The cheapest Sked Social alternatives start at €7.99 a month flat with Schedchie: unlimited accounts and posts on twelve platforms, while Sked's cheapest plan now costs US$690 a year.
Updated October 22, 2026: Sked Social's pricing page re-read today, figures unchanged since October 6. Basic, the US$290-a-year entry plan, is gone; Sked now sells three plans, Grow, Accelerate and Custom, and approvals are no longer sold as add-ons on the entry plan. Every Sked figure below is today's. Start the free 14-day trial and connect every account at once.
Sked's numbers first (source, read October 22, 2026). Grow is US$69 a month on monthly billing, or US$58 a month billed as US$690 a year, for three users and 6 profiles, with extra profiles at US$8 a month (US$80 a year) each and no option to add a fourth user. Accelerate is US$199 a month on monthly billing, or US$166 a month billed as US$1,990 a year, for six users and 10 profiles; extra profiles cost US$10 a month (US$100 a year) and extra users US$15 a month (US$150 a year). Custom starts at US$249 a month billed annually, or US$299 on monthly billing. Internal approvals and the no-login client review portal come only with Accelerate and Custom; Grow gets post statuses and content previews. Annual billing saves 17%. There is no free plan; the trial is 14 days. Sked's page states prices in USD, AUD, GBP and EUR, and adds GST at checkout on Australian prices.
Schedchie is one line: €7.99 a month, flat. Unlimited accounts and unlimited posts. The Ultra plan at €24.99 a month adds approvals, client connect links and three invited members; client review links come with every plan. Both are on the pricing page.
What a real footprint costs
Entry prices hide the bill. Nobody runs a scheduler for one account, so this table prices two realistic footprints, 5 and 10 connected accounts, on each tool's cheapest plan that actually covers the count.
Prices verified on October 22, 2026. Sked Social re-read on its own pricing page today; Buffer, Later and Metricool match our October 15 re-check, the other rows our pricing index census.
| Tool | 5 accounts | 10 accounts | Post cap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schedchie (pricing) | €7.99/mo flat | €7.99/mo flat | None. Unlimited |
| Sked Social | US$69/mo (Grow, 6 profiles; US$58 billed annually) | US$101/mo (Grow + 4 extra profiles at US$8; ≈US$84 billed annually, US$1,010/yr), or Accelerate at US$199/mo (US$166 billed annually) | Not stated on its pricing page |
| Pallyy | US$25/mo (Pro, one social set) | US$25/mo (Pro, up to 11 accounts in one set) | None on Pro |
| Later | US$25/mo (Starter, one social set; US$18.75 billed yearly) | US$50/mo (Growth, two sets; US$37.50 billed yearly) | 30 per profile on Starter, 180 on Growth |
| Metricool | €20/mo (Starter, up to 5 brands; €16 billed annually) | €37/mo (Starter tier for up to 10 brands; €29 billed annually) | Unlimited on paid tiers; 20 a month on the free plan |
| Buffer | US$30/mo (Essentials, five channels at US$6 each; US$25 billed yearly) | US$60/mo (ten channels; US$50 billed yearly) | Fair-use cap of 5,000 per channel |
| Publer | US$21/mo (Professional: US$5 for the first account, US$4 for each extra) | US$37/mo (every 10th account free) | None on paid plans |
| SocialBee | US$29/mo (Bootstrap, 5 profiles) | US$49/mo (Accelerate, 10 profiles) | 1,000 posts per category on Bootstrap, 5,000 on Accelerate |
Currency exactly as each vendor displays it, no conversion. Account structures differ: Later and Pallyy sell social sets (one account per platform), Sked sells profiles, Metricool sells brands, Buffer bills per channel, Publer per account. Publer's per-account formula is from its help centre. Prices move; if one is wrong now, tell us and we will fix it.
Read the 10-account column twice. Schedchie's figure is the same as its 5-account figure, and it stays the same at 20, 50 or 200 accounts. Every other row climbs with the footprint, and Sked's row climbs fastest: at 10 accounts on monthly billing it is US$101 on Grow, or US$199 if the team also needs approvals. The full 25-vendor census, with every entry plan and every cap, lives in the social media scheduler pricing index.
Is Sked Social too expensive in 2026?
For a solo Instagram manager, the cheapest way into Sked is now Grow: US$690 a year billed annually, or US$69 a month, US$828 a year, billed monthly. The US$290 Basic plan that used to sit under it no longer appears on Sked's pricing page, so the one-account buyer pays the three-user price.
A three-person team that wants approvals cannot stay on Grow at all. Sked reserves internal approvals, external approvals and the no-login review portal for Accelerate, so the same team pays US$1,990 a year billed annually, or US$199 a month, US$2,388 a year, billed monthly. The fourth person is impossible on Grow and US$150 a year on Accelerate.
