Publish Now vs Ayrshare
Ayrshare's bill scales with every customer you onboard. Ours doesn't. One endpoint posts to X, Instagram, and YouTube for $5/mo + credits, no per-profile tax, no $149 floor.
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TL;DR
Ayrshare invented this category and ships 13 platforms. It also bills per connected profile, so 50 customer accounts cost about $770/mo. Publish Now is the unified social API at $5/mo + credits. Profiles are free. You pay for what you actually do.
curl -X POST https://publishnow.app/v1/posts \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-d '{
"content": "Shipped.",
"platforms": ["x", "instagram", "youtube"],
"schedule_at": "2026-06-10T09:00:00Z"
}'The reasons people search
Per-profile pricing turns multi-tenant SaaS unit economics upside down - every signup makes the bill bigger
The $149/mo floor prices solo founders and side projects out of the category
Bills don't map to actual usage - you pay for connected profiles whether they posted once or a thousand times
Slow on engagement automation - comments are there, DMs and follows aren't
No native MCP server, so AI agents need a custom wrapper before they can post anything
Entry price: $149/mo (1 profile)
Pricing model: Per-profile, plan-tiered
Cost at 50 profiles: ~$770/mo ($599 + 20 x $8.99)
Add-a-profile fee: ~$8.99/mo per profile beyond plan cap
Platforms live today: 13 (FB, X, IG, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Bluesky, Reddit, Telegram, Threads, Pinterest, Snapchat, GBP)
Entry price: $5/mo + credits
Pricing model: Subscription + usage credits
Cost at 50 profiles: $5/mo + credits
Add-a-profile fee: $0 - profiles are free
Platforms live today: 3 at GA (X, Instagram, YouTube)
Ayrshare is the mature incumbent. 13 platforms live today, SDKs in seven languages, years of production miles. If you need Snapchat, Telegram, or Google Business Profile on day one, they ship it now.
Every row is sourced from public docs. No cherry-picking.
| Axis | Ayrshare | Publish Now |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $149/mo (1 profile) | $5/mo + credits |
| Ayrshare has no free tier. $149 is the floor. | ||
| Pricing model | Per-profile, plan-tiered | Subscription + usage credits |
| Cost at 50 profiles | ~$770/mo ($599 + 20 x $8.99) | $5/mo + credits |
| The classic 'expensive at scale' moment everyone cites. | ||
| Add-a-profile fee | ~$8.99/mo per profile beyond plan cap | $0 - profiles are free |
| Platforms live today | 13 (FB, X, IG, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Bluesky, Reddit, Telegram, Threads, Pinterest, Snapchat, GBP) | 3 at GA (X, Instagram, YouTube) |
| Ayrshare wins on count. We win on schema and price. | ||
| Uptime SLA | None public | 99.9% target |
| Compliance | Established incumbent brand | SOC 2 readiness on roadmap |
| OAuth | Managed, included | Managed, included |
| MCP server for AI agents | Not native | Native MCP surface |
| Multi-tenant SaaS fit | Per-profile pricing punishes B2C apps | Bill is decoupled from your customer count |
| Scheduling | Posting + auto-scheduling | Scheduling-first - queues are the primary surface |
| Engagement automation | Comment management today | Comments, DMs, follows on the roadmap |
| SDK languages | Node, JS, PHP, Python, C#, Go, Java, Ruby | Language-agnostic JSON; SDKs at GA |
The shape of the product, not just the pitch.
Ayrshare's Business plan is $599/mo for 30 profiles, then about $8.99/mo for every profile after that. Publish Now is $5/mo + credits. Onboard your 47th customer without watching the bill tick up.
Same JSON shape for X, Instagram, and YouTube. Per-platform overrides on the same payload. Your product code stays small. Your integration stays one file.
Sign up, get a key, ship. No sales call, no $149 floor, no procurement dance. Hard freeze at zero credits so you never get a surprise invoice.
Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT - they all get a first-class `publish` and `schedule` tool out of the box. Ayrshare doesn't ship MCP. You build the wrapper.
Queues aren't a side feature. The same JSON that posts now schedules for later, with retries and credit accounting baked in.
Your customers connect their own accounts. We don't charge you for it. Profiles are free. Credits are how you pay.
Run the same scale-up against both and you stop second-guessing the bill.
| Scale | Ayrshare | Publish Now | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 profile | $149/mo | $5/mo + credits | No $149 floor |
| 5 profiles | $149/mo (Launch tier) | $5/mo + credits | Same flat price you pay at 50 |
| 10 profiles | $299/mo (Premium tier) | $5/mo + credits | - |
| 30 profiles | $599/mo (Business tier, at cap) | $5/mo + credits | - |
| 50 profiles | ~$778.80/mo ($599 + 20 x $8.99) | $5/mo + credits | ~80% less than Ayrshare |
You need Telegram, Snapchat, Reddit, or Google Business Profile shipping today and can't wait for a roadmap.
You want SDKs in PHP, C#, Ruby, or Java with analytics, comment management, and URL shortening already bundled in.
You need the well-known incumbent that procurement will rubber-stamp, with NET-30 and an established brand.
You're building a multi-tenant SaaS where your customers connect their own accounts and per-profile pricing breaks your unit economics.
You want one flat number on your invoice every month so you can put it in your own pricing page without flinching.
You're wiring social posting into an AI agent, MCP server, n8n, or Make and want a native MCP tool plus one JSON schema across platforms.
Switching from Ayrshare
Swapping from Ayrshare is mostly endpoint changes. The mental model is the same: one API call, multiple platforms, managed OAuth. The bill just stops scaling with your customer count.
Email yo@publishnow.app and the founder will personally help you migrate. No support ticket queue. No sales call. Send a curl request that works on Ayrshare and you'll get one back that works here.