# Melius vs Zeplin (slim)

> Melius scores 54.1 (C) to Zeplin's 47.5 (D) for design files. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Melius scores 54.1 (C) on agent readiness against Zeplin's 47.5 (D), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Zeplin leads on payments & pricing. Both do design files.

- Melius: C 54.1, rank #695 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/melius.min.md
- Zeplin: D 47.5, rank #834 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zeplin.min.md
- Melius, good for An agent producing batches of ad creative, product images or short videos on a shared canvas that people then review, with many models behind one key. Ahead on Reliability, 69 against 36; Maintenance & community, 66 against 33. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- Zeplin, good for Teams that already publish designs to Zeplin and want an agent to read screens, components, tokens and notes, or turn a screen into code through the MCP server. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 30 against 20. Also Runs on your own machine.

| Category | Melius | Zeplin |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 69 | 36 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 70 | 70 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 51 | 55 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 43 | 47 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 66 | 33 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 55 | 58 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Melius | Zeplin |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Melius AI, Inc. | Zeplin, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.melius.com/api/v1` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Melius's terms of service. The mel CLI on npm is MIT, with no public source repository found | Proprietary hosted service under Zeplin's Terms of Service and Developer Terms. The JavaScript SDK and the MCP server on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 75 | 4 |
| Last release | 2026-09-10 | 2026-08-03 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-01-12 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2025-08-29 |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 9 npm/wk | 10 stars, 8.9k npm/wk |