My Painting Club — Painting Lessons vs Parseflow

In-depth architectural comparison of the My Painting Club — Painting Lessons and Parseflow MCP servers. Compare execution transports, security boundaries, tool capabilities, quality scores, and ready-to-paste client installation snippets for Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code.

Which MCP Server Should You Choose?

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Choose My Painting Club — Painting Lessons when:

• You need dedicated capabilities in the Developer Tools domain.
• You prefer remote streaming HTTP/SSE transport architecture.
• Your security boundary fits: No auth required (Free / Open Source).
• Primary tools included: search_painting_lessons.

Explore My Painting Club — Painting Lessons Details

Choose Parseflow when:

• You need dedicated capabilities in the Developer Tools domain.
• You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
• Your security boundary fits: No auth required (Free / Open Source).

Explore Parseflow Details

Feature & Specification Comparison

Specification	M My Painting Club — Painting Lessons Developer Tools	Parseflow Developer Tools
Summary	Search transcribed painting lessons. Results cite the exact lesson and Vimeo timestamp.	PDF parsing server with text extraction, metadata, search, images, and TOC via MCP
Category & Scope	Developer Tools	Developer Tools

Tools & Capabilities Breakdown

Ready-to-Paste Client Configurations

Paste either (or both) of these JSON server blocks into your client config file (e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json).

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "my-painting-club-painting-lessons": {
      "url": "https://smithery.ai/badge/io.github.1nzpainter/painting-lessons)](https://smithery.ai/servers/io.github.1nzpainter/painting-lessons"
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "parseflow": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "npx"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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