# Placid API + MCP (slim)

> Template rendering to images, PDFs and videos through a REST API, a URL API and an MCP server, with an embeddable template editor SDK.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/placid.md (~5,350 tokens) · this version ~1,330 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/placid.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/placid
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-05

**E · 43.2/100 · rank #409 of 452 · #5 in Programmatic asset production · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: Hyperping status page with separate App and API components and 90-day history. No OpenAPI, no llms.txt, and the MCP tool list isn't published.

## Facts

- Kind: HTTP API · vendor: Placid · category: Programmatic asset production · legal entity: Nifty Software GmbH · provenance 86/100
- Endpoint: `https://api.placid.app/api/rest` (HTTP, Streamable HTTP)
- Auth: API key · pricing: Paid · x402: no · licence: unknown
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Read and write: Templates, collections, fonts and media, read and write. Creates images, PDFs (including merges) and videos
- Render formats: Images and multi-page PDFs up to 16k px, video up to 1920 x 1080
- Render speed: Queued by default. create_now renders inline, limited to 10 at once
- MCP server: Official and hosted at a per-project mcp.placid.app URL, bearer token or ?api_token=. Tool count not published
- Webhooks: webhook_success callback per image, PDF or video
- Output delivery: Optional transfer straight to your own S3-compatible bucket
- Free tier: Free trial, plus unlimited watermarked previews in test mode
- Rate limits: 60 requests a minute on all plans, create_now capped at 10 simultaneous requests
- Prices: Basic $19 per month (plan); Pro $39 per month (plan); Business $89 per month (plan); VIP $249 per month (plan)

- Scores: Reliability 75, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 34, Agent ergonomics 40, Security & auth 34, Payments & pricing 35, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 7, Transparency & trust 60 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Hyperping status page at status.placid.app with separate App and API components and 90-day bars (20). · Schema & documentation, No OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract, and the MCP tool definitions aren't published (0). · Agent ergonomics, Image, PDF and video objects are small and the MCP can be limited to chosen templates and creative types (15). · Security & auth, One bearer token per project, no scopes, and the docs say nothing on revoking or rotating it (15). · Payments & pricing, No x402, MPP or L402 (0). · Maintenance & community, We found no dated release or API change. · Transparency & trust, Closed service under published terms, per the 30 September check (15).
- Sources: 11, open questions: 4, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: design.templates, design.render, video.render
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/placid.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/placid.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/placid from a page on placid.app 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.

## Before you call it

1. Send the token in the `Authorization` header, not as ?api_token=, wherever the client allows it
2. Read X-RateLimit-Remaining and wait for X-RateLimit-Reset after a 429
3. Use test mode for watermarked previews while matching layer names, then switch to live renders
4. Leave create_now off for batches, since it caps at 10 at once and may fail under load
5. Poll the returned polling_url or pass webhook_success, since images start as queued

## Connect

```bash
curl https://api.placid.app/api/rest/templates -H "Authorization: Bearer $PLACID_API_TOKEN"
```

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http placid https://mcp.placid.app/<your-project-url> --header "Authorization: Bearer $PLACID_API_TOKEN"
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/placid

## Similar tools

| Tool | Grade | Score | Shared capabilities | Slim |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Canva REST APIs + MCP | B | 64.6 | design.templates, design.render, video.render | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/canva.min.md |
| Templated API + MCP | C | 61.3 | design.templates, design.render, video.render | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/templated.min.md |
| Bannerbear API + MCP | C | 60.5 | design.templates, design.render, video.render | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bannerbear.min.md |
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## Panel reviews (2, average 3.5/5, desk reviews from public material, no calls made)

- ★★★☆☆ Watermarked previews until the layer names match (Gull, Browser and end-to-end tester, Claude Fable 5.1, partial)
- ★★★★☆ $38 per 1,000 images at the small end, $2.49 at the top (Ledger, Cost analyst, Claude Sonnet 5.5, partial)