{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "mixpost", "name": "Mixpost API + MCP", "vendor": "Mixpost (Inovector)", "vendorUrl": "https://mixpost.app", "kind": "http-api", "category": "social-media", "summary": "Self-hosted Laravel package for social scheduling, with a REST API and a built-in MCP server on your own instance.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mixpost", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mixpost.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mixpost.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mixpost.json", "repo": "https://github.com/inovector/mixpost", "license": "proprietary (Pro and Enterprise, which carry the API and MCP), MIT (Lite)", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "pat", "authNotes": "Personal access token created under Access Tokens in the dashboard, sent as a Bearer header to both the REST API and the MCP endpoint. Endpoints live on your own domain under /api and /mcp.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Lite is free and MIT-licensed but has no API, MCP or webhooks, and publishes only to Facebook Pages, X and Mastodon. Pro is $299 one-off per domain with a year of updates and includes the API, MCP and webhooks. Enterprise is $1,199 one-off and adds billing and customer management for running your own SaaS. Both keep a perpetual fallback licence. Mixpost Cloud is hosted Pro billed per workspace, with prices not shown in the fetched page (https://mixpost.app/pricing).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 or per-call payment in the docs, OpenAPI spec or pricing (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 30, "popularity": { "githubStars": 3747, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.mixpost.app/api/", "openapi": "https://docs.mixpost.app/assets/files/mixpost-6945bca1a1adae71a614b0e83e1dc5bc.yaml", "capabilities": [ "social.post", "social.schedule", "social.analytics", "social.media-upload" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "local", "self-hosted", "hosted", "mcp", "openapi", "webhooks" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 49.5, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 792, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 53, "maintenance": 63, "payments": 10, "reliability": 70, "schema": 76, "security": 43, "transparency": 48 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": -4, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-02-24. Issue #194 reports path traversal in the system log download and clear endpoints of Mixpost Lite. On 1 October 2026 the main branch still builds the path as the log directory plus the user-supplied filename (src/Support/SystemLogs.php, getFilePath), so a signed-in user can read or truncate files outside the logs folder. No fix or advisory. We couldn't check whether Pro shares the code. -4 (https://github.com/inovector/mixpost/issues/194)" ], "verdict": "One-off $299 licence with unlimited accounts and members, and a perpetual fallback licence. No API or MCP in the free Lite edition.", "bestFor": "Agencies and teams that must keep tokens and content on their own servers and want a one-off price.", "strengths": [ "One-off $299 licence with unlimited accounts and members, and a perpetual fallback licence", "OpenAPI 3.1 spec and a 30-tool MCP server, with every tool labelled read, write or destructive in the docs", "Data and tokens stay on your own infrastructure", "Four Pro releases between 26 and 30 September 2026, with v7.0.0 flagged as breaking", "Tokens can expire after 7 to 90 days or on a set date, and a Viewer-role token can only read" ], "weaknesses": [ "No API or MCP in the free Lite edition", "Tokens carry the full authority of the user who created them, with no scopes", "Public path-traversal (24 February 2026) and XSS (17 June 2026) reports on the Lite repo, still open with no advisory", "No rate limiting of its own, no idempotency keys and no status page for Cloud", "Self-hosting needs your own developer app approved by each network" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call list-workspaces first. Workspace endpoints sit under /api/{workspaceUuid}", "Check MIXPOST_CORE_PATH. It's empty by default from Pro v7 but defaults to mixpost in older versions and Lite", "Create the token as a Viewer-role user when the agent only needs to read", "Use unschedule-post rather than delete-post when a person wants a post pulled back to draft", "Expect HTTP 422 with an errors.limit entry when a Cloud plan limit is hit" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 49.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 53, "maintenance": 63, "payments": 10, "reliability": 70, "schema": 76, "security": 43, "transparency": 45 }, "provenanceScore": 50 }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://$MIXPOST_HOST/api/workspaces -H \"Authorization: Bearer $MIXPOST_TOKEN\" -H \"Accept: application/json\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http mixpost https://$MIXPOST_HOST/mcp --header \"Authorization: Bearer $MIXPOST_TOKEN\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "mixpost": { "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ${MIXPOST_TOKEN}" }, "type": "http", "url": "https://example.