Post Planner alternatives

The rest of the field

Listed alphabetically. What each one is for, who buys it, what it costs, and where it stops. Tools with a full comparison also have a page of their own.

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   Agorapulse

   $79/mo billed annually

   Agorapulse leads with the inbox rather than the calendar. Comments, direct messages and reviews land in one queue with moderation rules and assignment, which suits teams whose day is mostly replying rather than planning. Standard is $79 a month billed annually for 10 social profiles, rising through Professional and Advanced at $119 and $149 as team features and analytics unlock. The 30-day trial is the most generous in this list and takes no card. Reporting covers ROI and competitor benchmarking, and integrations reach HubSpot and Salesforce, though attribution stays at the campaign level rather than the individual post.

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   Ayrshare

   $149/mo

   Ayrshare is not a scheduler you log into, it is an API you build on, sold to SaaS products that want posting as a feature without maintaining a dozen platform integrations. It covers 13 or more networks with publishing, analytics, engagement and history endpoints, webhooks, custom branding and an MCP server for agent access. Premium is $149 a month for 1 profile, Launch $299 for up to 10 with a 28-day trial, Business from $599 for 30 to 300 profiles with per-profile pricing. There is no free plan. If you want a dashboard rather than a codebase, this is the wrong shape.

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   Blotato

   from $29/mo

   Blotato is AI-first: it generates images, video, voice and captions and then publishes them across 9 platforms, so it competes on making content rather than only scheduling it. Starter is $29 a month for 20 accounts and 1,250 AI credits, Creator $97 for 40 accounts, Agency $499. There are no per-post or per-seat fees and the trial runs 7 days. It ships a hosted MCP server and an API, with Claude Skills on the annual plan, which makes it one of the more agent-native tools in this list. What it does not do is tell you which of that content earned anything.

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   Buffer

   from $5 per channel/mo

   Buffer is the oldest name in the category and still the cheapest way to start: a free plan covering 3 channels and 10 scheduled posts each, then $5 per channel a month on Essentials and $10 on Team. Pricing per channel keeps it very cheap at one or two accounts and stops being cheap at ten. It ships a public API with published request quotas on every tier and, since May 2026, an official MCP server that is free even on the free plan, so an agent can drive it at no cost. Analytics are reach and engagement, not revenue.

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   ContentStudio

   $19/mo billed annually

   ContentStudio pairs scheduling with content discovery, so finding something to post is treated as part of the job rather than assumed. It covers 11 or more networks including Bluesky, Threads, Telegram and Google Business Profile, with AI generation for text, images and video, a social inbox, approvals and white-label options. Standard is $29 monthly or $19 annually for 5 accounts and 1 workspace, Advanced $69 or $49 for 10 accounts and 2 workspaces, and Agency Unlimited $139 or $99 for 25 or more accounts and unlimited workspaces. The trial is 7 days, full-feature, no card. Analytics stay at engagement level.

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   CoSchedule

   $19/user/mo billed annually

   CoSchedule started as a marketing calendar and still behaves like one: social posting is a lane inside a wider plan that also holds campaigns, projects and assets. If your problem is that social, email and launches live in three places, that framing is the draw. Social Calendar is $19 per user a month billed annually for 3 profiles, with extras at $5 each, and Agency Calendar is $59 for unlimited client calendars. A free tier gives 1 profile and 15 scheduled posts. Pricing is per user, so a growing team costs more even if output does not change.

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   Hootsuite

   from $99 per user/mo

   Hootsuite is the enterprise incumbent, and priced like it at $99 per user a month for 10 accounts. What you are buying beyond publishing is social listening, brand monitoring, compliance and governance, none of which the smaller tools here attempt. It ships three official MCP connectors, Perch for publishing, Nest for the inbox and Lumen for listening. Because pricing is per seat, cost grows with headcount rather than output, which is why solo operators rarely land here. Reporting measures social performance thoroughly and does not connect posts to Stripe, Shopify or subscription revenue.

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   Hypefury

   $6/mo per channel

   Hypefury is built for individual creators rather than teams, with a distraction-free editor, writing prompts drawn from posts that performed, autoplugs and an engagement builder. AI can be trained on your own posts so drafts sound like you. Flexible is $6 a month per channel with one included, and Full is $19 a month for all channels. The 7-day trial takes no card and there is no permanent free plan. Worth knowing before you shortlist it: it was long treated as an X tool, and X is no longer supported. It now covers Bluesky, Threads, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok and Mastodon.

