Beta Layout API
Beta Layout answers at api.beta-layout.com with a PCB Pool API banner, yet publishes no developer portal, no reference, and no authentication details. Quoting, ordering, and production status stay inside the web shop and the sales inbox.
Frequently asked questions
Beta Layout scores F on Supergood's API Report Card. Beta Layout answers at api.beta-layout.com with a PCB Pool API banner, yet publishes no developer portal, no reference, and no authentication details. Quoting, ordering, and production status stay inside the web shop and the sales inbox.
Without a usable official API, teams fall back on manual exports, file drops, or one-off vendor integrations. The other option is an unofficial API layer like Supergood that automates the authenticated web app directly. Site terms may apply to any integration approach, and how they apply is a determination each team makes for itself.
Beta Layout is a German electronics manufacturer that runs the PCB POOL pooled prototype service, selling printed circuit board fabrication and assembly to engineering teams through an online configurator and ordering flow.
Manufacturing, specifically electronics hardware teams that need prototype and small series printed circuit boards. Engineers configure and order boards through the online PCB configurator, uploading design data in formats such as RS-274X and Gerber X2, then choose PCB POOL options for fabrication and assembly.
Beta Layout describes itself as Europe's largest manufacturer of PCB prototypes with 40,000 customers and more than 30 years in the business, scale that reflects manufacturing reach rather than any developer ecosystem.
The data worth reaching sits in the ordering and production path: PCB quotes and configured board specifications, uploaded design data in Gerber and related formats, bills of materials and assembly instructions, order status and production tracking records, customer order evaluations, and pricing artifacts such as invoices and the Bronze through Platinum discount tier state.
The company presents more than 30 years of PCB manufacturing experience and operates a modern multi region web storefront with a working online configurator, downloads portal, and order tracking.
Users on a German electronics forum report that PCB POOL does not aggregate multiple small board positions into one order, so discounts apply only per position and costs rise; a moderator confirmed the pricing behavior. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include JLCPCB, PCBWay, OSH Park, Eurocircuits, MacroFab. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Supergood's grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? Supergood checks six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and rolls them into a letter grade. Supergood re-verifies grades, and they only move on evidence.
Not that we could find. There is no official Beta Layout MCP server in any public registry, and no maintained community server we're aware of. We re-verify this periodically — report an inaccuracy below if we missed one.
Not natively. Beta Layout doesn't publish an MCP server, so MCP clients like Claude, Cursor, and Codex have nothing to connect to out of the box. If that changes, this page will reflect it.