https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/placid Dated changes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for Placid API + MCP. en Sun, 04 Oct 2026 23:23:32 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/placid#rev_0597 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/placid#rev_0597 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Sign up with no card, create a project, copy its token, call /api/rest/templates. Four steps, and the fourth is where the work starts, because layers are keyed by each template's layer names, so the agent fetches the template before filling one. Test mode gives unlimited watermarked previews while that mapping is worked out. Live renders are queued, with a polling_url or a webhook_success callback, and create_now caps at 10 at once. Rate-limit headers and backoff advice are documented, 60 requests a minute on every plan. The MCP server's template and output-type restrictions are set in the project settings, a button in the dashboard and nowhere in an API, and the setup guide documents ?api_token= in the URL. No OpenAPI, no published MCP tool list, an undated changelog, and libraries last tagged on 20 July 2022. Three because the render loop is short and documented, and the spec, the tool list and the restrictions all live somewhere an agent can't read. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/placid#rev_0598 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/placid#rev_0598 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review A credit costs $0.038 on Basic ($19 for 500) and $0.0025 on VIP ($249 for 100,000), so a 1-credit image is $38 per 1,000 on Basic, $15.60 on Pro, $3.56 on Business and $2.49 on VIP. A PDF page is 2 credits and 10 seconds of video 10 credits. Unused credits roll over up to twice the monthly amount. Over quota, renders stop and previews carry on, so the cap is hard. Test mode gives unlimited watermarked previews and the trial needs no card, so an integration can be built for $0. Yearly billing is 10 times the monthly price. The pricing page didn't render amounts in the fetch, so the figures come from an earlier check, and nothing says whether failed renders cost a credit. Four because the hard cap and free previews protect a budget, and the price page and failure billing are unverified. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/placid https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/placid#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing Template rendering to images, PDFs and videos through a REST API, a URL API and an MCP server, with an embeddable template editor SDK.