- Is there a Publer alternative with a real free plan?
- PostMCP’s Free Forever plan covers 5 connected profiles and 20 credits a month with the full calendar, and asks for no credit card to start. Buffer and Metricool also run free tiers. Every free plan in this category is capped by channels or volume rather than by trial length, so the question worth asking is which cap you hit first.
- Can Claude or ChatGPT publish for me?
- Yes, and this is the part most schedulers do not have. PostMCP is a Model Context Protocol server published as @postmcpai/server under MIT, so Claude Desktop, Claude.ai, ChatGPT and Cursor can call the same seventeen publishing and analytics tools the dashboard uses — draft, pre-flight, schedule, retry — with an approval step before anything goes out.
- What are the top social media schedulers to compare?
- For general scheduling, Buffer, Hootsuite, SocialBee, Metricool and Vista Social come up most often. For recurring content libraries, RecurPost. For pure API publishing with no dashboard, Ayrshare. PostMCP AI sits with the API-first group while still shipping a full calendar, which is the combination this comparison usually turns on.
- What is a good Publer alternative with an API?
- PostMCP AI exposes its entire publishing engine — seventeen tools — at POST /api/tools/{name} with an API key, plus an open-source MCP server for AI clients. There is no separate limited export API: the dashboard and your script use the same endpoints.
- Can I bulk schedule posts?
- Yes, two ways. multicall batches up to 20 operations into one validated request, and the plain create_post endpoint takes a date, time and timezone so a loop over your own data generates a queue directly. Both go through the same pre-flight checks as a post typed into the composer.
- What happens when part of a bulk publish fails?
- Each delivery keeps its own status, permalink and upstream error. Publishing the post again re-sends only the profiles that failed, so a partial failure is repaired rather than duplicated. With stopOnError on a batch, the response also names the calls that were skipped.
- Does it write the posts as well as schedule them?
- Yes, two ways. In the composer, Write with AI drafts a native version per selected network for 1 credit. Or connect Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor over MCP and your own agent drafts, generates an image, dry-runs the result and proposes slots — with an approval before anything publishes.
- How is bulk publishing priced?
- Per delivery: 1 credit per profile, 5 for X, plus a one-off 50-credit surcharge on posts containing a link. Plans bundle credits monthly — 2,000 on Starter, 6,000 on Professional, 14,000 on Business — and one-time packs top up without changing your plan.
- Which networks are supported?
- LinkedIn including company pages, X (Twitter), Facebook Pages, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky including self-hosted AT Protocol servers, and YouTube Shorts.