Social Media Scheduler Pricing Index (2026): What 25 Tools Actually Cost

Phillip Bartech

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Schedchie is the social media scheduler with unlimited accounts and flat rate pricing in 2026: €7.99 a month, unlimited posts, twelve platforms. Start a free 14-day trial, then read what the other 24 cost.

Entry-level paid plans across the 25 social media schedulers we re-checked in September 2026 range from $4.99/month (Radaar Basic) to $99/month (Hootsuite Standard), with a median entry price of $29/month. But the advertised number rarely matches what you actually pay: many tools price per channel, per seat, or per brand, and more than half now display the annual-billing rate as if it were the monthly one. We read every official pricing page again in September 2026 — here is the full index.

Every price below comes from the vendor's own pricing page, read in September 2026. No affiliate feeds, no third-party roundups, no cached data.

Prices verified on 13 September 2026 on all 25 official pricing pages. Zoho Social, Sendible, Swat.io and Publer render their amounts client-side, so their money figures are as displayed in August 2026; their plan structures were re-read on 13 September.

How we built this index

Every price in this article was read directly from the tool's official pricing page in September 2026. Where a vendor's page was ambiguous, we recorded only what we could verify and marked the rest with a dash.

While collecting the data, we kept running into the same four pricing-page tricks. Knowing them is half the work of comparing tools:

  • Annual price advertised as monthly. More than half of the 25 tools now show the annual-billing rate as the headline number — Hootsuite's $99, Agorapulse's $79, Sprout's $79, CoSchedule's $29, Loomly's $49, Later's $18.75, Planoly's $14, Predis's $24, and Planable's $33 are all "per month, billed annually." Loomly's actual month-to-month price is $65, not $49; CoSchedule's is $39, not $29.
  • Per-channel multiplication. Buffer's "$5/month" is per channel, billed yearly. Ten channels is $50/month, not $5.
  • Per-seat pricing. Sprout Social's and Hootsuite's prices are per user. Three people on Sprout Essentials start at $237/month even at annual rates.
  • Hidden platform add-ons. X (Twitter) costs extra on several tools: Metricool doubled its X add-on to $10 per connected account in July 2026, CoSchedule bills X profiles separately at $16/month each, and Vista Social sells X as a $29/month add-on. Schedchie prices it as a €4.99 add-on per 30 X posts, listed here so you can put it in the comparison.

If you want the deeper feature-by-feature breakdown behind these numbers, our verified alternatives comparison is kept current alongside this index.

What moved between the August and September checks

  • Pallyy dropped its Starter tier ($15, 2 accounts, 20 posts a month). The entry plan is now Pro at $25 with unlimited posts for one social set of up to 11 accounts; the free plan is one social set, 15 posts a month, images only.
  • CoSchedule renamed and repriced its entry tier. The $19 Social Calendar plan we recorded in August is gone; Starter is $29 per user billed annually ($39 monthly) for 3 profiles, still +$5 per extra profile and $16 per X profile. The free calendar now allows 15 posts per profile.
  • Predis.ai Core moved from $19 to $24 per month billed annually ($288 a year); the page no longer displays a month-to-month rate.
  • Sendible now publishes per-day sending caps — 100 posts a day on Core — and, like Zoho Social and Swat.io, renders its prices client-side, so those three money figures stand as displayed in August.
  • The median entry price rose from $20 to $29 after the Pallyy and CoSchedule changes, with SocialPilot's plans page listing Essentials at $30.

Earlier in 2026: Metricool doubled its X (Twitter) add-on to $10 per connected account in July and restructured its Advanced tier into brand bands from 15 brands (€54 a month, €43 billed annually); Sprout Social's Essentials tier settled at $79 per seat billed annually ($99 month-to-month); Vista Social dropped its free plan, the third vendor to do so this year after Later and Agorapulse.

The master table: 25 schedulers by entry price (September 2026)

Sorted by cheapest paid plan as advertised, ascending. Billing state is noted wherever the headline figure is an annual-billing rate. A dash means the vendor doesn't publish that detail (or we couldn't verify it), so we won't guess.

