What is Motif?
Motif is a maintained design library your coding agent calls over MCP, at https://mcp.asv-labs.com/mcp. It holds 738 guides for websites, apps, and PWAs, each with sources and a verification checklist. It adds design-rule checks (contrast, targets, measure, motion, speed) and project profiles, so a session starts from your brief and the decisions you approved. Free for 30 days, no card. Creator is $9 a month.
Facts checked against the live site and catalog on 5 October 2026
In one line
Your agent writes the code. Motif gives it taste. Taste here means those specifics, not a promise that the finished screen will look good.
Motif doesn't run a model for you. Your coding agent's model usage is billed by its own provider, not by Motif.
The home page puts the same offer in one line, then shows a demo. This page is the definition, the numbers, and the limits, in that order.
What the agent actually calls
Nine tools are live. The tool reference says 9 live and 0 coming. Search finds up to five guides. Opening a guide returns overview, implementation, verification, and limitations. check_design_contract checks facts your agent measured. Missing evidence is reported as unknown, never as a pass. A project profile stores the brief and the decisions you approved. An agent can propose a decision. It cannot approve or overwrite one. You approve it in the browser.
| Piece | What it is | Where to read it |
|---|---|---|
| Guides | 738 items across 7 disciplines. Each one is a single job with real values, a verification checklist, and its sources. | Guides |
| Disciplines | Websites 390, Apps 95, PWA 23, Web apps 58, Systems & data 63, Motion 88, Lessons 21. | Guides |
| Design-rule checks | Contrast, targets, measure, motion, speed. The agent supplies the measurements. | Tool reference |
| Project profiles | The brief and the decisions you approved, shared across sessions. Free includes 1 project profile. Creator includes 25. | Plans and limits |
| Templates | 14 launch families. 2 are free and 12 are premium. Each is marked In production on the templates page. Starters your agent can adapt, not invent. | Templates |
| Server | Name motif. URL https://mcp.asv-labs.com/mcp. Transport Streamable HTTP. | Connect an agent |
Fifteen guides can be read in full on the site before you sign in. The catalog stats endpoint reports free_guides 67. That is the free subset a signed-in agent can open. It is a different count from the 15 pages on the website. Do not add them together.
Price
Free is $0 for 30 days from sign-up, and no card is needed. The same sign-in step creates the account. No password. After the 30 days, every tool asks the agent to subscribe. Creator is $9 a month (US dollars, plus any tax that applies where you live). There are no overage charges.
| Limit | Free | Creator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0, no card | $9 a month |
| How long | 30 days from sign-up | Every month you're subscribed |
| Content operations | 100 a calendar month (UTC) | 5,000 a billing month |
| Premium guides | Free subset only | 500 a window, at most 75 in any 24 hours |
| New premium template families | None. Both free families are included. | 20 a window, at most 5 in any 24 hours |
| Project profiles | 1 | 25 |
| Overage charges | None | None |
Those are the launch defaults (policy launch-2026-09-23-v1). They may change, and the changelog lists changes. Rates, tokens, and download size are on the limits page and are not repeated here. One allowance serves the whole account, and every agent on it shares that allowance. When you hit a limit, that part pauses until it resets, and the error says when. Using the whole allowance is normal use, not abuse.
Cancelling stops the next renewal. There is no minimum term. You keep Creator until the end of the period you already paid for, then paid access ends. Free only covers the first 30 days after sign-up, so it does not start again after a paid plan ends. Motif does not give partial refunds for unused days in a month. Details are in cancellation and refunds.
Use templates in unlimited end products, for yourself or for clients, including commercial products. The licence to what Motif already delivered doesn't end with your subscription.
Limits, said plainly
Editorial review of the guides is in progress. Every guide tells your agent whether its current version has been reviewed. What reviewed means says what that label is. Reviewed means an AI review agent, working under the owner's authority, approved that exact version. It does not mean a person has read the guide. A later edit starts again as not yet reviewed. On 5 October 2026 the stats endpoint reported 110 of 738 guides reviewed (reviewed_guides at https://motif-join.asv-labs.com/v1/catalog/stats, catalog release corpus-v0.3.9-editorial-r9). Guides not yet reviewed may contain errors. Check their specifics before you rely on them.
The terms say we can't guarantee that anything built with Motif will look good, meet a standard (such as accessibility or legal compliance), or work with every agent. Check what you ship. Nothing in Motif is legal advice.
The connect page documents named clients and marks how far each one has been tested. Claude Code is partly verified. The other listed clients are not yet verified end to end. The short version is how Motif connects. It is not a claim that every MCP client works.
Ferrow, the photography studio on the home page, is fictional. An agent built that demo's website and its iOS and Android app by following Motif's guidance. It is not a customer, and it is not proof that your project will look like it.
You can see and revoke every connection.
Next step
Look inside before you pay. Read a guide on the site, or start a free account and ask your agent to call get_usage. That call does not spend your content allowance.
More answers
- What is an MCP design library?The category, and how it differs from a prompt file or a component catalog.
- How Motif connects to Claude, ChatGPT, and CursorOne server URL, browser sign-in, and how far each client has been tested.
- Motif vs free agent design skillsA dated comparison with frontend-design and UI UX Pro Max. No score.
- Why AI-built sites look the sameWhy agent-built sites cluster on the same layouts, and what Motif does and doesn't promise.