# Pamba vs Upload-Post API + MCP

> Upload-Post scores 52.5 (D) to Pamba's 41.2 (E) for social posting. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-11-13

Upload-Post API + MCP scores 52.5 (D) on agent readiness against Pamba's 41.2 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Pamba leads on payments & pricing. Both do social posting.

- Pamba: grade E, 41.2/100, rank #1334 of 1524. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pamba.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pamba.json
- Upload-Post API + MCP: grade D, 52.5/100, rank #1057 of 1524. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/upload-post.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/upload-post.json
- Best social media posting and scheduling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/social-media/index.md
- All 182 social comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/social-media/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Pamba (E)

Good for: Not recommended for the managed accounts. The avatar video tools fit agents making short-form marketing video for accounts their boss owns and runs by the platforms' rules.

Ahead on:
- Payments & pricing, 53 against 45

Watch for: Sells and runs TikTok and Instagram accounts made to pass as people, against those platforms' rules, and replaces them when banned

### Upload-Post API + MCP (D)

Good for: Video-heavy publishing to TikTok, Reels and Shorts at a low price, and for white-label products that link end users through JWT connect pages.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 57 against 45
- Maintenance & community, 79 against 70
- Transparency & trust, 73 against 28

Also in its favour:
- Runs on your own machine
- Free to start without a card

Watch for: One account key with no scopes, and the MCP's OAuth grants a single mcp.full scope


## Why the edge

### Transparency & trust: Upload-Post API + MCP +45

- Pamba (28): Closed service with no terms of service: /terms answered 404, and only an acceptable use policy (dated 6 July 2026) is published, with no legal entity named anywhere read (5 of 30). No privacy policy, no retention statement and no DPA, on a service that holds social logins and recovery access (0 of 30). The changelog dates deprecations and removals; no policy (10 of 20). The team says it's in San Francisco and posts from iPhones with US SIM cards; where data is processed and who processes it isn't stated (3 of 20). 5 + 0 + 10 + 3 = 18. It does publish its own results, including that 42% of 6,678 videos it measured never reached 1,000 views.
- Upload-Post API + MCP (73): Closed API under clear terms from TONVI TECH SL (CIF B-19780394, Málaga), version 2.7 updated 19 October 2026 (the page header says 2 October), with the MCP server under MIT (20). Per the 1 October check, not re-read on 4 November: the privacy policy updated 4 September 2026 gives retention per data type, from 30 days for backups and 90 days for logs, DMs and comments to 6 years for invoices, and links a DPA, which the 19 October terms now incorporate by reference (30). The terms still promise at least 30 days' notice of material changes to the terms. No API deprecation policy (8). Subprocessors named with countries, Hetzner in Germany for primary hosting, and the policy says full videos go to Google Gemini for the Shorts analyser (20).

### Reliability: Upload-Post API + MCP +12

- Pamba (45): Graded as a hosted service. No status page found: none is linked, and status.pamba.app didn't answer (0). With no page there's no incident history to read (5 of 30). Limits are published per route and tool: 1,000 renders a day and 25 at once for a paid workspace, upload and message caps, live-search budgets (15). 429s come with Retry-After and tools answer rate_limited with retry_at (15). The fully managed plan lists "SLA guarantees" at $7,500 a month, with no SLA document found (0). Self-serve and live (10). 0 + 5 + 15 + 15 + 0 + 10 = 45.
- Upload-Post API + MCP (57): Upload-Post's terms (version 2.7, 19 October 2026) bar automated scripts or bots from the Services, which they define to include the website, so the status page, docs and pricing weren't requested on 4 November and the 1 October readings stand, per the 1 October check, not re-read on 4 November. An own status page at upload-post.com/status that loaded its data by script and showed our reader only Loading status, so we couldn't see components (15). No readable incident history (5). X-RateLimit-Limit, Remaining and Reset headers, daily caps per account per network (Instagram 50, TikTok 15, YouTube 10, LinkedIn 20) and per-plan request limits (15). The rate-limits guide says to wait for X-RateLimit-Reset, back off exponentially and send an Idempotency-Key on every upload, though the error guide and spec don't mention the key and there's no Retry-After (12). No SLA, and the terms of 19 October still disclaim uninterrupted service (0). GA (10).

### Maintenance & community: Upload-Post API + MCP +9

- Pamba (70): Closed service. The changelog has entries on 9, 10 and 11 November 2026 (30). Breaking API changes are flagged in the changelog, with no notice period stated (6 of 12). Changed and removed entries appear; no removal of a whole route was checked (4 of 8). Dated changelog with an Atom feed (15). Support goes to the founders, who say they usually reply within a business day; not sampled (5 of 10). No SDK; MCP and REST only (5 of 15). Runtimes not applicable; nothing to install (5 of 10). 30 + 6 + 4 + 15 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 70.
- Upload-Post API + MCP (79): MCP tags v0.17.1 and v0.17.2 on 28 October 2026, 7 days before this check (30). In the 90 days from 6 August, MCP tags v0.8.0 and v0.10.0 (31 August), v0.11.0 (7 September), v0.11.1 (9 September), v0.11.2 (25 September), v0.11.3 and v0.11.4 (27 September), v0.17.1 and v0.17.2 (28 October) (20). Commits landed in every week of October, under five author names. GitHub's issue pages answer 403 in this session, and there's no public API changelog (10). Official registry entry com.upload-post/mcp, carried from the 1 October reading; server.json in the repository declares that name at 0.17.3 (15). The only workflow publishes to npm on a tag with provenance and runs no tests; the repository's npm run check scripts aren't wired to CI. Versions 0.11.5 to 0.17.0 and 0.17.3 were bumped in package.json without tags, and npm couldn't be read to say which were published (4).

