Upload-Post alternatives (prices checked 13 November 2026)
Short answer: if you post videos through Upload-Post's API and want a different price model, look at Zernio (pay per account), Postiz (flat plans, open source) or PostSail. We build PostSail, so we put it third and list its gaps too. If your own users connect their accounts inside your product, Ayrshare is built for that but starts at $149 a month. Every price below comes from the vendor's own pricing page on 13 November 2026.
How we compared
- Price from each vendor's own pricing page on 13 Nov 2026. USD, monthly billing unless noted.
- What the price buys: connected accounts or channels, users, API access.
- X links. X's API pricing page charges $0.015 for each Post: Create request and $0.200 when the post contains a URL. So it matters how a tool handles links on X.
- One real downside for each tool, ours included.
| Tool | Best for | Price (vendor page, 13 Nov 2026) | API | Links on X | Main downside |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zernio | Developers with many accounts, pay as you go | First 2 accounts free; $6/account (3-10), $3/account (11-100) a month | Included | X calls passed through at X's rates ($0.20 per link post) | The bill moves with usage |
| Postiz | Teams that want an API, or self-hosting | $29 (5 channels) to $99 (100 channels) a month | Included (REST, webhooks, MCP) | Not stated | Standard plan has no team members |
| PostSail (ours) | Apps that make short videos and post through one API call | Starter $19/month (10 accounts); Pro $49/month (50 accounts, team) | Included | Removed from the main post; first comment with a link: 10/month (Starter), 40/month (Pro) | YouTube Shorts and TikTok still wait for platform reviews |
| Ayrshare | Products that let their own users post | Premium $149/month (1 profile, up to 14 accounts); Launch $299; Business $599 | API-first | Not stated | High entry price for one creator |
| Post Bridge | One post to many networks, with an API | Marketer $39/month (15 accounts); Operator $99/month (99 accounts) | API and MCP on Marketer | Not stated | Entry plan $39/month; analytics in beta |
Upload-Post itself
- Best for: video-heavy posting through an API.
- Price: Free (2 profiles, 10 uploads a month). Basic $24 (5 profiles), Professional $50 (25), Advanced $147 (75), Business $438 (225) a month.
- API: included on every plan, Free too.
- Downside: TikTok needs a paid plan. Link posts on X are a $19/month add-on, capped at 50 a month.
1. Zernio
- Best for: developers who manage many accounts and prefer paying per account.
- Price: the first 2 accounts are free, then $6 per account (3-10) and $3 per account (11-100) a month. Ten accounts come to $48 a month.
- API: included for every account.
- Links on X: X API calls are passed through at X's own rates ($0.015 a post, $0.200 a post with a URL).
- Downside: the bill moves with usage. Messages above 10,000 a month and, for new accounts, automation runs above 2,000 a month cost extra.
2. Postiz
- Best for: teams that want an API, webhooks or MCP, and the option to self-host (Postiz is open source).
- Price: Standard $29 (5 channels), Team $39 (10), Pro $49 (30), Ultimate $99 (100) a month. Yearly billing lowers this to $23, $31, $39 and $79.
- API: included on every plan.
- Downside: the $29 Standard plan has no team members. Self-hosting means running and updating your own server.
3. PostSail (ours)
- Best for: apps that make short videos and want one API call to post them to several networks, with a dashboard for the team.
- Price:
- Starter $19/month: 10 connected accounts, 1 user, 100 X posts a month.
- Pro $49/month: 50 accounts, team of up to 10, 500 X posts a month.
- 7-day free trial on both.
- API: included. Retries, duplicate protection and checks before anything goes out.
- Links on X: removed from the main post. The link can go in the first comment (a reply), and no add-on is needed: 10 first comments with links a month on Starter, 40 on Pro.
- Downside:
- We are new (opened November 2026).
- Today (13 November 2026) Bluesky and X are open. YouTube Shorts and TikTok are in review with Google and TikTok and open when the reviews finish.
- Instagram and Facebook come later, and there are no analytics yet.
5. Post Bridge
- Best for: creators who send one post to many networks and want an API and MCP on the entry plan.
- Price: Marketer $39/month (15 accounts), Operator $99/month (99 accounts, then $1 per account).
- API and MCP: included on Marketer.
- Links on X: the pricing page does not say how links in X posts are handled.
- Downside: the entry plan is $39 a month, and analytics are still in beta.
Links on X
A post with a link costs $0.200 on X's API instead of $0.015, and a reply that carries the link is billed the same. That is why tools cap links on X or charge for them. We measured our own bill: see what posting to X through the API costs.
Method and disclosure
- We make PostSail. Five tools are compared; PostSail is number 3, not first, and we listed what it cannot do yet.
- Prices change. We read each vendor's own pricing page on 13 November 2026.
- Buffer is left out: it is a scheduler you use by hand, and its API is not the main way to post.
- X's prices are from X's API pricing page.
Sources (read 13 November 2026):
- Zernio: zernio.com/pricing
- Postiz: postiz.com/pricing
- Ayrshare: ayrshare.com/pricing
- Post Bridge: post-bridge.com/pricing
- Upload-Post: upload-post.com/pricing
- X: docs.x.com/x-api/getting-started/pricing