AI Photo Animator MCP Server

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AI Photo Animator is answering right now. Last checked 7 min ago. It exposes 10 tools.

Animate photos into AI videos: viral effects, old photo restoration, text to video, AI images.

Uptime history 12 days of history · worst day 1%

12 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

761 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

AI Photo Animator does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 47.0% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 7 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add photo-animator --transport http https://aiphotoanimator.ai/api/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://aiphotoanimator.ai/api/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.photo-animator]
url = "https://aiphotoanimator.ai/api/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "photo-animator": {
      "url": "https://aiphotoanimator.ai/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "photo-animator": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://aiphotoanimator.ai/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 10

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

image

create_image

Generate a new image from text, or edit photo(s) following instructions (change background, outfit, style, lighting, combine several photos). Uses Nano Banana 2 at 1K. Costs credits. Usually returns the image directly; if status is pending, call get_image later.

get_image

Check an image task from create_image or restore_photo. status is pending, success (image_url ready) or failed (credits refunded).

video

create_video

Generate a short video (5 seconds, 720p, with sound) from a text description only, no photo needed. Costs credits. Returns a task_id; poll get_video.

get_video

Check a generation task. status is pending, success (video_url ready) or failed (credits refunded).

animate

animate_photo

Turn photo(s) into a short video. With `effect` (from list_effects) the effect decides the motion; without it the photo is animated following `prompt`. Costs credits. Returns a task_id; poll get_video for the result (usually 1–5 minutes).

credits

get_credits

Remaining credits and plan of the connected account.

edit

edit_video

Edit an existing video clip (MP4, up to 15 seconds, 50 MB) following instructions: put the person from a photo into the clip, change outfit, style, background or scene, while keeping the motion and timing. Costs credits (based on clip length). Returns a task_id; poll get_video.

effects

list_effects

List video effect templates (dance, sports, meme scenes, etc.). Use the returned `effect` id with animate_photo. `photos` is how many photos the effect needs.

restore

restore_photo

Repair an old or damaged photo: remove scratches, dust, creases and fading, recover sharp faces, keep everyone exactly as they are. Optionally colorize a black-and-white photo. Costs credits. Returns the restored image (or pending → get_image). Tip: animate the result with animate_photo afterwards.

videos

list_my_videos

The user's most recent video generations, newest first.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://aiphotoanimator.ai/api/mcp	streamable-http	answering	726 ms	7 min ago

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AI Photo Animator — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can AI Photo Animator do?

It exposes 10 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: animate_photo, create_image, create_video, edit_video, get_credits, get_image and 4 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

What is AI Photo Animator mostly used for?

Its tools cluster around image and video. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.

Is AI Photo Animator working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 761 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect AI Photo Animator?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does AI Photo Animator need an API key?

No. AI Photo Animator completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 10 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is AI Photo Animator?

It answers our handshake in 761 ms on average, which is faster than 12% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.