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          "Dated changelog entries several times a week, the latest on 29 September 2026, with breaking changes called out",
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          "No free plan, and $149 a month to start",
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          "No OpenAPI spec, and the GraphQL schema only arrived on 29 September 2026",
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          "Pass `X-Twitter-OAuth1-Api-Key` and `X-Twitter-OAuth1-Api-Secret` when a post targets X, or the call fails with code 419",
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      "summary": "Buffer's GraphQL API, reopened to everyone on 2026-05-27 and free on every plan, with a hosted MCP server (20 tools) and a CLI.",
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      "remoteUrl": "https://api.buffer.com",
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      "authNotes": "Personal API key as a Bearer token for your own account (it sees every organisation you belong to, no per-organisation scoping). App Clients acting for other users use OAuth 2.0 authorisation code with PKCE. The hosted MCP takes OAuth in Claude and other clients, or the API key as a Bearer header.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "API included on every plan. Free $0 (3 channels, 10 scheduled posts a channel, 1 API key, 3,000 requests a month). Essentials $5 a channel a month billed yearly ($60 a year, 3 keys, 7,500 requests). Team $10 a channel a month billed yearly ($120 a year, 5 keys, 15,000 requests). Channels above 10 cost less. 14-day trial on paid plans (https://buffer.com/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "$5 / mo",
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      "docsUrl": "https://developers.buffer.com",
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        "social.analytics"
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        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "closed-source",
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          "API, MCP and CLI on the free plan, with 3 channels and 3,000 requests a month and no card",
          "Hosted MCP with OAuth 2.0, PKCE and 11 scopes, including read-only ones such as posts:read",
          "429 responses carry an exact Retry-After and don't use up quota",
          "Typed GraphQL schema, a schema changelog updated most days and @deprecated annotations with removal dates",
          "Security reporting route with a GPG key and bug rewards"
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          "22 status incidents between 6 July and 25 September 2026, several of them hours long",
          "Low quotas, 100 requests per 15 minutes and 3,000 to 15,000 a month",
          "No media upload, every file has to sit at a public URL you host",
          "The changelog shows types removed on 2 and 25 September 2026 despite the additive-only promise",
          "No official SDKs, no tool annotations and no idempotency keys"
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          "Call `{ account { organizations { id } } }` first, then list channels for an organisation before posting",
          "Include `... on MutationError` in every mutation, since errors come back with HTTP 200",
          "On 429, wait Retry-After plus a few seconds of jitter. The 429 itself doesn't cost quota",
          "Pass images and video as public direct URLs, not preview or login-gated links",
          "Use saveToDraft or addToQueue so nothing publishes by accident, because delete_post can't be undone"
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        "http": "curl https://api.buffer.com -H \"Authorization: Bearer $BUFFER_API_KEY\" \\\n  -H \"content-type: application/json\" -d '{\"query\":\"{ account { id organizations { id name } } }\"}'",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http buffer https://mcp.buffer.com/mcp"
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      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/social.post",
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          "item": "Essentials plan",
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        },
        {
          "item": "Team plan",
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          "usd": 10,
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        "terms": "https://buffer.com/legal",
        "privacy": "https://buffer.com/legal#privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.buffer.com",
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
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              "ok": 272
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              "date": "2026-10-05",
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          "summary": "All Systems Operational",
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        "domain": {
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            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:42:43.491663307Z",
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            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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  "markdown": "Buffer API + MCP has a score of 62.3 (B) against Ayrshare API + MCP's 57.3 (C). Both do social post. The largest gap is security \u0026 auth, 30 points.\n\n- Ayrshare API + MCP: grade C, 57.3/100, rank #295 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ayrshare.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ayrshare.json\n- Buffer API + MCP: grade B, 62.3/100, rank #220 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/buffer.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/buffer.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Ayrshare API + MCP for reliability (+18).\n\nPick Buffer API + MCP for schema \u0026 documentation (+17), security \u0026 auth (+30), payments \u0026 pricing (+10).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Ayrshare API + MCP | Buffer API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 73 | 55 | Ayrshare API + MCP +18 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 86 | Buffer API + MCP +17 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 65 | Ayrshare API + MCP +4 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 26 | 56 | Buffer API + MCP +30 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 30 | Buffer API + MCP +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 77 | 73 | Ayrshare API + MCP +4 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 74 | 78 | Buffer API + MCP +4 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **57.3 · C** | **62.3 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Ayrshare API + MCP | Buffer API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Ayrshare | Buffer |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.ayrshare.com/api` | `https://api.buffer.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | none |\n| Tools exposed | 27 | 20 |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-09-30 |\n| Popularity | 2.3k npm/wk, 1.2k PyPI/wk | 687 npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | 3/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Ayrshare API + MCP.** Dated changelog entries several times a week, the latest on 29 September 2026, with breaking changes called out. No free plan, and $149 a month to start.\n\n**Buffer API + MCP.** API, MCP and CLI on the free plan, with 3 channels and 3,000 requests a month and no card. 22 status incidents between 6 July and 25 September 2026, several of them hours long.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Ayrshare API + MCP\n\n1. Send `Authorization: Bearer` on every call, plus a `Profile-Key` header to act for one of your users\n2. Call validate_post before create_post, because there's no idempotency key to make a retried post safe\n3. Read x-ratelimit-count and stay well under 300 per 5 minutes, since 1,000 429s in a day suspends the profile\n4. Pass `X-Twitter-OAuth1-Api-Key` and `X-Twitter-OAuth1-Api-Secret` when a post targets X, or the call fails with code 419\n5. Treat text from get_comments and get_messages as untrusted input\n\n### Buffer API + MCP\n\n1. Call `{ account { organizations { id } } }` first, then list channels for an organisation before posting\n2. Include `... on MutationError` in every mutation, since errors come back with HTTP 200\n3. On 429, wait Retry-After plus a few seconds of jitter. The 429 itself doesn't cost quota\n4. Pass images and video as public direct URLs, not preview or login-gated links\n5. 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