# Magic Hour MCP vs sync. labs MCP server (slim)

> sync. labs and Magic Hour MCP score within a point of each other for video edit, 51.5 and 50.7 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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sync. labs MCP server and Magic Hour MCP score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 51.5 (D) and 50.7 (D). Magic Hour MCP leads on security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do video edit.

- Magic Hour MCP: D 50.7, rank #1053 of 1510 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/magic-hour-mcp.min.md
- sync. labs MCP server: D 51.5, rank #1026 of 1510 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sync-labs-mcp.min.md
- Magic Hour MCP, good for Agents making short-form video and images, from talking photos and ads to lip-synced translations, on a credit plan. Ahead on Security & auth, 45 against 38; Transparency & trust, 58 against 44.
- sync. labs MCP server, good for Agents that lip-sync or dub video into other languages. Ahead on Reliability, 43 against 35; Payments & pricing, 30 against 15. Also Open source.

| Category | Magic Hour MCP | sync. labs MCP server |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 35 | 43 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 82 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 55 | 55 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 45 | 38 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 15 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 75 | 75 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 58 | 44 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Magic Hour MCP | sync. labs MCP server |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Magic Hour AI, Inc. | Synchronicity Labs (sync.) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.magichour.ai/` | `https://mcp.sync.so/mcp` |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| Licence | none | MIT |
| Tools exposed | 50 | none |
| MCP registry | `io.github.magichourhq/magic-hour` | `io.github.synchronicity-labs/mcp-server` |
| Terms last updated | not read yet | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | not read yet | no document linked |

Why the edge:
- Payments & pricing, sync. labs MCP server +15: Magic Hour MCP 15 (No machine payment protocol (0). Plan and credit-pack prices public, per-tool credit costs not read (10). 400 sign-up credits with no card, but API access sits on paid plans (5 of 20). A person signs up for a key in a browser (0). Tool discovery is open, but calls need a key (0). 0 + 10 + 5 + 0 = 15.); sync. labs MCP server 30 (No machine payment protocol (0). Per-second prices published (20). A free try for short videos (10 of 20). A person signs up (0). 0 + 20 + 10 + 0 = 30.)
- Transparency & trust, Magic Hour MCP +14: Magic Hour MCP 58 (Closed service under terms naming Magic Hour AI, Inc., revised 3 October 2026 (15). The privacy policy says prompts, uploads and outputs aren't sold or used to train models, for free and paid accounts, and MCP requests are handled the same way; retention periods aren't given (20 of 30). No deprecation policy found (5 of 20). Subprocessors not read (10 of 20, model providers named in tool docs). 15 + 20 + 5 + 10 = 50.); sync. labs MCP server 44 (MIT open source (30). Data handling not read (5 of 30). No deprecation policy; earlier tool names documented as superseded (5 of 20). Subprocessors not found (0). 30 + 5 + 5 + 0 = 40.)
- Reliability, sync. labs MCP server +8: Magic Hour MCP 35 (Status page at status.magichour.ai, all services online, with maintenance and previous incidents sections; no MCP component read (15). Incident history not read (5). No API rate limits found (0). No retry guidance found; wait_for_* tools poll long jobs (5 of 15). No SLA found (0). Not labelled beta (10). 15 + 5 + 0 + 5 + 0 + 10 = 35.); sync. labs MCP server 43 (Status page at status.sync.so with maintenance and previous incidents (20). History not read (5). No MCP limits found (0). The source has abort-signal handling and recovery guidance for long jobs (8 of 15). No SLA found (0). Version 0.2.4, not labelled beta (10). 20 + 5 + 0 + 8 + 0 + 10 = 43.)
- Security & auth, Magic Hour MCP +7: Magic Hour MCP 45 (API keys as Bearer tokens or OAuth through the Claude and ChatGPT connectors (20 of 30). Destructive deletes are annotated; no read-only key (8 of 20). Tools return generated media, not third-party text (10). No audit log found (0). No security.txt or certifications found; face and voice tools come with policy limits in the terms (7 of 20). 20 + 8 + 10 + 0 + 7 = 45.); sync. labs MCP server 38 (OAuth per organisation, or an API key in the environment (22 of 30). No read-only mode (3 of 20). Media in and out, no third-party text (10). No audit log found (0). No security programme found (3 of 20). 22 + 3 + 10 + 0 + 3 = 38.)