{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "blotato", "name": "Blotato", "vendor": "Blotato Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.blotato.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "social-media", "summary": "Blotato is a hosted service for publishing and scheduling posts on nine social networks, with analytics on eight and comments and direct messages on Instagram and Facebook. Agents use a REST API or a remote MCP server with 36 tools.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/blotato", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/blotato.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/blotato.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/blotato.json", "repo": "https://github.com/Blotato-Inc/n8n-nodes-blotato", "license": "Proprietary hosted service under Blotato's Terms of Use. The n8n node is MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://backend.blotato.com/v2", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@blotato/n8n-nodes-blotato" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "REST takes the account's API key in the `blotato-api-key` header. The MCP server takes OAuth through a browser flow, or the same key as `blotato-api-key` or `Authorization: Bearer`. Access is self-serve on any paid plan. Each account has one key with full access, copied from Settings \u003e API and replaced by regenerating it. No scopes are documented.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Starter $29 a month (20 connected accounts), Creator $97 (40) and Agency $499 (100), each with API and MCP access and no fee per post. No free plan or sandbox. The 7-day trial needs a card and excludes the API and MCP, and generating a key starts the paid Starter plan. AI image and video credits cost $6 per 1,000 beyond the plan allowance (https://www.blotato.com/pricing.md).", "priceSummary": "$29 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the OpenAPI document, llms.txt, the help pages or the pricing rate card (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 36, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 524, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://help.blotato.com", "llmsTxt": "https://help.blotato.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://backend.blotato.com/openapi.json", "registryName": "com.blotato/mcp", "capabilities": [ "social.post", "social.schedule", "social.analytics", "social.comments", "social.media-upload" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "closed-source", "n8n" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-10", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 46.1, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 856, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 13, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 57, "maintenance": 65, "payments": 10, "reliability": 38, "schema": 82, "security": 29, "transparency": 45 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "One paid account gives an agent a REST API with a public OpenAPI document and an MCP server with 36 tools, with request limits and error codes documented in detail. No status page, changelog, security contact or free API access was found, and each account has a single key with full access.", "bestFor": "A solo builder or small agency that wants an agent to publish to nine networks and answer Instagram and Facebook comments and messages for a flat price.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.0.3 document with 45 operations, plus `llms.txt`, a full Markdown export and a Markdown twin of every help page", "Request limits are published per route, such as 30 a minute for creating posts and 60 a minute for status reads", "Errors carry a numeric code, a request ID, a message and a suggested action, and a help page maps each code to a fix", "The MCP server is in the official registry as `com.blotato/mcp` and accepts OAuth or the API key in a header", "Flat plan prices from $29 a month with API and MCP access on every paid plan and no fee per post" ], "weaknesses": [ "No status page, incident history or SLA was found, and the help pages send users to a third-party outage site", "Each account has one API key with full access. There are no scopes, no read-only key and no team logins", "The 7-day trial needs a card and excludes the API and MCP. Generating a key starts the paid Starter plan at once", "No changelog, deprecation policy, security.txt or disclosure route was found, and the terms allow changes without notice", "The privacy policy gives no retention period or sub-processor list, and the terms take a perpetual, irrevocable licence to user content", "No idempotency key for creating posts, which the help pages state plainly" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `blotato_list_accounts` or `GET /v2/users/me/accounts` first, and fetch `pageId` or `boardId` before posting to a Facebook Page, LinkedIn company Page or Pinterest", "Keep the `postSubmissionId` and poll the status until `published`, `scheduled` or `failed`. It is a receipt, not proof of publication", "After a timeout on a create call, list existing posts before sending again, because there is no idempotency key", "Do not generate an API key on a trial account unless the owner accepts the Starter charge", "Keep REST bodies and MCP arguments apart. REST nests `post.content` and `post.target`, and the MCP tool takes flat arguments" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 46.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 57, "maintenance": 65, "payments": 10, "reliability": 38, "schema": 82, "security": 29, "transparency": 27 }, "provenanceScore": 62 }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://backend.blotato.com/v2/users/me/accounts -H \"blotato-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http blotato https://mcp.blotato.com/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "blotato": { "headers": { "blotato-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY" }, "url": "https://mcp.blotato.