# Canva MCP

> Official Canva remote MCP for campaign designs, thumbnails, decks, exports, and comments.

- **Category:** Review & Distribution
- **Vendor:** Canva (official)
- **Pricing:** freemium
- **Verified:** 2026-08-21

## What it does

Canva's official remote MCP connects agents to editable design workflows: generate and edit designs, search libraries, manage assets and brand materials, export in delivery formats, resize for channels, and handle comments. For film teams it is the campaign and pitch-collateral bench: YouTube thumbnails, posters, social cutdowns, pitch decks, review decks, and branded variants around the actual film.

## Connect

- Remote endpoint: `https://mcp.canva.com/mcp`
- Claude Code: `claude mcp add --transport http canva https://mcp.canva.com/mcp`
- Local: `npx -y mcp-remote@latest https://mcp.canva.com/mcp`

**Auth:** oauth — Canva OAuth; Client ID Metadata Documents (CIMD) is Canva's recommended method, and custom clients may need redirect URI allowlist approval

## Capabilities

`design-generation` · `design-editing` · `design-search` · `template-autofill` · `design-export` · `design-import` · `resize` · [comments](https://mcp.film/capabilities/comments.md) · [asset-management](https://mcp.film/capabilities/asset-management.md) · `brand-management` · `folder-management`

## Sample tools

`generate-design` · `search-designs` · `get-design-content` · `start-editing-transaction` · `perform-editing-operations` · `export-design` · `resize-design` · `autofill-design` · `comment-on-design` · `upload-asset-from-url`

## Field notes

Endpoint https://mcp.canva.com/mcp still returns 401 unauthenticated — alive and OAuth-gated. The published tools table now lists 33 tools, including a four-call editing-transaction flow (start / perform-operations / commit / cancel) and folder management, so agents that only know generate-and-export are leaving the edit surface unused. Plan gates unchanged: resize-design, list-brand-kits, search-brand-templates and create-design-from-brand-template need Pro or above; autofill-design and get-brand-template-dataset are Enterprise-only. Everything else is on all plans, rate-limited 20–100 req/min per tool. Canva documents the endpoint rather than a per-client command; CIMD is its recommended auth method and custom OAuth clients may need redirect-URI allowlisting.

## Verification

- Status: Freshly checked (7 days old)
- Added: 2026-06-29
- Last verified: 2026-08-21
- Machine JSON: https://mcp.film/api/mcps/canva.json

## Links

- Site: https://www.canva.com/ai-connector/?utm_source=mcp.film&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=directory&utm_content=canva%3Asite
- Docs: https://www.canva.dev/docs/mcp/?utm_source=mcp.film&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=directory&utm_content=canva%3Adocs

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Structured data: https://mcp.film/api/mcps/canva.json · Directory: https://mcp.film