Agencies feel the profile meter hardest. Three staff running ten clients with three profiles each need 30 profiles and approvals, so Accelerate: US$1,990 a year plus 20 extra profiles at US$100, US$3,990 a year billed annually. The same roster on Schedchie's Ultra plan is €299.88 a year, because client groups and connected accounts are unlimited on every paid plan.
The same three people on Schedchie pay €24.99 a month, €299.88 a year, on the Ultra plan: post approvals, client connect links and three invited members who pay nothing, while client review links that need no login and no seat come with every plan. A solo user pays €7.99 a month, €95.88 a year, and connects as many accounts as the business has. Put side by side:
Solo, one brand: Sked US$690 a year (Grow, annual) against Schedchie €95.88 a year.
Three people with approvals: Sked US$1,990 a year (Accelerate, annual) against Schedchie €299.88 a year on Ultra.
Three people with approvals, monthly billing: Sked US$199 a month against Schedchie €24.99 a month.
That is why Schedchie is the cheaper alternative to Sked Social at every footprint in this comparison, from one profile to an agency roster. Agencies running more clients than three members can price the whole roster in the agency pricing guide.
Sked Social's caps: six profiles, then US$80 a year per profile
Sked meters profiles and seats. Grow includes 6 profiles, mixed and matched across the nine channels Sked supports, and then charges US$8 a month, US$80 a year, for each one after that; it is capped at three users. Accelerate includes 10 profiles and charges US$10 a month, US$100 a year, per extra profile plus US$15 a month, US$150 a year, per extra user. A Grow account at 16 profiles pays US$690 plus ten extra profiles at US$80, US$1,490 a year. Each extra profile on Accelerate is US$100 a year; a whole year of Schedchie is €95.88 with no profile meter at all.
Schedchie meters nothing. €7.99 a month covers unlimited connected accounts, unlimited scheduled posts and unlimited client groups, so the number that grows your client list stops growing your bill. Schedchie is the cheapest unlimited social media scheduler: the only plan that leaves both accounts and posts uncapped, as the pricing index shows; the closest tools still cap profiles on their unlimited-post plans, Radaar at 6 and Pallyy at 11.
The account list is twelve platforms: Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, Telegram, Google Business Profile and X (posting to X is a €4.99 add-on per 30 posts). Every connected account on the first eleven is included in the €7.99. Platform-by-platform details: TikTok, Pinterest, Google Business Profile and X.
Apps like Sked Social for Instagram-first teams
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What the price meters. Later and Pallyy sell social sets, Sked sells profiles, Metricool sells brands, Buffer and Publer bill per channel or account. Only Schedchie's price stays at €7.99 whatever you connect.
Which cap you hit first. Later Starter stops at 30 posts per profile a month, Metricool's free plan at 20 posts, SocialBee at 1,000 posts per category. Schedchie has no post cap on any plan.
What Instagram itself gets. On Schedchie, Instagram scheduling covers feed posts, Reels with a custom cover or a chosen frame, music on Reels from Instagram's own library, Stories and carousels, from the same composer as Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, Telegram, Google Business Profile and X (posting to X is a €4.99 add-on per 30 posts). The per-tool math for the rest of the table lives in the Later, Buffer, Metricool and Publer breakdowns.
Approvals are the other line item. Sked includes internal approvals and its client review portal only from Accelerate, US$1,990 a year billed annually. Schedchie's Ultra plan at €24.99 a month includes post approvals, client connect links and three invited members (client review links come with every plan), and invites can be scoped to specific client groups so a freelancer sees only the brand they work on.
Moving over
Reconnecting accounts is one OAuth consent screen per account, minutes apiece. Rebuilding the queue is a spreadsheet job: Schedchie's CSV import takes datetime, text, media and title columns, loads a month of posts in one pass and hands back a fix-me file for any row it could not schedule, so you correct those rows and upload them again. Client groups recreate your per-client workspaces, each with its own calendar. Budget an afternoon end to end.
The order that works: start the Schedchie trial, connect every account Sked was posting to, import the next month from CSV, check the calendar, then let the Sked plan lapse at the end of its billing period. Sked's pricing page lists nine supported channels; Schedchie publishes to twelve, each connected account included in the flat price (X posting is the €4.99 add-on). Video posts bound for Reels or YouTube carry their titles through the import's title column, and the media column takes the files by name.
If you already draft in ChatGPT or Claude, there is an opt-in route too: Schedchie's MCP server at mcp.schedchie.com exposes 88 tools, so the assistant can read your calendar and schedule posts on request. It is off until you connect it, and the dashboard stays the same either way. Setup lives on the AI page.
Sked Social alternatives priced at 5 and 10 accounts, one by one
The table gives the totals. Here is what each tool's bill is built from, in the order a Sked buyer usually compares them, with every figure taken from the table above.
Schedchie. €7.99 a month, flat. Unlimited accounts and unlimited posts. Same price at 5 accounts, at 10 and past that. The Ultra plan at €24.99 a month adds approvals, client connect links and three invited members. 14-day trial. Cancel anytime, no questions asked. Start free trial.