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/social.post", "tool": "https://letme.dev/blotato" }, "area": "communication", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Starter", "unit": "month", "usd": 29, "note": "20 connected accounts, 1,250 credits, API and MCP included" }, { "item": "Creator", "unit": "month", "usd": 97, "note": "40 connected accounts, 5,000 credits" }, { "item": "Agency", "unit": "month", "usd": 499, "note": "100 connected accounts, 28,000 credits" }, { "item": "AI generation credit", "unit": "credit", "usd": 0.006, "note": "$6 per 1,000 extra credits, spent only on AI images and video" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Blotato Inc.", "domain": "blotato.com", "domainRegistered": "2020-08-08", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.blotato.com/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.blotato.com/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Terms of Use, dated 18 May 2026, name Blotato Inc. and cover the website and hosted applications. No separate API terms or DPA were found.", "The privacy policy names Blotato Inc. at 50 W Broadway Ste 333, PMB 617067, Salt Lake City, Utah. It shows 18 May 2026 at the top and an effective date of 17 October 2024 at the foot.", "No status page was found. status.blotato.com did not connect and the help pages link none.", "No changelog was found on the site or in the help centre.", "www.blotato.com/.well-known/security.txt and /security.txt return 404.", "RDAP for blotato.com gives a registration date of 2020-08-08. The AI info page says the company was founded in 2024.", "The MCP server's OAuth metadata names an authorisation server on supabase.co, and uploads go to database.blotato.io." ], "score": 62 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/blotato.json", "live": { "slug": "blotato", "probe": { "target": "https://backend.blotato.com/v2", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T03:53:21.875833257Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 254, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 259, "p95ms24h": 324, "samples24h": 209, "samples30d": 209, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 169, "ok": 169 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 40, "ok": 40 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "com.blotato/mcp", "version": "1.0.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-10T03:11:32.438759038Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@blotato/n8n-nodes-blotato", "version": "1.0.10", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:43:13.393567592Z" } ], "githubStars": 43, "npmWeekly": 3315, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://blotato.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T15:39:30.906976708Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://help.blotato.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T14:01:32.477010999Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.blotato.com/pricing.md", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:48:36.850795195Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "1c1622a60f5b" }, { "url": "https://www.blotato.com/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:48:39.023995268Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "cda0345b8d5c" }, { "url": "https://www.blotato.com/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:48:41.039299518Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "37dcf7b36a63" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T03:53:21.875833257Z" } }, "answer": "Sprout Social API scores 54.7 (C) on agent readiness against Blotato's 46.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Blotato leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "sprout-social", "name": "Sprout Social API", "vendor": "Sprout Social, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://sproutsocial.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "social-media", "summary": "Sprout Social is a social media management suite. Its REST API reads profile and post analytics, inbox messages, listening topics and cases for connected profiles, and creates draft posts with media, on plans that include API access.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sprout-social", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sprout-social.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sprout-social.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/sprout-social.json", "license": "Proprietary service under the Sprout Social Developer Terms and Terms of Service", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.sproutsocial.com", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Access needs a Sprout account on a plan with API access, a user holding the API Permissions permission, and acceptance of the API terms on the API page of Settings. That user then creates an OAuth client or an API token in the same page, with no review by Sprout described. OAuth 2.0 is the recommended route. A client ID and secret are exchanged at identity.sproutsocial.com for a short-lived JWT with the client credentials grant and `scope=organization_id`, or a user-based flow signs a Sprout user in. API tokens are named and can be invalidated. Either credential goes in the `Authorization: Bearer` header. No per-endpoint scopes are documented.