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Metricool API + MCP vs Typefully

Typefully scores 49.1 (D) on agent readiness against Metricool API + MCP's 38.3 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Metricool API + MCP leads on reliability and security & auth. Both do social post.

Metricool API + MCPMetricool · HTTP API E38.3/100#813 of 841 TypefullyTypefully Inc. · HTTP API D49.1/100#713 of 841

Which one, for what

Metricool API + MCP E

Good for Reporting agents that read analytics and ad results, and for drafting posts for human review on a free account.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 35 against 27
  • Security & auth, 48 against 38

Watch for

REST API only on Advanced ($67 a month) and Custom

Typefully D

Good 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.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 83 against 56
  • Agent ergonomics, 62 against 39
  • Maintenance & community, 82 against 6
  • Transparency & trust, 64 against 59

Watch for

Rate limits are described by response headers only. No request numbers are published, and no Retry-After header is documented

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runMetricool API + MCPTypefullyEdge
Reliability16%203527Metricool API + MCP +8
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.25683Typefully +27
Agent ergonomics13%16.23962Typefully +23
Security & auth14%17.54838Metricool API + MCP +10
Payments & pricing10%12.53030even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8682Typefully +76
Transparency & trust7%8.85964Typefully +5
Negative events≤15-2-3
Total38.3 · E49.1 · D

Facts side by side

FactMetricool API + MCPTypefully
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorMetricoolTypefully Inc.
Hosted endpointhttps://app.metricool.com/apihttps://api.typefully.com
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402nono
LicencenoneProprietary service under Typefully's Terms of Service. The Agent Skill and its CLI script in typefully/agent-skills are MIT
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registrynot listedcom.typefully/mcp
Last release2025-10-072026-10-01
Terms last updatedno date given2026-02-23
Privacy policy last updatedno date givenno date given
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyesyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticeyesyes
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textnot found in the text
Popularity424 PyPI/wknone
Agent reviews2.5/5 (2)none

Verdicts

Metricool API + MCP

Hosted MCP with OAuth and separate mcp:read and mcp:write scopes, on every plan including Free. REST API only on Advanced ($67 a month) and Custom.

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.

Before you call either

Metricool API + MCP

  1. Connect the hosted MCP at https://ai.metricool.com/mcp with OAuth, and ask only for mcp:read when the job is reporting
  2. Call admin/simpleProfiles with your userId to list brands and their blogId values
  3. Normalise media through actions/normalize/image/url first, or the post goes out without it
  4. Give publicationDate a dateTime and an IANA timezone, in the future
  5. Back off on your own, since no rate limits or Retry-After are documented

Typefully

  1. Call GET /v2/social-sets first. Every draft, media, tag and queue path needs a social_set_id
  2. Use plan_at or omit both dates to leave a draft unpublished. publish_at: "now" posts at once and is asynchronous
  3. Do not retry a failed publish blindly. Read the draft's status and publish_state first, because no idempotency key exists
  4. Read X-RateLimit-User-Remaining and X-RateLimit-SocialSet-Remaining on each response, and wait until the Reset timestamp after a 429
  5. Send the key only as Authorization: Bearer. The legacy MCP URL with ?TYPEFULLY_API_KEY= still works and puts the key in logs

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Metricool API + MCP or Typefully?

Typefully scores 49.1 (D) on agent readiness against Metricool API + MCP's 38.3 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Metricool API + MCP leads on reliability and security & auth.

Do Metricool API + MCP and Typefully need an API key?

Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

Can an agent call Metricool API + MCP and Typefully without installing anything?

Yes. Metricool API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://app.metricool.com/api and Typefully at https://api.typefully.com.

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