Schedchie vs Publer (2026): The Two Budget Schedulers Compared

Publer prices per social account. Schedchie is €7.99 a month flat for unlimited accounts and unlimited posts. Five accounts cost $21 on Publer Professional, ten cost $37. Schedchie is €7.99 at both.

Full disclosure: Schedchie is our product, so check the numbers yourself. Every Publer figure below comes from the official pricing page and the per-account formula in Publer's help centre, recorded in our 2026 scheduler pricing index. Schedchie's 14-day trial is the full product: start free trial. This is the comparison we wish existed when people ask us "why not just use Publer?"

The short verdict

• 3 accounts: $13/month on Publer Professional, €7.99 on Schedchie.
• 5 accounts: $21 on Professional, $38 on Business, €7.99 on Schedchie.
• 10 accounts: $37 on Professional, $66 on Business, €7.99 on Schedchie.
• A team of three: €24.99 on Schedchie, with both invited members free and post approvals included. On Publer, members are $2–$3/month each on top of the per-account bill.
• X (Twitter): included on Publer's paid plans; on Schedchie it is a €4.99 add-on per 30 posts.

If you want to see how both stack up against the rest of the market, our 2026 scheduler pricing index covers 25 tools with the same verified-on-official-pages approach.

Pricing math: Publer vs Schedchie at 1, 3, 5, and 10 accounts

Publer prices per social account: Professional starts at $5/month for the first account and adds $4 for every further account, and Business starts at $10 and adds $7 per further account. Every tenth account is free. Schedchie is one flat price. Here is what that means in practice (monthly billing):

Prices verified on 13 September 2026 against the official pricing pages collected in our pricing index.

The 10-account figures include Publer's "every 10th account free" rule (you pay for 9). Team seats are extra on Publer — $2/month per additional member on Professional, $3 on Business. Schedchie's Team plan is €24.99 flat for three invited members, and the members themselves pay nothing.

Calling Publer too expensive is only fair once you count accounts and a full year. Five accounts on Publer Professional cost $21 a month, which is $252 over twelve months; ten accounts cost $37 a month, or $444 over twelve months. The same twelve months on Schedchie cost €95.88 at five accounts, at ten, and at fifty, because the €7.99 flat price does not move when your account list does. Publer's bill is a multiplication; Schedchie's is a constant.

The X (Twitter) asterisk cuts both ways. Publer's free plan doesn't allow X accounts at all — X requires a paid plan. Schedchie's base plan doesn't include X either: it is a €4.99 add-on per 30 posts. If X is your main platform, factor that in: a Schedchie user posting daily to X pays roughly €4.99 extra per month, while a Publer Professional user gets X included in the $5/account price.

Feature comparison, verified July 2026

Two things stand out in that table. Publer also lists WordPress, which is a blog rather than a social network. And Publer meters what Schedchie doesn't — per-account fees, per-seat fees, and per-platform daily posting caps, none of which exist on the €7.99 plan.

Note the fine print on Publer's paid plans: "unlimited scheduling" runs into per-platform daily limits pulled straight from Publer's own plan-comparison data — for example, 20 TikTok videos per day and 10 YouTube videos per day on Professional. Most solo users will never hit those. High-volume multi-brand posters might.

Publer's free plan: genuinely good, with one big catch

Publer has one of the better free plans left in 2026 — a shrinking club, as we found in our free-plan census: only 8 of 25 schedulers we checked still offer a free plan, every one capped. Publer's gives you 3 social accounts, 10 pending scheduled posts per account (30 total), and 25 saved drafts. No X accounts on free — X needs a paid plan.

The big catch: published posts vanish from your history after 24 hours. That's not a typo. A day after a post goes out, it disappears from your Publer dashboard. In practice this means no reviewing what you published last week, no reusing old content from within the tool, no performance tracking over time, and no paper trail if a client asks what went out. For a set-and-forget personal account it may not matter. For anything resembling brand management, it turns the free plan into what it's designed to be: a demo that works until you depend on it. Publer's paid plans fix this with what it calls eternal post history.

The 10-pending-posts-per-account cap bites too: if you schedule a week ahead at two posts a day, you're already over it on one account. And the step off free is $5 for one account plus $4 for every further account, so ten accounts cost $37 a month.

What Publer's per-account price buys

• A cheap first account. $5/month for one, and a free plan inside its limits — 3 accounts, 10 pending posts each, 24-hour post history.
• X (Twitter) included on the paid plans.
• RSS and recycling. Auto-posting from RSS feeds, and evergreen recycling on the Business tier.
• WordPress. Publer publishes to it as well.
• Watermarking. Photo watermarks on Professional, video watermarks on Business.

Choose Schedchie if..