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "The Sprout API is listed on the Advanced plan at $399 per seat a month and on Enterprise (custom price). Standard is $199 and Professional $299 per seat a month, without the API. The page shows these prices beside an annual billing note. A 30-day trial needs no credit card. Whether the trial includes API access was not established, and there is no sandbox or per-call price (https://sproutsocial.com/pricing/, checked 2026-10-09).", "priceSummary": "$399 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API docs, the Developer Terms or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://api.sproutsocial.com/docs/", "capabilities": [ "social.analytics", "social.comments", "social.media-upload" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "enterprise", "oauth", "closed-source", "status-page", "soc2", "iso27001", "analytics", "listening", "drafts-only" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-06", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 54.7, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 679, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 59, "maintenance": 38, "payments": 20, "reliability": 71, "schema": 51, "security": 61, "transparency": 70 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The API reads analytics, inbox messages, listening topics and cases across the main networks, with OAuth client credentials, field selection and a dated changelog. It creates draft posts only, so a person must publish them in Sprout. Access needs the Advanced plan at $399 per seat a month, and no OpenAPI file or SDK was found.", "bestFor": "Reporting agents that pull profile, post, inbox, listening and case data for a company that already pays for Sprout Social, and for drafting posts a person will approve.", "strengths": [ "OAuth 2.0 client credentials issue short-lived JWT access tokens, and named API tokens can be invalidated in settings", "Rate limits are published as 60 requests a minute and 250,000 a month", "Messages and post requests take a `fields` list and return only `guid` when it is omitted, with `limit` up to 100 and cursor paging", "The status page has a separate Sprout Social API component, and no incident in the 90 days to 9 October 2026 named it", "SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 are listed on the trust centre, with a vulnerability disclosure programme on Bugcrowd" ], "weaknesses": [ "Posts can be created only as drafts (`is_draft: true`), so the API cannot publish or schedule a post without a person in Sprout", "API access is listed on the Advanced plan at $399 per seat a month and on Enterprise, with no per-call price", "No OpenAPI file, SDK or MCP server was found in the reviewed documentation", "No idempotency key on post creation, and no `Retry-After` header documented for 429 responses", "The Developer Terms of 9 May 2024 forbid monitoring the API's availability or performance for benchmarking, and combining the API with software Sprout Social has not authorised. Recorded as a fact with no deduction. It matters before any probe is run" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `GET /v1/metadata/client` first for the customer ID, then `GET /v1/\u003ccustomer ID\u003e/metadata/customer` for profile and group IDs. Every other path needs them", "Send `is_draft: true` on `POST /v1/\u003ccustomer ID\u003e/publishing/posts`. Tell the user the draft waits in the Sprout calendar for a person to publish", "Name the `fields` you want on messages and posts requests. Without the list only `guid` comes back", "Stay under 60 requests a minute and 250,000 a month, and back off on 429 on your own because no `Retry-After` is documented", "Check the response when a draft names several profiles. A profile that cannot take the attached media is dropped with no error" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 54.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 59, "maintenance": 38, "payments": 20, "reliability": 71, "schema": 51, "security": 61, "transparency": 55 }, "provenanceScore": 85 }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://api.sproutsocial.com/v1/metadata/client -H \"Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN\" -H \"Accept: application/json\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/social.analytics", "tool": "https://letme.dev/sprout-social" }, "area": "communication", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Advanced", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 399, "note": "Cheapest plan that lists the Sprout API. Price shown beside an annual billing note" }, { "item": "Professional", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 299, "note": "No API access listed" }, { "item": "Standard", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 199, "note": "No API access listed" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Sprout Social, Inc.", "domain": "sproutsocial.com", "domainRegistered": "2009-09-22", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://sproutsocial.com/legal/api-terms-of-service/", "privacy": "https://sproutsocial.com/legal/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "https://www.sproutsocialstatus.com/", "changelog": "https://api.sproutsocial.com/docs/changelog/", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The Sprout Social Developer Terms (last updated 9 May 2024) are the agreement the API docs link, between the developer and Sprout Social, Inc. They sit on top of the Terms of Service (effective 9 May 2025) at https://sproutsocial.com/legal/terms/.", "The Terms of Service give the notice address as Sprout Social, Inc., 131 S. Dearborn Suite 700, Chicago, Illinois 60603.", "The privacy policy (last updated 16 September 2026) says it applies to the websites and services, app.sproutsocial.com among them, and that Sprout Social is a data processor for customer data.", "https://sproutsocial.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 404. Reports go through the Bugcrowd programme named in the Responsible Disclosure Policy.", "The API answers at api.sproutsocial.com and tokens come from identity.sproutsocial.com.", "RDAP for sproutsocial.com gives a registration date of 2009-09-22 and GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC as registrar." ], "score": 85 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sprout-social.json", "live": { "slug": "sprout-social", "probe": { "target": "https://api.sproutsocial.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T03:53:45.226633106Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 249, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 256, "p95ms24h": 311, "samples24h": 125, "samples30d": 125, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 85, "ok": 85 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 40, "ok": 40 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://www.sproutsocialstatus.