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    Iconosquare

    €33/mo billed annually

    Iconosquare came from Instagram analytics and still leads with measurement, with scheduling attached rather than the other way round. It covers 8 networks with competitor and hashtag monitoring, white-label reporting and a unified inbox. Launch is €33 a month annually or €39 monthly for 5 profiles, 1 user and 100 posts; Scale is €69 or €82 for 3 users and unlimited posts; Excel €116 or €138 for 6 users. Profiles stay at 5 until custom plans. A permanent free plan gives 2 profiles, 1 user and 10 posts a month after the 14-day trial ends.

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    Later

    from $18.75/mo billed yearly

    Later is the Instagram-first choice, built around visual planning, grid preview and influencer campaigns rather than multi-network throughput. Plans start at $18.75 a month billed yearly for one social set of 8 profiles, with posts capped at 30 per profile a month on the entry tier and analytics history limited to 3 months. Its link-in-bio page is the strongest in this list and does track ecommerce through Google Analytics, which is closer to attribution than most competitors get. That tracking is per page rather than per post, so you learn the link converted without learning which post sent the visitor.

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    Loomly

    from $49/mo billed yearly

    Loomly is a brand calendar with ideation built in: post ideas, prompts and asset management sit alongside scheduling, which suits teams that struggle to fill the calendar rather than to publish to it. Starter is $49 a month billed yearly for 12 social accounts and 3 users, which is generous at that price, but the next tier jumps to $249 for 60 accounts and unlimited users, with little in between. Custom roles, workflows and branding arrive higher up. Analytics cover post performance and scheduled reports, and revenue attribution is not part of the product.

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    Metricool

    from €16/mo

    Metricool is analytics-led, and the only tool here that tracks competitors at scale, up to 100 profiles, alongside your own. It also reports paid and organic together, so ad spend and reach sit in one view. Pricing starts around €16 a month per brand with a free plan covering 1 brand and 20 posts, which makes it unusually cheap for several brands. It ships an official MCP server that works on a free account. API access starts on Advanced. Reporting covers performance and ad spend, and does not connect posts to payment providers.

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    Mixpost

    from $299 one-time for Pro

    Mixpost is bought once rather than rented: a $299 one-time Pro licence, self-hosted, with unlimited social accounts and unlimited team members. Over a long enough horizon that beats every subscription here, and your data stays on your own server. Mixpost Lite is free and open source. The Pro licence includes an API and an MCP server, so agent access does not cost extra. The work you take on in exchange is real: your own hosting, your own upgrades, and registering your own developer application with each social network before you can publish anything.

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    NapoleonCat

    14-day trial, 10 profiles

    NapoleonCat is aimed at teams doing social customer service at volume, particularly ecommerce. Auto-moderation is the standout: rules that hide, delete or reply to comments automatically, which matters when a product post attracts hundreds of identical questions. It also reaches beyond the usual networks to Google Business Profile, the App Store and Google Play, so review management sits alongside social. Scheduling, analytics and a social CRM are included. The trial runs 14 days with 10 profile slots and 5 seats and takes no card. Published pricing is not shown on the plans page, so expect a conversation.

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    Pallyy

    $15/mo

    Pallyy is one of the cheapest credible options here and does not hide its limits. Free covers 1 social set, 15 posts a month and 1 user. Starter is $15 a month for 20 posts and 2 accounts per set, and Pro is $25 for unlimited posts and 11 accounts per set, still 1 user. Agency and Scale tiers add 10 and 30 social sets with 3 and 10 users. You get a calendar, media library, AI captions, a social inbox, approval workflows and link-in-bio pages. Priced per social set rather than per seat, which suits solo operators managing several brands.

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    Planable

    from $33 per workspace/mo

    Planable is built around getting posts approved rather than getting them measured, and its approval flow is the cleanest in this list, with multi-level sign-off on Enterprise. Pricing is per workspace with unlimited collaborators: Basic $33 a month for 4 pages and 60 posts, Pro $49 for 10 pages and 150 posts. The free plan gives 50 posts total, not monthly. It ships an official MCP server, and its public API starts on Pro. Worth checking against your budget: analytics is a $12 a month add-on and the social inbox another $7.50, both included elsewhere.

