms last updated 13 August 2026 | Proprietary service under the Photoroom Terms and Conditions. The sample code repository is MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 13 | 1 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `com.layerre/layerre` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-10-29 | 2026-04-21 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-07-29 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 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 | 119 npm/wk | none |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Layerre\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### Photoroom API\n\n- -2.6 on 4 November 2026 (C to D): correction, time\n- +0.1 on 27 October 2026: checklist\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Layerre.** A public OpenAPI 3.1 contract, published rate limits with Retry-After, and 13 annotated MCP tools that can't delete anything make Layerre straightforward for an agent to call. It works only from Canva designs, is run by a sole proprietor with no status page or SLA, and its API and MCP server are at version 0.1.0.\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### Layerre\n\n1. Call `layerre_auth_status` first to confirm the connection\n2. Read a template's layer IDs with `layerre_get_template` before creating variants\n3. Use the bulk variant endpoint for batches; each variant still costs one render\n4. On 429 wait for the Retry-After seconds; limits are per IP address\n5. Expect template import from a Canva link to take 10 to 30 seconds\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, Layerre or Photoroom API?\n\nLayerre scores 57.6 (C) on agent readiness against Photoroom API's 53.5 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Photoroom API leads on payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do Layerre and Photoroom API need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Layerre and Photoroom API without installing anything?\n\nYes. Layerre has a hosted endpoint at https://api.layerre.com/v1 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/layerre-vs-photoroom.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/layerre-vs-photoroom.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"layerre\", \"b\": \"photoroom\"}`. 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