Publish Now vs Blotato
Blotato is sharp if you live inside n8n, Make, or an MCP client and you are wiring up your own accounts. Publish Now is the swap for builders who need multi-tenant accounts, real scheduling primitives, and an uptime number they can put in a vendor review.
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TL;DR
Blotato is the n8n / Make / MCP automation power-user's choice. Publish Now is the unified social API for builders putting social under their own product: multi-tenant out of the box, scheduling-first, with a published uptime target.
curl -X POST https://publishnow.app/v1/posts \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-d '{
"content": "Hello from Publish Now!",
"platforms": ["x", "instagram", "youtube"],
"schedule_at": "2026-06-08T09:00:00Z"
}'The reasons people search
Built more for a single automation user than a multi-tenant SaaS, so reselling posting to thousands of end-user accounts means writing the tenant layer yourself.
No public uptime SLA to put in a vendor review or customer agreement when your buyers ask the reliability question.
Scheduling is implicit inside automation flows, not the primary surface, so queue, retry, time-zone math, and bulk reschedule end up as glue code.
No engagement automation on the public roadmap (comments, DMs, follows), so when your customers ask for the next workflow, you are bolting on a second vendor.
$29/mo paid floor with monthly tiers, which prices in seat thinking rather than usage you can pass through to your own customers.
Entry price: From $29/mo
Pricing model: Monthly tiers; custom for heavy automation workloads
Platforms supported (GA): 9+ networks
MCP for Claude / Cursor / Claude Code: Yes (the sharpest positioning in the category)
n8n / Make integration: Official first-party nodes
Entry price: $5/mo + credits
Pricing model: Flat subscription + included credits
Platforms supported (GA): 3 (X, Instagram, YouTube)
MCP for Claude / Cursor / Claude Code: Yes (same publish and schedule tools at GA)
n8n / Make integration: HTTP and webhook patterns today; first-party nodes rolling out
Blotato has the sharpest automation positioning in the category: MCP-ready for Claude, Cursor, and Claude Code, official n8n and Make nodes, no per-post fees. For a solo automation user wiring one creator into a flow, it earns the headline.
Every row is sourced from public docs. No cherry-picking.
| Axis | Blotato | Publish Now |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | From $29/mo | $5/mo + credits |
| Both vendors avoid per-post fees. | ||
| Pricing model | Monthly tiers; custom for heavy automation workloads | Flat subscription + included credits |
| Platforms supported (GA) | 9+ networks | 3 (X, Instagram, YouTube) |
| Publish Now adds networks each quarter based on builder demand. | ||
| MCP for Claude / Cursor / Claude Code | Yes (the sharpest positioning in the category) | Yes (same publish and schedule tools at GA) |
| n8n / Make integration | Official first-party nodes | HTTP and webhook patterns today; first-party nodes rolling out |
| Published uptime SLA | None published | 99.9% target with public status page |
| Multi-tenant primitives | Automation-user oriented; tenants are not first-class | Tenants, credit ledger, scoped OAuth built in |
| Scheduling depth | Available as a step inside an automation flow | First-class queue: retries, batch, time-zone math, webhooks |
| Engagement automation | Posting and automation only | Comments, DMs, follows on the public roadmap |
| OAuth model | Managed | Managed, scoped per tenant |
| Per-post fees | None | None; actions consume plan credits |
| Center of gravity | Single automation user wiring their own accounts into a flow | SaaS builder shipping posting on behalf of many end-user accounts |
The shape of the product, not just the pitch.
Blotato is shaped for one automation user wiring their own accounts. Publish Now is shaped for the builder reselling posting to thousands of end-user accounts. Tenants, credit budgets, and OAuth scoping are first-class objects, not glue code you maintain forever.
Blotato treats scheduling as a step inside an automation flow. Publish Now treats the queue as the product: retries with exponential backoff, per-platform rate-limit awareness, time-zone math, bulk reschedule, and webhooks for every state change.
Blotato has not published an uptime SLA. Publish Now publishes a 99.9% target, a public status page, and incident history so you can put a real number in your own vendor review and customer agreement.
Blotato got to the MCP narrative first. Publish Now ships MCP at GA for Claude, Cursor, and Claude Code with the same publish and schedule tools, so the surface is on parity even though Blotato owns the headline.
Blotato is a posting and automation surface today. Publish Now ships posting and scheduling first with comments, DMs, follows, and likes on the public roadmap on the same JSON schema and MCP surface that powers posting.
Blotato meters in monthly tiers built around a single automation user. Publish Now meters in credits, so the bill tracks the work your customers do, not the seats you bought.
Run the same scale-up against both and you stop second-guessing the bill.
| Scale | Blotato | Publish Now | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solo automation user (1 to 3 accounts) | $29/mo entry tier | $5/mo + credits | Lower floor; usage you can pass through. |
| Agency with 5 brands | Higher tier required for multiple brands | $5/mo + credits | Flat base regardless of brand count. |
| SaaS with 100 end-user accounts | Custom plan; tenant layer built on top by you | $5/mo + credits | Bill decoupled from end-user account count. |
You live inside n8n or Make and you want official first-party nodes to drop a posting step into your workflow in minutes.
Your job-to-be-done is agent-first publishing for Claude, Cursor, or Claude Code on your own accounts and you want the vendor with the sharpest MCP narrative.
You are automating your own personal accounts or a small studio and the shape of the work is one operator, one flow.
You are building a multi-tenant SaaS where customers connect their own accounts and you need tenants, credit budgets, and scoped OAuth as first-class objects.
You need scheduling as the primary surface: a real queue with retries, time-zone math, bulk reschedule, and webhooks for every state change.
You want a published uptime target you can paste into a vendor review, and a roadmap that covers the engagement workflow your buyers will ask for next.
Switching from Blotato
Swapping Blotato for Publish Now is a low-risk move because the shape of the work carries over. Same JSON post body, same MCP tool ergonomics, same automation-tool compatibility. The cutover is mostly renaming endpoints and restructuring accounts as tenants.
Email yo@publishnow.app and the founder writes back the same day. No automation guru required, no ticket queue, no migration team to schedule a call with.