{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "buffer", "name": "Buffer API + MCP", "vendor": "Buffer", "vendorUrl": "https://buffer.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "social-media", "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.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/buffer", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/buffer.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/buffer.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/buffer.json", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.buffer.com", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@bufferapp/cli" } ], "auth": "mixed", "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", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 in developer docs, llms-full.txt or pricing (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 20, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 687, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.buffer.com", "llmsTxt": "https://developers.buffer.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "social.post", "social.schedule", "social.analytics" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "mcp", "llms-txt", "closed-source", "typescript" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 62, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 403, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 73, "payments": 30, "reliability": 55, "schema": 86, "security": 56, "transparency": 75 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "Personal and small-team posting where the free plan and OAuth MCP are enough.", "strengths": [ "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" ], "weaknesses": [ "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" ], "agentNotes": [ "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" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 62 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 73, "payments": 30, "reliability": 55, "schema": 86, "security": 56, "transparency": 66 }, "provenanceScore": 83 }, "connect": { "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" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/social.post", "tool": "https://letme.dev/buffer" }, "area": "communication", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Essentials plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 5, "note": "per channel, billed yearly ($60)" }, { "item": "Team plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 10, "note": "per channel, billed yearly ($120)" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Buffer, Inc.", "domain": "buffer.com", "domainRegistered": "1996-10-28", "domainNote": "buffer.com was registered in 1996, long before Buffer bought it.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://buffer.com/legal", "privacy": "https://buffer.com/legal#privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.buffer.com", "changelog": "https://developers.buffer.com/changelog.html", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "score": 83 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/buffer.json", "live": { "slug": "buffer", "probe": { "target": "https://api.buffer.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T09:26:45.798107754Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 318, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 160, "p95ms24h": 329, "samples24h": 261, "samples30d": 2287, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 35, "ok": 35 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 101, "ok": 101 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.buffer.com", "indicator": "minor", "summary": "Partial System Degradation", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T09:24:55.179270292Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@bufferapp/cli", "version": "2.0.1", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:04:13.714921068Z" } ], "npmWeekly": 909, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://buffer.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:39:02.723190702Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://developers.buffer.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T14:00:09.722800179Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "buffer.com", "registered": "1996-10-28", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/buffer.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:10:35.711858663Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developers.buffer.com/changelog.html", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:17:28.733000818Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-06T16:07:15.393826538Z", "fingerprint": "25db3d78ae2d" }, { "url": "https://developers.buffer.com/guides/post-metrics.md", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:17:31.474421535Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "3c79f6e8dea0" }, { "url": "https://buffer.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:15:56.032125818Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-06T16:06:08.735312591Z", "fingerprint": "25d192efbf57" }, { "url": "https://buffer.com/legal", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:15:53.830435911Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "47e5366a0554" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T09:26:45.798107754Z" } }, "answer": "Buffer API + MCP scores 62 (B) on agent readiness against Typefully's 49.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Typefully leads on maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "typefully", "name": "Typefully", "vendor": "Typefully Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://typefully.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "social-media", "summary": "Typefully is a writing and scheduling app for social posts on X, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon and Substack Notes. Its REST API v2 and hosted MCP server create, schedule and publish drafts for the account's own connected profiles.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/typefully", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/typefully.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/typefully.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/typefully.json", "repo": "https://github.com/typefully/agent-skills", "license": "Proprietary service under Typefully's Terms of Service. The Agent Skill and its CLI script in typefully/agent-skills are MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.typefully.com", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Self-serve. A signed-in user creates an API key in Settings, API and sends it as `Authorization: Bearer`. A key carries the permissions of the user who created it, and access to each social set (read, write or publish) decides which operations work. The hosted MCP server accepts OAuth (authorisation code grant with PKCE S256, dynamic client registration, a revocation endpoint, one scope `full_access`) or the API key as a Bearer header. API v1 keys do not work with v2.