Agorapulse vs Postiz

Agorapulse is a social media management suite built in Paris. It was founded in 2010 by Emeric Ernoult and Benoît Hédiard, grew largely self-funded, raised a €16.5 million round in 2019, and in May 2025 bought the French social listening tool Mention. It says more than 31,000 social media managers use it daily. Its core job is to let a team publish, answer every comment and message from one inbox, listen to brand mentions and prove the return on social work.

It covers Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, TikTok, YouTube, Threads, Bluesky and Google Business Profile. Pricing is per user: Standard covers scheduling and a unified inbox, Professional adds ad comment monitoring, assignments and team reports, and Advanced adds automated moderation rules, bulk actions, ROI analysis and competitor benchmarking. Every plan includes 10 social profiles, with extra profiles at $10 to $15 a month. The long-running free plan was discontinued on July 6, 2026; users were offered a free tier of Archie, its AI tool that turns articles and videos into posts, instead.

Agorapulse fits agencies and in-house teams for whom community management is the heavy part of the job; its inbox and moderation tools are among the best in the category, and support is fast. It falls short on per-user cost for large teams. Hootsuite has more integrations, Sprout Social deeper analytics at a higher price, and Buffer or Later are cheaper for solo publishing.

Buying tip: since prices are per user, give seats only to people who answer the inbox and use approvals for occasional contributors.

Postiz is an open-source social media scheduling platform created by developer Nevo David and released under the AGPL license. It covers the core job of tools like Buffer, planning posts, scheduling them across many networks and collaborating on content, while letting teams self-host the entire stack with Docker or use the hosted cloud service.

Postiz supports a wide set of channels, including X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Reddit, Discord, Telegram, Mastodon and Bluesky, which is broader than many commercial schedulers for community-oriented platforms. A calendar view with previews, an AI assistant for writing posts and generating images, team collaboration with comments, per-channel analytics and a public API for automation are included. Self-hosting is free; cloud plans are priced by number of channels and users.

Postiz fits developers, indie founders, open-source projects and privacy-minded teams who want control over their scheduler or need communities like Reddit and Discord. As a younger project it has lighter analytics, no social listening and a smaller support team, and self-hosting means handling updates and platform API credentials yourself. Buffer is the polished, simple hosted option, Metricool and Hootsuite add deeper analytics and reporting, and Mixpost is another self-hosted alternative sold with a one-time license.