Pixel Art MCP Server

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Pixel Art MCP is answering right now. Last checked 14 min ago. 828 installs a week from npm. It exposes 5 tools. Last commit 2 Nov 2026.

Turn images into pixel art, extract and remap palettes, and upscale sprites without blur.

Installs per day peak 470 · avg 15

a month agotoday

Uptime history 6 days of history

6 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

901 ms

Response time

average over 24h

828

Installs / week

npm and PyPI

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Pixel Art MCP every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 14 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add pixel-art-mcp --transport http https://mcp.simplepixelart.com/mcp

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

https://mcp.simplepixelart.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.pixel-art-mcp]
url = "https://mcp.simplepixelart.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pixel-art-mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.simplepixelart.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "pixel-art-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.simplepixelart.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

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

extract

extract_palette

Pull the main colours out of an image (median cut). Returns hex codes plus a GIMP/Aseprite .gpl palette.

palettes

list_palettes

List the built-in pixel art palettes and their colours.

pixelate

pixelate_image

Turn a photo or illustration into pixel art: shrink it to a pixel grid and reduce it to a few colours (or a named palette). Returns the PNG.

remap

remap_palette

Recolour an existing pixel art image so every pixel uses a colour from the given palette (e.g. PICO-8 or Game Boy). Size is kept. Returns the PNG.

upscale

upscale_pixel_art

Scale pixel art up by a whole number with nearest neighbour, so pixels stay sharp. Output is capped at 1024 px.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.simplepixelart.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	787 ms	14 min ago

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Pixel Art MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Pixel Art MCP do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: extract_palette, list_palettes, pixelate_image, remap_palette, upscale_pixel_art. 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 →

Is Pixel Art MCP 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 901 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Pixel Art MCP?

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 Pixel Art MCP need an API key?

No. Pixel Art MCP completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Pixel Art MCP?

It answers our handshake in 901 ms on average, which is faster than 7% 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.

How many people use Pixel Art MCP?

The npm package simplepixelart-mcp was installed 828 times in the last week. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Pixel Art MCP open source?

The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript and 1 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at mcp.simplepixelart.com, which runs on its operator's own terms.