CodingDocumented overviewLast checked Sep 29, 2026
Beta tool that generates, critiques and cost-estimates software architectures and hands them to coding agents as specs over MCP.
Our take: SkeletIQ fits engineers who want a costed, critiqued system architecture generated from a prompt and then handed to Claude Code or another MCP host as an AGENTS.md brief with a build order and drift check.
Main limitation: The product is in beta; the Free plan has 100 credits per month (about 5 generations), 3 projects and watermarked PNG-only export.
SkeletIQ fits engineers who want a costed, critiqued system architecture generated from a prompt and then handed to Claude Code or another MCP host as an AGENTS.md brief with a build order and drift check. Based on the vendor's documentation, not on a hands-on test.
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Prices checked Sep 29, 2026 on the official US pricing page. Official pricing ↗ Prices and limits change often.
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Free plan, no credit card.
Free source (opens in a new tab)
Monthly
For: Trying architecture generation
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API included
$14.99 source (opens in a new tab)
Monthly
For: Architects on production systems
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API included
Top-up credit packs on every plan; BYOK on Free adds a small platform fee per generation (~15 credits).
Billed in USD via Razorpay; zero-rated export of service under LUT, so no Indian GST is added (global pricing, international cards only).
SkeletIQ turns a plain-English system description into an architecture of services, connections and infrastructure, shown on an editable canvas with C4 and Mermaid diagrams and cost estimates against AWS, GCP and Azure pricing. It runs rule-based critique (single points of failure, missing caching, compliance gaps) and exports the design as a brief that coding agents such as Claude Code can consume over MCP. The product is in beta and supports bring-your-own-key and local models.
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Scenarios are worked out by our editors from the documentation; the actual result depends on your input and plan.
Turns a plain-English prompt into services, connections, data flows and infrastructure, using 43 architecture patterns and listing the assumptions it made. Fast first draft of a design.
Each component maps to real cloud pricing, so moving or adding a node updates the monthly total in real time. Shows cost impact of each decision.
Computes fan-out, blast radius and sync depth over the design graph and flags SPOFs, missing caches and compliance gaps against 5 frameworks. Findings can be recomputed and checked.
After you release a version, the agent calls get_design to write a brief into AGENTS.md, follows a deterministic build order, and calls check_drift to report what is built, missing or changed. Agent builds against a spec, not a screenshot.
Design a real-time chat API handling 100k concurrent users with message persistence and read receipts.
Export: PNG, SVG, JSON, YAML, Markdown, Mermaid, PDF
An API is available, billing not documented. MCP server @skeletiq/mcp is MIT-licensed; tokens are revocable and cannot touch billing or provider keys.
Summarized from the vendor's current policies; this is not legal advice and a vendor's badge is not an independent audit.
Prompts and project content are sent to the LLM provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, or your BYOK provider) via the model gateway.
Projects, prompts and chats are stored with your account; BYOK keys are stored AES-256-GCM encrypted.
Policies: skeletiq.com/privacy
"Better suited" is based on documented features and pricing, not on a head-to-head test.
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Free gives 100 credits (roughly 5 generations); Pro gives 1,500 credits (roughly 23 generations). source (opens in a new tab)
Seven: PNG, SVG, JSON, YAML, Markdown, Mermaid and PDF; Free is limited to watermarked PNG. source (opens in a new tab)
It only grants what you tick (read designs, run generations, report drift) and can never mint tokens, touch billing or provider keys, or write to the design. source (opens in a new tab)
Yes on every plan; on Free a small platform fee of about 15 credits per generation applies, while Pro has no credit fee. source (opens in a new tab)
No. Global pricing is billed in USD via Razorpay under a zero-rated export of service (LUT), with international cards only. source (opens in a new tab)
Not verified: Top-up pack prices; Model training use; Docs URL.
Every fact about SkeletIQ above comes from the 3 official pages listed here, last compared on Sep 29, 2026; we have not run SkeletIQ ourselves, so it has no editorial score. How we check and re-check pages.
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