Why MCP is on our $12 plan, not our $59 one

Every scheduling tool we looked at that supports an AI agent puts it behind the most expensive tier. The logic seems to be: an agent is a “power user” feature, so it belongs with the power-user price.

We think that gets it backwards.

The actual jobs-to-be-done

A solo creator running two or three channels is exactly the person who benefits most from handing a week of scheduling to Claude or ChatGPT - and exactly the person least likely to be paying an enterprise price for it. The agencies who could justify a $30+/month tool already have a team member clicking “Schedule.” The person who needs the agent is the one working alone.

So on Dropslate, MCP and the REST API are both included from the first paid plan - $12 a month - not gated behind Studio or Agency. Free gets read-only agent access, so you can see what an agent would do before you pay for it to actually publish.

What “included” actually means

It is not a watered-down version. The same 22 MCP tools, the same plan-then-confirm flow, the same audit log in Settings, whether you are on Creator or Agency. The only thing that changes between plans is the ceiling on accounts, posts and storage - the same limits that already govern the dashboard and the API.

Why this is sustainable

MCP calls are not metered separately - they go through the same rate limits and quotas as everything else (600 requests per 10 minutes per credential, 60 post-creation requests per hour per workspace). An agent does not cost us more to serve than a human clicking around the dashboard, so there was no real reason to price it as if it did.

If you want to see the actual tool list and the safety rules built into it, the MCP feature page has both.