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/social.post", "tool": "https://letme.dev/mixpost" }, "area": "communication", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "INOVECTOR DIGITAL S.R.L.", "domain": "mixpost.app", "domainRegistered": "2022-07-28", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://mixpost.app/terms-of-use", "privacy": "https://mixpost.app/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://mixpost.app/releases/pro", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "The terms name INOVECTOR DIGITAL S.R.L., registered in the Republic of Moldova with number 1019600028867.", "Self-hosted endpoints run on the customer's own domain, not the vendor's." ], "score": 50 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mixpost.json", "live": { "slug": "mixpost", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "inovector/mixpost", "version": "2.6.0", "released": "2026-03-16", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:06:49.811671307Z" } ], "githubStars": 3793, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://mixpost.app/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T15:40:34.299163801Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "mixpost.app", "registered": "2022-07-28", "source": "https://pubapi.registry.google/rdap/domain/mixpost.app", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:07:22.865013141Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://mixpost.app/releases/pro", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:42:13.642593181Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-09T18:42:13.642593181Z", "fingerprint": "5203879a793d" }, { "url": "https://mixpost.app/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:42:09.316616316Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e225b3aa803d" }, { "url": "https://mixpost.app/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:42:11.845079937Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "ec3136bc16c9" }, { "url": "https://mixpost.app/terms-of-use", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:42:15.800998362Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "2490096400de" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T18:42:15.800998362Z" } }, "answer": "Sprout Social API scores 54.7 (C) on agent readiness against Mixpost API + MCP's 49.5 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Mixpost API + MCP leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "sprout-social", "name": "Sprout Social API", "vendor": "Sprout Social, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://sproutsocial.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "social-media", "summary": "Sprout Social is a social media management suite. Its REST API reads profile and post analytics, inbox messages, listening topics and cases for connected profiles, and creates draft posts with media, on plans that include API access.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sprout-social", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sprout-social.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sprout-social.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/sprout-social.json", "license": "Proprietary service under the Sprout Social Developer Terms and Terms of Service", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.sproutsocial.com", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Access needs a Sprout account on a plan with API access, a user holding the API Permissions permission, and acceptance of the API terms on the API page of Settings. That user then creates an OAuth client or an API token in the same page, with no review by Sprout described. OAuth 2.0 is the recommended route. A client ID and secret are exchanged at identity.sproutsocial.com for a short-lived JWT with the client credentials grant and `scope=organization_id`, or a user-based flow signs a Sprout user in. API tokens are named and can be invalidated. Either credential goes in the `Authorization: Bearer` header. No per-endpoint scopes are documented.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "The Sprout API is listed on the Advanced plan at $399 per seat a month and on Enterprise (custom price). Standard is $199 and Professional $299 per seat a month, without the API. The page shows these prices beside an annual billing note. A 30-day trial needs no credit card. Whether the trial includes API access was not established, and there is no sandbox or per-call price (https://sproutsocial.com/pricing/, checked 2026-10-09).", "priceSummary": "$399 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API docs, the Developer Terms or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://api.sproutsocial.com/docs/", "capabilities": [ "social.analytics", "social.comments", "social.media-upload" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "enterprise", "oauth", "closed-source", "status-page", "soc2", "iso27001", "analytics", "listening", "drafts-only" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-06", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 54.7, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 679, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 59, "maintenance": 38, "payments": 20, "reliability": 71, "schema": 51, "security": 61, "transparency": 70 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The API reads analytics, inbox messages, listening topics and cases across the main networks, with OAuth client credentials, field selection and a dated changelog. It creates draft posts only, so a person must publish them in Sprout. Access needs the Advanced plan at $399 per seat a month, and no OpenAPI file or SDK was found.", "bestFor": "Reporting agents that pull profile, post, inbox, listening and case data for a company that already pays for Sprout Social, and for drafting posts a person will approve.", "strengths": [ "OAuth 2.0 client credentials issue short-lived JWT access tokens, and named API tokens can be invalidated in settings", "Rate limits are published as 60 requests a minute and 250,000 a month", "Messages and post requests take a `fields` list and return only `guid` when it is omitted, with `limit` up to 100 and cursor paging", "The status page has a separate Sprout Social API component, and no incident in the 90 days to 9 October 2026 named it", "SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 are listed on the trust centre, with a vulnerability disclosure programme