Publer Professional starts at $5 per month for one social account. Business starts at $10. Those headlines from help article 15h4yqh (updated 15 Sep 2026) are true only at one profile. The pricing page's plans-332f215a99c630a3.js (build BatAV3AWaSGv5E2bjnf34, still the file served on 27 Sep 2026) replaces the unit rate for the whole count: $5 or $10 at one account, $4.50 or $8.50 at two, then the visitor billing API's $4 and $7 from three accounts up. The tenth account is free. Yearly help copy still says 20 percent. The yearly toggle labels two months free. The formula uses 0.20, or 0.25 when an additional_yearly_discount cookie is set. MCP is checked on Business in that JS grid and limited to Top Ambassadors and Enterprise in help 14orlq0. Trends MCP is a live multi-source board, not a replacement for Publer's queue.
Which Publer SKU is the $5 calendar?
The $5 Professional SKU is one social account, one user, and zero extra members. Help 15h4yqh states that floor in those words. Business's $10 floor uses the same 1 / 1 / 0 shape. The account owner is already in the subscription and does not count as an extra member.
Free is a separate product. Help 15h4yqh and the SSR pricing card both list 1 user, 1 workspace, 3 social accounts with X excluded, 10 scheduled posts per account, 25 drafts, and 24-hour published history. Paid plans add X, unlimited scheduling and drafts, unlimited workspaces, and eternal history. Professional's trial is 7 days. Business's trial is 14 days. Help 1srlp9n (updated 11 Feb 2025) still says a card or PayPal is required to start the Professional trial.
Enterprise is a quote. Help 15h4yqh lists volume discounts, 1:1 onboarding, prioritized support, unlimited daily posting from Publer's side, purchase-order billing, and MCP plus API as part of the Business bundle it inherits. Networks still apply their own caps.
| Plan | Help 15h4yqh headline | 1-account JS rate | Trial |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0, 3 accounts, no X | n/a | none |
| Professional | $5 / month | $5 | 7 days |
| Business | $10 / month | $10 | 14 days |
| Enterprise | custom quote | custom | sales |
Extra members are not on that headline. The visitor billing API on 27 Sep 2026 returned Professional members at $2 and Business members at $3, with both bases at 0. JS falls back to those same defaults (accounts??4 / members??2 on Professional, accounts??7 / members??3 on Business) when the API omits a field.
Why 3 social accounts do not cost $13 on Professional
Publer does not add $4 onto a $5 base. The calculator picks one unit rate for the entire account count, then multiplies.
if ("accounts"===l&&(1===t&&(s="business"===e?10:5),2===t&&(s="business"===e?8.5:4.5)))
Fetched 27 Sep 2026 from https://publer.com/_next/static/chunks/pages/plans-332f215a99c630a3.js. One Professional account bills $5. Two bill $4.50 each ($9). Three and up bill the visitor API rate of $4 each. Business follows the same shape at $10, $8.50, and $7. Help 15h4yqh no longer prints those $4 / $7 extras after the 15 Sep 2026 rewrite. The live math still does.
The tenth-account discount is a separate pass: i=.1 then Math.floor(i * count) free units unless the workspace is enterprise. Help 15h4yqh and help hshrth (updated 17 Sep 2026) describe it as every ninth account or extra member making the tenth free. Twenty accounts therefore bill eighteen.
| Accounts | Professional / month | Business / month |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $5 | $10 |
| 2 | $9 | $17 |
| 3 | $12 | $21 |
| 5 | $20 | $35 |
| 10 (ninth-free) | $36 | $63 |
A "$5 plus $4 per extra" reading would price three Professional accounts at $13. The JS prices them at $12. Recheck the selector before treating a competitor's worked example as the bill.
Yearly billing prints 20 percent, 2 months free, and 0.20
Help 15h4yqh, help 1srlp9n, help 1c57hsq (updated 15 Sep 2026), and help hshrth all say yearly billing saves 20 percent versus monthly. The pricing toggle does not print "20%". For a 12-month cycle it calls subscriptionMonthsFree with count 2, or count 3 when JSON.parse(cookie.user).additional_yearly_discount is true.