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T03:58:47.55314655Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://api.sproutsocial.com/docs/changelog/", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:32:33.652887104Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "17ed54bb5b28" }, { "url": "https://sproutsocial.com/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:45:50.581789307Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "c990bf136e9b" }, { "url": "https://sproutsocial.com/legal/privacy-policy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:45:48.794215928Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "c3bb94f08774" }, { "url": "https://sproutsocial.com/legal/api-terms-of-service/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:45:46.501649959Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "51915d0f6e67" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T03:58:47.55314655Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Blotato Inc.", "b": "Sprout Social, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://backend.blotato.com/v2", "b": "https://api.sproutsocial.com", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary hosted service under Blotato's Terms of Use. The n8n node is MIT", "b": "Proprietary service under the Sprout Social Developer Terms and Terms of Service", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "36", "b": "none", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "com.blotato/mcp", "b": "not listed", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-09-10", "b": "2026-10-06", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-05-18", "b": "2024-05-09", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-05-18", "b": "2026-09-16", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "524 npm/wk", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Sprout Social API scores 54.7 (C) on agent readiness against Blotato's 46.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Blotato leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Blotato or Sprout Social API?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Blotato and Sprout Social API need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Blotato has a hosted endpoint at https://backend.blotato.com/v2 and Sprout Social API at https://api.sproutsocial.com.", "question": "Can an agent call Blotato and Sprout Social API without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 82 against 51", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 65 against 38" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "A solo builder or small agency that wants an agent to publish to nine networks and answer Instagram and Facebook comments and messages for a flat price.", "slug": "blotato", "watchFor": "No status page, incident history or SLA was found, and the help pages send users to a third-party outage site" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 71 against 38", "Security \u0026 auth, 61 against 29", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 20 against 10", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 70 against 45" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Reporting agents that pull profile, post, inbox, listening and case data for a company that already pays for Sprout Social, and for 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sprout-social-vs-upload-post.json", "title": "Sprout Social API vs Upload-Post API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sprout-social-vs-upload-post" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sprout-social-vs-x-mcp.json", "title": "Sprout Social API vs X MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sprout-social-vs-x-mcp" } ], "scores": [ { "blotato": 38, "by": 33, "edge": "sprout-social", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "sprout-social": 71, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "blotato": 82, "by": 31, "edge": "blotato", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "sprout-social": 51, "weight": 13 }, { "blotato": 57, "by": 2, "edge": "sprout-social", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "sprout-social": 59, "weight": 13 }, { "blotato": 29, "by": 32, "edge": "sprout-social", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "sprout-social": 61, "weight": 14 }, { "blotato": 10, "by": 10, "edge": "sprout-social", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "sprout-social": 20, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "blotato": 65, "by": 27, "edge": "blotato", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "sprout-social": 38, "weight": 7 }, { "blotato": 45, "by": 25, "edge": "sprout-social", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "sprout-social": 70, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Sprout Social API scores 54.7 (C) on agent readiness against Blotato's 46.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Blotato leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do social analytics.", "verdicts": { "blotato": "One paid account gives an agent a REST API with a public OpenAPI document and an MCP server with 36 tools, with request limits and error codes documented in detail. No status page, changelog, security contact or free API access was found, and each account has a single key with full access.", "sprout-social": "The API reads analytics, inbox messages, listening topics and cases across the main networks, with OAuth client credentials, field selection and a dated changelog. It creates draft posts only, so a person must publish them in Sprout. Access needs the Advanced plan at $399 per seat a month, and no OpenAPI file or SDK was found." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blotato-vs-sprout-social", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blotato-vs-sprout-social.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blotato-vs-sprout-social.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blotato-vs-sprout-social.min.md" }, "markdown": "Sprout Social API scores 54.7 (C) on agent readiness against Blotato's 46.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Blotato leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do social analytics.