# Ayrshare API + MCP vs TwitterAPI.io MCP > Ayrshare scores 54.8 (C) to TwitterAPI.io MCP's 49.3 (D) for social analytics. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ayrshare-vs-twitterapi-io-mcp - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ayrshare-vs-twitterapi-io-mcp.md (~4,550 tokens) - Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (the key docs and every listing in one file, at most 16 MB, about 4 million tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt) - API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json - MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key) - DNS: dig +short TXT .grade.anchorterminal.com (the grade as a DNS TXT record, for a sandbox with no HTTP where names still resolve; also top., best.. and .vs.. under the zone, and the same under grade.letme.dev) - Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data) - Updated: 2026-11-07 Ayrshare API + MCP scores 54.8 (C) on agent readiness against TwitterAPI.io MCP's 49.3 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. TwitterAPI.io MCP leads on agent ergonomics, security & auth and payments & pricing. Both do social analytics. - Ayrshare API + MCP: grade C, 54.8/100, rank #894 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ayrshare.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ayrshare.json - TwitterAPI.io MCP: grade D, 49.3/100, rank #1101 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/twitterapi-io-mcp.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/twitterapi-io-mcp.json - Best social media posting and scheduling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/social-media/index.md - All 163 social comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/social-media/index.md ## Which one, for what ### Ayrshare API + MCP (C) Good for: SaaS products that post for many end users and need comments, DMs, analytics and automations from one API. Ahead on: - Reliability, 77 against 40 - Schema & documentation, 69 against 62 - Maintenance & community, 77 against 40 - Transparency & trust, 71 against 41 Watch for: No free plan, and $149 a month to start ### TwitterAPI.io MCP (D) Good for: Agents that need to read X posts, profiles and followers cheaply, where a third-party source is acceptable. Ahead on: - Agent ergonomics, 78 against 69 - Security & auth, 37 against 26 - Payments & pricing, 40 against 20 Also in its favour: - No incidents deducted, where Ayrshare API + MCP loses 3 points for them Watch for: A third-party X data service, not X's own API ## Why the edge ### Reliability: Ayrshare API + MCP +37 - Ayrshare API + MCP (77): Instatus page at status.ayrshare.com with API, dashboard, link shortener and 13 per-network components (20). In the 90 days to 4 November 2026 it shows two incidents, both minor, 45 minutes of latency on 11 August that errored a small number of posts, and a 46-minute Pinterest partial outage on 14 August that Ayrshare put down to Pinterest. September, October and November show no notices (20). 300 requests per 5 minutes per user profile and 8 profile deletions a second (15). 429s come with x-ratelimit headers and a 5-minute wait, and 1,000 429s in 24 hours suspends the profile. No Retry-After and no idempotency key for posts, but errors carry `retryAvailable`, Retry a Post resubmits a failed post, the Retry a Post page says to check that a post hasn't already been published before retrying it, and the 27 October changelog entry says to retry only TikTok in a multi-network post when TikTok is briefly unavailable, since the others may already have published. That is safe-retry guidance without idempotency keys (12). The pricing page claims 99.99 per cent API uptime, and no SLA terms were found behind it (0). REST is GA (10). 20+20+15+12+0+10 = 77. - TwitterAPI.io MCP (40): No status page found (0). No incident history (5). Per-account QPS limits documented by tier (15). 'Hitting the ceiling returns an HTTP 429 (no Retry-After header is sent). Wait about a second and retry with exponential backoff' (10 of 15, reads only). No SLA; the terms disclaim uninterrupted service (0). Not labelled beta (10). 0 + 5 + 15 + 10 + 0 + 10 = 40. ### Maintenance & community: Ayrshare API + MCP +37 - Ayrshare API + MCP (77): Last API change on 2 November 2026, the `formatUTC` option for Instagram online followers (30). Dozens of dated changelog entries in the 90 days to 4 November, 44 in October alone (20). The changelog moves several times a week and support runs by email and chat (12). Official SDKs exist in Node and Python, both at 1.3.0 since May 2026 per clones on 4 November, and the official Claude Code plugin reached 0.2.2 on 12 October (10). The Node package is MIT with node 18 or later stated. Neither SDK repository has a CI workflow (5). 