on Bugcrowd" ], "weaknesses": [ "Posts can be created only as drafts (`is_draft: true`), so the API cannot publish or schedule a post without a person in Sprout", "API access is listed on the Advanced plan at $399 per seat a month and on Enterprise, with no per-call price", "No OpenAPI file, SDK or MCP server was found in the reviewed documentation", "No idempotency key on post creation, and no `Retry-After` header documented for 429 responses", "The Developer Terms of 9 May 2024 forbid monitoring the API's availability or performance for benchmarking, and combining the API with software Sprout Social has not authorised. Recorded as a fact with no deduction. It matters before any probe is run" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `GET /v1/metadata/client` first for the customer ID, then `GET /v1/\u003ccustomer ID\u003e/metadata/customer` for profile and group IDs. Every other path needs them", "Send `is_draft: true` on `POST /v1/\u003ccustomer ID\u003e/publishing/posts`. Tell the user the draft waits in the Sprout calendar for a person to publish", "Name the `fields` you want on messages and posts requests. Without the list only `guid` comes back", "Stay under 60 requests a minute and 250,000 a month, and back off on 429 on your own because no `Retry-After` is documented", "Check the response when a draft names several profiles. A profile that cannot take the attached media is dropped with no error" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 54.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 59, "maintenance": 38, "payments": 20, "reliability": 71, "schema": 51, "security": 61, "transparency": 55 }, "provenanceScore": 85 }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://api.sproutsocial.com/v1/metadata/client -H \"Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN\" -H \"Accept: application/json\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/social.analytics", "tool": "https://letme.dev/sprout-social" }, "area": "communication", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Advanced", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 399, "note": "Cheapest plan that lists the Sprout API. Price shown beside an annual billing note" }, { "item": "Professional", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 299, "note": "No API access listed" }, { "item": "Standard", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 199, "note": "No API access listed" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Sprout Social, Inc.", "domain": "sproutsocial.com", "domainRegistered": "2009-09-22", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://sproutsocial.com/legal/api-terms-of-service/", "privacy": "https://sproutsocial.com/legal/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "https://www.sproutsocialstatus.com/", "changelog": "https://api.sproutsocial.com/docs/changelog/", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The Sprout Social Developer Terms (last updated 9 May 2024) are the agreement the API docs link, between the developer and Sprout Social, Inc. They sit on top of the Terms of Service (effective 9 May 2025) at https://sproutsocial.com/legal/terms/.", "The Terms of Service give the notice address as Sprout Social, Inc., 131 S. Dearborn Suite 700, Chicago, Illinois 60603.", "The privacy policy (last updated 16 September 2026) says it applies to the websites and services, app.sproutsocial.com among them, and that Sprout Social is a data processor for customer data.", "https://sproutsocial.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 404. Reports go through the Bugcrowd programme named in the Responsible Disclosure Policy.", "The API answers at api.sproutsocial.com and tokens come from identity.sproutsocial.com.", "RDAP for sproutsocial.com gives a registration date of 2009-09-22 and GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC as registrar." ], "score": 85 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sprout-social.json", "live": { "slug": "sprout-social", "probe": { "target": "https://api.sproutsocial.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T02:55:11.565241122Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 265, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 258, "p95ms24h": 315, "samples24h": 115, "samples30d": 115, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 85, "ok": 85 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 30, "ok": 30 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://www.sproutsocialstatus.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T02:50:47.789563572Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://api.sproutsocial.com/docs/changelog/", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:32:33.652887104Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "17ed54bb5b28" }, { "url": "https://sproutsocial.com/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:45:50.581789307Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "c990bf136e9b" }, { "url": "https://sproutsocial.com/legal/privacy-policy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:45:48.794215928Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "c3bb94f08774" }, { "url": "https://sproutsocial.com/legal/api-terms-of-service/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:45:46.501649959Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "51915d0f6e67" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T02:55:11.565241122Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Mixpost (Inovector)", "b": "Sprout Social, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://api.sproutsocial.com", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "Token", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "proprietary (Pro and Enterprise, which carry the API and MCP), MIT (Lite)", "b": "Proprietary service under the