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    Post Bridge

    from $29/mo

    Post Bridge is the lean indie entry, and it makes its agent story explicit with a page covering posting from Claude, ChatGPT and OpenClaw. Creator is $29 a month for 15 connected accounts, Growth $49 for 50, and Pro $99 for unlimited, all with unlimited posts and a 7-day trial. The REST API is a $5 a month add-on rather than a tier upgrade. There is a content studio for UGC-style clips with captions and audio, plus carousel posts and bulk video scheduling. Analytics are in beta, and revenue attribution is not offered.

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    Postiz

    from $29/mo

    Postiz is the open-source option, and the only tool here you can run on your own hardware for nothing. Around 30 networks including Mastodon, Nostr, Discord, Telegram and several developer blogs, plus an agent CLI that outputs JSON and an MCP server. Cloud plans start at $29 a month for 5 channels with unlimited posts, rising to $99 for 100 channels, with a 7-day trial. Self-hosting means your own server, your own upgrades and your own platform API applications. It publishes and it schedules, but it has no revenue attribution, so it cannot tell you what any of it earned.

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    Publer

    from $5/mo for 1 account

    Publer is the modular option: you pay per social account and per member rather than for a bundle, so a single-account user pays very little. Professional starts at $5 a month for 1 account with extras at $4, Business at $10 with extras at $7, and every tenth account and member is free. There is a free plan. That structure is excellent at small scale and gets less attractive as accounts multiply, which is the trade-off against workspace pricing. It publishes, schedules and reports engagement, with no connection between a post and the money it produced.

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    RecurPost

    from $9/mo

    RecurPost is built around recycling rather than scheduling: you keep evergreen libraries and it reposts from them on a repeating rota, which suits anyone whose best content stays useful for months. Starter is $9 a month for 2 accounts and 1 user, Personal $25 for 5, Agency $79 for 20 accounts and 3 users, and Enterprise is custom from 100. Extra accounts are $4 a month each and extra team members $20. It covers 10 networks including Threads and Bluesky, with bulk CSV scheduling, an approval workflow, shared client calendars and white-label PDF reports. It ships its own MCP server with 9 tools. Revenue attribution is not part of it.

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    Sendible

    14-day trial, no card

    Sendible is built for agencies and multi-location businesses rather than solo creators, and the feature list follows from that. Client Connect lets an agency post to a client's profiles without holding their passwords, which removes the most awkward conversation in agency onboarding. Plans are structured around workspaces and profiles, from 1 workspace and 6 profiles up to 50 and 300, with unlimited users on every tier, so cost tracks clients rather than headcount. There is bulk scheduling with CSV upload, evergreen recycling, a Canva integration and Google Analytics reporting. Analytics stop at traffic and engagement, so revenue per post is not part of it.

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    Sked Social

    $24/mo

    Sked Social is a visual-led scheduler with unusually good client review: external approval portals let a client sign off without an account or a login, which removes a genuine friction point for agencies. It publishes to Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, X, Threads and Google Business Profile, and includes a video editor, media library, unified inbox and link-in-bio. Basic is $24 a month for 1 user and 1 profile, Grow $58 for 3 users and 6 profiles, Accelerate $166 for 6 users and 10 profiles. Profile counts are low for the price compared with agency-first tools.

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    SocialBee

    from $29/mo

    SocialBee is organised around content categories and recycling, so an evergreen queue keeps itself full without daily attention. That is the reason to pick it, and it does that better than anything else here. Bootstrap is $29 a month for 5 profiles and 1 user, Accelerate $49 for 10 profiles with approvals, Pro $99 for 25 profiles and 3 users, with agency tiers to 150. AI content generation is unlimited on every plan, which few competitors match. Analytics history is 3 months on the entry plan, and performance stops at engagement rather than reaching revenue.

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    SocialPilot

    $20/mo

    SocialPilot is priced for agencies that need many accounts without many seats. Essentials is $20 a month for 5 accounts and 1 user, and the ladder runs to Ultimate at $200 for 40 accounts and unlimited users, with 15 percent off annually. White-label reporting and client dashboards come as part of the product rather than a top-tier upsell, which is why it shows up in agency shortlists. There is bulk scheduling, an approval workflow, a social inbox, review management and an AI writer with credits per plan. Reporting is engagement and audience growth, with no connection to payment data.

