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Gongong AI vs Metricool

How Gongong AI compares with Metricool for analytics depth, competitor benchmarking, approvals and API access — including where Metricool’s reporting and free plan genuinely win.

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  • 14-day trial, no card
  • API + MCP on every plan

What Metricool is good at

Start with the credit

Metricool is exceptional value for reporting. Competitor benchmarking, ads data alongside organic, a genuinely usable free plan and brand-based pricing make it a serious answer for a small agency whose deliverable is the report. They also ship an API and an MCP server, which almost nobody else in this category does — and their MCP works on any plan, including the free one. If reporting depth is what you are buying, we do not out-report them and we are not going to pretend otherwise.

Pick Metricool if…

  • Reporting is the deliverable and analytics depth decides the purchase
  • Competitor benchmarking and ads-alongside-organic are must-haves
  • You want a free plan to start on rather than a trial

Side by side

Where the two products diverge

Metricool's column was summarised from their own marketing and pricing pages and last reviewed in September 2026. Where a position varies by plan or was unclear, the cell says so instead of guessing in our favour — and where a row would need us to characterise their engineering rather than their pages, it says to ask them.
Gongong AI compared with Metricool across API and MCP access, pricing model, networks, the engagement inbox, video, repurposing, client approvals, white-label reports, publish-failure handling, learning, trials and mobile.
CapabilityGongong AIMetricool
Public REST API on the entry planCan a script or an agent do what the UI does, on the cheapest paid tier?YesStarter at $19, and the free trial. Never a higher tierPartialTheir API is listed on the Advanced tier, not on Free or Starter
MCP server for AI agentsTools an assistant like Claude or ChatGPT can call on your behalf.Yes11 tools on every plan: draft, schedule, next free slot, analytics, inbox, replyYesThey do ship one, and their MCP page says it works on any plan including the free one — the API is the part gated to Advanced
What the bill scales withThe number that changes when you add a client. Ours is workspaces: Starter 1, Creator 3, Team 10, Agency unlimited.PartialNo per-channel or per-seat line item — but a client is a workspace, so growth crosses a plan ceiling rather than adding a per-client chargePriced by number of brands, with a free plan for one brand
NetworksPartial14 built — Bluesky and Mastodon connect today; the other twelve go live as each platform approves the appCheck their current network list
Engagement inboxComments, mentions, reviews and DMs in one stream, with replies in your voice.Partial10 of our 14 networks. TikTok, Pinterest, Telegram and Discord are publish-only — those APIs expose no inboxCheck their current inbox coverage per network
Rendered video, not just captionsScript to a vertical video with voiceover and captions, in three aspect ratios.YesIncluded, metered in video minutes rather than creditsCheck their current AI feature list
One long source into a week of postsYouTube, articles, PDFs, audio, raw text and RSS.YesDistinct angles mined first, then each expanded in its own runCheck their current feature list
Client sign-off without a loginA link the client opens to approve, request changes or comment.YesCreator and above: signed links, threaded comments, one or two steps, no seat usedPartialPost approval system listed on their Advanced tier
White-label client reportsYesTeam and AgencyPartialReport templates on Advanced; white label on their Custom tier
A published answer for a failed postWhat happens when the machine holding your 9am post dies at 8:59.YesFive failure classes, a different response each, and a recovery sweep on a longer clock than the queue lockNot published — worth asking them directly
Your own results change next week’s draftsA weekly pass over what this workspace published, fed back into the prompt.YesPer workspace, as evidence the model may overrule — not a fine-tuned modelNot advertised at the time of review
Try it without a credit cardYes14 days at Creator limits, approvals and API includedYesA permanently free plan for one brand, at review
MobileYesInstallable PWA — bottom tabs, offline drafts, pushNative mobile apps

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Why teams pick Gongong AI

The case for switching

  • You are buying a production and publishing system with reporting attached, rather than a reporting system with scheduling attached
  • You want the REST API at the entry price rather than on the tier above — their MCP is on every plan, their API is not
  • You want the numbers to change what gets written next — a weekly pass feeds your own results into the drafting prompt as evidence
  • You need client sign-off on the same plan as the rest of the work

Pricing

What it costs to move

Flat per plan — not per channel and not per seat — with the public REST API and the MCP server on every tier, including the trial. Video minutes are a separate monthly pool from AI credits, so a heavy video month never quietly eats your writing budget.

  • Starter

    One brand, one person

    Everything the product does for a single brand — including the REST API and the MCP server most tools reserve for a sales call.

    $19/ month

    $228 per year · switch to annual for 2 months free

    Start free
    • 1 workspace for one brand
    • 10 social accounts, with no per-channel fee
    • 1 seat
    • 2,000 AI credits a month for text, images and carousels, pooled across the organization
    • 10 video minutes a month — each rendered minute also uses 120 AI credits
    • Public REST API, MCP server and webhooks — never gated
    • 14 networks built, 2 connectable today; 10 of them feed the inbox

    No approvals or client review links — those start on Creator.

  • Creator

    Most popular

    Three brands, or your first client

    Where sign-off starts: approvals and a review link a client opens without an account, across three workspaces that cannot see each other.

    $49/ month

    $588 per year · switch to annual for 2 months free

    Start free
    • 3 workspaces — one per brand or client, sealed from each other
    • 25 social accounts, with no per-channel fee
    • 2 seats — a person in several workspaces still counts once
    • 8,000 AI credits a month for text, images and carousels, pooled across the organization
    • 60 video minutes a month — each rendered minute also uses 120 AI credits
    • Public REST API, MCP server and webhooks — never gated
    • 14 networks built, 2 connectable today; 10 of them feed the inbox
    • Approvals and no-login client review links

  • Team

    A team that reviews before it publishes

    Ten workspaces, five seats and white-label reports — the tier where the reporting goes out under your name rather than ours.

    $99/ month

    $1,188 per year · switch to annual for 2 months free

    Start free
    • 10 workspaces — one per brand or client, sealed from each other
    • 60 social accounts, with no per-channel fee
    • 5 seats — a person in several workspaces still counts once
    • 20,000 AI credits a month for text, images and carousels, pooled across the organization
    • 150 video minutes a month — each rendered minute also uses 120 AI credits
    • Public REST API, MCP server and webhooks — never gated
    • 14 networks built, 2 connectable today; 10 of them feed the inbox
    • Approvals and no-login client review links
    • White-label client reports

  • Agency

    Client work at volume

    Unlimited workspaces, 150 social accounts and 15 seats for one flat price — not $249 per person.

    $249/ month

    $2,988 per year · switch to annual for 2 months free

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    • Unlimited workspaces — one per brand or client, sealed from each other
    • 150 social accounts, with no per-channel fee
    • 15 seats — a person in several workspaces still counts once
    • 60,000 AI credits a month for text, images and carousels, pooled across the organization
    • 500 video minutes a month — each rendered minute also uses 120 AI credits
    • Public REST API, MCP server and webhooks — never gated
    • 14 networks built, 2 connectable today; 10 of them feed the inbox
    • Approvals and no-login client review links
    • White-label client reports
    • SAML / OIDC single sign-on (coming soon)

    SAML and OIDC single sign-on are entitled here and not shipped yet.

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