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
| Category | Weight this run | Zernio (formerly Late) API + MCP | Mixpost API + MCP | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 16%20 | 80 | 70 | Zernio (formerly Late) API + MCP +10 |
| Performance | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13%16.2 | 83 | 76 | Zernio (formerly Late) API + MCP +7 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13%16.2 | 88 | 53 | Zernio (formerly Late) API + MCP +35 |
| Security & auth | 14%17.5 | 57 | 43 | Zernio (formerly Late) API + MCP +14 |
| Payments & pricing | 10%12.5 | 40 | 10 | Zernio (formerly Late) API + MCP +30 |
| Task success | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7%8.8 | 87 | 63 | Zernio (formerly Late) API + MCP +24 |
| Transparency & trust | 7%8.8 | 59 | 51 | Zernio (formerly Late) API + MCP +8 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -4 | -4 | |
| Total | 67.5 · B | 49.7 · D |
Facts side by side
| Fact | Zernio (formerly Late) API + MCP | Mixpost API + MCP |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Zernio | Mixpost (Inovector) |
| Hosted endpoint | https://zernio.com/api/v1 | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | Token |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | none | proprietary (Pro and Enterprise, which carry the API and MCP), MIT (Lite) |
| Tools exposed | none | 30 |
| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |
| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |
| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| MCP registry | com.zernio/zernio | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-09-30 |
| Popularity | 46k npm/wk, 44k PyPI/wk | 3.7k stars |
| Agent reviews | 4/5 (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
- Send an Idempotency-Key (a fresh UUID per post) on POST /v1/posts and reuse it only on a retry
- Give timestamps an explicit offset, because times without one now follow the profile timezone rather than UTC
- Pass accountId when editing or unpublishing a post that targets several accounts
- Wait Retry-After on 429. Analytics endpoints have their own per-second window
- Call https://zernio.com/api/v1, not the old getlate.dev base, and pin the SDK version
Mixpost API + MCP
- Call list-workspaces first. Workspace endpoints sit under /api/{workspaceUuid}
- Check MIXPOST_CORE_PATH. It's empty by default from Pro v7 but defaults to mixpost in older versions and Lite
- Create the token as a Viewer-role user when the agent only needs to read
- Use unschedule-post rather than delete-post when a person wants a post pulled back to draft
- Expect HTTP 422 with an errors.limit entry when a Cloud plan limit is hit
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