7 Best Postiz Alternatives in 2026 (Managed and Hosted)

Postiz is the open-source bet in social media scheduling: self-host the whole stack for free, or take the hosted product from $29 a month with an API, webhooks and agent tooling on every tier — and unlimited team members from the $39 plan, which nothing else in this category matches at that price. People look for alternatives for two honest reasons: self-hosting makes you the ops team, and the hosted product is the youngest in its field — the channel caps and AI meters are still settling. Every price below was read from the vendors’ own pages on 23 August 2026.

Why people leave Postiz#

• Self-hosting is a standing job. The $0 price buys you upgrades, backups, storage and every platform-API change to chase — a real cost paid in hours.
• The entry tier travels alone. Hosted Standard at $29 covers 5 channels with no team members; seats arrive at $39.
• AI is metered by count. 3 AI videos a month on Standard, 100 images and 10 videos on Team, scaling by tier — generous at the top, thin at the bottom.
• Youth. The product ships fast and changes fast; teams that want boring reliability feel the churn.

The seven at a glance#

For reference on the same day: hosted Postiz runs $29 (5 channels), $39 (10 channels, unlimited members), $49 (30) and $99 (100), with a 7-day trial — or free forever if you run the open-source build yourself.

1 · Social Magnum, the managed flat plan (ours)#

Social Magnum is the move when you want the infrastructure to be someone else’s job and the bill to stay flat: $24 a month ($19 billed yearly) for 10 social accounts and 2 people, with unlimited posts, unmetered AI captions and images, post approvals, a unified inbox with auto-replies, CSV bulk scheduling and RSS. $59 covers 30 accounts and 6 people; $119 covers 70 and 10. The free plan is 2 accounts and 15 posts a month, forever — hosted Postiz offers a trial, not a free tier. AI agents connect over an MCP server with 26 publicly documented tools; Postiz ships agent tooling of its own, so pick by documentation depth rather than by checkbox.

Skip it if: you need X, LinkedIn or Google Business publishing, you want to own the stack — nothing here self-hosts — or unlimited team seats matter more than the $15 gap to Postiz’s Team tier.

2 · Buffer, the boring-reliable one#

Buffer is the opposite of youth: fifteen years of the same calm queue, free for 3 channels, then $5 per channel per month billed yearly across eleven channels including X, LinkedIn and Google Business Profile, with API access bundled at request caps by plan.

Skip it if: per-channel pricing is what sent you shopping, or you need webhooks and infrastructure the way Postiz means them.

3 · Publer, per-account and cheap#

Publer runs from $5 per account a month ($4 yearly) with a free 3-account tier and an API on its $10 Business tier. X is paid-only and team members cost per seat — the mirror image of Postiz’s unlimited-member model.

Skip it if: seats or roster size make the per-unit maths climb.

4 · SocialPilot, the agency flat plan#

SocialPilot prices flat like we do: $20 a month ($17 yearly) for 5 accounts, $40 for 10 with 3 users, $200 for 40 with unlimited users and white-label reports from the $100 tier — the practical managed pick for client work.

Skip it if: you want a free plan or unmetered AI.

5 · Metricool, the analytics upgrade#

Metricool is free for 1 brand and 20 posts a month with real cross-network reporting, then $20 to $36 by brand count; X needs a paid add-on. The pick when measurement was the missing half of your Postiz setup.

Skip it if: publishing workflow is the whole job.

6 · Upload-Post, the cheaper pure API#

Upload-Post strips the category to the pipe: a posting API free for 10 uploads a month on 2 profiles, then $16 for unlimited uploads on 5 profiles. If Postiz’s API was the only part you used, this is that part, priced alone. X link-posts cost a $19 add-on.

Skip it if: you want any app at all around the API.

7 · Zoho Social, the price floor#

Zoho Social at $10 a month billed annually is the cheapest managed scheduler going, with a limited free plan — strongest inside the Zoho ecosystem, dated outside it.

Skip it if: you run several brands or live nowhere near Zoho.

How to choose#

Related reading: Social Magnum vs Postiz head to head, the best social media posting APIs and the best Blotato alternatives.