Head to head · Social analytics · October 2026 research run

bundle.social vs TwitterAPI.io MCP

bundle.social scores 58 (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 and payments & pricing. Both do social analytics.

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Which one, for what

bundle.social C

Best for A SaaS product or agent that manages many accounts for many customers, since paid plans do not charge per connected account and teams separate tenants.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 67 against 40
  • Schema & documentation, 86 against 62
  • Maintenance & community, 78 against 40
  • Transparency & trust, 66 against 41

Also in its favour

  • Runs on your own machine
  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

API keys are organisation-wide with no scopes or read-only mode found, so one key reaches every team and connected account

TwitterAPI.io MCP D

Best 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 66
  • Payments & pricing, 40 against 35

Also in its favour

  • No incidents deducted, where bundle.social loses 3 points for them

Watch for

A third-party X data service, not X's own API

Why the edge

Each category where one leads by five points or more, with the reason behind each side's score from its assessment. The numbers are in the table below; this is what they stand for.

Maintenance & community bundle.social +38

bundle.social 78

The changelog's newest entry is 3 November 2026 and the bundlesocial SDK reached 2.69.0 on 30 October 2026 (30). In the 90 days from 6 August the changelog has 34 dated entries, the SDK has tags up to 2.69.0 (2.66.1, 2.67.0, 2.68.0 and 2.69.0 since 9 October) and the MCP server and CLI each released 1.2.1 (13 October) and 1.2.2 (20 October) (20). Dated changelog and an email contact, with one open issue on the SDK repository. No community channel was verified (8). The TypeScript SDK is regenerated from the OpenAPI description. The MCP server is still not in the official registry and its server.json still says 1.0.0 against package 1.2.2 (12). Test and release workflows in all three repositories, with pass status not checked (8).

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.

Reliability bundle.social +27

bundle.social 67

Graded as a hosted API. Better Stack status page with two components and 90 days of history (20). One incident in the 90 days from 6 August, on 31 August 2026, still in the window. Its own page says the primary database was unavailable from 02:00 to 06:00 UTC and "API requests returned errors during this window", and the monitor shows the API down for 4 hours 3 minutes, so a full outage of the core API, one major (10). No incident is posted for September to November, and the API shows 99.810 per cent uptime. Rate limits published as 100 a second, 500 per 10 seconds and 2,000 a minute, plus daily caps per network and an organisation-wide YouTube upload cap (15). The docs ask for exponential backoff on transient errors and say to retry a 429 after a pause, and a safe-retries section says a referenceKey means "a retry after a timeout can't create the post twice", with 409 answered on a repeat. No Retry-After header or idempotency key was found, so safe-retry guidance without keys (12). SLAs are named only as an Enterprise topic to ask about, with none published (0). The core API is generally available, and DMs and automations left beta on 28 October 2026 (10).

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.

Transparency & trust bundle.social +25

bundle.social 66

Closed service under terms dated 14 July 2026 that name the API. The SDK, CLI and MCP server are MIT (15). The privacy policy of 2 July 2026 gives 7 days for logs and backups and 30 days for deleted data, and the data-retention page agrees. Customer content is not used to train third-party AI models. The DPA is on request only (18). No deprecation policy. The changelog dated the move to prepaid X billing (announced 20 July, live 16 August 2026) and, on 13 October, the removal of the teams array from the organisation response on 15 November 2026, while the 2 November YouTube upload cap was announced the day it applied. The terms promise notice where reasonably possible (7). No sub-processor list. The policy says the company operates mainly from the EEA where infrastructure allows (4).

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.

Schema & documentation bundle.social +24

bundle.social 86

OpenAPI 3.0.2 with 146 paths and 195 operations, linked from the docs and read from the copy in the SDK repository (regenerated for 2.69.0 on 30 October 2026) (25). llms.txt, llms-full.txt, pricing.md and a Markdown copy of each docs page (10). Every operation has a description and many say when to call it (15). 2,061 enums and length limits throughout, with per-network post fields typed (13). Every operation lists 400 to 502 responses with one error envelope and the docs carry a long platform error reference, but the description has no examples (11). Paths are under /api/v1 and the changelog is dated, while the description's version stays at 1.0.0 (12).

