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Whiteboard Animation MCP Server

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Whiteboard Animation is answering right now. Last checked 10 min ago. It exposes 9 tools. Last commit 30 Oct 2026.

Turn any picture into a hand-drawn whiteboard animation video, from your AI assistant.

Uptime history 5 days of history
5 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
9
Tools
read from the server
892 ms
Response time
average over 24h
1
Stars
last commit 30 Oct 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Whiteboard Animation 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 10 min ago.

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

Available tools 9

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

drawing
create_drawing
Draw a picture as a whiteboard animation. Spends credits (see quote). Answers at once with the drawing_id; the drawing takes a few minutes, follow it with get_drawing.
get_drawing
A drawing by id: its status and progress, its preview page, and once done the export options render_link accepts for it.
wait
wait_drawing
For the drawing card: answers get_drawing as soon as the drawing moves on from the status and progress the card last showed, or after about 50 seconds.
wait_render
A render link’s files: each drawing’s state (pending, rendering, saved, failed) and, once saved, its file name and size in the browser’s downloads. Pass back the states of the last answer: it answers as soon as any of them moves on, or after about 50 seconds.
drawings
list_drawings
The latest drawings in the library, newest first.
quote
quote
What drawing one picture costs, in credits, and the quote_version to pass when creating it.
render
render_link
One link that renders up to 20 of your drawings as files, each with its own choices (format, resolution, aspect, background, hand…; see get_drawing export_options). Opening it in a browser renders them one after another and saves each file to that browser’s downloads; drawings still being drawn are rendered once they finish. Follow it with wait_render.
status
status
Call first. The signed-in workspace: its plan, credits left, drawings queued and running, and how many may queue.
upload
create_upload
Start uploading a picture: answers an upload_url to PUT the bytes to, with the given headers. Then call create_drawing with the upload_id. Not needed when the host attaches the picture to create_drawing itself.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.whiteboardanimation.ai/mcp streamable-http answering 536 ms 10 min ago

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Whiteboard Animation — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Whiteboard Animation do?
It exposes 9 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: create_drawing, create_upload, get_drawing, list_drawings, quote, render_link and 3 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 Whiteboard Animation mostly used for?
Its tools cluster around drawing and wait. 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 Whiteboard Animation 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 892 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Whiteboard Animation?
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 Whiteboard Animation need an API key?
No. Whiteboard Animation completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 9 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Whiteboard Animation?
It answers our handshake in 892 ms on average, which is faster than 8% 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.
Is Whiteboard Animation open source?
The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence and 1 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at mcp.whiteboardanimation.ai, which runs on its operator's own terms.