Schedchie vs Metricool (2026): €20 for 5 brands, €37 for 10, or €7.99 flat for unlimited accounts

Metricool costs €20 a month for 5 brands and €37 for 10; Schedchie is €7.99 a month flat for unlimited accounts and unlimited posts on twelve platforms. Prices verified 9 September 2026.

Updated September 9, 2026: Metricool's pricing page and its X add-on help article re-read today; every other tool in the footprint table re-read on its own pricing page on 8 and 9 September. Since July, Metricool's X add-on doubled from €5 to €10 per account. Start the free 14-day trial and connect every account at once.

Metricool's numbers first (source, read 9 September 2026, prices ex-VAT). Free is €0 for 1 brand and 20 scheduled posts a month, with 30 days of analytics, no LinkedIn and no X. Starter is €20 a month for 5 brands (€16 billed annually, US$25 monthly), rising to €37 a month for 10 brands (€29 annually, US$45 monthly). Advanced, the tier that adds team management and post approvals, is €54 a month for 15 brands (€43 annually), €87 for 25 and €172 for 50. Unlimited scheduling on paid plans is subject to a fair-use policy. X (Twitter) is a €10 add-on per connected X account per month, €120 a year, on Starter or higher only.

What each tool actually is

Metricool started as an analytics tool and prices like one. Beyond scheduling, the paid tiers bundle automated PDF and PPT reports, a Looker Studio connector on the higher tiers, competitor tracking (5 profiles on Free, 100 on Starter), a hashtag tracker and a unified ads dashboard for Google, Meta and TikTok Ads. It connects Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube, Threads, Bluesky, X, Twitch and Google Business Profile, and it counts everything in brands.

Schedchie is a scheduler, built to do that one job without a meter. Plan and publish across Instagram (feed, Stories, Reels, carousels), Facebook (Pages and groups), TikTok, LinkedIn (profiles and company pages), Pinterest, YouTube, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, Telegram, Google Business Profile and X (posting to X is a €4.99 add-on per 30 posts) from one calendar and visual planner, with unlimited client Groups, CSV bulk import, recurring posts, custom Reel and video covers, and a per-account publish outcome on every post with one-click retry. One flat €7.99 a month buys unlimited accounts and unlimited posts, with no brand counting anywhere. The feature-for-feature page is Schedchie vs Metricool.

Metricool pricing in 2026, verified 9 September

Prices verified on 9 September 2026 on metricool.com/pricing (monthly view, EUR, ex-VAT; annual view read the same day) and on schedchie.com/pricing.

What a Metricool brand bundles

A brand in Metricool is a workspace for one client or project, and per Metricool's help centre (verified July 2026, unchanged on the pricing page in September) it holds one profile per platform: one Facebook Page, one Instagram account, one Threads account, one X account, one Bluesky account, one LinkedIn page or profile, one Pinterest account, one TikTok account, one YouTube channel, one Twitch channel, one Google Business Profile location and one website, plus a Meta Ads, Google Ads and TikTok Ads account.

That works if you run one identity everywhere. It is restrictive if you run several accounts on the same platform: two Instagram accounts always mean two brands, so the 5-brand Starter cap arrives faster than the raw number suggests. Five Instagram accounts is five brands, the whole €20 plan; ten is the €37 step. Schedchie has no brand concept. Every account is just an account, there is no cap, and five, ten or twenty of them cost €7.99.

Metricool vs Buffer vs Schedchie at 5 and 10 accounts

Entry prices hide the bill. This table prices the footprint a real business runs, five and ten connected accounts, on monthly billing with the annual rate in brackets where a vendor shows one.

Prices verified on 8 and 9 September 2026 on each vendor's own pricing page (Metricool on 9 September; Buffer, Later, Publer, Pallyy and SocialBee on 8 September). Buffer's page defaults to the yearly toggle; the monthly figures are the per-channel rate it shows once the toggle is switched. SocialPilot re-read on September 25, 2026.

Metricool vs Buffer, then: at five accounts Metricool's €20 is a little under Buffer's US$30 on monthly billing, and at ten Metricool's €37 sits under Buffer's US$60. Both are counted plans, brands on one side and channels on the other, so both bills rise with every account you add. Schedchie's €7.99 is the same number at five, ten and twenty. Buffer's full plan ladder and its own caps are on the Buffer alternatives page.

Is Metricool too expensive in 2026?