Pallyy. US$25 a month for Pro, one social set of up to 11 accounts, with unlimited posts; each extra set is US$10 a month. At the twelfth account the price moves to US$35.
Publer. US$5 a month for the first account and US$4 for each extra on Professional: US$21 at 5 accounts, US$37 at 10 with the tenth free. The bill grows by US$4 per account from there.
Metricool. €20 a month at up to 5 brands, €37 a month at up to 10 brands on monthly billing; €16 and €29 billed annually. The free plan stops at 20 posts a month on one brand.
SocialBee. US$29 a month on Bootstrap for 5 profiles and US$49 on Accelerate for 10, with posts capped per content category: 1,000 on Bootstrap, 5,000 on Accelerate. More on that family in our SocialBee alternatives breakdown.
Later. US$25 a month on Starter, or US$18.75 billed yearly, for one social set with 30 posts per profile a month; US$50 a month, or US$37.50 billed yearly, on Growth for two sets and 180 posts per profile. The cheaper options for Later's buyers are in Later alternatives.
Buffer. US$6 per channel a month on Essentials, US$5 billed yearly: US$30 at 5 channels and US$60 at 10, or US$25 and US$50 on annual billing. The per-channel math is broken down in affordable Buffer alternatives.
Radaar. Basic is US$4.99 a month for 3 profiles and 90 posts a month; Standard is US$9.99 for 6 profiles with unlimited posts, and 10 accounts need Professional at US$29.99. Radaar's 6-profile ceiling on Standard is one of the two exceptions that make Schedchie the cheapest unlimited plan in the census.
Sked Social. US$69 a month on Grow at 5 accounts, US$101 at 10 with four extra profiles, and US$199 a month on Accelerate once approvals or a fourth user are needed. Annual billing brings those to US$58, about US$84 and US$166 a month.
At 20 accounts the gap widens again. Schedchie stays at €7.99. Pallyy needs a second set, US$35 a month. Publer reaches US$73 a month with the 10th and 20th accounts free. Buffer's Essentials bill reaches US$100 a month, or US$83.33 billed yearly. Sked's Grow needs 14 extra profiles, US$690 plus US$1,120, US$1,810 a year billed annually, before anyone asks for approvals.
Buyers coming from the enterprise end of the market can compare Hootsuite's per-user pricing in the affordable Hootsuite alternatives ranking, and the cheapest tools across the whole market are in the cheapest social media schedulers guide.
FAQ
What is the best Sked Social alternative in 2026?
Schedchie. €7.99 a month, flat. Unlimited accounts and unlimited posts on twelve platforms, with approvals and client connect links on the €24.99 Ultra plan. Sked's cheapest plan is Grow at US$69 a month, or US$690 a year, and approvals start at US$1,990 a year on Accelerate. Start the 14-day trial.
Is Sked Social too expensive in 2026?
For small teams, the numbers say yes. Sked's entry plan is now Grow at US$690 a year billed annually, approvals require Accelerate at US$1,990 a year, and each profile past the included 6 or 10 costs US$80 or US$100 a year. Schedchie charges €95.88 a year for unlimited accounts, or €299.88 a year on Ultra with approvals for three members.
What is the cheapest Sked Social 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 October 22, 2026. Full plan details: pricing.
What are the best Sked Social alternatives in 2026?
At ten connected accounts on monthly billing: Schedchie €7.99, Pallyy US$25, Publer US$37, Metricool €37, SocialBee US$49, Later US$50 and Buffer US$60 a month, against Sked's US$101 a month on Grow with four extra profiles or US$199 on Accelerate. Only Schedchie's figure stays the same at twenty accounts. The wider field is on alternatives.
Does Sked Social have a free plan?
No. Sked offers a 14-day trial and then starts at US$69 a month on Grow, or US$690 a year. Schedchie also has no free plan and a 14-day trial with every feature; the schedulers that still have a free tier, and what each one caps, are in our free-plan census.
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.
Can I write and schedule posts with AI after leaving Sked?
Yes, through the assistant you already use, if you opt in. Schedchie's MCP server at mcp.schedchie.com connects ChatGPT and Claude to your calendar with 88 tools, so you draft there and schedule without switching tabs; the dashboard itself stays clean. Setup guide: /ai.
How long does switching from Sked Social take?
An afternoon. Reconnect each account over OAuth, export your planned content to a spreadsheet, and bulk-load it through CSV import; any row that cannot be scheduled comes back in a fix-me file. Client groups recreate your per-client workspaces in a few clicks.
Does Schedchie charge extra for approvals or client review?
Not for client review: public review links come with every plan, €7.99 included. Internal approvals, client connect links and three member seats come with the €24.99 Ultra plan. Sked includes approvals and its review portal only from Accelerate, US$199 a month or US$1,990 a year, per its own pricing page on October 22, 2026.
The wider field is on alternatives and in the pricing index. Plans in machine-readable form: /pricing.md.
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