# Pictify (slim)

> Pictify renders HTML, URLs and saved templates into PNG, JPG or WebP images, PDFs, GIFs and MP4 video through a REST API, official SDKs in four languages and an MCP server.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pictify.md (~6,900 tokens) · this version ~1,530 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pictify.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pictify
- 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/pictify#pricing · reviews https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pictify#reviews
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)

**C · 55.7/100 · rank #856 of 1486 · #7 in Programmatic asset production · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: A public OpenAPI 3.1 contract, per-render overage prices, a recurring no-card free tier and error codes that tell quota apart from rate limits make Pictify easy for an agent to call and budget. Its MCP server reports tool arguments and results to PostHog by default, and the privacy policy, last updated July 2024, mentions neither.

## Facts

- Kind: HTTP API · vendor: Pictify.io · category: Programmatic asset production · legal entity: not named · provenance 64/100
- Endpoint: `https://api.pictify.io` (HTTP, stdio, Streamable HTTP)
- Auth: OAuth or key · pricing: Freemium · x402: no · licence: MIT for the MCP server. The Pictify API is a closed service under terms last updated 18 July 2024
- Benchmark probes: not run yet, so Performance is pending
- Live, from our pollers (not part of the score): up at 2026-11-07 18:20 UTC · uptime 30 days 100.0% (200 probes) · p50 247 ms · p95 416 ms over 24 hours
- Vendor status page: not read, no machine-readable status found (2026-11-07 04:48 UTC)
- Surface listed: The REST API at api.pictify.io and the @pictify/mcp-server package (2.0.0), read from docs.pictify.io, its OpenAPI file, pictify.io's llms.txt, pricing.md, terms and privacy policy, a shallow clone of github.com/pictify-io/mcp, npm and the MCP registry on 6 November 2026. No account was made and the package was not run
- Which site: pictify.io, served through Cloudflare, with docs on Mintlify at docs.pictify.io and the API at api.pictify.io. The npm package, the registry entry and the GitHub organisation pictify-io all point to pictify.io
- MCP tools: 25 in the 2.0.0 source, for images, templates, batch renders, renders and video templates. The canvas and GIF-creation tools were removed on 19 September 2026
- Outputs: PNG, JPG, WebP, single and multi-page PDF, GIF and MP4, hosted on a CDN
- MCP analytics: PostHog at us.i.posthog.com, on by default. Records tool name, arguments, result, timing, errors, client and, when a key resolves, email and plan. Off with `PICTIFY_ANALYTICS_DISABLED=1`, per the README
- Operator: The terms and privacy policy name only Pictify.io, under United States law. The npm maintainer and the MCP repository's committer is Suyash Thakur
- Prices: Extra render on Basic $0.02 per image; Extra render on Pro $0.01 per image; Extra render on Business $0.005 per image

- Scores: Reliability 45, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 88, Agent ergonomics 74, Security & auth 45, Payments & pricing 40, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 68, Transparency & trust 52 · negative events -3 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Hosted lines, for the REST API. · Schema & documentation, Public OpenAPI 3.1 at docs.pictify.io/openapi/v1.yaml with 20 paths (25). · Agent ergonomics, 25 MCP tools in the 2.0.0 source (15 for 11 to 30), with no toolsets or read-only subset (15). · Security & auth, Prefixed API keys that can be rotated or revoked at once in the dashboard, with no scopes. · Payments & pricing, No x402, MPP or L402 (0). · Maintenance & community, @pictify/mcp-server 2.0.0 published on 20 September 2026, 47 days before this check, with the changelog's newest entry dated September 2026… · Transparency & trust, The MCP server is MIT.
- Sources: 15, open questions: 6, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: design.render, design.templates, pdf.generate, video.generate
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pictify.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/pictify.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pictify from a page on pictify.io or one of its subdomains, or the README at the root of github.com/pictify-io/mcp, 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: support@pictify.io; https://docs.pictify.io/resources/troubleshooting; https://status.pictify.io; more in the full twin

## Before you call it

1. Set `PICTIFY_ANALYTICS_DISABLED=1` in the MCP server's env when tool inputs are confidential
2. On a 429, read `code` first; `quota_exceeded` means wait for the monthly reset, not retry
3. Retry a 5xx once; a failed generation bills nothing
4. Pass only one of `html`, `url` or `template` to `pictify_create_image`
5. Use batch render for one image per row rather than many single calls

## Connect

```bash
npx -y @pictify/mcp-server
```

```bash
claude mcp add pictify -- npx -y @pictify/mcp-server
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/pictify

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| Tool | Grade | Score | Shared capabilities | Slim |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Abyssale | B | 65.6 | design.render, design.templates, pdf.generate, video.generate | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/abyssale.min.md |
| Robolly | D | 48.4 | design.templates, design.render, pdf.generate, video.generate | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/robolly.min.md |
| Shotstack | B | 67.3 | design.templates, design.render, video.generate | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shotstack.min.md |
| Layerre | C | 57.6 | design.templates, design.render, pdf.generate | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/layerre.min.md |
| DynaPictures | E | 43.2 | design.templates, design.render, pdf.generate | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dynapictures.min.md |


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