For a solo manager with five accounts on five platforms, Metricool Starter is €20 a month, €240 a year on monthly billing or €192 on annual. The same five accounts on Schedchie are €7.99 a month, €95.88 a year, about two and a half times less. At ten brands the gap widens: Metricool's €37 step is €444 a year monthly or €348 annual, against the same €95.88, more than four times less. A three-person team that wants approvals needs Metricool Advanced, €54 a month for 15 brands, €648 a year; on Schedchie the Team plan is €24.99 a month, €299.88 a year, with approvals, client review links that need no login and no seat, and three invited members who pay nothing. Add one X account and Metricool's bill grows by €120 a year; Schedchie's grows by €4.99 for every 30 X posts you actually publish.

Metricool's caps: 5 brands on Starter, one profile per platform per brand

Metricool meters in two places. The first is brands: Starter stops at 5, then 10; Advanced at 15, 25 and 50; each step is a new price. The second is inside the brand: one profile per platform, so a second Instagram account, a second Facebook Page or a second LinkedIn page opens a new brand and moves you up the ladder. A boutique agency with four clients who each run Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn uses four brands and is fine on the €20 plan; the day one client adds a second Instagram account, that client is two brands. The free plan has a third meter, 20 scheduled posts a month.

Schedchie has none of the three. Unlimited connected accounts, unlimited scheduled posts, and client Groups that scope accounts per client without counting them. That is why Schedchie is the cheapest unlimited social media scheduler in this comparison and the only one that leaves both accounts and posts uncapped; the closest tools still cap profiles (Radaar at 6, Pallyy at 11) even on their unlimited-post plans. Posting to X (Twitter) is a separate €4.99 add-on per 30 posts.

Metricool's free plan in 2026: 1 brand, 20 posts a month, no LinkedIn, no X

Metricool keeps a real free plan, and it is worth knowing exactly what it holds before building a workflow on it. The Metricool free plan for social media scheduling in 2026 covers one brand, 20 scheduled posts a month, 30 days of analytics and 5 tracked competitor profiles. It cannot connect LinkedIn at all, and X is unavailable on Free even as a paid add-on; you need Starter or higher first. Twenty posts a month is five a week across every network in that one brand, which most businesses outgrow in the first month. The paid step is Starter at €20 a month. Every scheduler that still has a free tier, and what each one caps, is in our free-plan census.

Schedchie has no free plan. It has a 14-day trial of the full product, then €7.99 a month with nothing capped. Start the free trial.

The X (Twitter) add-on: €10 per account on Metricool, €4.99 per 30 posts on Schedchie

Both tools charge extra for X, because X bills API access to schedulers, and both pass it on to the people who use X rather than raising everyone's price. The models differ, and the difference decides who pays more:

• Metricool: €10 (US$10) per connected X account per month, €120 a year, on Starter or higher (source: Metricool's help centre, read 9 September 2026; the €5 figure from before July 2026 applies only to add-ons bought before then). Not available on Free.
• Schedchie: €4.99 per 30 X posts, valid 30 days, shared across every X account you connect. Metered by posts, not by accounts.

The math for three typical users:

• One X account, roughly a post a day (30 a month): €4.99 on Schedchie against €10 on Metricool.
• Two X accounts, a post a day each (60 a month): €9.98 on Schedchie against €20 on Metricool.
• Three X accounts, light posting (10 posts each, 30 total): €4.99 on Schedchie, since one pack covers posts rather than accounts, against €30 on Metricool.

Metricool's X fee scales with accounts; Schedchie's scales with what you publish. If you barely use X, both fees are avoidable by not adding it, and Schedchie's €7.99 already covers the other eleven platforms.

Feature comparison

The analytics row is where Metricool's €20 goes: unlimited data history, exportable client reports, competitor benchmarks and ad dashboards. Schedchie sells publishing, and prices the publishing at €7.99 with nothing metered.

Choose Schedchie if…

• You mainly need publishing, and lots of it: €7.99 flat with unlimited accounts and unlimited posts against €20 for 5 brands and €37 for 10 is not a close call on price per account.
• You manage several accounts on the same platform. Metricool opens a new brand for each one; Schedchie does not count.
• You run more than one X account: one €4.99 post pack covers all of them, against €10 per account on Metricool.
• Post and account performance are the numbers you act on, and you would rather keep the €12 a month at five accounts, or €29 at ten.
• You want every platform included at one price with no tiers to compare. Everything except the X add-on is in the €7.99.

If you searched for "alternativa a Metricool": the price logic translates. Tarifa plana de 7,99 € al mes, cuentas y publicaciones ilimitadas; the Spanish comparison is in las herramientas más baratas para programar redes sociales.