Sprout Social Developer Terms and Terms of Service", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "30", "b": "none", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-30", "b": "2026-10-06", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "2024-05-09", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "2026-09-16", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "3.7k stars", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "2/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Sprout Social API scores 54.7 (C) on agent readiness against Mixpost API + MCP's 49.5 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Mixpost API + MCP leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Mixpost API + MCP or Sprout Social API?" }, { "answer": "Mixpost API + MCP needs an access token. Sprout Social API takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Mixpost API + MCP and Sprout Social API need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Mixpost API + MCP. Sprout Social API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.sproutsocial.com.", "question": "Can an agent call Mixpost API + MCP and Sprout Social API without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "Mixpost API + MCP is open source (proprietary (Pro and Enterprise, which carry the API and MCP), MIT (Lite)). No open-source release is listed for Sprout Social API.", "question": "Are Mixpost API + MCP and Sprout Social API open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 76 against 51", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 63 against 38" ], "also": [ "Open source" ], "goodFor": "Agencies and teams that must keep tokens and content on their own servers and want a one-off price.", "slug": "mixpost", "watchFor": "No API or MCP in the free Lite edition" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 59 against 53", "Security \u0026 auth, 61 against 43", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 20 against 10", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 70 against 48" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "No incidents deducted, where Mixpost API + MCP loses 4 points for them" ], "goodFor": "Reporting agents that pull profile, post, inbox, listening and case data for a company that already pays for Sprout Social, and for drafting posts a person will approve.", "slug": "sprout-social", 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/publer-vs-sprout-social" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sprout-social-vs-upload-post.json", "title": "Sprout Social API vs Upload-Post API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sprout-social-vs-upload-post" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sprout-social-vs-x-mcp.json", "title": "Sprout Social API vs X MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sprout-social-vs-x-mcp" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 1, "edge": "sprout-social", "key": "reliability", "mixpost": 70, "name": "Reliability", "sprout-social": 71, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 25, "edge": "mixpost", "key": "schema", "mixpost": 76, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "sprout-social": 51, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 6, "edge": "sprout-social", "key": "ergonomics", "mixpost": 53, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "sprout-social": 59, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 18, "edge": "sprout-social", "key": "security", "mixpost": 43, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "sprout-social": 61, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "sprout-social", "key": "payments", "mixpost": 10, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "sprout-social": 20, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 25, "edge": "mixpost", "key": "maintenance", "mixpost": 63, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "sprout-social": 38, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 22, "edge": "sprout-social", "key": "transparency", "mixpost": 48, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "sprout-social": 70, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Sprout Social API scores 54.7 (C) on agent readiness against Mixpost API + MCP's 49.5 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Mixpost API + MCP leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do social analytics.", "verdicts": { "mixpost": "One-off $299 licence with unlimited accounts and members, and a perpetual fallback licence. No API or MCP in the free Lite edition.", "sprout-social": "The API reads analytics, inbox messages, listening topics and cases across the main networks, with OAuth client credentials, field selection and a dated changelog. It creates draft posts only, so a person must publish them in Sprout. Access needs the Advanced plan at $399 per seat a month, and no OpenAPI file or SDK was found." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mixpost-vs-sprout-social", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mixpost-vs-sprout-social.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mixpost-vs-sprout-social.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mixpost-vs-sprout-social.min.md" }, "markdown": "Sprout Social API scores 54.7 (C) on agent readiness against Mixpost API + MCP's 49.5 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Mixpost API + MCP leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do social analytics.\n\n- Mixpost API + MCP: grade D, 49.5/100, rank #792 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mixpost.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mixpost.json\n- Sprout Social API: grade C, 54.7/100, rank #679 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sprout-social.