ToolEntry paid planWhat's includedPost limitsFree plan?
RadaarBasic — $4.993 profiles, 1 user90 posts/moNo (14-day trial)
BufferEssentials — $5/channel (billed yearly)1 channel per $5; Team is $10/channelPriced by channel; 5,000 scheduled posts per channel fair-use capYes (3 channels, 10 posts each)
PublerProfessional — $51 account; +$4 per extra, every 10th free—Yes (3 accounts, 10 pending posts each)
Schedchie€7.99 flatUnlimited accounts: Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, Telegram and Google Business Profile (X is a €4.99 add-on per 30 posts)UnlimitedNo (14-day trial)
Zoho SocialStandard — €10 (billed annually; as displayed in August 2026)1 brand, 12 channels, 1 user—Yes (1 brand, 6 channels, limited features)
PlanolyStarter — $14 (billed annually; $16 monthly)1 social set, 1 userUnlimited uploadsMobile-app-only, 10 uploads/mo
FeedHiveCreator — €15 (billed annually; monthly rate not published)4 accounts30 scheduled postsNo (7-day trial)
TailwindPro — $17.99 (billed annually; $29.99 monthly)1 account, 1 user150 posts/moYes (1 account, 5 posts/mo)
LaterStarter — $18.75 (billed yearly)1 social set30 posts/profile/moNo (dropped it)
SocialPilotEssentials — $30 ($25.50 billed yearly)7 accounts (Standard $50 covers 15)——
MetricoolStarter — €20 (€16 billed annually)5 brands; X accounts +$10/mo each—Yes (1 brand, 20 posts/mo)
Predis.aiCore — $24 (billed annually; monthly rate not displayed)1 brand, 10 channelsUnlimitedNo (7-day trial)
PallyyPro — $251 social set of up to 11 accounts; +$10 per extra setUnlimitedYes (1 social set, 15 posts/mo, images only)
SocialBeeBootstrap — $295 profiles——
Social ChampStandard — $29 ($23.20 billed yearly)6 accounts, 2 users; +$5 per extra profileUnlimitedYes (3 accounts, 15 posts in total)
CoScheduleStarter — $29/user (billed annually; $39 monthly)3 profiles; +$5/mo per extra; X profiles +$16/mo each—Yes (free calendar, 15 posts per profile)
MeetEdgarEddie — $29.995 accountsUnlimitedNo (30-day trial)
PlanableBasic — $33/workspace (billed annually; $39 monthly)4 pages60 posts/moFirst 50 posts total
SendibleCore — $35 (as displayed in August 2026)1 workspace, 6 profiles100 posts/dayNo (14-day trial)
Swat.ioSmall — €39 (as displayed in August 2026)3 channels, 2 usersNo posting limitNo (21-day trial)
LoomlyStarter — $49 (billed yearly; $65 monthly)12 accounts, 3 users—No
Vista SocialProfessional — $64 (billed yearly; $79 monthly)15 profiles, 2 users—No (14-day trial)
AgorapulseStandard — $79/user (billed annually; $99 monthly)10 profiles per user—No (30-day trial)
Sprout SocialEssentials — $79/seat (billed annually; $99 monthly)5 profiles, per seat—No (30-day trial)
HootsuiteStandard — $99/user (billed annually)10 accounts (Professional $199 for unlimited accounts)—No (trial)

Freshness note: two names you'll still see in older roundups are gone. Crowdfire shut down in May 2025, and SocialOomph closed after 17 years. If a "best schedulers" list still recommends either, its prices are probably stale too.

What 10 social profiles actually costs

Entry prices only tell you what one profile (or one brand) costs. Most real users — a freelancer with several clients, a small brand on six platforms — need more. Here is the honest monthly math for 10 social profiles, computed from the same September 2026 pricing pages. We only include tools where the math is actually derivable from published pricing.

