About Canva MCP

Connect AI assistants to Canva's design capabilities.

This documentation is for IT admins integrating Canva into your company's internal tools and platforms, and for teams building AI assistants, platforms, or connectors that want to offer Canva as a capability to your users.

If you're a user wanting to connect your personal AI assistant to Canva's AI Connector, see our Help Center⁠(opens in a new tab or window).

Canva for AI assistants is one of the three surfaces of the Canva Developers SDK, and it's built on the Canva MCP server. The Canva MCP server enables AI assistants to seamlessly interact with Canva's design capabilities. By exposing Canva's capabilities (including design creation and editing, asset and brand management, library search, export, and commenting) as MCP-compatible tools, you can give your users access to Canva's design capabilities through natural language, directly from the AI tools they already use.

What's MCP?

The Model Context Protocol (MCP)⁠(opens in a new tab or window) is a standardized interface that allows AI agents to interact with data sources and tools. Canva provides a remote MCP server that gives your AI assistant access to Canva's design APIs and capabilities.

What you can do

The Canva MCP server unlocks the following capabilities for AI assistants:

Design generation: Create designs programmatically from text descriptions and specifications
Design editing: Apply targeted modifications to existing designs through natural language commands
Design discovery: Search and retrieve designs, pages, and folders from your design library
Asset and brand management: Upload and organize assets, manage folders, and access brand kits and templates
Design export: Generate exports in multiple formats (PDF, PNG, JPG, PPTX, MP4, and so on) and resize designs for different channels
Collaborative workflows: Add comments to designs and integrate feedback loops directly into your workflows

Next steps

Learn more

MCP tools and rate limits - Detailed tools list and rate limits by operation
Verify your Canva MCP app - Confirm your app with MCP Inspector, and tell your own faults apart from upstream ones
Troubleshooting and common questions - Questions on timeouts, per-user authentication, and other common issues
Usage policy - Guidance on how to use the Canva MCP
Prohibited use - Canva's Developer Terms of Use apply to usage of the MCP
Set up the Canva AI Connector⁠(opens in a new tab or window) - Setup guides for specific, popular AI assistants
How to use Canva tools in your AI assistant⁠(opens in a new tab or window) - Tips for prompting MCP tools for end users