Elva vs Waver AI: Features, Pricing & Which Is Better (2026)

A side-by-side comparison of Elva and Waver AI — features, pricing, and ideal use cases — to help you decide which AI tool fits your workflow.

Elva

Theneo

Freemium

Reads your repositories to discover every API, scores and governs them, then exposes them to developers and AI agents via hosted MCP servers.

Spec-Free API Discovery: Elva scans repository code directly to find endpoints and generates OpenAPI 3.1 as output, so no existing spec is needed to start.
Endpoint Scoring: Every collection is graded on design, developer experience, AI readiness, security and performance, with the weakest collection surfaced first.
AI Fix Pass: A one-click agent writes missing descriptions from code, types response schemas and documents auth, then rescores the collection.
API Contracts: Per-audience contracts pin the exact endpoints and fields a partner, internal team, public developer or MCP client receives, excluding PII and internal fields.
Breaking Change Enforcement: Each commit is diffed against published contracts, showing the schema diff, affected consumers and tools, and blocking publish by policy.
Hosted MCP Servers: Contracts generate MCP servers hosted behind Elva's gateway with OAuth2, scoped keys, per-tool authorization and exportable call logs.
MCP Playground and Agent Feedback: Test the server with a live model, then read the complaints agents file about confusing or failing tools, scored back into the catalog.
Multi-Target Publishing: One approved contract ships as OpenAPI spec, Theneo docs, MCP server, Postman collection and a typed TypeScript SDK in sync.

API Inventory Audit: Discover undocumented or forgotten endpoints across a large codebase and get a ranked list of what to fix first.
Agent Enablement: Expose an internal service to Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT as a governed MCP server instead of hand-writing tool wrappers.
Partner Integration Safety: Publish a restricted contract to an external partner and have Elva block commits that would break their integration.
PII Scoping: Keep customer emails and internal ops annotations out of a public or agent-facing surface while the same endpoints serve them internally.
Zombie Endpoint Retirement: Prove no active consumer references an endpoint before deleting it, using contract and call-log evidence.
Enterprise Security Review: Satisfy SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR questions and wire agent access into an existing SSO and SCIM identity provider.
Documentation Drift Control: Keep docs, SDKs and Postman collections regenerated from code on every merge instead of maintained by hand.

Freemium

Text-to-video and image-to-video generator producing cinematic 1080p videos with advanced motion modeling.

Text-to-Video Generation: Converts written prompts into full-motion videos, enabling users to produce narrated or scene-driven clips directly from text inputs.
Image-to-Video Transformation: Animates static images to create video sequences, adding motion and temporal continuity while preserving visual detail.
1080p Cinematic Output: Produces videos at cinematic 1080p resolution suitable for publishing, marketing, and presentation use cases.
Advanced Motion Modeling: Uses superior motion synthesis to generate smoother, more realistic movement and camera-like motion across scenes.
Prompt-Driven Creativity: Allows creative control via textual prompts (and image inputs) so users can iterate on scenes, style, and content without manual animation.
Text-to-video generation: create videos from textual prompts
Image-to-video generation: animate or extend still images into video
Cinematic 1080p output quality
Advanced motion modeling for realistic motion and camera-like movement
Waver 1.0 product release (first major public version)

Marketing Video Creation: Quickly generate short promotional videos and product showcases from simple text descriptions for social campaigns.
Social Content Production: Produce cinematic 1080p clips for Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube to accelerate content pipelines for creators.
Storyboarding and Previsualization: Convert scene descriptions into moving visuals to prototype film or animation sequences during planning stages.
Image Animation: Bring still photography or concept art to life by transforming images into animated sequences for pitches or presentations.
Rapid Prototyping of Visual Concepts: Test different visual directions and motion styles by iterating on textual prompts and image inputs without full production.
Marketing and promotional video creation from short copy
Social media content generation (short-form videos)
Storyboarding and prototype visualization for creative teams
Rapid generation of background or B-roll footage
Concept visualization for filmmakers and game designers