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Blotato is a content and posting engine that turns ideas, links and files into posts and videos and publishes them to 9 platforms, from its app, an AI agent, n8n or Make. ShortFast is a faceless pipeline that writes each short from a topic, renders it in one of 27 styles and posts it on a schedule.
Blotato is for publishing and repurposing content across many networks; ShortFast is for running a faceless short-video channel that writes, renders and posts itself. Pick Blotato if you post many kinds of content to up to nine networks or build your own automations in n8n, Make or an AI agent; pick ShortFast if you want a new faceless short, made from a topic in one of 27 styles and posted to TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts on a schedule, without building a workflow.
They meet at faceless video. Blotato's help center builds a daily faceless series as an n8n workflow around its “AI Video with AI Voice” template. In ShortFast that loop is the product: each automation writes the next episode, with a new topic, script, title and footage in the same tone and format, then posts it or emails it to you.
Starter is $29 a month at Blotato, with 1,250 AI credits and 20 social accounts, and $19 at ShortFast, with 1,000 credits and 1 social account; the credits don't convert. Neither has a free plan: Blotato has a 7-day free trial with a card, without its API, and every ShortFast monthly plan starts with a 3-day trial for $1.
Side by side
| Dimension | ShortFast | Blotato |
|---|---|---|
| Core job | Generate faceless short videos from a topic and publish them on a recurring schedule. | Create and repurpose posts and visuals, then publish them to 9 platforms from the app, an AI agent, n8n or Make. |
| Videos | 27 styles: licensed documentary stock footage, AI video, or AI images in a fixed art style (stick figures, cartoon explainer, anime, whiteboard, claymation…), with a voiceover and captions in 60+ languages. AI actors for UGC-style video. | Templates such as AI Video with AI Voice (narrated AI images or your own clips), an AI selfie talking video, an AI avatar with B-roll, and slideshows. A choice of image models and ElevenLabs voices. |
| Series | Built in: an automation writes the next episode for each posting slot (new topic, script, title and footage, same tone and format, recent titles checked) from a series brief of up to 500 characters. | You build it: Blotato's guide chains an n8n Schedule trigger, an optional LLM node, Create Visual, a status check and a Publish node per platform. An AI agent can run the same steps over MCP. |
| Publishing | Posts to TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts on your schedule, to 1, 3 or 6 social accounts by plan. The same video and one caption go to every platform. | Posts to X, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Threads, Bluesky and Pinterest: now, at a set time or in the next free calendar slot. 20, 40 or 100 accounts by plan. |
| Analytics and inbox | Not yet: analytics are coming soon. No lead capture. | Post metrics on eight platforms (not LinkedIn). Comments, DMs and keyword auto-replies on Instagram and Facebook. |
| What a credit buys | Part of a finished video. Typical: about 12 credits for stock footage, 25 for an AI art style, 324 for AI video. | AI images and video clips only; writing, publishing and API calls use none. 1 to 50 credits per AI image and, on most video models, 55 to 1,250 per clip. Credits roll over, per its help center. |
| Developer access | REST API, signed webhooks and an MCP server for Claude, Cursor and other agents, on the app's credits. No n8n or Make node; both connect to the MCP server with one URL. Free API tier: 50 credits every 30 days, 3 watermarked renders, download only. | REST API, an MCP server with 35 tools, and official n8n and Make nodes, on every paid plan. Not in the trial: generating an API key ends it and starts the paid plan. |
| Refunds | At ShortFast's discretion, per its terms; the $1 three-day trial lets you test first. | Fees are non-refundable except as its terms provide or the law requires. Its pricing FAQ adds: if something genuinely doesn't work, email support within 14 days “and we'll make it right”. |
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ShortFast and Blotato plans
Prices from each vendor's pricing page, checked
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly, per month | What the plan includes (each vendor's own units) |
|---|---|---|---|
| ShortFast Starter | $19 | $15 | 1,000 credits: about 80 stock-footage or 40 AI art-style videos (typical), 1 automation, 1 social account |
| ShortFast Pro | $39 | $31 | 5,000 credits, 3 automations, 3 social accounts, videos up to 3 minutes |
| ShortFast Advanced | $99 | $79 | 10,000 credits, 6 automations, 6 social accounts (2 profiles), videos up to 15 minutes |
| Blotato Starter | $29 | Pay 10 months for 12 | 1,250 AI credits a month, 20 social accounts, 200 queued posts; Blotato's own example: about 178 30-second videos at its cheapest settings |
| Blotato Creator | $97 | Pay 10 months for 12 | 5,000 AI credits a month, 40 social accounts, 1,000 queued posts, faster video processing |
| Blotato Agency | $499 | Pay 10 months for 12 | 28,000 AI credits a month, 100 social accounts, 3,000 queued posts, dedicated video processing |
Credits don't convert between the two. ShortFast's video counts are typical, not limits; Blotato's is its own example: 7 credits for a 30-second video with its cheapest image model. Blotato's pricing page sells monthly plans; yearly billing is set in its billing portal.
