Meta MCP in 2026: 9 Servers That Post to Facebook, Instagram and Threads, and What Meta's Official MCP Does
Meta's official MCP servers manage ads, developer apps and WhatsApp. None posts to your Facebook Page, Instagram or Threads. We checked Meta's docs and 9 servers that do, on their own pages.
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Meta ships three official MCP servers: Ads (mcp.facebook.com/ads), Social Technologies for developers (mcp.facebook.com/devtools) and WhatsApp Business Tools. None of them publishes an organic post to a Facebook Page, an Instagram account or Threads.
- 02So if you searched "Meta MCP" to run ads, Meta's own Ads MCP is the answer.
If you wanted Claude or ChatGPT to post to Facebook, Instagram or Threads, every option is third-party.
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Threads has its own API, separate from Instagram's: 500-character posts, carousels of up to 20 photos and videos, videos up to 5 minutes, 250 API-published posts per 24 hours, and replies, insights and reply moderation behind their own permissions.
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To post to all three from a chat without touching a token, pick a hosted server with its own approved Meta apps and OAuth. For thread chains and reply moderation, Zernio documents both. A self-hosted GitHub server works for your own account if you create a Meta app.
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Every fact below links to Meta's developer documentation or to the vendor's own page, checked on 22 October 2026.
The 9 servers compared
Not stated= the vendor's page does not say| Server | Connects via | Paste a key or token? | Threads | Threads chains and replies | Price, as the vendor states it | ||
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| AntworkDocs ↗Ours | Official APIs, Antwork's Meta apps (OAuth) | No | Pages: text, up to 10 images or one video; Stories | Feed images, carousels of up to 10, Reels, Stories | Text up to 500 characters, carousels of up to 20 photos and videos, videos up to 5 minutes; per-post insights | Neither | 2 accounts free, then $5 per account/month (pricing) |
| BufferSource ↗ | Your Buffer account; OAuth in Claude, or an API key (setup) | No (API key optional) | Pages; Groups by notification only (help) | Images, carousels, Reels, Stories (help) | Text, images, one video up to 5 minutes (help) | Up to 25 posts per thread; replies in Buffer's Community tab, not stated for the MCP | MCP "included on every plan, including Free" |
| MetricoolSource ↗ | Your Metricool account (OAuth) | No | Included on Free (pricing) | Included on Free | Included on Free; the MCP can "create, and publish posts in any connected network" | Not stated | Free plan, up to 20 scheduled posts a month |
| PostizSource ↗ | Postiz's Meta apps (OAuth); your own if self-hosted | No | Pages, Reels, Stories (Facebook) | Feed, carousels, Reels, Stories (docs) | Single posts, image or video carousels (Threads) | "Chained replies", published in order | $29/month (Standard, 5 channels), 7-day trial (pricing); self-host free, AGPL-3.0 |
| ZernioSource ↗ | Zernio's Meta apps (OAuth) | OAuth, or an API key for unattended agents (Instagram MCP) | Pages, Reels, Stories (docs) | Feed, carousels of up to 10, Reels, Stories | Text, image, video up to 5 minutes, carousels of up to 10 images | Thread sequences; comment reply, hide and delete | 2 accounts free, then $6/account/month (pricing) |
| AyrshareSource ↗ | You link accounts in Ayrshare | Yes, an API key as a Bearer header (setup) | Pages, Reels, Stories (docs) | Images, videos, carousels of up to 10, Reels, Stories | Text with link preview, image or video, carousels of up to 20 | thread: true splits text into a connected series | API plans from $149/month (pricing) |
| RobinReachSource ↗ | RobinReach's Threads connection (OAuth) | No, the MCP URL "has no API key in it" | Listed among its 13 networks | Listed | Text and image posts; carousels not mentioned | Multi-post chains; replies not described for Threads | MCP from Bloom, $24/month; free Seed plan without MCP (pricing) |
| quinnjr/threads-mcpSource ↗ | Official Threads API, your own Meta app | Yes, your App ID and secret, or a long-lived token | No | No | Text, images or videos; insights | Reply to threads, read replies | Free, MIT |
| bintangtimurlangit/threads-mcpSource ↗ | Your logged-in browser session, not the API | Yes, your Threads session cookie | No | No | Create, quote and delete posts; like, repost, follow | Replies; scheduled posts only publish "while this server process is running" | Free, MIT |
"Not stated" means the vendor's own page does not say. It does not mean the feature is missing. Vendors change fast in this space, so open the linked page before relying on any single cell.
Meta's official MCP servers do not post for you. Meta runs three: the Ads MCP for campaigns and reporting, the Meta Social Technologies MCP for developers managing apps and webhooks, and the WhatsApp Business Tools MCP for messaging. None publishes an organic post to a Facebook Page, an Instagram account or Threads. So if "Meta MCP" meant running ads from Claude or ChatGPT, use Meta's Ads MCP. If it meant posting to Meta's apps, especially Threads, the servers on this page are the answer, and they are all third-party.