\n\n- Blotato: grade D, 46.1/100, rank #856 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/blotato.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/blotato.json\n- Sprout Social API: grade C, 54.7/100, rank #679 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sprout-social.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/sprout-social.json\n- Best social media posting and scheduling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/social-media/index.md\n- All 103 social comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/social-media/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Blotato (D)\n\nGood for: A solo builder or small agency that wants an agent to publish to nine networks and answer Instagram and Facebook comments and messages for a flat price.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 82 against 51\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 65 against 38\n\nWatch for: No status page, incident history or SLA was found, and the help pages send users to a third-party outage site\n\n### Sprout Social API (C)\n\nGood for: Reporting agents that pull profile, post, inbox, listening and case data for a company that already pays for Sprout Social, and for drafting posts a person will approve.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 71 against 38\n- Security \u0026 auth, 61 against 29\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 20 against 10\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 70 against 45\n\nWatch for: Posts can be created only as drafts (`is_draft: true`), so the API cannot publish or schedule a post without a person in Sprout\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Blotato | Sprout Social API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 38 | 71 | Sprout Social API +33 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 51 | Blotato +31 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 57 | 59 | Sprout Social API +2 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 29 | 61 | Sprout Social API +32 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 20 | Sprout Social API +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 38 | Blotato +27 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 70 | Sprout Social API +25 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **46.1 · D** | **54.7 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Blotato | Sprout Social API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Blotato Inc. | Sprout Social, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://backend.blotato.com/v2` | `https://api.sproutsocial.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under Blotato's Terms of Use. The n8n node is MIT | Proprietary service under the Sprout Social Developer Terms and Terms of Service |\n| Tools exposed | 36 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| MCP registry | `com.blotato/mcp` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-10 | 2026-10-06 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-05-18 | 2024-05-09 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | 2026-09-16 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 524 npm/wk | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Blotato.** One paid account gives an agent a REST API with a public OpenAPI document and an MCP server with 36 tools, with request limits and error codes documented in detail. No status page, changelog, security contact or free API access was found, and each account has a single key with full access.\n\n**Sprout Social API.** The API reads analytics, inbox messages, listening topics and cases across the main networks, with OAuth client credentials, field selection and a dated changelog. It creates draft posts only, so a person must publish them in Sprout. Access needs the Advanced plan at $399 per seat a month, and no OpenAPI file or SDK was found.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Blotato\n\n1. Call `blotato_list_accounts` or `GET /v2/users/me/accounts` first, and fetch `pageId` or `boardId` before posting to a Facebook Page, LinkedIn company Page or Pinterest\n2. Keep the `postSubmissionId` and poll the status until `published`, `scheduled` or `failed`. It is a receipt, not proof of publication\n3. After a timeout on a create call, list existing posts before sending again, because there is no idempotency key\n4. Do not generate an API key on a trial account unless the owner accepts the Starter charge\n5. Keep REST bodies and MCP arguments apart. REST nests `post.content` and `post.target`, and the MCP tool takes flat arguments\n\n### Sprout Social API\n\n1. Call `GET /v1/metadata/client` first for the customer ID, then `GET /v1/\u003ccustomer ID\u003e/metadata/customer` for profile and group IDs. Every other path needs them\n2. Send `is_draft: true` on `POST /v1/\u003ccustomer ID\u003e/publishing/posts`. Tell the user the draft waits in the Sprout calendar for a person to publish\n3. Name the `fields` you want on messages and posts requests. Without the list only `guid` comes back\n4. Stay under 60 requests a minute and 250,000 a month, and back off on 429 on your own because no `Retry-After` is documented\n5. Check the response when a draft names several profiles. A profile that cannot take the attached media is dropped with no error\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Blotato or Sprout Social API?\n\nSprout Social API scores 54.7 (C) on agent readiness against Blotato's 46.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Blotato leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Blotato and Sprout Social API need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Blotato and Sprout Social API without installing anything?\n\nYes. Blotato has a hosted endpoint at https://backend.blotato.com/v2 and Sprout Social API at https://api.sproutsocial.com.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blotato-vs-sprout-social.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blotato-vs-sprout-social.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"blotato\", \"b\": \"sprout-social\"}`. 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