# Flaghand vs Blotato for n8n, Make and AI agents

Blotato and Flaghand both let an n8n workflow, a Make scenario or an AI agent send social posts through an API or an
MCP server. They answer one question differently: can the automation publish by itself? With Blotato, a request made
with your API key publishes now or at the time it names. With Flaghand, the automation drafts and asks, and the post
goes out only after the workspace owner approves that exact post with a passkey.

Every Blotato fact here was checked on October 26, 2026 on its own [pricing page](https://www.blotato.com/pricing),
[pricing rate card](https://www.blotato.com/pricing.md),
[API reference for agents](https://help.blotato.com/start-with-an-ai-agent/llm),
[MCP tools reference](https://help.blotato.com/start-with-an-ai-agent/mcp/tools) and its
[n8n](https://help.blotato.com/integrations-and-automation-templates/n8n) and
[Make](https://help.blotato.com/integrations-and-automation-templates/make.com) guides. Prices and features change;
check those pages before you choose.

## The short answer

- **Choose Blotato** if you want AI to make the content too, you post to Instagram, TikTok, YouTube or other networks
  beyond Flaghand's X and LinkedIn personal-profile focus, or your workflow should publish without anyone approving
  each post. Flaghand's TikTok posting is subject to TikTok's review.
- **Choose Flaghand** if your workflow or agent writes for a person who must approve exactly what goes out, and you
  want the server, not the agent's instructions, to enforce that.

## Where Blotato is better

- **Nine networks.** Blotato publishes and schedules to Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Facebook, X, Threads, Bluesky,
  Pinterest and YouTube, and its LinkedIn posting covers personal profiles and company Pages. Flaghand posts to X and
  LinkedIn personal profiles; its TikTok posting is subject to TikTok's review.
- **It makes the content.** Every plan includes unlimited AI writing, AI images and video, AI voices and captions,
  ElevenLabs voiceovers and viral templates; credits pay for generated images and video. Flaghand has no built-in
  writer or image generator: your own agent writes, and Flaghand previews, checks and posts what it wrote.
- **Its own n8n node and Make modules.** Both are listed from the Starter plan, and Creator adds help troubleshooting
  your n8n and Make automations. Flaghand has neither: you use n8n's HTTP Request, Make's HTTP module or Zapier's
  Webhooks, with the exact requests in
  [Flaghand from n8n, Make, Zapier and GitHub Actions](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/automations).
- **Analytics, comments and DMs.** Its API reports post analytics on eight networks (not LinkedIn yet) and handles
  comments, direct messages and keyword-triggered DM replies on Instagram and Facebook. Flaghand's X read-back check
  isn't an analytics or inbox product.
- **Unattended publishing.** A request made with the API key publishes, so a workflow can run with nobody watching.
  Flaghand always waits for the owner.

## Where Flaghand is better

- **The approval is the server's rule.** No API token can approve, schedule or post, so a leaked token, a looping
  workflow or a confused agent can't publish on its own.
- **You approve what will actually post.** The desk draws each post as X and LinkedIn show it, the check flags
  anything that wouldn't post as previewed, and the approval covers that exact snapshot.
- **One call per plan.** A workflow drafts, checks and asks for approval in one request, retried safely with an
  `Idempotency-Key`, and signed notifications tell it what the owner decided.

## Pricing and access

Blotato sells three monthly plans: Starter at $29 a month with 20 connected social accounts and 1,250 AI credits,
Creator at $97 with 40 accounts and 5,000 credits, and Agency at $499 with 100 accounts and 28,000 credits. Yearly
billing saves about 17% and is chosen in its billing portal. There's no per-post fee, but each plan caps the posts
queued at any one time at 200, 1,000 and 3,000, and each Facebook Page or LinkedIn company Page counts as its own
account.

There's no free plan. The 7-day trial needs a card and includes 60 AI credits, but not the API or MCP: generating an
API key ends the trial and starts the paid plan, and n8n and Make need that key too. If you're automating, plan to pay
from the first day.

Flaghand is in early access and public sign-up isn't open yet. This guide doesn't quote a Flaghand price; use
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule) for its current entry point.

