EverArt MCP Server

Archived MCP server that lets Claude and MCP clients generate images via EverArt's FLUX, SD 3.5 and Recraft models.

Free· MCP server is free and open source; requires an EverArt account and API key (EverArt itself is a paid image-generation service with credit-based pricing).MCP ServersFLUX 1.1, FLUX 1.1 Ultra, Stable Diffusion 3.5, Recraft (Real and Vector) via EverArt

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Best for

Developers who want a quick way to give Claude Desktop or an MCP-enabled IDE the ability to generate reference images, mockups or illustrations from a prompt, and engineers studying MCP as a template for wrapping other image APIs.

Skip if

Teams that need an actively maintained, production image pipeline with editing, variations, aspect ratios and SLAs, or anyone who wants a free local image generator without a paid API dependency.

EverArt MCP Server is a Model Context Protocol connector that lets Claude Desktop, VS Code and other MCP-aware clients call EverArt's hosted image-generation API directly from a chat or coding session. It ships as a small TypeScript/Node service that registers a single tool, generate_image, which takes a text prompt, a model selector and an optional image count, then returns 1024x1024 renders from FLUX 1.1 (standard and ultra), Stable Diffusion 3.5, or Recraft (Real and Vector). The server is installed via npx or Docker and configured with an EVERART_API_KEY environment variable; a one-click VS Code install button is also provided. Because the tool surface is deliberately minimal, it is a good teaching example of how an image API can be wrapped into an MCP tool an LLM can invoke on its own, and a low-friction way to add on-demand illustration, mockup or reference-image generation to a Claude Desktop workflow without leaving the chat. Note that as of May 2025 the repository has been moved into modelcontextprotocol/servers-archived and is no longer maintained by the MCP team; the code still works against the EverArt API but new features, model additions and bug fixes are not being accepted upstream. Teams that want a supported image-generation MCP should treat this as reference code and either fork it or pick a currently-maintained alternative that wraps FLUX, SDXL or a commercial image API.

Editor's take

A clean, minimal reference implementation that shows exactly how much (or little) code it takes to turn a commercial image API into an agent-callable MCP tool. It works, but it is archived, single-purpose and locked to 1024x1024, so I would use it as a template to fork rather than as long-term production infrastructure.

— The AI Tool Bible editorial team

Pros

✅ Drop-in MCP server that lets Claude Desktop or VS Code generate images through natural-language tool calls
✅ Exposes five current image models (FLUX 1.1, FLUX 1.1 Ultra, SD 3.5, Recraft Real, Recraft Vector) through a single tool
✅ Tiny TypeScript codebase makes it a useful reference for building your own image-API MCP wrapper
✅ Installs via npx or Docker with a one-click VS Code button, so setup is a few minutes
✅ Open source under the MCP servers repo license, easy to fork and extend

Cons

⚠️ Officially archived in May 2025 and no longer maintained upstream
⚠️ Only one tool (generate_image) with no editing, variation, upscaling or img2img workflows
⚠️ Fixed 1024x1024 output, no aspect-ratio or resolution controls
⚠️ Requires a paid EverArt account and API key; image generation is not free
⚠️ No prompts or resources exposed, so richer agentic patterns need custom code

Use cases

In-chat image generation from Claude DesktopIDE-driven mockup and illustration generation in VS CodePrompt-to-image reference art for design brainstormingAgent-invoked cover art and thumbnail generationReference implementation for building custom image-API MCP serversQuick FLUX 1.1 Ultra renders inside an LLM workflow