# Abyssale (slim)

> Abyssale is a creative automation platform from Paris that renders designs into images, MP4 video, GIFs, HTML5 banner ads and print PDFs, through a REST API, dynamic image URLs, webhooks, official SDKs and a remote MCP server.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/abyssale.md (~7,050 tokens) · this version ~1,630 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/abyssale.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/abyssale
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-11-07 · pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/abyssale#pricing · reviews https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/abyssale#reviews
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)

**B · 65.6/100 · rank #411 of 1486 · #3 in Programmatic asset production · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: Abyssale publishes a full OpenAPI file, dated versions, tiered rate limits with Retry-After, one error envelope and per-tool OAuth scopes on its MCP server. API access starts at $45 a seat a month after a 14-day trial, and no status page or published SLA was found.

## Facts

- Kind: HTTP API · vendor: Abyssale SAS · category: Programmatic asset production · legal entity: Abyssale SAS · provenance 72/100
- Endpoint: `https://api.abyssale.com` (HTTP, Streamable HTTP)
- Auth: OAuth or key · pricing: Paid · x402: no · licence: Closed service under the Abyssale terms of service (version 3, 21 July 2026)
- Benchmark probes: not run yet, so Performance is pending
- Live, from our pollers (not part of the score): up at 2026-11-07 17:49 UTC · uptime 30 days 100.0% (195 probes) · p50 66 ms · p95 177 ms over 24 hours
- Surface listed: The REST API at api.abyssale.com and the remote MCP server at mcp.abyssale.com, read from developers.abyssale.com (llms.txt, OpenAPI, rate limits, credits, changelogs, MCP authentication and permissions), npm, PyPI, the MCP registry and www.abyssale.com's terms, privacy policy, legal notice and about page on 6 November 2026. No account was made and no tool was called
- Outputs: JPG, PNG, WEBP and AVIF images, MP4 video, GIF, HTML5 banner ads as ZIP, and print PDFs in CMYK, single or multi-page
- MCP tools: 20 tools, 11 of them read-only. The others create, import, rename or generate, and the permissions page marks delete_design (no undo) and move_design (resets approval status) as destructive. get_me needs no scope
- Rate limits: 10 requests a second globally. Per workspace, polling 600 a minute and 18,000 an hour, read 120 and 3,000, validation 120 and 2,400, write 60 and 1,200. Generation endpoints have no tier budget
- Credits: Image or static PDF 1 per format; video, GIF and HTML5 1 per second per format; print PDF 1 per 10 million pixels. AI tools 1 to 35 AI credits. Reads, imports, dry runs and failed generations are free
- Legal entity: ABYSSALE, a simplified joint-stock company (SAS) at 49 rue de Ponthieu, 75008 Paris, Paris Trade and Companies Register 878 526 573, hosted on AWS in Ireland
- Prices: Pro seat (API and MCP) $45 per seat per month; Suite seat $75 per seat per month

- Scores: Reliability 41, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 98, Agent ergonomics 85, Security & auth 55, Payments & pricing 35, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 85, Transparency & trust 71 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Hosted lines, for the REST API and the remote MCP server. · Schema & documentation, A 424 KB OpenAPI file at developers.abyssale.com/api.yaml with 34 operations, from which the reference pages are generated (25). · Agent ergonomics, 20 MCP tools (15 for 11 to 30), plus 5 because OAuth scopes per tool group let a client be approved for reads only (20 of 25). · Security & auth, The MCP server uses OAuth through Auth0 with scopes per tool group (`read:design`, `write:design`, `delete:design`, `import:design`… · Payments & pricing, No x402, MPP or L402 (0). · Maintenance & community, API version v2026-10-29, eight days before this check (30). · Transparency & trust, Closed service under terms of service version 3 of 21 July 2026, from a Paris SAS with its register number (15).
- Sources: 16, open questions: 5, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: design.render, design.templates, design.brand, image.edit, pdf.generate, video.generate
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/abyssale.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/abyssale.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/abyssale from a page on abyssale.com or one of its subdomains, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.
- Support: help@abyssale.com; https://developers.abyssale.com/; https://www.abyssale.com/legal-notice; more in the full twin

## Before you call it

1. Branch on the error `id`, never the message; `request_rate_limited` means wait Retry-After seconds
2. Multiply credits by formats before a batch, since 200 products in 6 formats cost 1,200 credits
3. Ask the MCP user to approve only `read:design` unless the task must generate or change designs
4. Use asynchronous generation for several formats and deduplicate webhooks on `X-Abyssale-Delivery-Id`
5. Check `GET /credits` first; it costs nothing and shows both balances

## Connect

```bash
npm install @abyssale/sdk
```

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.abyssale.com/auth -H "x-api-key: $ABYSSALE_API_KEY"
```

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http --client-id tpc_iJ7LWqVdzR7c7jf21gMqDQ --callback-port 3418 -s user abyssale_prod https://mcp.abyssale.com/mcp
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/abyssale

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