This page uses two sources only: Meta's developer documentation for its MCP servers and the Threads API, and each vendor's own documentation and pricing. Everything was checked on 22 October 2026, and every row links to where the fact came from. For Facebook or Instagram alone, see Facebook MCP servers and Instagram MCP servers; for every network, social media MCP servers.
Meta's official MCP servers
Meta's MCP overview lists three remote servers. All of them sign you in with "OAuth-based authentication with Read and Manage scopes", and the validated clients are Claude Desktop, Claude Code, ChatGPT (Web), Codex and Cursor.
| Server | What it does | Publishes organic posts? | Source |
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Meta Ads MCP, https://mcp.facebook.com/ads | Reporting, ad and campaign creation, catalogs, signals and datasets, A/B tests and lift studies, activity logs | No | Ads MCP overview |
Meta Social Technologies MCP (formerly Developer Tools), https://mcp.facebook.com/devtools, beta | 11 tools for developers: app settings, App Review status, compliance, API usage, webhooks, docs search | No: "Webhooks are the only area the server can write to" | Social Technologies MCP |
| WhatsApp Business Tools MCP | Business accounts, phone numbers, message templates, webhooks, sending messages | No, it sends WhatsApp messages | WhatsApp Business Tools MCP |
Meta's announcement of 29 April 2026 introduced the ads server as an open beta. Meta does not state a price for any of the three. If your job is ads, stop here: a first-party server is the safest place to give an AI access to your ad spend. Pipeboard is the hosted third-party alternative, a "Meta Ads MCP" that "connects Facebook and Instagram advertising to Claude, ChatGPT", with a free plan (site).
What Meta's Threads API lets any MCP server do
Facebook and Instagram have their own pages with Meta's rules for each. Threads is the one that comes up least, and it is a separate API: a Meta app needs the Threads use case and uses "the Threads app ID and its corresponding app secret", not Instagram's.
| What you want the AI to do | Official API? | Conditions | Source |
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| Publish text, an image or a video | Yes, threads_content_publish | "Text posts are limited to 500 characters"; video "300 seconds (5 minutes) maximum" | Posts |
| Publish a carousel | Yes | "Carousels are limited to 20 images, videos, or a mix of the two" | Posts |
| Add a link preview or a topic tag | Yes | Link attachments on text-only posts; "Only one topic tag is allowed per post" | Posts |
| Publish as often as you like | No | 250 API-published posts and 1,000 replies per 24 hours per profile | Troubleshooting |
| Schedule a post on Threads' side | Not documented | The posts guide does not describe scheduled publishing, so tools hold the post and publish it at the time | Posts |
| Read and reply to replies | Yes, separate permissions | threads_read_replies for reading, threads_manage_replies for replying | Get started |
| Hide replies or approve them first | Yes | Hide or unhide top-level replies; reply approvals with enable_reply_approvals | Reply management |
| Read insights | Yes, threads_manage_insights | Per post: views, likes, replies, reposts, quotes, shares | Insights |
| Serve people outside your own app | App Review | Each permission "must first be approved through the App Review process, and your app must be published" | Get started |
Three practical consequences:
- Publishing and replying are separate grants. A server can post to Threads without being able to touch replies, and the other way round. Check which permissions a tool asks for.
- Your own Meta app works, but only for you. Until App Review, an app serves people with a role on it, such as a Threads Tester. That is why the GitHub servers below are a legitimate route for your own profile and a hosted tool is the route for everyone else.
- Anything that likes, follows or reposts for you is not on this API. Those actions are not in the Threads API guides, so a server that offers them is driving a logged-in browser.
Pick by job
- Post to Facebook, Instagram and Threads from Claude or ChatGPT, no token. A hosted OAuth server with its own approved Meta apps: Antwork, Buffer, Metricool, Postiz or RobinReach.
- Thread chains and reply moderation. Zernio documents thread sequences plus comment reply, hide and delete for Threads. Postiz and Ayrshare also publish chains.
- Free, with analytics. Metricool's Free plan includes one Facebook, one Instagram and one Threads connection, and its MCP works on that plan.
- Free code on the official API, for your own profile. quinnjr/threads-mcp, with a Meta app you create.
- Run ads. Meta's own Ads MCP, above.
The servers, one by one
A hosted MCP server at https://api.antwork.io/mcp. You add the URL to your AI app, sign in to Antwork, and connect Facebook, Instagram and Threads on each one's own login screen. For Threads it asks Meta for three permissions only: threads_basic, threads_content_publish and threads_manage_insights. It publishes text up to Threads' 500 characters and carousels of up to 20 photos and videos mixed, with videos up to 5 minutes, schedules them up to 30 days ahead, and reads back each post's views, likes, replies, reposts and quotes. Before drafting, your AI reads that account's recent posts, so drafts start from how you already write on Threads rather than on Instagram, and every post lands as a draft you approve. The same connection covers Facebook Pages, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest and Bluesky. Walkthroughs: post to Threads from Claude and from ChatGPT.