ToolMonthly cost for 10 profilesHow it's calculated
Schedchie€7.99Flat plan, unlimited accounts and posts
Pallyy$25Pro covers one social set of up to 11 accounts
Radaar$29.99Professional plan — Standard covers only 6 profiles
Publer$37$5 Professional + 8 × $4 extra accounts (every 10th is free)
SocialPilot$42$30 Essentials (7 accounts) + 3 × $4 extra accounts
Social Champ$49$29 Standard (6 accounts) + 4 × $5 add-on profiles
Buffer$5010 channels × $5 (Essentials, billed yearly)
Vista Social$64–79Professional covers 15 profiles ($64 billed yearly, $79 monthly)
Sendible$99Core caps at 6 profiles, so you need Plus (18 profiles)
Hootsuite$99Standard covers exactly 10 accounts, per user, billed annually
Sprout Social$299+Professional, per seat, $299 billed annually ($399 monthly); Essentials and Standard cap at 5 profiles, multiply by team size

The spread is 37x between the cheapest and the most expensive way to run the same 10 profiles. That gap is not about features scaling 37x — it's about which pricing model each vendor chose. And if you're committing high posting volume for the rest of the year, the caps column above matters more than the entry price — we ran the same math against a holiday-season posting load in our Q4 scheduler comparison.

Flat rate pricing in 2026: which social media scheduler gives you unlimited accounts

A flat rate is one monthly price that does not move when you connect another account or schedule another post. Twenty-four of the 25 tools in this index meter at least one of those two axes. Here is every plan in the index that sells unlimited posts, with the account cap that comes with it.

ToolPlanMonthly priceAccountsPosts
Schedchiethe only plan€7.99 flatUnlimitedUnlimited
RadaarStandard$9.996 profilesUnlimited
Predis.aiCore$24 (billed annually)1 brand, 10 channelsUnlimited
PallyyPro$251 social set, up to 11 accountsUnlimited
Social ChampStandard$296 accountsUnlimited
MeetEdgarEddie$29.995 accountsUnlimited
Swat.ioSmall€39 (as displayed in August 2026)3 channelsNo posting limit
LaterScale$82.50 (billed yearly; $110 monthly)6 social sets, 48 profilesUnlimited
HootsuiteProfessional$199/user (billed annually)UnlimitedNot stated

Prices verified on 13 September 2026 on each vendor's official pricing page.

Read the two right-hand columns together. Radaar, Predis, Pallyy, Social Champ, MeetEdgar and Swat.io lift the post cap but keep a profile cap between three and eleven, so the flat rate ends the moment the next client arrives. Later only reaches unlimited posts on its $82.50 Scale tier. Hootsuite Professional removes the account cap but charges per user, billed annually. So the answer to "social media scheduler, unlimited accounts, flat rate pricing, 2026" is a list of one: Schedchie, at €7.99 a month for unlimited accounts and unlimited posts across Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, Telegram, Google Business Profile and X. The flat rate holds for teams too: the €24.99 Team plan adds three invited members who pay no seat fee, and X (Twitter) publishing is the only add-on, €4.99 per 30 posts. The full plan detail is on the pricing page.

Buffer pricing, Publer pricing, Metricool pricing and SocialBee pricing in 2026

These four are the brands buyers most often price against each other, so here is each one on its own: Buffer pricing 2026, Publer pricing 2026, Metricool pricing 2026 and SocialBee pricing 2026, every figure read from the official pricing page on 3 September 2026. Each section ends with what the same footprint costs on Schedchie's €7.99 flat plan.

Buffer pricing 2026

Official pricing page: buffer.com/pricing. Buffer prices per channel. Essentials is $6 per channel billed monthly, or $5 per channel billed yearly, with one user seat; Team is $12 per channel monthly, $10 yearly, with unlimited members and approvals. The free plan covers 3 channels with 10 scheduled posts each. Scheduling is unlimited under a fair-use cap of 5,000 posts per channel. Five channels on Essentials cost $25 a month billed yearly ($30 monthly); ten channels cost $50 ($60 monthly). Schedchie covers either footprint at €7.99 flat, and the line-by-line comparison is in Schedchie vs Buffer.

Publer pricing 2026

Official pricing: publer.com/pricing, with the per-account formula spelled out in Publer's help centre. Publer prices per social account. Professional starts at $5 a month for one account and adds $4 for each further account; Business starts at $10 and adds $7 per account. Every tenth account is free, and annual billing takes 20% off. The free plan covers 3 accounts with 10 pending posts each and excludes X. Five accounts on Professional cost $21 a month; ten accounts cost $37 (the tenth is free). Schedchie is €7.99 at five accounts and €7.99 at ten, worked through in Schedchie vs Publer.