Sources: ShortFast pricing · Blotato pricing · Blotato billing and credits · Blotato AI video credits
Blotato is built for distribution. Its app, REST API, MCP server and n8n and Make nodes publish to nine networks, now, at a set time or into the next free slot of a weekly calendar, and Starter connects 20 accounts. Writing, scheduling and publishing use no credits, so posting more doesn't change the bill.
It also covers the work around a post: it turns links, articles, PDFs, audio or a Perplexity query into posts, makes carousels, infographics, slideshows and AI-avatar videos, reads analytics on eight networks, and answers comments and DMs on Instagram and Facebook. If you post many kinds of content to many accounts, or wire up your own n8n or agent workflows, Blotato is the better tool. If you only need a scheduler for posts you already make, compare it with other schedulers; ShortFast is for when making the videos is the bottleneck.
A faceless channel needs a new video every day: a topic, a script with a hook, visuals, a voice, captions, a title and a post. With Blotato you assemble that loop from its n8n guide, and the workflow is yours to maintain. ShortFast runs it itself: each automation follows a series brief of up to 500 characters, writes a new episode for every posting slot in the same tone, format and length, checks recent titles so it doesn't repeat, renders it in one of 27 styles with a voiceover and captions, and posts it to TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts or emails it to you, with no approval step.
Either way, automated channels live under the platforms' rules. YouTube's monetization policies say channels where content “feels interchangeable from video to video” can't monetize, and its spam policy covers “using automated tools or AI to churn out high volumes of similar content with minimal changes”. TikTok requires a label on realistic AI-generated content. Vary your topics and watch the first videos of every automated series.
On October 23, 2026, Blotato's pricing page listed Starter at $29 a month for 1,250 AI credits, Creator at $97 for 5,000 and Agency at $499 for 28,000. It sells monthly plans; its FAQ says yearly billing, set in the billing portal, charges 10 months for 12. Its help center prices a 30-second video at its cheapest settings at 7 credits, about 178 on Starter.
ShortFast's Starter is $19 a month, $15 billed yearly, for 1,000 credits: about 80 stock-footage or 40 AI art-style videos at typical costs. Extra credits are $10 per 1,000. The credits don't convert, so compare the job: for a faceless series posted daily, price a finished episode on each; if you mostly publish posts you make elsewhere, weigh Blotato's flat fee for 20 accounts.
Blotato is the more complete kit for building your own automations: official n8n and Make nodes, a REST API, and an MCP server with 35 tools for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex and other agents, on every paid plan but not the trial. ShortFast has no n8n or Make node; it has a REST API, signed webhooks and an MCP server that n8n and Make connect to with one URL. For a faceless series you may not need a workflow at all. The two can also sit side by side: ShortFast for the faceless series, Blotato for everything else you post.
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Scheduling a finished video, or automating the whole series.
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