Better Design

Better Design provides AI coding agents with real design systems, offering 87 ready-made components via a single MCP server. It enables developers to ship visually consistent, brand‑trustworthy applications quickly, reducing generic UI and improving user experience. The platform emphasizes rapid installation, high‑quality design assets, and seamless integration into existing development workflows, helping teams deliver polished products in minutes.

Better Design is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Artificial Intelligence, Design Systems, Components, MCP, and UI.

Better Design’s developer surface includes changelog, documentation, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, and 19 more developer resources.

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41.4/100 developing Agent 21/100 agent aware Heartbeat 62/100 slowing Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-02 · rubric v0.26.0 · Show this score on your site →

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Artificial Intelligence Design Systems Components MCP UI

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-02 · rubric v0.26.0

Composite quality — 41.4/100 · developing

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 6.1 / 17

Access Clarity 15.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 5.8 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 5.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 21/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 35.7 — up to +12.9 composite points
Contract Governance scores 0.0 — up to +12.0 composite points

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Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Dynamic Client Registration

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Better Design MCP

Installation guide for the Better Design MCP, covering setup for Cursor, VS Code, and Claude Code.

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Better Design Com Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Better Design Com Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Better Design Com Authentication

0 schemes

SECURITY

Better Design Com Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Better Design Com Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Better Design Com Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Better Design Com Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

SDKs

SDKs

Packages

Packages

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Compliance

SecurityTxt

Security

TrustCenter

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Support

Support

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: better-design-com
name: Better Design
description: Better Design provides AI coding agents with real design systems, offering 87 ready-made components via a single
  MCP server. It enables developers to ship visually consistent, brand‑trustworthy applications quickly, reducing generic
  UI and improving user experience. The platform emphasizes rapid installation, high‑quality design assets, and seamless integration
  into existing development workflows, helping teams deliver polished products in minutes.
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/better-design-com/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:mcp-registry
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-11-02 (modular-v1; was harvest)
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Open access
  confidence: high
  probe_state: none
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-02'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-11-02'
modified: '2026-11-02'
tags:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Design Systems
- Components
- MCP
- UI
tags_raw:
- AI
- DesignSystems
- Components
- MCP
- UI
image: https://better-design.com/api/og/page?path=%2F&v=9090afaf0cc4
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/better-design-com-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/better-design-com-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://better-design.com/security
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/better-design-com-llms.txt
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/better-design-com-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/better-design-com-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/better-design-com-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/better-design-com-vendors.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/better-design-com-packages.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/better-design-com-packages.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://better-design.com/security
- type: Login
  url: https://better-design.com/sign-in
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/marvkr
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://better-design.com/changelog
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/better-design-com-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/better-design-com-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/better-design-com-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://better-design.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://better-design.com/docs
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://better-design.com/docs/setup
- type: Support
  url: https://better-design.com/support
- type: Blog
  url: https://better-design.com/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://better-design.com/pricing
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://better-design.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://better-design.com/privacy
apis:
- name: Better Design MCP
  description: Installation guide for the Better Design MCP, covering setup for Cursor, VS Code, and Claude Code.
  humanURL: https://better-design.com/mcp/install
  aid: better-design-com:better-design-mcp
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: No public API contract was found; attempts to locate OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL, or gRPC specs on better-design.com
    and api.better-design.com returned none.
  evidence:
  - url: https://better-design.com/
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-11-02'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-02'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 27
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=oss,contract=oss,surfaces=oss,docs=oss,regulatory=oss

Better Design API — frequently asked questions

Does Better Design have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Better Design, including Better Design MCP.

How do I authenticate with the Better Design API?

Better Design documents its authentication (0 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Better Design Com Authentication.

How much does the Better Design API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Better Design, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing Plans on this page.

Is the Better Design API ready for AI agents?

Better Design has a Kin Score of 41.4 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 21.2 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-02.

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