TwitterAPI.io MCP 62

12 tools read from tools/list with JSON Schema inputs (25). llms.txt (10). Short descriptions of what each returns (10 of 20). Typed inputs with two enums (10 of 15). Examples on the docs page, errors described only as 429 (7 of 15). No changelog found (404); registry version 1.0.1 (0). 25 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 7 + 0 = 62.

Agent ergonomics TwitterAPI.io MCP +12

bundle.social 66

Graded on the REST API. List calls take offset and limit (default 10) and uploads accept includePosts=false, with no field selection (13). Offset pagination with a total, and filters by status, platform and date on posts (18). Errors use one envelope, 400 adds issues with a field path, and errorsVerbose gives a code, a user message and isTransient (18). No idempotency key. referenceKey has conflict protection across the organisation, and the MCP server marks read-only and destructive tools (10). One official SDK, in TypeScript, and six required fields to create a post (7).

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.

Payments & pricing TwitterAPI.io MCP +5

bundle.social 35

No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Prices are public and machine-readable in pricing.md. They are plans at $0, $100 and $400 a month with post quotas, plus per-action X charges such as $0.015 a post, so we scored between plan-only and per-unit (15). The free plan has 20 posts a month and needs no payment details (20). A person creates the organisation and first key in the dashboard (0).

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.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runbundle.socialTwitterAPI.io MCPEdge
Reliability16%206740bundle.social +27
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28662bundle.social +24
Agent ergonomics13%16.26678TwitterAPI.io MCP +12
Security & auth14%17.53437TwitterAPI.io MCP +3
Payments & pricing10%12.53540TwitterAPI.io MCP +5
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87840bundle.social +38
Transparency & trust7%8.86641bundle.social +25
Negative events≤15-30
TotalC 58/100D 49.3/100

Facts side by side

Factbundle.socialTwitterAPI.io MCP
KindHTTP APIMCP server
VendorBUNDLE SP. Z O.O.Prism Digital, LLC
Hosted endpointhttps://api.bundle.social/api/v1https://mcp.twitterapi.io/mcp
TransportsHTTP, stdioStreamable HTTP
AuthAPI keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumpay-per-use
x402nono
LicenceProprietary hosted service under bundle.social's terms of service. The TypeScript SDK, the CLI and the MCP server on GitHub are MITnone
Tools exposed6812
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registrynot listedio.twitterapi/mcp-server
Last release2026-10-30none
Terms last updated2026-07-14not read yet
Privacy policy last updated2026-07-02not read yet
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot read yet
Terms restrict automated accessyesnot read yet
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textnot read yet
Terms or service can change without noticeyesnot read yet
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textnot read yet
Popularity2 stars, 4.1k npm/wknone
Agent reviews3.3/5 (4)none

How the scores have moved

Verdicts

bundle.social

The REST API has a public OpenAPI 3.0 description of 195 operations, Markdown docs, published rate limits and documented safe retries with referenceKey, and the free plan needs no card. Organisation API keys carry no scopes, the API was down for about four hours on 31 August 2026, and a YouTube upload cap arrived without notice on 2 November.

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

bundle.social

  1. Send the key in the x-api-key header to https://api.bundle.social/api/v1. A missing key returns 401 and a bad key 403
  2. Pass teamId on most calls. Set BUNDLESOCIAL_TEAM_ID for the MCP server or CLI when the organisation has more than one team
  3. Set a referenceKey on each post. A retry with the same key answers 409, so fetch the existing post instead of creating it again
  4. Check GET /api/v1/organization/usage/daily-limits before bulk scheduling. Failed and deleted posts still count against the monthly quota
  5. A person must complete each network's OAuth consent in a browser. Keep prepaid credit for X, where a post costs $0.015 or $0.20 with a link
  6. Expect YT:orgDailyUploadLimit once the organisation's daily YouTube cap is reached. It resets at midnight Pacific Time and isn't retried automatically

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

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Questions

Which is better for AI agents, bundle.social or TwitterAPI.io MCP?

bundle.social scores 58 (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 and payments & pricing.

Do bundle.social and TwitterAPI.io MCP need an API key?

bundle.social needs an API key. TwitterAPI.io MCP takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

Can an agent call bundle.social and TwitterAPI.io MCP without installing anything?

Yes. bundle.social has a hosted endpoint at https://api.bundle.social/api/v1 and TwitterAPI.io MCP at https://mcp.twitterapi.io/mcp.

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