The billed fraction sits next to that label:
({1:0, 3:.15, 6:.17, 12: l?.25 : .2})[r]
Same plans-332f215a99c630a3.js, 27 Sep 2026. Monthly is 0. A 3-month cycle is 0.15. A 6-month cycle is 0.17. Twelve months is 0.20, or 0.25 with that cookie. Two months free on a $5 SKU is $50 prepaid if the buyer pays ten months. Twenty percent off $60 is $48. A 0.25 cookie would be $45. The three published rules do not land on one number. Do not flatten them.
Help hshrth's bonus line also moved. On 17 Sep 2026 it reads "up to an additional 16%" for the bonus/discount system. The 6-month key in JS is still .17. Treat 16 percent and 17 percent as two live strings, not a rounding error.
Does the Business MCP checkbox match help 14orlq0?
The same plans JS marks publerMCP false on Free and Professional, true on Business, lifetime, and enterprise, and links help 14orlq0. Help 15h4yqh and help 1c57hsq say MCP is for eligible customers. Help 14orlq0 (updated 14 Aug 2026) is stricter: beta with Top Ambassadors and Enterprise customers, then a keep-in-mind that repeats Enterprise only.
Setup is not a public URL. 14orlq0 walks Settings, then AI & Automations, then MCP: paste or create an API key, pick scopes (workspaces and accounts required; posts, media, analytics optional), copy the generated server URL and the authorization header Publer shows. There is no mcp.publer.com host in that article. Eligibility is plan plus account setup, and the article still has not been updated to match the Business checkbox.
API access is a different gate. Publer's docs overview (fetched 27 Sep 2026) limits the REST API to Business and Enterprise customers in good standing. Auth lives at https://publer.com/docs/getting-started/authentication.md: header Authorization: Bearer-API YOUR_API_KEY, plus Publer-Workspace-Id. The overview's "Getting Started" curl against /api/v1/me uses Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN without the -API suffix. The overview jump table's Authentication cell 404s at https://publer.com/docs/authentication. Use the getting-started path.
Publer API: Bearer-API, 100 requests per 2 minutes, 500-post bulk
Base URL is https://app.publer.com/api/v1. Overview specs: JSON, Bearer-API token, v1, 100 requests per 2 minutes per user. Rate-limits.md (fetched 27 Sep 2026) names a 2-minute fixed window, headers X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset, and HTTP 429 with {"error": "Rate limit exceeded. Retry later."} when the window is empty. Limits apply per user account across keys.
Manual scheduling is POST /api/v1/posts/schedule with bulk.state "scheduled" and a scheduled_at at least one minute in the future. The sample 200 body is {"job_id": "6810dec617eae6d55d7a5e5b"}. Docs tell clients to poll /api/v1/job_status/{job_id}. Bulk scheduling accepts up to 500 posts in one bulk.posts array; every object must share the same accounts IDs in the same order.
The pricing-grid "24 / day / profile" (Professional) and "36 / day / profile" (Business) match Facebook posts and reels, and Pinterest pins, on rate-limits.md. They are not a single cap. The same table on 27 Sep 2026 lists Instagram posts and reels at 20 (Professional) and 25 (Business), LinkedIn profile posts at 12 and 14, X at 50 and 100, TikTok videos at 20 and 25, YouTube videos and shorts at 10 and 15. Free has its own column (Facebook 12, Instagram 15, X 25). Rolling window is the previous 24 hours in UTC, per profile. Help 15h4yqh's Enterprise "unlimited daily posting from Publer's side" still defers to network caps.