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "A free plan and paid plans billed monthly or yearly. The pricing page draws its figures by script and they were not read on 2026-10-08. The page's own scripts name free, creator and team plans and a per-social-set billing model. The vendor's undated blog post gives a paid plan at $12.50 a month and a 14-day trial. The API, MCP server and webhooks were announced as available to all users on 17 December 2025, and draft creation can answer 402 when an account needs a paid plan.", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API reference, the OpenAPI document, llms.txt or the AI agents page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://typefully.com/docs/api", "llmsTxt": "https://typefully.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://api.typefully.com/v2/openapi.json", "registryName": "com.typefully/mcp", "capabilities": [ "social.post", "social.schedule", "social.media-upload" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "agent-skill" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 49.1, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 714, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 62, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 30, "reliability": 27, "schema": 83, "security": 38, "transparency": 64 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-07-09. The vendor's own agent-skills changelog records that the API's tightened request schemas began rejecting platform-specific fields on the wrong platform with HTTP 422, which broke `drafts:update` in the vendor's CLI until it was patched the same day. No notice was found in the product changelog. Fixed on the client side and documented there, so -3 (https://github.com/typefully/agent-skills/blob/main/skills/typefully/CHANGELOG.md)" ], "verdict": "A public OpenAPI 3.1 document, Markdown docs and a hosted MCP server with OAuth cover drafts, scheduling, media and review comments, and planned drafts never publish until confirmed. Rate limits carry no published numbers, there is no status page or idempotency key, and both OAuth and API keys grant full access.", "bestFor": "An agent that drafts and schedules posts for one person's or one team's own accounts, with a human reviewing drafts and comments in the Typefully editor.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.1 document for 24 operations and seven webhook events, with the same reference served as Markdown and indexed in `llms.txt`", "Hosted MCP server at `https://mcp.typefully.com/mcp` with OAuth, PKCE and dynamic client registration, listed in the official MCP registry as `com.typefully/mcp`", "A draft can be saved, planned, scheduled or published, and a planned draft never publishes until `publish_at` confirms it", "Errors return a code, a message and field-level details with the path of the failing field", "Draft Activity records who changed a draft and whether the change came through MCP or the API" ], "weaknesses": [ "Rate limits are described by response headers only. No request numbers are published, and no `Retry-After` header is documented", "No status page, incident history or SLA was found. The terms supply the service as is", "No idempotency key on draft creation, so a retried `publish_at: \"now\"` call can post twice", "OAuth has one scope, `full_access`, and an API key carries every permission of the user who created it", "The terms say accounts must be registered by a human and forbid processes that run while the user is not logged in" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `GET /v2/social-sets` first. Every draft, media, tag and queue path needs a `social_set_id`", "Use `plan_at` or omit both dates to leave a draft unpublished. `publish_at: \"now\"` posts at once and is asynchronous", "Do not retry a failed publish blindly. Read the draft's `status` and `publish_state` first, because no idempotency key exists", "Read `X-RateLimit-User-Remaining` and `X-RateLimit-SocialSet-Remaining` on each response, and wait until the `Reset` timestamp after a 429", "Send the key only as `Authorization: Bearer`. The legacy MCP URL with `?TYPEFULLY_API_KEY=` still works and puts the key in logs" ], "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": 49.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 62, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 30, "reliability": 27, "schema": 83, "security": 38, "transparency": 55 }, "provenanceScore": 72 }, "connect": { "install": "npx skills add typefully/agent-skills", "http": "curl https://api.typefully.com/v2/me -H \"Authorization: Bearer $TYPEFULLY_API_KEY\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add typefully --transport http --url \"https://mcp.typefully.com/mcp\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "typefully": { "serverUrl": "https://mcp.typefully.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/social.post", "tool": "https://letme.dev/typefully" }, "area": "communication", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Typefully Inc.", "domain": "typefully.com", "domainRegistered": "2016-06-06", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://support.typefully.com/en/articles/8718440-terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://support.typefully.com/en/articles/8718444-privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://typefully.com/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "typefully.com/terms and typefully.com/privacy redirect to the two help centre articles named here. The terms are dated 23 February 2026 and name Typefully Inc. No separate API terms or DPA were found.", "The privacy policy names Typefully Inc., says the service is operated in the United States and defines the Services to include any related APIs. It gives no postal address.", "No status page was found. status.typefully.com did not complete a TLS connection, and the API catalogue's status link points at the API root. The MCP server answers a health check at https://mcp.typefully.com/health.", "typefully.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404.", "RDAP for typefully.com gives a registration date of 2016-06-06.", "The changelog is the product changelog. API changes appear in it as dated entries, with no separate API changelog." ], "score": 72 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/typefully.json", "live": { "slug": "typefully", "probe": { "target": "https://api.typefully.