Picsart Creative APIs MCP

Our MCP server exposes the same functionality as our APIs, but through the Model Context Protocol. This allows AI assistants to directly interact with your API. On top of that, one can use this same server to get help and guidance with the documentation, e.g. get integration code written, etc.

MCP Endpoint

wss://mcp.picsart.com

Authentication

• Requires Bearer token (same as REST API)
• Token can be generated from your dashboard

How to Connect

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "picsart": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "wss://mcp.picsart.com",
      "headers": {
        "X-Picsart-API-Key: Bearer <your_api_key>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Testing Your MCP Setup

Once configured, you can test your MCP server connection:

1. Open your AI editor (Cursor, Windsurf, etc.)
2. Start a new chat with the AI assistant
3. Ask about Picsart Creative APIs - try questions like:
   • "Use picsart. Remove background from https://pastatic.picsart.com/31399405932227146498.png"
   • "Use picsart. Get width and height of https://dcdn.picsart.com/dev/a61e8550-d4c5-4837-a10d-cc6a0b3cd971.mov"
   • "Use picsart. How do I remove backgrounds from my product images?"
   • "Use picsart. Show me an example of how images can be upscaled"

Available Tools

The available tools is a reflection of how API services are grouped under the API Reference:

• docs - Helps with anything about documentation, coding, examples, etc.
• image
• image-classification
• image-content-generation
• image-conversion
• image-editing
• image-effects
• image-photo-enhancement
• image-remove-background
• image-surfacemap
• image-watermark
• video
• video-ads
• video-audio
• video-edit
• video-effects
• video-metadata
• video-video-enhancement
• video-watermark
• genai
• genai-inpainting-beta
• genai-text2image
• genai-text2text

As a rule of thumb, you can use this pattern to decide which tools to include. For instance, the name image includes all tools under Programmable Image APIs product. At the same time, if one uses image-remove-background that will include only services under the Remove Background category of Programmable Image APIs.

Usage Optimizations

There are certain limitations when running Cursor and similar tools. For instance, during the process you may get messages such as:

• Exceeding total tools limit. You have 81 tools from enabled servers.

In order to make sure the number of tools and tokens are used efficiently, you can do this type of optimizations:

Define which tools to include