## What you integrate

Blotato's REST API lives at `https://backend.blotato.com/v2` with a `blotato-api-key` header, and its MCP server at
`https://mcp.blotato.com/mcp`. Claude Code, Claude.ai and ChatGPT can connect to it with OAuth; Cursor and several other
clients send the API key in a header. `POST /posts`, or the MCP tool `blotato_create_post`, publishes straight away,
or schedules with `scheduledTime` or the next free slot. It returns a submission ID to poll until the post is
`published` or `failed`; Blotato's own docs warn that a submitted or scheduled request isn't proof of publication.

Flaghand's [live OpenAPI spec](https://app.flaghand.com/api/v1/openapi.json) describes the same work in a different order:

1. From n8n or Make, one `createPost` request drafts, checks and asks for approval, and returns the owner's
   `approval_url`, or each draft's problems and fixes. See the exact [n8n](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/automations#n8n-http-request)
   and [Make](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/automations#make-http) requests.
2. An agent can take the steps one at a time: upload media, `createDraft`, `checkDraft`, then `requestApproval` with
   the draft ID and revision. A proposed `post_at` time doesn't schedule anything, and a passing check isn't an
   approval.
3. Register a [signed event receiver](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/automations#register-signed-event-notifications) to hear when
   the owner decides or a job finishes, then read the jobs and use `verifyJob` for the live check.

Agents connect to Flaghand's remote MCP server with a workspace token or OAuth; the
[agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) has the setup for each client.

## Who approves each post

Blotato's API reference tells an assistant to get the user's approval for each write before it publishes. That rule is
an instruction to the agent. The pages above don't describe an approval step on Blotato's side that a post waits for,
or a key that can draft without publishing: whoever holds the API key, workflow or agent, can publish. Its TikTok
`isDraft` option sends a post to the TikTok app to finish there, for that network only.

Flaghand also uses a Bearer token, so the difference isn't the authentication header but what the credential can do.
No API token scope can approve, schedule or post. Flaghand's OAuth MCP connectors receive `read`, `drafts`, `media` and
`request-approval`, not a publishing permission. The owner connects each social account and approves in Flaghand; an
agent or workflow can't do either on their behalf.

## What you approve

Flaghand freezes the account, time, text, media, alt text and outgoing request into a snapshot. It hashes that snapshot
with SHA-256 and records your passkey signature over the hash. Changing the posting content, account or time needs a
new approval, and the scheduler checks the signed snapshot again just before posting. That required step is friction
if you want a fully unattended pipeline; it's the point if a person's name is on every post.

## After it posts

Flaghand reads each X post back and compares normalized text, author, hidden reply mentions, media count, available
alt text, reply chain and quote with the approval. It doesn't verify link destinations or media-file identity, and it
has no LinkedIn read-back. Blotato returns each post's status and public URL, and its analytics cover posts published
through it. Neither a success response nor this limited comparison proves every detail of a post looks right.

## TikTok slideshows

Flaghand's [slideshow API](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/slideshows) lets an agent lay out photos and text as slides. One renderer
draws it for the preview you approve and for the images TikTok receives, so approval covers the render hash.
[Flaghand and TikTok](/tiktok) explains what posting is available while TikTok reviews Flaghand. Blotato publishes
TikTok videos and photo posts today.

## Side by side

| | Blotato | Flaghand |
|---|---|---|
| Core fit | A social media API and MCP server with AI content creation | A publishing desk for a person and their agents |
| Networks | Nine, including Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and LinkedIn Pages | X and LinkedIn personal profiles; TikTok subject to review |
| n8n and Make | Its own n8n node and Make modules | n8n HTTP Request, Make HTTP module, Zapier Webhooks |
| API and MCP | REST with `blotato-api-key`; hosted MCP with OAuth or the key | REST with a Bearer workspace token; remote MCP with the token or OAuth |
| Can that credential publish? | Yes | No API token can approve, schedule or post |
| Who approves each post | The agent's instructions; the cited docs show no approval step on Blotato's side | The owner's passkey over the exact snapshot |
| After publication | Status, public URL, analytics on eight networks | Limited X snapshot read-back; none on LinkedIn |
| Price | From $29 a month; no free plan | Early access; public sign-up not open yet |
| Trial | 7 days with a card; no API or MCP during it | Early access |

## Try Flaghand

Read [Flaghand from n8n, Make, Zapier and GitHub Actions](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/automations) for copyable workflow requests,
the [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) for the API and MCP contract, and
[How to let an AI agent post safely](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely) for checks to apply to any integration.
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).

[All guides](/docs/guides.md)