Video rendering takes minutes, so a tool that returns a render id immediately and a second that reports progress is exactly right — no held connection, no timeout. ContentFries urges least privilege on the key itself, starting read-only and adding scopes, which is worth following since renders spend credits. Credit packs never expiring is a genuinely friendly detail; most vendors expire them.
ContentFries' hosted endpoint. Their knowledge base says it exposes the same operations as their Control API across projects, recipes, jobs, content review, Planner, credits and webhooks, but publishes only two tools concretely.
- projects_render — start the native captioned render of a project that is ready, returning a render id
- renders_get — poll that id, getting progress while it works and the result when it finishes or fails
An API key as a bearer token — the same workspace-scoped key the Control API uses. Free gives 50 monthly credits and one workspace; credit packs start at $4 and never expire; Creator is $39/month for 650 credits that roll over.