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ThumbnailCreator MCP Server

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ThumbnailCreator is answering right now. Last checked 15 min ago. It exposes 4 tools.

AI YouTube thumbnails from GPT Image, Nano Banana, FLUX and more, side by side. Pay per image.

Uptime history 37 days of history · worst day 99%
37 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
353 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 4

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 29 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

8 Oct a tool changed the parameters it asks for generate_thumbnails
1 Oct a tool changed the parameters it asks for generate_thumbnails
29 Sep a tool description was rewritten2 times that day account_usage
and 1 more, back to 29 September 2026

Nothing serious here today

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

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 15 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add thumbnails --transport http https://thumbnailcreator.ai/api/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://thumbnailcreator.ai/api/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.thumbnails]
url = "https://thumbnailcreator.ai/api/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "thumbnails": {
      "url": "https://thumbnailcreator.ai/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "thumbnails": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://thumbnailcreator.ai/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

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

account
account_usage
Shows the credit balance and in-flight spend for the API key's account.
generate
generate_thumbnails
Generates thumbnail images from a prompt with one or more models (up to 8 images per call). Waits for results and returns image URLs valid for one hour. Billed per image to the API key's account.
generation
get_generation
Returns the status and fresh image URLs for a generation id.
models
list_models
Lists available thumbnail image models with the price per image in USD.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://thumbnailcreator.ai/api/mcp streamable-http answering 272 ms 15 min ago

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ThumbnailCreator — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can ThumbnailCreator do?
It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: account_usage, generate_thumbnails, get_generation, list_models. 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 ThumbnailCreator 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 353 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect ThumbnailCreator?
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 ThumbnailCreator need an API key?
No. ThumbnailCreator completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is ThumbnailCreator?
It answers our handshake in 353 ms on average, which is faster than 39% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.