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    Sprout Social

    from $79/mo billed annually

    Sprout Social is the reporting-heavy end of the market, aimed at teams that answer to people who never open the tool. Essentials starts at $79 a month billed annually, and the main tiers run $199 to $399 per seat, which puts it out of reach for most solo operators. What that buys is depth: a unified inbox, review management, sentiment analysis and listening on higher tiers, plus an API on Advanced. The 30-day trial is generous. Reporting is social performance and paid insights, so revenue per post is not something it sets out to answer.

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    Statusbrew

    14-day trial, no card

    Statusbrew sits between a scheduler and a moderation tool. Unlimited publishing comes with an all-in-one inbox, AI sentiment analysis and rules that action comments automatically, which is the part teams tend to stay for. Plans run Lite, Standard, Premium and Enterprise at 1, 3, 6 and unlimited users, with 5, 10, 15 and unlimited profiles, and historical reporting improves as you climb. Competitor benchmarking and web listening are included higher up. Prices are not displayed on the pricing page, so budget from a demo rather than the site. The 14-day trial needs no card.

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    Tailwind

    $17.99/mo billed annually

    Tailwind is a Pinterest tool that also posts to Instagram and Facebook, and it is the right answer if Pinterest is where your traffic comes from. Pin design, batch creation, SmartSchedule timing and SmartPin weekly automation are all built for that platform's rhythm rather than retrofitted. Ecommerce integrations cover Shopify, WooCommerce, Squarespace and WordPress. Free Forever gives 5 posts a month on 1 account, Pro is $17.99 a month annually for 150 posts, Advanced $29.99 for 300, and Max $49.99 for unlimited posts across 3 accounts. Outside Pinterest, Instagram and Facebook, coverage stops.

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    Taplio

    $39/mo

    Taplio does one network. It is a LinkedIn growth tool covering post creation with AI assistance, scheduling at optimal times, carousel generation, analytics, trending content discovery and automated engagement on comments and connections. Buyers are personal brand builders, agencies running client profiles, and companies with employee advocacy or corporate influencer programmes. Plans start at $39 a month with a 7-day full-access trial, and a free Chrome extension surfaces LinkedIn stats and trending posts without a subscription. If LinkedIn is most of your distribution, a focused tool beats a general one. If it is one of five channels, it does not.

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    Typefully

    from $8/mo

    Typefully is a writing tool that happens to publish, focused on X and LinkedIn, and its editor is the nicest here for drafting threads and long-form posts. Plans start around $8 a month with a free tier covering limited scheduling, and AI assistance arrives on higher plans. The trade-off is deliberate: no video rendering, no carousel generation, no multi-network breadth, and no revenue attribution. If threads on X are most of your output, a focused tool beats a general one and this is the focused tool. If you publish across five networks, it will not cover them.

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    Vista Social

    $79/mo

    Vista Social covers more ground than most tools at its price: 13 or more networks, a unified inbox, review management, social listening, DM automation, employee advocacy and a link-in-bio product called Vista Page. Professional is $79 a month for 15 profiles and 2 users, Advanced $149 for 30 profiles and 4 users, with 20 percent off annually and a 14-day trial. The breadth is the point and also the trade-off, since each area is shallower than a specialist tool. Link-in-bio gives it a form of click tracking, but revenue is not attributed back to the post that produced it.

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    Zoho Social

    Free plan available

    Zoho Social makes most sense if you already run Zoho CRM or Desk, because the integration between them is the reason to choose it over a standalone scheduler. A lead that came from a social conversation lands in the CRM rather than in a spreadsheet. There is a permanent free plan with 1 brand and 6 channels, then Standard, Professional and Premium adding scheduling, monitoring, livestream and reporting, and agency plans covering 10 or 20 brands. Zia, Zoho's assistant, drafts posts and replies. Prices vary by region, and the 15-day trial needs no card.

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Every entry was checked against the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-08-06. Prices move, so confirm before you decide. Where a vendor does not publish prices, that is said rather than guessed at.