Social Magnum vs Mixpost: Subscription or Pay Once (2026)
Mixpost sells a $299 one-time license you self-host with unlimited accounts; Social Magnum is a managed $24 flat plan. The year-two math favours Mixpost and this page says so, with both pages read the same day.
Mixpost makes the boldest pricing claim in this category: pay once, own forever. It is self-hosted social media software — you buy a license, deploy it on your own server, and no subscription ever renews. Social Magnum is the opposite shape: a managed service billed monthly with the infrastructure, upkeep and inbox included. This page prices both shapes honestly, including the year-two arithmetic that favours Mixpost.
Pricing side by side
| Mixpost | Social Magnum | |
|---|---|---|
| Model | One-time license, self-hosted on your server | Managed subscription, flat plans |
| Free option | Lite: free, open source — Facebook Pages, X and Mastodon only | Free plan: 2 accounts, 15 posts /mo, all 8 networks |
| Main offer | Pro: $299 once · 1 domain · unlimited workspaces, members and accounts | Starter: $24 /mo ($19 yearly) · 10 accounts · 2 people |
| Top tier | Enterprise: $1,199 once · full white label · subscription management | Agency: $119 /mo ($95 yearly) · 70 accounts · 10 people |
| Updates | 1 year included on Pro and Enterprise; license runs forever | Always current — part of the service |
| Two-year cost, 10 accounts | $299 once + your server and ops time | $456 at the yearly rate |
Read the last row honestly: on money alone, Mixpost Pro costs less than two years of our yearly rate — before you price the server, backups, upgrades and every platform-API change becoming your job. That trade is the entire comparison.
Feature by feature
| Social Magnum | Mixpost Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Publishes to | Facebook, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Bluesky, Mastodon | Those plus X, LinkedIn, Google Business and Pixelfed |
| X, LinkedIn, Google Business | No | Yes |
| Hosting and upkeep | Managed for you | Your server, your ops |
| Accounts and seats | By plan tier: 10/30/70 accounts, 2/6/10 people | Unlimited, on your hardware |
| Unified inbox with auto-replies | Yes | Not listed on its pricing page |
| Post approvals | All paid plans | Team workspaces included |
| AI captions and images | Included, unmetered | Not listed on its pricing page |
| API, webhooks, MCP | MCP server, 26 documented tools, OAuth | Yes — API, webhooks and MCP listed on Pro |
| White label / reselling | No | Basic on Pro; full plus subscription management on Enterprise |
| Free tier networks | All 8 | 3 (Facebook Pages, X, Mastodon) |
Where Mixpost wins
- Ownership economics. $299 once with unlimited accounts and members beats any subscription on a long enough timeline — by year two it has beaten ours.
- Network breadth. X, LinkedIn, Google Business and even Pixelfed on Pro — four destinations we do not publish to.
- Agency reselling. The Enterprise edition’s full white label and subscription management let an agency sell Mixpost as its own product — a business model we do not offer at all.
- Data sovereignty. Everything lives on your server. For some organisations that is the whole decision.
Where Social Magnum wins
- Nobody runs a server. Hosting, storage, upgrades and every platform-API change are our job — the cost Mixpost’s sticker never shows.
- The engagement layer. A unified inbox with keyword auto-replies for comments and Instagram DMs; Mixpost’s pricing page centres publishing.
- Unmetered AI included. Captions and images on every paid plan; AI is not listed on Mixpost’s pricing page.
- A fuller free tier. All eight networks free at 15 posts a month, against Lite’s three networks.
Which one to pick
The short version
- 1
You have a server and want to own the software: Mixpost — $299 once is the best pure price in this series.
- 2
An agency reselling social tools under its own brand: Mixpost Enterprise; nothing we sell does that.
- 3
No ops team, and the inbox matters: Social Magnum — managed, with engagement and AI in the flat price.
- 4
X, LinkedIn or Google Business required: Mixpost; we publish to none of them.
- 5
Cheapest honest test: Mixpost Lite (free, 3 networks, your server) against our free plan (8 networks, our servers) — the setup afternoon itself will tell you which shape you are.
More in this series: Social Magnum vs Postiz (the other self-host comparison), the best Postiz alternatives and the best social media schedulers in 2026.