• You manage 3 or more accounts. At 5 accounts you save $13+/month vs Publer Professional; at 10, you save $29+/month — every month, forever.
• You want zero meters: unlimited accounts, unlimited posts, unlimited client groups, no daily platform caps and no per-seat charges — and analytics on the base plan rather than reserved for a $10/account tier.
• You'd rather have one flat, predictable line item than a calculator. Publer's price changes every time your account list does.
• Your platforms are among the twelve — 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) — with custom Reel and video covers, recurring posts, and a per-account publish outcome on every post with one-click retry.
• You want a 14-day trial before paying (Publer's Professional trial is 7 days).

You can see how we compare against Publer and every other major tool feature-by-feature on our alternatives page — same verified-pricing rules as this article.

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. No daily platform caps, no per-account fee, nothing to recalculate when you take on a client. The €24.99 Team plan adds three invited members who pay no seat fee and hold no billed seat, account groups that scope each client, post approvals that hold a post until the owner signs off — a retry or a reschedule cannot slip past them — 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: a €4.99 add-on per 30 posts.

FAQ: Publer vs Schedchie

Is Publer free?

Publer has a real free plan: 3 social accounts, 10 pending scheduled posts per account, and 25 saved drafts. The two big limits are that X (Twitter) accounts aren't allowed on free, and published posts disappear from your history after 24 hours. Paid plans start at $5/month for 1 account.

How much does Publer cost for 5 accounts?

$21/month on the Professional plan with monthly billing: $5 for the first account plus $4 for each of the other four. The Business tier costs $38/month for 5 accounts ($10 plus $7 per extra account). Extra team members cost $2–$3/month each on top.

Which is cheaper, Publer or Schedchie?

Publer is cheaper for 1 account ($5/month vs Schedchie's €7.99). At 2 accounts they're roughly even ($9 vs €7.99). From 3 accounts up, Schedchie is cheaper: it stays €7.99/month flat with unlimited accounts and posts, while Publer costs $13 at 3 accounts, $21 at 5, and $37 at 10.

Does Publer support X (Twitter)?

Yes, on paid plans — X scheduling, threads, and analytics are included from the $5/month Professional tier up. X accounts cannot be connected on Publer's free plan due to X API costs. Schedchie handles X differently: it is a €4.99 add-on per 30 posts.

Does Publer delete your posts after 24 hours?

On the free plan, yes — published posts vanish from your post history 24 hours after publishing. Your posts stay live on the social networks themselves; you just lose the record inside Publer. Paid plans include full (Publer calls it "eternal") post history.

What are the cheapest social media schedulers in 2026?

The only two flat unlimited options in our 25-tool dataset are Schedchie at €7.99/month and Radaar Standard at $9.99/month, and Schedchie is the cheaper of the two. Everything else meters accounts or posts, and the meter is what you feel at a normal footprint: Buffer runs $30 at five channels and $60 at ten ($25 and $50 billed yearly); Publer is $21 at five accounts and $37 at ten; Sendible Core is $35 for 6 profiles; Pallyy Pro is $25 for one social set of up to 11 accounts. Full breakdown in our pricing index and in the cheapest-scheduler guide.

Publer free plan social media scheduling 2026: what does it still include?

Publer's free plan still covers 3 social accounts, 10 pending posts per account and 25 drafts. Two limits define it: X (Twitter) accounts cannot be connected, and published posts leave your Publer history 24 hours after they go out, so there is no record left to review or reuse. The step off free is $5 for one account plus $4 for every further account. Schedchie runs no capped free tier: a 14-day trial of the full product, then €7.99 a month for unlimited accounts and unlimited posts. Our free-plan census checks the same limits across 25 tools.

Is Publer too expensive in 2026?

It depends on how many accounts you connect. One account is $5 a month and hard to beat. Five accounts on Professional are $21 a month, $252 over twelve months; ten are $37 a month, $444 over twelve months, before team members at $2 to $3 each. Schedchie charges €7.99 a month at any account count, €95.88 over the same twelve months, with unlimited posts and no per-seat fee. The 2026 pricing index runs the same arithmetic across 25 tools.

What are the best Publer alternatives in 2026?

Schedchie first: €7.99 a month, flat — unlimited accounts and unlimited posts across twelve platforms, with CSV import to move a queue across in one upload. At five accounts, what a buyer actually pays elsewhere is €20 a month on Metricool, $25 on Pallyy Pro for one social set of up to 11 accounts, $29 on SocialBee and $30 on Buffer ($25 billed yearly). Our alternatives page lays each one out feature by feature, and Schedchie's pricing stays one line whatever your account list does.

Try the math on your own account list

Count your accounts and do the multiplication. Publer is $21/month at five accounts and $37 at ten, before team members at $2–$3 each. Schedchie is €7.99/month at any account count, €24.99 with three invited members and approvals, with a 14-day free trial of the full product first. Cancel anytime — no questions asked.