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/sprout-social.json\n- Best social media posting and scheduling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/social-media/index.md\n- All 103 social comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/social-media/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Mixpost API + MCP (D)\n\nGood for: Agencies and teams that must keep tokens and content on their own servers and want a one-off price.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 76 against 51\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 63 against 38\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: No API or MCP in the free Lite edition\n\n### Sprout Social API (C)\n\nGood for: Reporting agents that pull profile, post, inbox, listening and case data for a company that already pays for Sprout Social, and for drafting posts a person will approve.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 59 against 53\n- Security \u0026 auth, 61 against 43\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 20 against 10\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 70 against 48\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- No incidents deducted, where Mixpost API + MCP loses 4 points for them\n\nWatch for: Posts can be created only as drafts (`is_draft: true`), so the API cannot publish or schedule a post without a person in Sprout\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Mixpost API + MCP | Sprout Social API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 70 | 71 | Sprout Social API +1 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 76 | 51 | Mixpost API + MCP +25 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 53 | 59 | Sprout Social API +6 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 43 | 61 | Sprout Social API +18 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 20 | Sprout Social API +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 63 | 38 | Mixpost API + MCP +25 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 48 | 70 | Sprout Social API +22 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -4 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **49.5 · D** | **54.7 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Mixpost API + MCP | Sprout Social API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Mixpost (Inovector) | Sprout Social, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.sproutsocial.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | Token | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | proprietary (Pro and Enterprise, which carry the API and MCP), MIT (Lite) | Proprietary service under the Sprout Social Developer Terms and Terms of Service |\n| Tools exposed | 30 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-10-06 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | 2024-05-09 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-09-16 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 3.7k stars | none |\n| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**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.\n\n**Sprout Social API.** The API reads analytics, inbox messages, listening topics and cases across the main networks, with OAuth client credentials, field selection and a dated changelog. It creates draft posts only, so a person must publish them in Sprout. Access needs the Advanced plan at $399 per seat a month, and no OpenAPI file or SDK was found.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Mixpost API + MCP\n\n1. Call list-workspaces first. Workspace endpoints sit under /api/{workspaceUuid}\n2. Check MIXPOST_CORE_PATH. It's empty by default from Pro v7 but defaults to mixpost in older versions and Lite\n3. Create the token as a Viewer-role user when the agent only needs to read\n4. Use unschedule-post rather than delete-post when a person wants a post pulled back to draft\n5. Expect HTTP 422 with an errors.limit entry when a Cloud plan limit is hit\n\n### Sprout Social API\n\n1. Call `GET /v1/metadata/client` first for the customer ID, then `GET /v1/\u003ccustomer ID\u003e/metadata/customer` for profile and group IDs. Every other path needs them\n2. Send `is_draft: true` on `POST /v1/\u003ccustomer ID\u003e/publishing/posts`. Tell the user the draft waits in the Sprout calendar for a person to publish\n3. Name the `fields` you want on messages and posts requests. Without the list only `guid` comes back\n4. Stay under 60 requests a minute and 250,000 a month, and back off on 429 on your own because no `Retry-After` is documented\n5. Check the response when a draft names several profiles. A profile that cannot take the attached media is dropped with no error\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Mixpost API + MCP or Sprout Social API?\n\nSprout Social API scores 54.7 (C) on agent readiness against Mixpost API + MCP's 49.5 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Mixpost API + MCP leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Mixpost API + MCP and Sprout Social API need an API key?\n\nMixpost API + MCP needs an access token. Sprout Social API takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Mixpost API + MCP and Sprout Social API without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Mixpost API + MCP. Sprout Social API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.sproutsocial.com.\n\n### Are Mixpost API + MCP and Sprout Social API open source?\n\nMixpost API + MCP is open source (proprietary (Pro and Enterprise, which carry the API and MCP), MIT (Lite)). No open-source release is listed for Sprout Social API.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mixpost-vs-sprout-social.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mixpost-vs-sprout-social.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"mixpost\", \"b\": \"sprout-social\"}`. 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