{
  "slug": "bithuman",
  "name": "bitHuman MCP",
  "vendor": "bitHuman",
  "official": true,
  "category": "avatars-performance",
  "featured": false,
  "tagline": "Official bitHuman CLI server: build avatar agents from a face image and render WAV-driven talking video locally.",
  "description": "bitHuman's MCP ships inside its own CLI: `bithuman mcp` exposes agent creation from a still (generate_agent), gesture generation, model pulls and a local render that turns a WAV into a lip-synced MP4 on your machine. A separate hosted endpoint lets any chat client make bitHuman's stock characters speak a line, no account needed. For a filmmaker-agent it is a talking-head and digital-performer tool that pairs with whatever TTS or recorded dialogue you already have, since bitHuman deliberately does not synthesize speech.",
  "capabilities": [
    "avatar-video",
    "lip-sync",
    "avatar-creation",
    "gesture-generation",
    "local-render",
    "webhooks"
  ],
  "tools_sample": [
    "generate_agent",
    "get_agent_status",
    "list_agents",
    "agent_speak",
    "generate_dynamics",
    "render",
    "pull",
    "upload_file",
    "get_credit_balance",
    "list_characters",
    "make_character_video"
  ],
  "install": {
    "claude_code": "claude mcp add bithuman -- bithuman mcp",
    "remote_url": "https://mcp.bithuman.ai/mcp",
    "stdio_command": "Multi-step: install the CLI with `curl -fsSL https://install.bithuman.ai | sh`, authenticate with `bithuman login` (or set BITHUMAN_API_SECRET in the client config), then run the server as `bithuman mcp`"
  },
  "auth": {
    "type": "api_key",
    "env_var": "BITHUMAN_API_SECRET",
    "key_url": "Run `bithuman login`, or use the API secret from your bitHuman account; API and SDK access is listed from the Creator plan up (https://www.bithuman.ai/pricing)"
  },
  "pricing": "credits",
  "links": {
    "repo": null,
    "docs": "https://docs.bithuman.ai/build/mcp",
    "site": "https://www.bithuman.ai"
  },
  "added": "2026-10-08",
  "verified": "2026-10-08",
  "notes": "Verified 8 Oct 2026 against bitHuman's MCP docs and the official MCP Registry, where ai.bithuman/characters was published that same morning; no tools were run. Two servers share the name and are not the same thing. The hosted remote_url takes no auth and exposes only list_characters, make_character_video (3-200 characters of text) and talk_to_character — the docs say outright it 'speaks only as bitHuman's own characters', so it is a demo, not a pipeline tool. Your own avatars need the CLI server, which is the claude_code command above. There is no text-to-speech tool: list_voices and text_to_speech were retired after CLI 2.8.7 and now return 410, so bring a WAV from elevenlabs, cartesia or a real recording and pass it to render. generate_agent is async and slow — the docs put a second-generation agent at roughly 2-2.5 hours — and always pass model (essence-2 or expression-2) or you get a first-generation agent. Every model except Expression 2 needs a real human face; stylised or non-human subjects return 422 MODEL_SUBJECT_MISMATCH. The cloud talking-video API and knowledge bases have no MCP tool yet, so use the REST API for those. Pricing: Free is $0 with 99 credits a month, Creator $20 for 2,000. bitHuman's pricing page says Free-plan API access ends on 12 October, so plan on Creator. The install line pipes a remote script into sh: read it first. Source is not public — every repo in the bithuman-product GitHub org was archived on 5 Oct 2026 and the registry metadata now points at GitLab — so repo is null. For hosted, OAuth-gated performance work without a local CLI, hedra-official is the simpler connect."
}