Metricool pricing 2026

Official pricing page: metricool.com/pricing. Metricool prices per brand, in bands. Starter is €20 a month (€16 billed annually) for up to 5 brands and €37 (€29 annually) for up to 10; Advanced starts at 15 brands for €54 (€43 annually) and adds team management and approvals. The free plan covers 1 brand and 20 posts a month, without X or LinkedIn. X accounts cost an extra $10 a month each on every plan. Five brands cost €20 a month; ten brands cost €37. Schedchie's €7.99 includes LinkedIn and Threads on every plan, unlimited brands, and approvals on the €24.99 Team plan; the detail is in Schedchie vs Metricool.

SocialBee pricing 2026

Official pricing page: socialbee.com/pricing. SocialBee prices per social profile, in fixed tiers, with unlimited posts on every tier. Bootstrap is $29 a month ($24.20 billed annually) for 5 profiles and one user; Accelerate is $49 ($40.80 annually) for 10 profiles; Pro is $99 ($82.50 annually) for 25 profiles across 5 workspaces. There is no free plan; the trial is 14 days. Five profiles cost $29 a month; ten profiles cost $49. Schedchie is €7.99 for any number of profiles, with the cheapest-scheduler ranking showing where each tier lands.

Buffer, Publer, Metricool and SocialBee compared with Schedchie at 5 and 10 accounts, monthly billing, official pricing pages read 3 September 2026
Tool5 accounts10 accountsFree plan
Schedchie€7.99€7.99No (14-day trial)
Buffer$30 ($25 billed yearly)$60 ($50 billed yearly)3 channels, 10 posts each
Publer$21$37 (10th account free)3 accounts, 10 pending posts each
Metricool€20 (€16 billed annually)€37 (€29 billed annually)1 brand, 20 posts a month
SocialBee$29 ($24.20 billed annually)$49 ($40.80 billed annually)None

Prices verified on 3 September 2026 on each vendor's official pricing page; Publer's per-account formula from its help centre. Currency as each vendor displays it.

The four pricing models (and who each one punishes)

1. Per-channel (Buffer, Publer)

You pay a small unit price per connected account: $5/channel on Buffer (billed yearly), $5 plus $4 per extra account on Publer. The entry number looks tiny with 1–3 accounts. It punishes growth: the same Buffer plan that costs $10 for two channels costs $50 for ten — $600 a year for a footprint Schedchie covers at €7.99/month flat.

2. Per-seat (Hootsuite, Sprout Social, Agorapulse, CoSchedule)

You pay per human user: $99/user at Hootsuite, $79/seat at Sprout, $79/user at Agorapulse, $29/user at CoSchedule — all billed annually. This suits enterprises where approval chains and role permissions matter more than the subscription line item. It punishes small teams brutally — three people on Sprout Essentials is $237/month at annual rates, $2,844 a year before you've posted anything.

3. Per-brand or per-workspace (Metricool, Zoho Social, Planable)

You pay per brand or client workspace: Metricool Starter covers 5 brands at €20/month, Zoho Social Standard covers 1 brand at €10 (billed annually), Planable is $33–39 per workspace. This maps well to agencies that bill per client and can pass the cost through. It punishes anyone managing many small brands — a freelancer with 8 client workspaces on Planable is looking at $264/month even at annual rates.

4. Flat unlimited (Schedchie, Radaar Standard)

One price, no meters on posts: Schedchie at €7.99 flat gives unlimited profiles and unlimited posts. Radaar Standard at $9.99 lifts the post cap but still meters profiles by tier (6 on Standard, 12 on Professional at $29.99, 24 on Advanced at $149.99) — re-checked on radaar.io on 13 September 2026. This suits multi-account users — creators on six platforms, freelancers with several clients — who would get multiplied by every other model. On our side the Team plan is €24.99 flat: three invited members who pay nothing themselves, post approvals before anything publishes, client review links that need no client account, and a 30-day activity view. X publishing is a €4.99 add-on per 30 posts.

