1 connected profile
Connect one real social account — Facebook, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube, or another supported platform — and publish to it for real, within the limits below.
Free social media API
A free plan that's actually permanent, not a trial
No card to start, no expiration date, no auto-charge waiting at day 28. PostGate's Free plan is a real tier of the product — 1 connected profile, 10 posts/month, and a built-in sandbox adapter for testing your integration without spending a real post. It's intentionally small so we can offer it forever; here's exactly what that means, with no rounding up.
Exactly what's included
The Free plan, in real numbers
Pulled live from PostGate's own pricing database at request time — the same numbers shown on /pricing, not a rounded-up marketing figure.
10 posts/month
Free is the only PostGate plan with a monthly post cap at all — every paid plan (starting at $4/mo) has no monthly post ceiling. This cap covers real and sandbox posts combined.
Built-in sandbox adapter
A dedicated sandbox platform simulates the complete publish lifecycle — validation, jobs, delivery logs, webhooks — without calling a real social network. Useful for CI, local development, and testing your integration before it touches a live account.
Signed webhooks, hosted MCP
Free includes webhook delivery for post.published, post.partial, and post.failed events, plus access to PostGate's hosted MCP server for AI agents — features some competitors reserve for paid tiers only.
1 team member, 7-day retention
Delivery logs and analytics snapshots are kept for 7 days, and the workspace supports 1 member — enough to build and test solo, at up to 60 API requests/minute.
What's not included
Analytics dashboards, cron/queue schedules, comment and DM syncing, bring-your-own platform app credentials (BYOK), white-label branding, and priority support are all reserved for paid plans. See the full breakdown on /pricing.
Honest comparison
Where this actually stands next to competitors
Ayrshare, one of the more established players in this category, offers no permanently free plan — only a 28-day trial before its cheapest paid tier ($149/mo) kicks in. PostGate's Free plan doesn't expire and never asks for a card. That said, it isn't the cheapest way to post live content at the very smallest scale: our own research found that Zernio gives its first two connected accounts away free indefinitely with unlimited live posting, and bundle.social's $0/mo plan includes 20 real posts a month across 3 accounts — both can beat PostGate's 1-profile, 10-post Free plan if that's literally all you need. Read the full numbers in our social media API pricing comparison, or use the cost calculator to see which PostGate tier fits once you outgrow Free.
Start on the free plan today
No card required. Upgrade only when you actually outgrow it.