# Incarn

> Animates an old portrait or family photo into a short, subtle HD clip; one tool, one credit per photo.

- **Category:** Video Generation
- **Vendor:** Incarn (official)
- **Pricing:** credits
- **Verified:** 2026-10-10

## What it does

Incarn does one thing: it takes an archival still and returns a few seconds of natural motion (breathing, blinking, a small smile) tuned for black-and-white and sepia faces that general image-to-video models tend to refuse or over-animate. The hosted server wraps that pipeline with upload, animate and status tools. For documentary and memorial work it is a narrower but more predictable option than prompting a general model.

## Connect

- Remote endpoint: `https://api.incarn.co/mcp`
- Claude Code: `claude mcp add --transport http incarn https://api.incarn.co/mcp`

**Auth:** oauth — <https://www.incarn.co/developers> (OAuth 2.1 on first call; a funded account is required to animate)

## Capabilities

[image-to-video](https://mcp.film/capabilities/image-to-video.md) · [archival-footage](https://mcp.film/capabilities/archival-footage.md) · [restoration](https://mcp.film/capabilities/restoration.md) · [file-upload](https://mcp.film/capabilities/file-upload.md) · [async-jobs](https://mcp.film/capabilities/async-jobs.md) · [remote-mcp](https://mcp.film/capabilities/remote-mcp.md)

## Sample tools

`list_examples` · `create_upload` · `confirm_upload` · `animate_photo` · `get_animation_status`

## Field notes

Checked 10 Oct 2026: initialize and tools/list answer anonymously (five tools, server version 1.1.0) and list_examples runs without an account; the official MCP Registry lists co.incarn/photo-animation. Tool descriptions come back in French. The animate_photo description says there is no free trial through the API and a developer plan starts at EUR 19 per month for 25 photos (EUR 0.76 each); the consumer site sells one-off packs from EUR 1.99 per photo. Each animation costs one credit, failed runs are refunded, and jobs take one to three minutes. There is no prompt control beyond a subtle motion hint, so this is not a general image-to-video tool: for that compare kling, runway or luma.

## Alternatives

- [Kleo](https://mcp.film/mcps/kleo.md) — Brief to narrated short film or storyboard animatic from a chat client, rendered on rented GPUs with Seedance.
- [VideoGen MCP Server](https://mcp.film/mcps/videogen.md) — Script, voiceover or storyboard to finished video, plus clip, image, music and avatar generation.
- [Clip Studio MCP](https://mcp.film/mcps/clip-studio.md) — Hosted MCP for a story-to-video studio: multi-shot narrated films, labs, and shorts.
- [MakeAIVideo MCP](https://mcp.film/mcps/makeaivideo.md) — Brief or script in, narrated and captioned MP4 out, over one OAuth endpoint.
- [Ark Seed Multimodal MCP](https://mcp.film/mcps/byteplus-ark.md) — Seedance video, Seedream stills, and Seed Audio behind one typed BytePlus MCP server.
- [Runway MCP](https://mcp.film/mcps/runway.md) — Official hosted MCP: Gen-4.5, Seedance, Kling and Veo video from any agent.

## Verification

- Status: Freshly checked (checked today)
- Added: 2026-10-10
- Last verified: 2026-10-10
- Machine JSON: https://mcp.film/api/mcps/incarn.json

## Links

- Site: https://www.incarn.co/?utm_source=mcp.film&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=directory&utm_content=incarn%3Asite
- Docs: https://www.incarn.co/en/developers/docs?utm_source=mcp.film&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=directory&utm_content=incarn%3Adocs

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