Of the 25 tools in this dataset, only one offers both unlimited accounts and unlimited posts on a flat plan: Schedchie at €7.99. Radaar Standard at $9.99 comes closest — unlimited posts — but caps profiles at 6. Everything else meters you on at least one axis.

Key findings from the September 2026 index

  • Entry-level paid plans run from $4.99 to $99/month across the 25 tools, with a median of $29/month.
  • Free plans keep disappearing: Later, Agorapulse, and now Vista Social have all dropped theirs.
  • Two long-running tools are gone from the market — Crowdfire shut down in May 2025 and SocialOomph closed after 17 years.
  • X (Twitter) is a paid add-on on several tools: Metricool doubled its add-on to $10/account in July 2026, CoSchedule charges $16/mo per X profile, Vista Social $29/mo. Schedchie's €4.99 per 30 posts is the lowest X fee in this index.
  • More than half of the 25 tools now advertise the annual-billing rate as the headline monthly price — Loomly's $49 is really $65 month-to-month, CoSchedule's $29 is really $39.
  • Running 10 social profiles costs anywhere from €7.99 to $299+/month depending on the pricing model — a 37x spread for the same profile count.
  • The cheapest paid plan of all (Radaar Basic, $4.99) caps you at 3 profiles and 90 posts/month; the cheapest genuinely unlimited option is Schedchie at €7.99.

If budget is the main constraint, we also maintain a ranked list of affordable Hootsuite alternatives and a roundup of the best free schedulers still standing in 2026.

FAQ: social media scheduler pricing in 2026

What are the current pricing options for social media post apps available in 2026?

Across the 25 tools in this index, entry paid plans run $4.99–$99/month with a median of $29 as of September 2026. Pricing follows four models: per channel (Buffer, $5/channel billed yearly), per seat (Hootsuite, $99/user), per brand or workspace (Metricool, Planable), and flat unlimited (Schedchie, €7.99 for unlimited accounts and posts). More than half of the tools display annual-billing rates as the headline price, so check the billing toggle before comparing. Our guide to the cheapest schedulers of 2026 ranks the budget end in detail.

Which social media scheduler offers unlimited accounts with flat rate pricing in 2026?

Schedchie. It is the one tool of the 25 in this index whose flat rate covers both unlimited accounts and unlimited posts: €7.99 a month, twelve platforms, no per-channel, per-seat or per-brand multiplier. Radaar Standard ($9.99) is flat on posts but caps profiles at 6; Pallyy Pro ($25) caps a social set at 11 accounts; Hootsuite Professional ($199 per user, billed annually) lifts the account cap but bills per seat. If you need the flat rate for a team, Schedchie's €24.99 Team plan keeps it: three invited members, post approvals and client review links, still no seat fee.

What is the cheapest social media scheduler in 2026?

Radaar Basic at $4.99/month is the cheapest paid plan we found in September 2026, but it caps you at 3 profiles and 90 posts/month. The cheapest plan with unlimited accounts and unlimited posts is Schedchie at €7.99/month. Radaar Standard at $9.99 removes the post cap but not the profile cap — it includes 6 profiles.

How much does a social media scheduler cost for an agency?

It depends heavily on the pricing model. Per-seat tools like Sprout Social ($79/seat billed annually) and Agorapulse ($79/user, billed annually) scale with headcount, so a three-person agency team starts around $237/month at annual rates. Per-workspace tools like Planable ($33–39/workspace) scale with client count. Flat-rate tools don't scale with either: Schedchie is €7.99 for unlimited accounts and unlimited posts, and its €24.99 Team plan adds three invited members who pay no seat fee, post approvals before anything publishes, and client review links the client opens with no account and no login. We break the agency math down footprint by footprint in our agency pricing guide.

Which social media schedulers have unlimited posts?

From our September 2026 check: Schedchie (€7.99, also unlimited accounts), Radaar Standard ($9.99, 6 profiles), Pallyy Pro ($25, 11 accounts per set), MeetEdgar Eddie ($29.99, 5 accounts), Social Champ Standard ($29, 6 accounts), and Swat.io Small (€39, 3 channels). Most entry plans are capped — Later Starter allows 30 posts per profile per month, FeedHive Creator 30 scheduled posts, Planable Basic 60 posts/month, Radaar Basic 90, and Tailwind Pro 150. If YouTube is central to your posting plan, see our YouTube scheduler comparison, written after YouTube doubled its 2027 monetization thresholds.