30+20+12+10+5 = 77. - TwitterAPI.io MCP (40): Registry entry io.twitterapi/mcp-server updated 6 November 2026 (30). No dated changelog (0). Support channel not checked (0 of 15). Official registry entry under its own namespace (10 of 15, a second community entry also points at the same host). No package health read (0). 30 + 0 + 0 + 10 + 0 = 40. Registry presence read from Anchor Terminal's own daily import of the official MCP registry (/api/v1/registry.json, 6 November 2026), not the registry's API. ### Transparency & trust: Ayrshare API + MCP +30 - Ayrshare API + MCP (71): Closed service with published terms, last revised 20 August 2026 (15). Privacy policy, now at /privacy/ and updated 29 October 2026, names Neverminds Solution LLC of Wilmington, acknowledges rights requests within five business days and completes them within 30 days, deletes stored YouTube data within 7 days of a disconnect, cites standard contractual clauses for transfers, and names some processors such as Stripe, Cloudflare, Intercom and HubSpot, with no full list. Retention after account deletion is per the 1 October reading (20). Breaking changes and Meta metric retirements are dated in the changelog, with no stated notice period (14). Some subprocessors named, no data locations (8). - TwitterAPI.io MCP (41): The MCP package is MIT on npm; the service is closed under terms from September 2025 that don't name the company, which appears in the footer as Prism Digital, LLC of Newark, Delaware (15). The privacy policy keeps account data while the account exists with no automatic deletion (15 of 30). No deprecation policy (0). Subprocessors not listed in the pages read (5 of 20). 15 + 15 + 0 + 5 = 35. ### Payments & pricing: TwitterAPI.io MCP +20 - Ayrshare API + MCP (20): No x402 or other machine payment (0). Plan prices are public, with per-profile rates on Business, but no per-call price (10). No free plan. The pricing page on 4 November lists a 28-day free trial of Launch and no longer says whether a card is needed, while the help centre said on 30 September that it is, so half credit as before (10). A person has to sign up in a browser and link accounts (0). 0+10+10+0 = 20. - TwitterAPI.io MCP (40): No machine payment protocol (0). Per-result prices public (20). Up to $1 in free credits, no card (20). A Google sign-in in a browser gets the key (0). 0 + 20 + 20 + 0 = 40. ### Security & auth: TwitterAPI.io MCP +11 - Ayrshare API + MCP (26): One account API key as a Bearer header, with a Profile-Key header to act for a sub-profile. No scopes, no OAuth on the hosted MCP and no documented rotation, so close to one all-powerful key (12). No read-only mode and no tool annotations. The official Claude Code plugin's confirmation hook covers 12 write tools only from version 0.2.2 (12 October 2026), and validate_post is a dry run (3, an earlier partial kept). get_comments and get_messages hand comments and DMs from strangers to the agent, and we found no prompt-injection guidance (0). Dashboard 3.0 has post history search and a webhook events tab (7). A security help page claims AES encryption at rest and TLS 1.3 with a post-quantum key exchange, and a DPA exists. No security.txt (404 on 4 November), disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification found (4). - TwitterAPI.io MCP (37): OAuth or a single API key per account (20 of 30). All tools are reads (12 of 20). Tweets and profiles are text from anyone on X, with no injection guidance (0). No audit log (0). No security.txt or programme found (5 of 20). 20 + 12 + 0 + 0 + 5 = 37. ### Agent ergonomics: TwitterAPI.io MCP +9 - Ayrshare API + MCP (69): Graded by the listed kind, `http-api`, on response sizing. Get Messages returns pages of 100 with a cursor and `limit`, analytics take date ranges, quarters and daily parameters, and no field selection was found (15 of 25, an earlier partial kept). The MCP catalogue now lists 33 tools (27 on 1 October) with no toolsets or read-only subset. Get Messages pagination and analytics ranges (15). Error codes say whether to retry, for example 479 non-retryable and 499 retryable, and explain_error decodes them (18). No idempotency key and no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations. validate_post gives a dry run and retry_post resubmits a failed post (6). Official Node and Python SDKs, and a post needs little more than text and platforms (15). 15+15+18+6+15 = 69. - TwitterAPI.io MCP (78): 12 compact tools, about 12 KB (15). Cursor-based paging on followers and search (18 of 20). 429 handling documented (10 of 20). All 12 annotated read-only (20). Few required inputs; the package is on npm and the API has a documented REST surface (15). 