What €7.99 and €24.99 cover

The €7.99 plan is the whole scheduler: twelve platforms, unlimited connected accounts, unlimited scheduled posts, unlimited client Groups, the calendar and visual planner, CSV bulk import, recurring posts, custom Reel and video covers, per-account publish outcomes with one-click retry, and the analytics tab. The €24.99 Team plan adds three invited members who pay no seat fee and hold no billed seat, post approvals that hold a post until the owner signs off, per-client Group scoping, client review links the client opens with no account and no login, and a 30-day activity view. X publishing is the one metered thing: €4.99 per 30 posts, valid 30 days, because X's API fee lands on the accounts that use X rather than on everyone's subscription. Writing and scheduling from ChatGPT or Claude is opt-in through the MCP server, set up at /ai. We ship weekly and log it on our changelog.

FAQ: Metricool pricing and alternatives

Is Metricool free in 2026?

Metricool has a free plan: 1 brand, 20 scheduled posts a month, 30 days of analytics history and competitor tracking for 5 profiles, as of 9 September 2026. It excludes LinkedIn entirely, and X cannot be added on the free tier. The paid step is Starter at €20 a month for 5 brands. Which other schedulers still have a free plan, and what each caps, is in our free-plan census.

How much does Metricool cost in 2026?

As of 9 September 2026, Metricool Starter costs €20 a month for 5 brands, or €16 a month billed annually, and €37 a month (€29 annually) for 10 brands. Advanced, with team management and post approvals, is €54 a month for 15 brands (€43 annually), €87 for 25 and €172 for 50. Prices exclude VAT. X accounts cost an extra €10 each per month on any paid plan.

Does Metricool charge extra for X (Twitter)?

Yes. Connecting an X account costs €10 (US$10) per account per month, €120 a year, on Starter or higher, and X is not available on the free plan at all. Schedchie also passes X's API cost on, but meters it by volume: €4.99 per 30 posts, valid 30 days, shared across accounts.

What is a Metricool brand?

A brand is one client or project workspace. It can hold one profile per platform, one Facebook Page, one Instagram, one TikTok, one LinkedIn, one YouTube and so on, plus Meta, Google and TikTok Ads accounts and a website. Two accounts on the same platform always require two brands, which is how the Starter plan's 5-brand cap gets used up quickly.

What are the best Metricool alternatives in 2026?

At ten connected accounts: Schedchie €7.99, SocialPilot US$42, Pallyy US$25, Publer US$37, SocialBee US$49, Later US$50 and Buffer US$60 a month, against Metricool's €37 for 10 brands. Only Schedchie's figure stays the same at twenty accounts. The wider field is on alternatives, and the full census of every scheduler's plans is in the 2026 pricing index.

What is the cheapest Metricool alternative?

Schedchie, at €7.99 a month flat with unlimited accounts and unlimited posts, the cheapest tool in this comparison at both footprints and the only one with no account or post meter at all, as of 9 September 2026. Full plan details: pricing.

Metricool vs Buffer: which is cheaper at 5 accounts?

On monthly billing, Metricool Starter at €20 for 5 brands is under Buffer Essentials at US$30 for five channels; on annual billing it is €16 against US$25. At ten accounts the pair is €37 against US$60. Both are counted plans, so both bills keep rising with every account. Schedchie is €7.99 at both footprints. See Schedchie vs Buffer for Buffer feature-for-feature.

Does Schedchie schedule Instagram Reels, Stories and carousels?

Yes. Feed posts, Reels with custom covers and music, Stories and carousels, scheduled from the same composer as the other eleven platforms. Details: Instagram scheduling.

Is Metricool worth €20 a month?

If you use the reporting, that is what the €20 buys: unlimited data history, PDF and PPT client reports, 100 tracked competitors and an ads dashboard, for up to five brands. If you would only use the scheduler, you are paying €20 for reports you never open, five accounts is the entire plan, and a second account on any one platform starts a new brand. That is the case where a flat €7.99 makes more sense.

The bottom line

Metricool is a reporting product with a scheduler attached, priced at €20 for five brands and €37 for ten, with X at €10 per account on top; every figure above comes from its own pricing page and help centre on 9 September 2026. Schedchie is a scheduler with no meter: €7.99 a month, unlimited accounts, unlimited posts, twelve platforms included, €24.99 when you want three invited members and approvals. Test all of it in a 14-day free trial of the full product, then €7.99 a month. Full plan details are on our pricing page; plans in machine-readable form: /pricing.md.

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