### Payments & pricing: Pamba +8

- Pamba (53): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Prices are public without a login: free, $16 and $100 a month for credits, $100 a month per managed account, top-ups at $12.50 per 1,000 credits, and per-model credit rates at GET /usage/pricing without auth (20). A free plan of 300 credits; whether it needs a card isn't stated (15 of 20). A person signs up in a browser before a key or an OAuth approval (0). 0 + 20 + 15 + 0 = 35. Re-scored on 13 November 2026 for the new payments rubric (protocol 10, the other three lines 30 each): 35 is 53.
- Upload-Post API + MCP (45): Per the 1 October check, not re-read on 4 November (pricing page on a host paused under the terms). No x402 or other machine payment (0). Plan prices are public, with FFmpeg minutes and Shorts analyses per plan and a $19 a month X link add-on, but no per-call price (10). Free plan of 2 profiles and 10 uploads a month without TikTok, no card (20). A person has to sign up in a browser for the key, or approve OAuth in a client (0). Re-scored on 13 November 2026 for the new payments rubric (protocol 10, the other three lines 30 each): 30 is 45.

## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Pamba | Upload-Post API + MCP | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 45 | 57 | Upload-Post API + MCP +12 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 84 | 81 | Pamba +3 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 72 | Pamba +3 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 35 | 36 | Upload-Post API + MCP +1 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 53 | 45 | Pamba +8 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 79 | Upload-Post API + MCP +9 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 28 | 73 | Upload-Post API + MCP +45 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -15 | -9 | |
| **Total** | | **41.2 · E** | **52.5 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Pamba | Upload-Post API + MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Pamba | Upload-Post |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.pamba.app/mcp` | `https://api.upload-post.com/api` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Closed service. No terms of service or privacy policy published; an acceptable use policy only | MIT |
| Tools exposed | 407 | 74 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `com.upload-post/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-11-11 | 2026-10-28 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-10-02 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-04 |
| Customer content may train models | not read yet | yes, with an opt-out |
| Terms restrict automated access | not read yet | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not read yet | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not read yet | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 8 stars, 1.9k npm/wk, 6.2k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (2) |

## How the scores have moved

### Pamba

- +2.3 on 13 November 2026: checklist
- -5.0 on 13 November 2026: checklist

### Upload-Post API + MCP

- +1.9 on 13 November 2026: checklist
- -8.3 on 4 November 2026 (C to D): security, product
- +0.2 on 3 November 2026: time

## Verdicts

**Pamba.** Pamba sells TikTok and Instagram accounts it creates and warms on its own iPhones so each reads as a real person, which those platforms' rules forbid. Its MCP server and API are well documented and drive that too. No terms of service or privacy policy is published.

**Upload-Post API + MCP.** Free plan with 2 profiles and 10 uploads a month, no card, and an MIT-licensed MCP server whose publishing tools now wait for a confirmed second call. One account key with no scopes, OAuth with a single mcp.full scope, and an October session-id flaw whose fix is in no release and off by default.

## Before you call either

### Pamba

1. Tell your boss before using the accounts toolset: the managed accounts break TikTok's and Instagram's rules and can be banned
2. Connect with ?readonly=true or a toolsets= subset; the full server is 407 tools
3. Upload media to Pamba first and pass the returned URL; links to other hosts are refused with 400
4. Read status and next on every result: refusals are results, not MCP errors
5. Check credit costs before generation calls; 38 tools spend credits

### Upload-Post API + MCP

1. Send `Authorization: Apikey <key>` on REST. The MCP also takes Bearer; send the credential on every MCP request, since a session id alone isn't one
2. Call upload, DM and comment tools once for a preview, show it to the user, then repeat with confirmed: true
3. Use async_upload=true for video, then poll the upload status endpoint every 5 to 60 seconds, not faster
4. Send an Idempotency-Key on every upload so a timed-out retry doesn't post twice
5. Check each platform's success flag in results, because one network failing doesn't stop the others

## Tutorials

- [Schedule a LinkedIn announcement with Upload-Post](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tutorials/upload-post/), for Upload-Post API + MCP

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Pamba or Upload-Post API + MCP?

Upload-Post API + MCP scores 52.5 (D) on agent readiness against Pamba's 41.2 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Pamba leads on payments & pricing.

### Do Pamba and Upload-Post API + MCP need an API key?

Pamba uses an OAuth sign-in. Upload-Post API + MCP takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

### Can an agent call Pamba and Upload-Post API + MCP without installing anything?

Yes. Pamba has a hosted endpoint at https://api.pamba.app/mcp and Upload-Post API + MCP at https://api.upload-post.com/api.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pamba-vs-upload-post.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pamba-vs-upload-post.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "pamba", "b": "upload-post"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare pamba upload-post`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pamba.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/upload-post.json

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