Buffer pricing vs Publer pricing vs Metricool pricing vs SocialBee pricing: which is cheapest at 10 accounts in 2026?

At ten accounts on monthly billing, Publer is $37, SocialBee $49, Metricool €37 and Buffer $60 ($50 billed yearly), all read from the official pricing pages on 3 September 2026. Schedchie is €7.99 for the same ten accounts, or any larger number, with unlimited posts. At five accounts the order is the same: Metricool €20, Publer $21, SocialBee $29, Buffer $30, Schedchie €7.99.

Buffer pricing, Publer pricing, Metricool pricing and SocialBee pricing in 2026: what do they cost at 5 and 10 accounts?

On monthly billing, Buffer is $30 at five accounts and $60 at ten ($25 and $50 billed yearly). Publer is $21 and $37, with the 10th account free. Metricool is €20 and €37 (€16 and €29 billed annually). SocialBee is $29 and $49 ($24.20 and $40.80 billed annually). Every one of them costs more as you add accounts. Schedchie is €7.99 a month flat, with unlimited accounts and unlimited posts.

Is Buffer or Hootsuite cheaper?

For small setups, Buffer: at $5/channel billed yearly, five channels cost $25/month versus Hootsuite's $99 minimum. The gap narrows as you grow — 10 channels on Buffer is $50 against Hootsuite Standard's $99 for 10 accounts — and Hootsuite's price is per user billed annually, so a three-person team is $297/month. Neither number moves on a flat plan: Schedchie is €7.99 whether you connect two accounts or twenty. Buffer still has a free plan; Hootsuite does not.

Do schedulers charge extra for X (Twitter)?

Increasingly, yes. Metricool doubled its X add-on to $10/month per connected account in July 2026, CoSchedule bills X profiles separately at $16/month each, and Vista Social sells X as a $29/month add-on. Schedchie sells X publishing as a €4.99 add-on covering 30 posts over 30 days — the lowest X fee in this index. Check the fine print before assuming X is included in any advertised price.

Which schedulers still offer a free plan in 2026?

Buffer (3 channels, 10 posts each), Publer (3 accounts, 10 pending posts each), Metricool (1 brand, 20 posts/month), Pallyy (1 social set, 15 posts a month, images only), Zoho Social (1 brand, 6 channels, limited features), Social Champ (3 accounts, 15 posts in total), CoSchedule (free calendar, 15 posts per profile), Tailwind (1 account, 5 posts/month), and Planable (first 50 posts, then paid). Later, Agorapulse, and Vista Social dropped their free plans. Hootsuite, Sprout Social, Radaar, Sendible, FeedHive, Predis, MeetEdgar, Swat.io, and Loomly offer trials instead — as does Schedchie (14 days). Planoly's "free" tier is mobile-app-only with 10 uploads a month. The limits of every free plan, re-checked row by row, are in our free-plan census.

Why do advertised prices differ from what I'm charged?

Usually one of four reasons: the advertised price assumes annual billing (true of more than half the tools in this index, including Hootsuite, Sprout, Agorapulse, CoSchedule, Loomly, Later, Buffer, Vista Social, Planoly, Predis, and Planable), it's a per-channel unit price (Buffer, Publer), it's per seat (Sprout, Hootsuite), or platform add-ons like X fees apply at checkout. Multiply the unit price by your real account and team count before comparing.

Where Schedchie fits

We built Schedchie for the people the other models punish: creators, freelancers and agencies running many profiles. It's €7.99/month flat for unlimited accounts and unlimited posts across Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, and Telegram, with one composer, a unified calendar, CSV bulk import, and unlimited client Groups. You can also drive the whole thing from Claude or ChatGPT through the Schedchie MCP server. Team work sits on the €24.99 Team plan: three invited members who pay no seat fee, post approvals, and client review links that need no client account. The prices above are on the vendors' own pages, dated September 2026 — start your free 14-day trial and put the €7.99 line in the table to work.