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T09:27:08.471872558Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 251, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 226, "p95ms24h": 273, "samples24h": 20, "samples30d": 20, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 20, "ok": 20 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T09:27:08.471872558Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Buffer", "b": "Typefully Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.buffer.com", "b": "https://api.typefully.com", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "b": "Proprietary service under Typefully's Terms of Service. The Agent Skill and its CLI script in typefully/agent-skills are MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "20", "b": "none", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "not listed", "b": "com.typefully/mcp", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-09-30", "b": "2026-10-01", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2024-09-30", "b": "2026-02-23", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2024-09-30", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "687 npm/wk", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Buffer API + MCP scores 62 (B) on agent readiness against Typefully's 49.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Typefully leads on maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Buffer API + MCP or Typefully?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Buffer API + MCP and Typefully need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Buffer API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.buffer.com and Typefully at https://api.typefully.com.", "question": "Can an agent call Buffer API + MCP and Typefully without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 55 against 27", "Security \u0026 auth, 56 against 38", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 75 against 64" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card", "No incidents deducted, where Typefully loses 3 points for them" ], "goodFor": "Personal and small-team posting where the free plan and OAuth MCP are enough.", "slug": "buffer", "watchFor": "22 status incidents between 6 July and 25 September 2026, several of them hours long" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Maintenance \u0026 community, 82 against 73" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "An agent that drafts and schedules posts for one person's or one team's own accounts, with a human reviewing drafts and comments in the Typefully editor.", "slug": "typefully", "watchFor": "Rate limits are described by response headers only. No request numbers are published, and no `Retry-After` header is documented" } ], "job": { "capability": "social.post", "name": "Social post" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ayrshare-vs-buffer.json", "title": "Ayrshare API + MCP vs Buffer API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ayrshare-vs-buffer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ayrshare-vs-typefully.json", "title": "Ayrshare API + MCP vs Typefully", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ayrshare-vs-typefully" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blotato-vs-buffer.json", "title": "Blotato vs Buffer API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blotato-vs-buffer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blotato-vs-typefully.json", "title": "Blotato vs Typefully", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blotato-vs-typefully" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/buffer-vs-late.json", "title": "Buffer API + MCP vs Zernio (formerly Late) API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/buffer-vs-late" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/buffer-vs-metricool.json", "title": "Buffer API + MCP vs Metricool API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/buffer-vs-metricool" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/buffer-vs-mixpost.json", "title": "Buffer API + MCP vs Mixpost API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/buffer-vs-mixpost" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/buffer-vs-oneup.json", "title": "Buffer API + MCP vs OneUp API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/buffer-vs-oneup" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/buffer-vs-post-bridge.json", "title": "Buffer API + MCP vs Post Bridge API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/buffer-vs-post-bridge" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/buffer-vs-postiz.json", "title": "Buffer API + MCP vs Postiz API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/buffer-vs-postiz" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/buffer-vs-publer.json", "title": "Buffer API + MCP vs Publer API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/buffer-vs-publer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/buffer-vs-upload-post.json", "title": "Buffer API + MCP vs Upload-Post API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/buffer-vs-upload-post" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/late-vs-typefully.json", "title": "Zernio (formerly Late) API + MCP vs Typefully", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/late-vs-typefully" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/metricool-vs-typefully.json", "title": "Metricool API + MCP vs Typefully", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/metricool-vs-typefully" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mixpost-vs-typefully.json", "title": "Mixpost API + MCP vs Typefully", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mixpost-vs-typefully" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oneup-vs-typefully.json", "title": "OneUp API + MCP vs Typefully", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oneup-vs-typefully" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/post-bridge-vs-typefully.json", "title": "Post Bridge API + MCP vs Typefully", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/post-bridge-vs-typefully" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/postiz-vs-typefully.json", "title": "Postiz API + MCP vs Typefully", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/postiz-vs-typefully" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/publer-vs-typefully.json", "title": "Publer API + MCP vs Typefully", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/publer-vs-typefully" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/typefully-vs-upload-post.json", "title": "Typefully vs Upload-Post API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/typefully-vs-upload-post" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/buffer-vs-x-mcp.json", "title": "Buffer API + MCP vs X MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/buffer-vs-x-mcp" } ], "scores": [ { "buffer": 55, "by": 28, "edge": "buffer", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "typefully": 27, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "buffer": 86, "by": 3, "edge": "buffer", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "typefully": 83, "weight": 13 }, { "buffer": 65, "by": 3, "edge": "buffer", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "typefully": 62, "weight": 13 }, { "buffer": 56, "by": 18, "edge": "buffer", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "typefully": 38, "weight": 14 }, { "buffer": 30, "by": 0, "edge": "", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "typefully": 30, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "buffer": 73, "by": 9, "edge": "typefully", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "typefully": 82, "weight": 7 }, { "buffer": 75, "by": 11, "edge": "buffer", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "typefully": 64, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Buffer API + MCP scores 62 (B) on agent readiness against Typefully's 49.