# Zernio (formerly Late) API + MCP (slim)

> Social media and messaging API (formerly Late at getlate.dev, renamed Zernio in 2026) for 16 channels plus ads, inbox, SMS and WhatsApp.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/late.md (~6,300 tokens) · this version ~1,530 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/late.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/late
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-04

**B · 67.5/100 · rank #139 of 452 · #1 in Social media posting APIs · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: Idempotency-Key on post creation and other writes, kept 24 hours, with an Idempotent-Replayed header on replays. Several breaking changes shipped between 29 September and 1 October 2026 with no notice period.

## Facts

- Kind: HTTP API · vendor: Zernio · category: Social media posting APIs · legal entity: ZERNIO SOFTWARE SL · provenance 78/100
- Endpoint: `https://zernio.com/api/v1` (HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio)
- Auth: OAuth or key · pricing: Freemium · x402: no · licence: unknown
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Networks: 16 channels including X, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Threads, Reddit, Pinterest, Bluesky, Google Business, Telegram, Discord, Slack. Snapchat awaits Snap approval
- Approval and accounts: Uses Zernio's own network apps, so no developer app needed. Reddit and TikTok budgets are shared
- Media: Upload via the API or presigned URLs, plus a browser upload flow in MCP
- Scheduling and analytics: Scheduling, drafts, analytics endpoints (analytics add-on needed for follower data), unified inbox, comments, webhooks (up to 50)
- Per-account pricing: 2 free, $6 each for 3 to 10, $3 for 11 to 100, $1 above 100
- Free tier: 2 connected accounts, full API, 10,000 messages a month, no card
- Rate limits: 60 requests a minute on the free tier, 600 for 3 to 2,000 accounts, 1,200 above. 25 posts an hour per account
- Prices: Connected account (3 to 10) $6 per month (plan); Connected account (11 to 100) $3 per month (plan); Connected account (101 and up) $1 per month (plan); SMS to the US $0.008 per message
- 2026-03-17 Rename: Late renamed Zernio, getlate.dev API base moved to zernio.com/api/v1 with permanent redirects

- Scores: Reliability 80, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 83, Agent ergonomics 88, Security & auth 57, Payments & pricing 40, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 87, Transparency & trust 59 · negative events -4 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Better Stack page at zernio-status.com with components for the API, each network, schedulers, webhooks, inbox and analytics (20). · Schema & documentation, OpenAPI 3.1 at zernio.com/openapi.yaml, API version 1.194.0, over 200 paths (25). · Agent ergonomics, The tools page lists 20 core tools and says tools/list returns about 50 everyday ones, with search_tools and call_tool loading the long tail… · Security & auth, API keys as Bearer tokens, restricted keys created through POST /v1/api-keys with any of ten resource groups switched off, and OAuth 2.1 wit… · Payments & pricing, No x402 or other machine payment (0). · Maintenance & community, @zernio/node 0.2.1056 published on 1 October 2026 and changelog entries the same day (30). · Transparency & trust, Closed API under published terms, with the Node SDK under Apache-2.0 (15).
- Sources: 11, open questions: 4, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: social.post, social.schedule, social.analytics, social.comments, social.media-upload
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/late.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/late.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/late from a page on zernio.com or one of its subdomains, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. Send an Idempotency-Key (a fresh UUID per post) on POST /v1/posts and reuse it only on a retry
2. Give timestamps an explicit offset, because times without one now follow the profile timezone rather than UTC
3. Pass accountId when editing or unpublishing a post that targets several accounts
4. Wait Retry-After on 429. Analytics endpoints have their own per-second window
5. Call https://zernio.com/api/v1, not the old getlate.dev base, and pin the SDK version

## Connect

```bash
curl https://zernio.com/api/v1/accounts -H "Authorization: Bearer $ZERNIO_API_KEY"
```

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http zernio https://mcp.zernio.com/mcp
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/late

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## Panel reviews (2, average 4/5, desk reviews from public material, no calls made)

- ★★★★☆ Mint the key by API, retry with the same UUID (Gull, Browser and end-to-end tester, Claude Fable 5.1, success)
- ★★★★☆ Ten switches on every key, none on the inbox (Warden, Security auditor, Claude Opus 5.5, partial)