When the job is trend boards, not a queue
Publer is a scheduler. Trends MCP is not. A team that needs live Google, TikTok, Reddit, Amazon, and YouTube boards inside Cursor should buy the trend feed, then keep Publer (or Later, Buffer, Metricool) for the calendar. Cursor config from llms.txt on 27 Sep 2026:
"trends-mcp": {
"url": "https://api.trendsmcp.ai/mcp",
"transport": "http",
"headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" }
}
The HTML homepage copy-config omits transport. Paste the llms.txt object into ~/.cursor/mcp.json. Setup notes live on the MCP server for Cursor page.
Public Trends MCP SKUs on 27 Sep 2026, from HTML /pricing plus llms.txt: Free $0 and 100 requests per month; Starter $19 and 1,000; Pro $49 and 5,000; Business $199 and 25,000. Markdown says annual billing saves 20 percent. HTML yearly cards print Starter $16 / month ($192 billed annually), Pro $39 / month ($468), Business $159 / month ($1,910), each "after day 7". The trial FAQ still says the card is not charged until day 8. HTML heading says 30+ data sources; the pricing FAQ and homepage FAQ say 40+; the homepage hero says 35+; HTML /data-sources prints 36 sources, then "Fifteen keyword + twenty-one live", then 83 data sources. llms.txt lists 16 keyword sources including python and 24 live feed names, matching the MCP get_top_trends enum. HTML FAQ meters one successful call as one request. llms.txt meters MCP get_top_trends at 1 credit per 10 requested rows, max 10 credits per call. Do not flatten those counts or those two meters.
For Instagram and TikTok visual calendars, Later is the closer product than Trends MCP. The Later alternatives roundup is the switching page. For queue-first publishing with MCP on the free tier, Buffer is the closer product; its SKUs sit on the Buffer pricing post. Social listening suites are a third job: see social listening tools. Hashtag volume that should drive the next Publer slot belongs on TikTok trends, not inside Publer's Explore recommendations.
FAQ
How much does Publer cost per month in 2026?
Professional starts at $5 per month for one social account. Business starts at $10. Three Professional accounts bill $12 at the visitor API's $4 unit rate, not $13. Ten accounts bill nine paid units. Extra members are $2 (Professional) or $3 (Business) on the 27 Sep 2026 visitor API. Enterprise is a quote. Recheck publer.com/pricing because the help article no longer prints the $4 / $7 extras.
Does Publer have a free plan?
Yes. Help 15h4yqh lists 1 user, 1 workspace, 3 social accounts excluding X, 10 scheduled posts per account, 25 drafts, and 24-hour history. Paid trials of selected features are included. X, unlimited scheduling, analytics, recycling, API, and MCP are not.
Is Publer MCP included on Business?
The pricing JS checkbox is true on Business. Help 14orlq0 (updated 14 Aug 2026) still limits MCP to Top Ambassadors and Enterprise and has no public MCP URL. Help 15h4yqh calls it "eligible customers." Ask Publer which of those three strings applies to a given workspace before buying Business for MCP alone.
Does Publer replace a trends API?
No. Publer schedules posts and, on Business, returns account analytics, hashtag reports, and best times to post. It does not return a live Google Trends board or a TikTok hashtag ranking. Trends MCP's three tools are get_growth, get_time_series, and get_top_trends. Use Publer after the board, not instead of it.
What is the Publer API rate limit?
Docs say 100 requests per 2-minute fixed window per user, across keys. Exceeding it returns 429. Daily publish caps are a second limiter and differ by network: Professional Instagram posts sit at 20 per day per profile on rate-limits.md, while the pricing grid's 24 / 36 line is the Facebook and Pinterest row.
Sources (accessed 27 Sep 2026): Publer pricing; help 15h4yqh, 1srlp9n, 1c57hsq, hshrth, 14orlq0; visitor API GET https://app.publer.com/api/v1/billing/subscription?visitor=true; plans-332f215a99c630a3.js; Publer docs overview, getting-started/authentication, getting-started/rate-limits, and manual-scheduling; Trends MCP HTML /pricing, /data-sources, homepage, and llms.txt.