# SocialCannon vs Typefully

> SocialCannon scores 50.2 (D) to Typefully's 49.1 (D) for social schedule. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-19

SocialCannon scores 50.2 (D) on agent readiness against Typefully's 49.1 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Typefully leads on schema & documentation, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do social schedule.

- SocialCannon: grade D, 50.2/100, rank #891 of 1171. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/socialcannon.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/socialcannon.json
- Typefully: grade D, 49.1/100, rank #922 of 1171. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/typefully.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/typefully.json
- Best social media posting and scheduling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/social-media/index.md
- All 118 social comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/social-media/index.md

## Which one, for what

### SocialCannon (D)

Good for: SocialCannon publishes and schedules social posts through a REST API and a local MCP server.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 45 against 27
- Agent ergonomics, 80 against 62
- Security & auth, 65 against 38

Also in its favour:
- Runs on your own machine
- No incidents deducted, where Typefully loses 3 points for them

Watch for: X quotas remain on paid plans with unlimited posts

### 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 55
- Maintenance & community, 82 against 0
- Transparency & trust, 64 against 47

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

| Category | Weight | SocialCannon | Typefully | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 45 | 27 | SocialCannon +18 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 83 | Typefully +28 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 62 | SocialCannon +18 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 65 | 38 | SocialCannon +27 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 30 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 0 | 82 | Typefully +82 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 47 | 64 | Typefully +17 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |
| **Total** | | **50.2 · D** | **49.1 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | SocialCannon | Typefully |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Tiny Red Pixel Ltd. | Typefully Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://socialcannon.app/api/v1` | `https://api.typefully.com` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service; see governing terms and the access limitations below. | Proprietary service under Typefully's Terms of Service. The Agent Skill and its CLI script in typefully/agent-skills are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 23 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `com.typefully/mcp` |
| Last release | none | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-07 | 2026-02-23 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-08 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (4) | none |

## Verdicts

**SocialCannon.** Scoped credentials and published rate limits. X quotas remain on paid plans with unlimited posts.

**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

### SocialCannon

1. Use the sandbox before publishing to a real account.
2. Check X quota separately from the general post allowance.
3. Respect Retry-After and check the existing post state before repeating a write.

### 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

## Tutorials

- [Draft a two-post thread with Typefully](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tutorials/typefully/), for Typefully

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, SocialCannon or Typefully?

SocialCannon scores 50.2 (D) on agent readiness against Typefully's 49.1 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Typefully leads on schema & documentation, maintenance & community and transparency & trust.

### Do SocialCannon and Typefully need an API key?

SocialCannon uses an OAuth sign-in. Typefully takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

### Can an agent call SocialCannon and Typefully without installing anything?

Yes. SocialCannon has a hosted endpoint at https://socialcannon.app/api/v1 and Typefully at https://api.typefully.com.


## For agents

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

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