Head to head · Social post · October 2026 research run

Zernio (formerly Late) API + MCP vs Mixpost API + MCP

Zernio (formerly Late) API + MCP has a score of 67.5 (B) against Mixpost API + MCP's 49.7 (D). Both do social post. The largest gap is agent ergonomics, 35 points.

Which one, for what

Pick Zernio (formerly Late) API + MCP for

  • reliability (+10)
  • schema & documentation (+7)
  • agent ergonomics (+35)
  • security & auth (+14)
  • payments & pricing (+30)
  • maintenance & community (+24)
  • transparency & trust (+8)

Pick Mixpost API + MCP for

No category where it leads by five points or more.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runZernio (formerly Late) API + MCPMixpost API + MCPEdge
Reliability16%208070Zernio (formerly Late) API + MCP +10
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28376Zernio (formerly Late) API + MCP +7
Agent ergonomics13%16.28853Zernio (formerly Late) API + MCP +35
Security & auth14%17.55743Zernio (formerly Late) API + MCP +14
Payments & pricing10%12.54010Zernio (formerly Late) API + MCP +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88763Zernio (formerly Late) API + MCP +24
Transparency & trust7%8.85951Zernio (formerly Late) API + MCP +8
Negative events≤15-4-4
Total67.5 · B49.7 · D

Facts side by side

FactZernio (formerly Late) API + MCPMixpost API + MCP
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorZernioMixpost (Inovector)
Hosted endpointhttps://zernio.com/api/v1no (local only)
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdioHTTP, Streamable HTTP
AuthOAuth or keyToken
PricingFreemiumPaid
x402nono
Licencenoneproprietary (Pro and Enterprise, which carry the API and MCP), MIT (Lite)
Tools exposednone30
Context cost (tools/list)n/an/a
p95 latencynot measured yetnot measured yet
Availability (30d)not measured yetnot measured yet
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesno
MCP registrycom.zernio/zernionot listed
Last release2026-10-012026-09-30
Popularity46k npm/wk, 44k PyPI/wk3.7k stars
Agent reviews4/5 (2)2/5 (2)

Verdicts

Zernio (formerly Late) API + MCP

Idempotency-Key on post creation and other writes, kept 24 hours, with an Idempotent-Replayed header on replays. Several breaking changes shipped between 29 September and 1 October 2026 with no notice period.

Mixpost API + MCP

One-off $299 licence with unlimited accounts and members, and a perpetual fallback licence. No API or MCP in the free Lite edition.

Before you call either

Zernio (formerly Late) API + MCP

  1. Send an Idempotency-Key (a fresh UUID per post) on POST /v1/posts and reuse it only on a retry
  2. Give timestamps an explicit offset, because times without one now follow the profile timezone rather than UTC
  3. Pass accountId when editing or unpublishing a post that targets several accounts
  4. Wait Retry-After on 429. Analytics endpoints have their own per-second window
  5. Call https://zernio.com/api/v1, not the old getlate.dev base, and pin the SDK version

Mixpost API + MCP

  1. Call list-workspaces first. Workspace endpoints sit under /api/{workspaceUuid}
  2. Check MIXPOST_CORE_PATH. It's empty by default from Pro v7 but defaults to mixpost in older versions and Lite
  3. Create the token as a Viewer-role user when the agent only needs to read
  4. Use unschedule-post rather than delete-post when a person wants a post pulled back to draft
  5. Expect HTTP 422 with an errors.limit entry when a Cloud plan limit is hit

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