Buffer
Vendor docs ↗Buffer's MCP connects to the queue you already have, and it is "included on every plan, including Free". Its Threads help page is the most detailed of any vendor here: up to 25 posts per thread on the Free, Essentials and Team plans, one video up to 5 minutes, and a 250-post daily limit where every post in a thread counts. It is also honest about the gaps: "Scheduling Quotes or Reposts in advance is not possible at this time", and alt text, GIFs and polls are not supported. Threads scheduling needs one of Buffer's new plans.
Metricool
Vendor docs ↗The free pick for Meta's three apps. Metricool's pricing page lists Facebook, Instagram and Threads on the Free plan, one connection each, and its MCP at https://ai.metricool.com/mcp works "on any plan, including Free", reading metrics and reports and publishing to "any connected network". The Free plan schedules up to 20 posts a month. Its help article does not describe Threads chains.
Postiz
Vendor docs ↗The open-source option, AGPL-3.0. Its Threads page covers "single posts, image or video carousels, and chained replies", where "Postiz will publish each reply in order once the parent thread goes live", plus Threads analytics and an MCP that "lets AI assistants like Claude and Cursor schedule Threads posts through OAuth". If you self-host, you register your own Meta apps.
Zernio
Vendor docs ↗The inbox pick. Zernio's Threads docs list "Text, Image, Video, Carousel, Thread sequence" and comment management to "Comment, reply, delete, hide and unhide", with analytics for views, likes, comments and shares. Note its carousel limit is 10 images, half of what Meta's API allows. The same server covers Facebook Pages and Instagram, including Instagram DM replies. Two accounts are free, then $6 each.
Ayrshare
Vendor docs ↗A developer API first. Its Threads docs cover carousels of "up to a combined total of 20 images or videos" and a thread: true option that splits long text into "a connected thread series with optional numbering and media". The MCP authenticates with an API key in a Bearer header, which claude.ai personal connectors cannot send, so it suits Claude Code, Cursor or your own agent. API plans start at $149 a month.
RobinReach
Vendor docs ↗A hosted scheduler whose MCP URL "has no API key in it": you add it to Claude as a custom connector and sign in, with "a normal OAuth click" to Threads and no Meta developer app. It writes Threads posts and multi-post chains and schedules them, across 13 networks including Facebook and Instagram. ChatGPT works in Developer mode on a paid plan. The MCP is not on the free Seed plan; it starts on Bloom at $24 a month.
The GitHub servers
quinnjr/threads-mcp is the do-it-yourself route on the official API, MIT-licensed. It creates threads with text, images or videos, replies, reads replies and conversations, and gets insights. It needs your own Meta app ("You cannot use simple API keys") and runs locally, so it works in Claude Desktop and Claude Code but not in claude.ai or ChatGPT unless you host it.
bintangtimurlangit/threads-mcp does more, and risks more. It "drives a real logged-in browser session using your own cookies" to post, reply, quote, like, repost and follow. Its own README warns that Meta "can restrict or ban accounts that behave like bots" and that the session cookie is "a bearer credential for your entire account". Use it with a test account, not your brand's.
How to connect a Meta MCP server
The steps are the same for any hosted server. Here they are with Antwork's URL; swap in your vendor's.
- Claude (claude.ai and Claude Desktop): Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, paste
https://api.antwork.io/mcp, sign in, then ask Claude to connect Threads and approve it on Threads' own screen. Walkthrough: post to Threads from Claude. - ChatGPT: Antwork is an official app in ChatGPT's directory: open its listing, click Connect, sign in and approve. For a server that is not listed, turn on Developer mode in Settings → Security and login, open Plugins in the sidebar, click +, and paste the URL. Walkthrough: ChatGPT to Threads.
- Claude Code: run
claude mcp add antwork --transport http https://api.antwork.io/mcp, then/mcpto sign in. - Meta's Ads MCP: add
https://mcp.facebook.com/adsthe same way and sign in with Meta.
Then ask something concrete:
Before you give an AI publish rights
- Prefer OAuth over pasted tokens and cookies. An OAuth grant can be revoked from your Meta account settings. A session cookie in a config file is your whole account.
- Keep a review step. An assistant with publish rights and an untrusted web page in its context can be talked into posting. Choose a server that creates drafts and publishes only on an explicit request.
- Check what the grant covers. On Threads, publishing, replies and insights are separate permissions. A server that asks for
threads_manage_repliescan answer and hide replies, not just post. - Know the ceilings. 250 API-published Threads posts and 1,000 replies per profile per 24 hours. No tool gets around that, and none should try.
Post from your AI, in your own voice.
Connect Claude or ChatGPT once. Drafts start from your recent posts, and nothing goes out until you approve it.
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Meta and Threads MCP servers, answered
What is the Meta MCP?
Can Meta's official MCP post to my Facebook Page, Instagram or Threads?
Is there an official Threads MCP server?
Can Claude or ChatGPT post to Threads?
Can an MCP server post a Threads chain?
Can an MCP server reply to Threads comments?
Is there a free Threads MCP server?
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