15 + 18 + 10 + 20 + 15 = 78. ## Score by category | Category | Weight | Ayrshare API + MCP | TwitterAPI.io MCP | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 77 | 40 | Ayrshare API + MCP +37 | | Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 62 | Ayrshare API + MCP +7 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 78 | TwitterAPI.io MCP +9 | | Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 26 | 37 | TwitterAPI.io MCP +11 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 40 | TwitterAPI.io MCP +20 | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 77 | 40 | Ayrshare API + MCP +37 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 41 | Ayrshare API + MCP +30 | | Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | | | **Total** | | **54.8 · C** | **49.3 · D** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | Ayrshare API + MCP | TwitterAPI.io MCP | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | HTTP API | MCP server | | Vendor | Ayrshare | Prism Digital, LLC | | Hosted endpoint | `https://api.ayrshare.com/api` | `https://mcp.twitterapi.io/mcp` | | Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | Streamable HTTP | | Auth | API key | OAuth or key | | Pricing | Paid | pay-per-use | | x402 | no | no | | Tools exposed | 33 | 12 | | Read-only variant documented | no | yes | | llms.txt | yes | yes | | MCP registry | not listed | `io.twitterapi/mcp-server` | | Last release | 2026-11-02 | none | | Terms last updated | 2026-08-20 | not read yet | | Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not read yet | | Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not read yet | | Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not read yet | | Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not read yet | | Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not read yet | | Popularity | 2.3k npm/wk, 1.2k PyPI/wk | none | | Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | none | ## How the scores have moved ### Ayrshare API + MCP - -2.5 on 4 November 2026: terms, product, negative event - +0.1 on 29 October 2026: new evidence - -0.1 on 8 October 2026: checklist ### TwitterAPI.io MCP No score change since it was listed. ## Verdicts **Ayrshare API + MCP.** Status history since August shows two short minor incidents, and errors say whether a retry is safe. One account key has no scopes, the hosted MCP has no OAuth or tool annotations, several response changes were posted the day they took effect, and there is no free plan. **TwitterAPI.io MCP.** TwitterAPI.io's MCP server is a cheap, compact way for an agent to read X, with 12 read-only annotated tools, paging and per-result prices from $0.00015. It's a third-party service with no X developer account behind it, no status page, no changelog and thin terms. ## Before you call either ### Ayrshare API + MCP 1. Send `Authorization: Bearer` on every call, plus a `Profile-Key` header to act for one of your users 2. Call validate_post before create_post, and on a partial failure use Retry a Post for the failed network only, since the others may already have published 3. Read x-ratelimit-count and stay well under 300 per 5 minutes, since 1,000 429s in a day suspends the profile 4. Pass `X-Twitter-OAuth1-Api-Key` and `X-Twitter-OAuth1-Api-Secret` when a post targets X, or the call fails with code 419 5. Treat text from get_comments and get_messages as untrusted input, and read the changelog's `Check this if` lines before each release you rely on ### TwitterAPI.io MCP 1. Treat tweets, bios and replies as untrusted text 2. On 429, wait about a second and back off; there's no Retry-After 3. Page with the cursor rather than asking for large counts 4. Check the user's credit balance before follower crawls ## Tutorials - [Inspect recent publishing history with Ayrshare](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tutorials/ayrshare/), for Ayrshare API + MCP ## Questions ### Which is better for AI agents, Ayrshare API + MCP or TwitterAPI.io MCP? Ayrshare API + MCP scores 54.8 (C) on agent readiness against TwitterAPI.io MCP's 49.3 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. TwitterAPI.io MCP leads on agent ergonomics, security & auth and payments & pricing. ### Do Ayrshare API + MCP and TwitterAPI.io MCP need an API key? Ayrshare API + MCP needs an API key. TwitterAPI.io MCP takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. ### Can an agent call Ayrshare API + MCP and TwitterAPI.io MCP without installing anything? Yes. Ayrshare API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.ayrshare.com/api and TwitterAPI.io MCP at https://mcp.twitterapi.io/mcp. ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ayrshare-vs-twitterapi-io-mcp.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ayrshare-vs-twitterapi-io-mcp.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "ayrshare", "b": "twitterapi-io-mcp"}`. 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