What is Taplio?
Taplio is a LinkedIn tool from lempire SAS, a company in Paris. It schedules posts, drafts them in your voice from your past posts, finds posts worth commenting on and tracks analytics. On its top plan it also sends automated connection requests and direct messages.
Ask Taplio, its built-in agent, imports every post you have published on the day you connect, compares each one with your own average, and drafts new ones from what worked. The Taplio LinkedIn MCP server gives Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other assistants 27 tools for drafting, scheduling, publishing, comment drafts and analytics. Since September 2026 it has been a verified connector in Claude's directory.
Taplio says nothing publishes from an assistant without your explicit confirmation.
How much does Taplio cost?
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $39/month ($32/month billed yearly) | Scheduling, analytics, limited Ask Taplio |
| Growth | $69/month ($49/month billed yearly) | AI post writing, 500 comments a month, team collaboration |
| Pro | $199/month ($149/month billed yearly) | 10x Growth's AI usage, unlimited comments, automated DMs and connection requests |
7-day trial with Pro features and limited AI use. Starter $39/month ($32/month billed yearly); Growth $69/month ($49/month billed yearly); Pro $199/month ($149/month billed yearly). Team and agency plans up to 30% off. New accounts get 50 free MCP calls.
Is Taplio worth it?
Posting on LinkedIn every week sounds easy until it is Tuesday night, the box is blank, and you still do not know why last week's post died when the one before took off.
Taplio's answer is to read everything you have written. Ask Taplio imports your whole post history, measures your voice (sentence length, favourite openers, the words you never use) and compares each post's reach with your own average. When you ask what went wrong, it answers from your numbers rather than generic advice, then drafts the next post and puts it in your calendar.
The newer trick is that you no longer need to open Taplio at all. Add its connector and Claude or ChatGPT gets 27 tools: write a draft, attach an image, schedule it, read your analytics, queue a comment. Taplio says the publish step always waits for your confirmation. It is a verified connector in Claude's own directory, which is more than the open-source LinkedIn servers that log in as you can claim.
Prices are $39, $69 or $199 a month, or $32, $49 and $149 a month billed yearly. Writing with AI in any real quantity starts on Growth; Starter gets limited Ask Taplio. A new account gets 50 free MCP calls, and the 7-day trial gives Pro features with capped AI use.
The catch: LinkedIn's User Agreement, in section 8.2, bans bots and other unauthorised automated methods that add contacts, send messages, or create, comment on or like posts, and its help pages name browser extensions that automate activity. Taplio's Pro plan sells automated connection requests and bulk DMs, its Chrome extension reads your LinkedIn session cookies, and its pricing FAQ calls it safe because it "behaves exactly like a real LinkedIn user would". That is not LinkedIn's permission. Taplio does not say whether it uses LinkedIn's official API, and its terms let it close your Taplio account if a third-party service such as LinkedIn asks. The LinkedIn account at risk is yours. On the other side of the ledger, lempire's terms commit it not to train AI models on your prompts, posts or outputs.
Our take: Taplio earns its fee as a writing desk and a calendar, with you pressing publish. The automation switches on Pro are a different product, and the one LinkedIn's rules were written against.
Where it earns its place
A B2B founder who posts twice a week
Turn a sales call into a LinkedIn post without opening another app
In Claude, ask for a post from the call notes; the Taplio connector saves a draft in your voice and schedules it once you confirm. Growth at $69/month covers the AI writing; Taplio's own guide records the call in Claap first.
A head of marketing ghost-writing for three executives
Keep three calendars full and see whose posts are landing
Team pricing, up to 30% off, adds multiple accounts with admin, writer and client roles and shared analytics; each executive's posts are compared with their own average rather than a generic benchmark.
A developer scripting a personal posting routine
Draft and schedule LinkedIn posts from the terminal
Run claude mcp add --transport http taplio https://mcp.taplio.com in Claude Code; create_draft, schedule_draft and get_post_analytics work there, with publishing still waiting for a yes. A new account's 50 free MCP calls cover a trial run.
Before you commit
- Setup
- Create a Taplio account and connect LinkedIn; then add the connector in Claude (Customize, Connectors) or paste https://mcp.taplio.com as a custom connector in ChatGPT. Taplio puts the Claude step at about 30 seconds.
- Integrations
- Claude, ChatGPT, Manus, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed and Claude Code through MCP; Zapier triggers; a Taplio API with per-plan limits; a Chrome extension that works inside LinkedIn.
- Data and privacy
- Imports your full post history on connect and refreshes it daily. lempire's terms bar training on your inputs and outputs and require the same of its model providers. Per the privacy policy, the Chrome extension reads LinkedIn session cookies and may block some LinkedIn telemetry requests.
- Cost at scale
- One person on Growth pays $588 a year billed yearly; Pro is $1,788 a year. Teams and agencies get up to 30% off multi-seat plans.
- Limits
- Growth watches comments for auto-replies for 2 days after posting and caps engagement at 500 comments a month; Pro is unlimited. MCP calls have per-plan limits Taplio does not publish, and engagement inside Ask Taplio is still rolling out.
What’s good
- Ask Taplio drafts from your own post history and a voice profile you can correct
- 27-tool MCP server, verified in Claude's directory and usable from ChatGPT and Cursor
- Publishing from an assistant waits for your confirmation
- Terms bar training AI models on your posts, prompts and outputs
- Yearly billing cuts Growth from $69 to $49 a month
What’s not
- Pro's automated DMs and connection requests fall under LinkedIn's banned automation
- Chrome extension reads your LinkedIn session cookies
- Useful AI writing starts at $69 a month
- Does not say whether it uses LinkedIn's official API
Best for
Founders, consultants and sales leads who post on LinkedIn every week and want drafts in their own voice, scheduled from the AI chat they already use.
Taplio alternatives
Taplio: common questions
- Is Taplio worth it?
- Taplio is a good LinkedIn writing desk that you can now run from Claude, but its Pro automation sits squarely inside what LinkedIn's rules forbid. We rate it 3.7 out of 5.
- How much does Taplio cost?
- 7-day trial with Pro features and limited AI use. Starter $39/month ($32/month billed yearly); Growth $69/month ($49/month billed yearly); Pro $199/month ($149/month billed yearly). Team and agency plans up to 30% off. New accounts get 50 free MCP calls.
- What are the downsides of Taplio?
- Pro's automated DMs and connection requests fall under LinkedIn's banned automation; chrome extension reads your LinkedIn session cookies; useful AI writing starts at $69 a month; does not say whether it uses LinkedIn's official API.
- Who is Taplio best for?
- Founders, consultants and sales leads who post on LinkedIn every week and want drafts in their own voice, scheduled from the AI chat they already use.
- How much does Taplio cost for a team or in production?
- One person on Growth pays $588 a year billed yearly; Pro is $1,788 a year. Teams and agencies get up to 30% off multi-seat plans.
- Is Taplio safe for company data?
- Imports your full post history on connect and refreshes it daily. lempire's terms bar training on your inputs and outputs and require the same of its model providers. Per the privacy policy, the Chrome extension reads LinkedIn session cookies and may block some LinkedIn telemetry requests.
- What are the best Taplio alternatives?
- The closest alternatives we have reviewed are Jasper and HeyCatch.
Answers checked Nov 11, 2026.