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Typefully leads on maintenance \u0026 community. Both do social post.", "verdicts": { "buffer": "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.", "typefully": "A public OpenAPI 3.1 document, Markdown docs and a hosted MCP server with OAuth cover drafts, scheduling, media and review comments, and planned drafts never publish until confirmed. Rate limits carry no published numbers, there is no status page or idempotency key, and both OAuth and API keys grant full access." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/buffer-vs-typefully", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/buffer-vs-typefully.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/buffer-vs-typefully.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/buffer-vs-typefully.min.md" }, "markdown": "Buffer API + MCP scores 62 (B) on agent readiness against Typefully's 49.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Typefully leads on maintenance \u0026 community. Both do social post.\n\n- Buffer API + MCP: grade B, 62/100, rank #403 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/buffer.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/buffer.json\n- Typefully: grade D, 49.1/100, rank #714 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/typefully.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/typefully.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Buffer API + MCP (B)\n\nGood for: Personal and small-team posting where the free plan and OAuth MCP are enough.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 55 against 27\n- Security \u0026 auth, 56 against 38\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 75 against 64\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n- No incidents deducted, where Typefully loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: 22 status incidents between 6 July and 25 September 2026, several of them hours long\n\n### Typefully (D)\n\nGood for: An agent that drafts and schedules posts for one person's or one team's own accounts, with a human reviewing drafts and comments in the Typefully editor.\n\nAhead on:\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 82 against 73\n\nWatch for: Rate limits are described by response headers only. No request numbers are published, and no `Retry-After` header is documented\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Buffer API + MCP | Typefully | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 55 | 27 | Buffer API + MCP +28 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 86 | 83 | Buffer API + MCP +3 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 62 | Buffer API + MCP +3 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 56 | 38 | Buffer API + MCP +18 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 30 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 73 | 82 | Typefully +9 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 64 | Buffer API + MCP +11 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **62 · B** | **49.1 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Buffer API + MCP | Typefully |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Buffer | Typefully Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.buffer.com` | `https://api.typefully.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Proprietary service under Typefully's Terms of Service. The Agent Skill and its CLI script in typefully/agent-skills are MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 20 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `com.typefully/mcp` |\n| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-10-01 |\n| Terms last updated | 2024-09-30 | 2026-02-23 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2024-09-30 | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 687 npm/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\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**Typefully.** A public OpenAPI 3.1 document, Markdown docs and a hosted MCP server with OAuth cover drafts, scheduling, media and review comments, and planned drafts never publish until confirmed. Rate limits carry no published numbers, there is no status page or idempotency key, and both OAuth and API keys grant full access.\n\n## Before you call either\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. Use saveToDraft or addToQueue so nothing publishes by accident, because delete_post can't be undone\n\n### Typefully\n\n1. Call `GET /v2/social-sets` first. Every draft, media, tag and queue path needs a `social_set_id`\n2. Use `plan_at` or omit both dates to leave a draft unpublished. `publish_at: \"now\"` posts at once and is asynchronous\n3. Do not retry a failed publish blindly. Read the draft's `status` and `publish_state` first, because no idempotency key exists\n4. Read `X-RateLimit-User-Remaining` and `X-RateLimit-SocialSet-Remaining` on each response, and wait until the `Reset` timestamp after a 429\n5. Send the key only as `Authorization: Bearer`. The legacy MCP URL with `?TYPEFULLY_API_KEY=` still works and puts the key in logs\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Buffer API + MCP or Typefully?\n\nBuffer API + MCP scores 62 (B) on agent readiness against Typefully's 49.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Typefully leads on maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Buffer API + MCP and Typefully need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Buffer API + MCP and Typefully without installing anything?\n\nYes. Buffer API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.buffer.com and Typefully at https://api.typefully.com.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/buffer-vs-typefully.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/buffer-vs-typefully.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"buffer\", \"b\": \"typefully\"}`. 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