Blotato alternative and pricing

Blotato's homepage calls it "agent infrastructure for social media marketing": a social media API and MCP server that lets agents and automation tools create, schedule and publish posts. Around the publishing it has content tools: AI writing, image and video generation, ElevenLabs voiceovers, infographics, carousels, quote cards, AI-avatar video, and "sources" that turn YouTube videos, articles, PDFs or Perplexity research into posts. It also reads and replies to comments and DMs, and offers keyword DM automations on Instagram and Facebook.

It's aimed at solopreneurs, creators, small businesses and small agencies that want to grow a brand without a content team, and says it isn't meant for long-form clipping, UGC ad farms, SEO-only operators or low-effort AI spam. It publishes to 9 networks: X, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Threads, Bluesky and Pinterest, with official n8n and Make nodes.

Read on blotato.com/pricing on 2026-11-01. AI credits cover image and video generation only; writing, scheduling, publishing, voiceovers and API calls don't use credits. Roughly one credit is one image or a few seconds of video. Yearly billing saves about 17% and is switched on in the billing portal.

• Starter: $29/mo. 20 social accounts, 1,250 AI credits, 1,000 active contacts for DMs and comment replies, API and MCP.
• Creator: $97/mo. 40 accounts, 5,000 AI credits, 6,000 active contacts, faster video processing, a viral-posts database.
• Agency: $499/mo. 28,000 AI credits, 15,000 active contacts, dedicated video processing and support. The account limit isn't stated.
• Trial: 7 days on every plan, card required, 60 AI credits, everything except the API and MCP server. Generating an API key ends the trial and starts the paid plan.

The REST API is at https://backend.blotato.com/v2, authenticated with a blotato-api-key header. Publishing is POST /v2/posts with a body holding post.accountId, post.content and post.target. The MCP server runs at https://mcp.blotato.com/mcp over Streamable HTTP and works in Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex and others. The homepage lists 1,800 requests an hour on the $29 plan.

If you want the content made, Blotato does a job we don't do at all: generating images, video, voiceovers and carousels, and turning source material into posts. It also publishes to TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Threads and Pinterest today, handles comments and DMs, and has analytics on eight networks. Our live networks are X, Bluesky, LinkedIn, Mastodon and Telegram, and we have no inbox, analytics or video.

We assume your agent already wrote the post. Claude, a script or your app produces the text and images; we check it against each network's limits, publish it, and return a per-account receipt. You can test the whole flow on Free, including the MCP server, before paying anything, while Blotato's trial excludes the API. At 20 active accounts we're $29 and at 40 $44, with no credits to track.

Preflight runs before anything is sent: text_too_long, too_many_media, duplicate_content, daily_cap_reached and the rest come back in a 422 with a fix your agent can act on. Idempotency keys make retries safe, and signed webhooks report each outcome. The request and response shapes are in the docs; our social media API overview explains the model.

The question is who writes the post. If you want video posting without AI generation, see Upload-Post.

• You want the tool to generate images, video, voiceovers or carousels: Blotato.
• You need TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, comments or DMs today: Blotato.
• Claude, Cursor or your own code writes the post and you only need delivery: us.
• You want to try the API and MCP before paying: us, since both are on Free and Blotato's trial excludes them.
• You'd pay for AI credits you won't use: us. Our plans include no credits; at 20 active accounts the price is the same ($29), and at 40 we're $44 against $97.

blotato-api-key: ... becomes Authorization: Bearer sk_.... POST /v2/posts with one post.accountId becomes POST /v1/posts with an accounts array, so one call reaches several accounts. post.content becomes text, media goes in media as public URLs, and scheduling uses scheduled_at. In MCP clients, swap the server URL for ours and use create_post, which waits for the result by default. Generated media from another tool can still be passed in by URL.

# Blotato's post.accountId + post.content becomes accounts + text
curl -X POST https://socialsforai.com/v1/posts \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOCIALS_KEY" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: launch-2026-11-03" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "accounts": ["acc_bluesky", "acc_linkedin"],
    "text": "We shipped v2. Notes: https://example.com/v2",
    "media": [{ "url": "https://example.com/v2.png", "type": "image", "alt": "v2 screenshot" }],
    "scheduled_at": "2026-11-03T15:00:00Z"
  }'