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Social media APIs for developers
Rate limits and capabilities of every major platform API, the unified APIs that sit on top of them, and honest comparisons with the pricing checked on the day of writing.
Instagram Basic Display API is gone: what to use insteadThe API half the tutorials on the internet still point at was switched off in December 2024. What replaces it depends entirely on the account type, and for one of them nothing does.Reference · October 22, 2026
Social media analytics API: the metrics you can actually pull, per platformA per-platform table of the metrics that exist, the windows they cover and the freshness you get, plus the four reasons two dashboards never show the same number for the same post.Reference · October 21, 2026
WhatsApp Business API pricing in 2026: per-message rates, templates and what a BSP addsMeta bills per delivered template, by category and country. The four categories, the 24 hour and 72 hour free windows, how volume tiers cut utility rates, and where to read your own rate card.Pricing · October 14, 2026
Social media access tokens: long-lived, refresh, and why they keep expiringSix platforms, six clocks, six refresh calls. The lifetimes below come from each platform's own documentation, read on October 12, 2026, with the refresh request for each one.Reference · October 12, 2026
Instagram API in 2026: the Graph API after Basic Display, pricing, limits and a Python exampleWhat is left of the Instagram API since Basic Display shut down: two logins, two access levels, no listed fee, the limits that matter and a Python script that publishes a post.Guide · September 24, 2026
Hootsuite alternatives in 2026: Buffer, Later, Metricool, Publer and 4 cheaper ways to postNine schedulers priced from their own pages the same day, the billing unit that actually decides your bill (seats, channels, social sets, brands), and which ones an AI agent can drive.Comparison · September 18, 2026
Bluesky API and scheduling: how to post programmaticallyAuthenticate with an app password, write a record, respect 5,000 points an hour. And the honest part: nothing in the protocol schedules a post, so you queue it yourself or you pay a tool to hold it.Guide · September 17, 2026
Blotato pricing in 2026: the three plans, the API, and eight alternativesBlotato costs $29, $97 or $499 a month. Here is what each plan buys in accounts, AI credits and contacts, what the API and MCP server actually expose, and eight alternatives priced the same day.Pricing · September 14, 2026
Post Bridge, Upload-Post, Late, Mixpost and Bundle.social: five posting APIs comparedFive social posting APIs compared on price, account or profile limits, and MCP integrations, plus what the Late-to-Zernio rebrand changes for existing users.Comparison · September 14, 2026
Ayrshare pricing explained, and the Ayrshare alternative for each budgetAyrshare starts at $149 a month for one social profile. Here is what that profile buys, where the meter turns in Ayrshare's favour, and the eight alternatives worth pricing against it.Pricing · September 11, 2026
Social media API: the 2026 guide for developers and agentsSeven official APIs, their publish limits and their approval queues, then the arithmetic on building direct against paying for a unified social media API. Every number checked on September 10, 2026.Guide · September 10, 2026
Threads API: how to post and read via the official APIThe Threads API publishes in two calls, caps you at 250 posts and 1,000 replies per 24 hours, and needs no app review for your own profile. Endpoints, scopes and limits read from Meta's docs on September 10, 2026.Guide · September 10, 2026
Postiz alternative: hosted, agent-ready, no self-hostingPostiz is a good open-source scheduler. Self-hosting it means Postgres, Redis and Temporal on a box you patch. Here is what the cloud costs, what the API does, and hosted options.Comparison · September 7, 2026
Zernio alternative: PlugKit vs Zernio on pricing, MCP and comment-to-DMZernio bills per connected account, PlugKit bundles accounts then bills extras. The first crossover sits at 27 accounts. Here is the arithmetic, the MCP difference, and six other options.Comparison · September 7, 2026
Social media API rate limits and capabilitiesPublishing limits, publish / read / reply support and approval difficulty for 12 platform APIs, each row linked to the official docs.Reference
The Ayrshare alternative built for AI agentsAyrshare's per-profile pricing against PlugKit's flat plans, platforms, SDKs and MCP compared.Reference
The Postiz alternative for AI agentsOpen-source scheduling dashboard versus hosted API and MCP server: what each one does and costs.Reference
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