Rainbrand vs Frontify
Frontify is where a team keeps and edits its brand, read through an API and MCP server. Rainbrand gives agents guidance and files per task and checks the work.
Last updated 2026-11-10
Both hold a whole brand. Frontify is a brand management platform: the team edits guidelines, logos and assets there, and the API and Frontify MCP read them, including colours, fonts and guideline pages. Rainbrand is built for agents: it chooses the guidance and files for each task and reviews what the agent made.
| Rainbrand | Frontify | |
|---|---|---|
| Job | Agentic brand work | File management (DAM) |
| What it gives you | ||
| Logos | Yes | Yes |
| Colours | Yes | Yes |
| Fonts | Yes | Yes |
| Guidance | Yes | Yes |
| Files | Yes | Yes |
| Access and cost | ||
| You send | Your sources for a brand, then a task | An asset, library or brand ID, on the customer's domain |
| Authentication | API key, or OAuth for connected accounts | OAuth 2.0, or a service user token |
| Free tier | 1,000 credits and one new brand, once | None; a developer sandbox after review |
| Paid from | $20 a month (Plus) | By quote |
| MCP server | Yes | Yes |
| Checked | 2026-11-10 | 2026-11-10 |
Choose Frontify if
- People across the company use the brand through a portal, an asset library and templates, not only agents.
- You need download approvals for protected assets.
- Your customers already keep their brand in Frontify and you want your product to read it.
Choose Rainbrand if
- Agents make most of the new work. Frontify returns guideline pages as written, and the agent decides what applies; a Rainbrand Brief returns the guidance and files chosen for the task.
- You want finished work checked against the brand.
- You want a published price: from $20 a month, against Frontify's quote. Since September 2026, Frontify counts people who use it through MCP as monthly active users, which is how it prices.
Can you use both?
Yes. Keep Frontify for the people who use the brand, and add the brand to Rainbrand from Frontify's guidelines and files for agents. Rainbrand doesn't sync with Frontify, so someone has to carry changes across.
Sources
- Rainbrand: docs.rainbrand.com/guides/create-brandchecked 2026-11-10
- Rainbrand: docs.rainbrand.com/guides/request-briefchecked 2026-11-10
- Rainbrand: docs.rainbrand.com/guides/use-brand-skillchecked 2026-11-10
- Rainbrand: docs.rainbrand.com/guides/manage-brand-librarychecked 2026-11-10
- Rainbrand: docs.rainbrand.com/api/authenticationchecked 2026-11-10
- Rainbrand: rainbrand.com/pricingchecked 2026-11-10
- Rainbrand: docs.rainbrand.com/api/usage-limitschecked 2026-11-10
- Rainbrand: docs.rainbrand.com/mcp/getting-startedchecked 2026-11-10
- Rainbrand: docs.rainbrand.com/guides/edit-brandchecked 2026-11-10
- Rainbrand: docs.rainbrand.com/api/quickstartchecked 2026-11-10
- Rainbrand: docs.rainbrand.com/guides/request-reviewchecked 2026-11-10
- Rainbrand: docs.rainbrand.com/llms.txtchecked 2026-11-10
- Rainbrand: rainbrand.com/blog/digital-asset-management-vs-brand-layerchecked 2026-11-10
- Frontify: developer.frontify.com/document/31#/guides/assets-preview-and-downloadchecked 2026-11-10
- Frontify: frontify.github.io/graphql-reference/type/Imagechecked 2026-11-10
- Frontify: developer.frontify.com/document/31#/guides/brand-essentialschecked 2026-11-10
- Frontify: frontify.github.io/graphql-reference/type/BrandEssentialsSelfhostedFontStylechecked 2026-11-10
- Frontify: developer.frontify.com/document/31#/guides/guidelines-guideline-contentchecked 2026-11-10
- Frontify: help.frontify.com/en/articles/13942224-creating-a-developer-or-service-user-tokenchecked 2026-11-10
- Frontify: developer.frontify.com/d/wJcTnsuhwb6T/graphql-api#/get-started/get-started-with-our-graphqlchecked 2026-11-10
- Frontify: frontify.com/en/pricingchecked 2026-11-10
- Frontify: developer.frontify.com/d/wJcTnsuhwb6T/authentication-and-security#/reference/rate-limiting-and-limitationschecked 2026-11-10
- Frontify: help.frontify.com/en/articles/14787214-frontify-mcpchecked 2026-11-10
- Frontify: frontify.github.io/graphql-reference/type/GuidelinePagechecked 2026-11-10
- Frontify: help.frontify.com/en/articles/5402357-getting-started-with-the-frontify-graphql-apichecked 2026-11-10
- Frontify: frontify.github.io/graphql-reference/type/BrandEssentialsGoogleFontStylechecked 2026-11-10
- Frontify: mcp.frontify-integrations.comchecked 2026-11-10
- Frontify: help.frontify.com/en/articles/16642874-understanding-frontify-s-mau-definition-updatechecked 2026-11-10