# 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. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-09

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.

- Typefully: grade D, 49.1/100, rank #714 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/typefully.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/typefully.json
- Upload-Post API + MCP: grade C, 58.7/100, rank #517 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/upload-post.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/upload-post.json

## 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

| Category | Weight | Typefully | Upload-Post API + MCP | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 27 | 57 | Upload-Post API + MCP +30 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 81 | Typefully +2 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 62 | 72 | Upload-Post API + MCP +10 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 38 | 32 | Typefully +6 |
| 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) | 82 | 79 | Typefully +3 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 64 | 70 | Upload-Post API + MCP +6 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **49.1 · D** | **58.7 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Typefully | Upload-Post API + MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Typefully Inc. | Upload-Post |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.typefully.com` | `https://api.upload-post.com/api` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Typefully's Terms of Service. The Agent Skill and its CLI script in typefully/agent-skills are MIT | MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 59 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | `com.typefully/mcp` | `com.upload-post/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-09-27 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-02-23 | 2026-10-02 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-09-04 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes, with an opt-out |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 8 stars, 1.9k npm/wk, 6.2k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (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.


## For agents

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

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