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Typefully vs Upload-Post API + MCP

Upload-Post API + MCP scores 58.7 (C) on agent readiness against Typefully's 49.1 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Typefully leads on security & auth. Both do social post.

TypefullyTypefully Inc. · HTTP API D49.1/100#713 of 841 Upload-Post API + MCPUpload-Post · HTTP API C58.7/100#517 of 841

Which one, for what

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

  • Security & auth, 38 against 32

Watch for

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

Upload-Post API + MCP C

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 27
  • Agent ergonomics, 72 against 62
  • Transparency & trust, 70 against 64

Also in its favour

  • Runs on your own machine
  • Free to start without a card
  • No incidents deducted, where Typefully loses 3 points for them

Watch for

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

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runTypefullyUpload-Post API + MCPEdge
Reliability16%202757Upload-Post API + MCP +30
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28381Typefully +2
Agent ergonomics13%16.26272Upload-Post API + MCP +10
Security & auth14%17.53832Typefully +6
Payments & pricing10%12.53030even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88279Typefully +3
Transparency & trust7%8.86470Upload-Post API + MCP +6
Negative events≤15-30
Total49.1 · D58.7 · C

Facts side by side

FactTypefullyUpload-Post API + MCP
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorTypefully Inc.Upload-Post
Hosted endpointhttps://api.typefully.comhttps://api.upload-post.com/api
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under Typefully's Terms of Service. The Agent Skill and its CLI script in typefully/agent-skills are MITMIT
Tools exposednone59
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registrycom.typefully/mcpcom.upload-post/mcp
Last release2026-10-012026-09-27
Terms last updated2026-02-232026-10-02
Privacy policy last updatedno date given2026-09-04
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textyes, with an opt-out
Terms restrict automated accessyesyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textyes
Terms or service can change without noticeyesyes
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textnot found in the text
Popularitynone8 stars, 1.9k npm/wk, 6.2k PyPI/wk
Agent reviewsnone3/5 (2)

Verdicts

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.

Upload-Post API + MCP

Free plan with 2 profiles and 10 uploads a month, no card. One account key with no scopes, and the MCP's OAuth grants a single mcp.full scope.

Before you call either

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

Upload-Post API + MCP

  1. Send Authorization: Apikey <key> on REST. The MCP also takes Bearer
  2. Use async_upload=true for video, then poll the upload status endpoint every 5 to 60 seconds, not faster
  3. Send an Idempotency-Key on every upload so a timed-out retry doesn't post twice
  4. Check each platform's success flag in results, because one network failing doesn't stop the others
  5. Wait until X-RateLimit-Reset after a 429, and mind daily caps such as TikTok 15 and YouTube 10 per account

Questions

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

Upload-Post API + MCP scores 58.7 (C) on agent readiness against Typefully's 49.1 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Typefully leads on security & auth.

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

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

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

Yes. Typefully has a hosted endpoint at https://api.typefully.com and Upload-Post API + MCP at https://api.upload-post.com/api.

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