Magic Hour MCP: AI images, video and audio from a chat

Getting Magic Hour into your AI app

1. 1Click Connect Magic Hour free and sign in with your Magic Hour account.
2. 2Nearly every Magic Hour job spends credits, and some work with real people's faces and voices. Switch off face swap, head swap, body swap and voice clone if your team shouldn't run them from an AI app.
3. 3Add ContextGate to your AI app as a connector or MCP server. The steps for each app are on the Works with page.
4. 4Ask your AI app for a product image on a plain background and a short voice-over to match, then open Activity to see both jobs.

Media jobs to start by asking

• Generate images from a text prompt, or edit existing images with one.
• Remove or replace a background, make a headshot or design an artistic QR code.
• Turn text into speech with a preset voice, or animate a GIF from a prompt.
• Edit a video with a prompt, or generate video from audio.

Magic Hour jobs run in the background: a tool returns a project ID and the credits charged, not the finished file.

Credits and likeness under control

• Switch off the tools you don't need so they can't spend credits from a chat.
• Switch off face swap and voice clone tools if your team shouldn't work with other people's faces or voices.
• Activity records every Magic Hour job your AI apps started.

What you get with Magic Hour and ContextGate

• Your AI apps can use Magic HourClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach Magic Hour through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
• You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any Magic Hour tool you don't want used. It's hidden from your AI apps and refused if called.
• Every call is checked and recordedYour policies check each call (for example, personal data is hidden and secrets are blocked), and Activity keeps a record of it.

ContextGate sees only the tool calls that go through it, not your AI app's built-in tools or your chats.

Magic Hour tools

Examples of what your AI apps can do in Magic Hour. You'll see the exact list of tools after you connect it.

• Create AI Clothes ChangeStart a credit-consuming asynchronous clothes-change image job from person and garment images. Each image costs 25 credits. The operation is documented for Free accounts but requires sufficient credit
• Create AI Face EditStart a credit-consuming asynchronous edit of facial features in an image. This Free-tier operation returns an image project ID and credit charge immediately, not a completed image. Pass the ID to MAG
• Create AI GIFStart a credit-consuming asynchronous prompt-based animation in GIF, MP4, or WebM format. This operation costs 50 credits and returns an image project ID immediately, not completed media. Pass the ID
• Create AI HeadshotStart a credit-consuming asynchronous headshot generation from an image containing one detectable face. Each headshot costs 50 credits. This returns an image project ID immediately, not a completed im
• Create AI ImageStart a credit-consuming asynchronous text-to-image job. The request returns a project ID and immediate credit charge, not completed images. Model, image-count, resolution, cost, and tier availability
• Create AI Image EditStart a credit-consuming asynchronous prompt-based edit of one or more images. Model, resolution, input-image limits, cost, and tier availability vary by option. Credits are charged when the request i
• Create AI MemeStart a credit-consuming asynchronous meme generation from a topic and a documented Magic Hour template. Each meme costs 10 credits. This returns an image project ID immediately, not a completed image
• Create AI QR CodeStart an asynchronous artistic QR-code generation for supplied content. Magic Hour documents each AI QR code as costing 0 credits. The operation returns an image project ID and credits charged immedia
• Create AI Video EditStart a credit-consuming asynchronous prompt-based edit of an input video. Free accounts default to the ltx-2.3 model and 480p; other model and resolution options depend on the connected account's pla
• Create AI VoiceStart credit-consuming asynchronous speech generation from text using a documented preset voice. Each character costs 0.1 credits, rounded up to a whole credit. This returns an audio project ID and im
• Create AI Voice CloneStart credit-consuming asynchronous speech generation by cloning an input voice recording. Each prompt character costs 0.1 credits, rounded up to a whole credit, and sufficient credits are required. T
• Create Animation VideoStart one credit-consuming asynchronous animation render with explicit dimensions, frame rate, duration, style, and assets. The request returns immediately with a video project ID and estimated credit
• Create Audio-to-VideoStart a credit-consuming asynchronous video generation job from audio and optional visual style controls. Free accounts can use the documented 480p default; higher resolutions depend on the connected
• Create Background RemovalStart a credit-consuming asynchronous image job that removes a background or replaces it with an optional supplied image. Each image costs 5 credits. The operation is documented for Free accounts but
• Create Body SwapStart a credit-consuming asynchronous body-swap image job that places a person into a scene at the selected resolution. Resolution determines the model and credit cost. This returns an image project I
• Create Character Animation VideoAnimate a reference character with motion transferred from a source video in a credit-consuming asynchronous job. The documented 480p default is available on Free; 720p depends on the connected accoun
• Create Character Replacement VideoReplace a source-video subject with a reference character in a credit-consuming asynchronous video job. The documented 480p default is available on Free; 720p depends on the connected account's plan.
• Create Face Swap PhotoStart a credit-consuming asynchronous photo face swap using one source face for all detected faces or up to five individual face mappings. Each photo costs 10 credits. The operation returns an image p
• Create Face Swap VideoStart a credit-consuming asynchronous video face-swap job using one image for all detected faces or up to five individual face mappings. The operation is documented for Free accounts but requires suff
• Create Head SwapStart a credit-consuming asynchronous head-swap image job from body and head images. Each image costs 10 credits. This returns an image project ID immediately, not a completed image; pass the ID to MA