Postiz vs Publer
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
The short answer
Both sides assessedPostiz compared with Publer
Both are built for people running many accounts. Publer is cheaper through the low and middle range and stronger on the production grind (bulk spreadsheet upload, recycling, watermarks, signatures); Postiz covers roughly three times as many networks, is open source, and exposes far more programmatic control. Take Publer for the lowest bill and the most scheduling automation, Postiz for coverage, self-hosting, or agent workflows.
Publer compared with Postiz
Both target multi-account operators, from opposite directions. Postiz is open source with 30-plus networks and a flat $29 to $99 cloud price, or free if you self-host. Publer is closed, cheaper at small and medium account counts, and much stronger on the production grind (bulk upload, watermarks, signatures, recycling). Take Postiz if you want self-hosting or AI-agent control; take Publer if you want the lowest bill and the most scheduling automation out of the box.
Choose Postiz if
Technical teams, developer-adjacent startups, and agencies who want wide network coverage with API and AI-agent control, and who either value open-source ownership enough to self-host or want a flat cloud price that does not scale per channel.
Choose Publer if
Freelancers, small agencies, and multi-brand operators who manage many social accounts on a tight budget and need bulk scheduling, recycling, watermarks, and workspace separation more than they need a beautiful editor.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Postiz | Publer |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Social | Social |
| Starting price | $29/mo (Standard cloud), or $0 self-hosted (7 days trial) | $5/mo (Professional, one social account) (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Cloud subscription tiered on channel count with unlimited posts on every paid plan, or free self-hosting under AGPL-3.0 with the same features. No free cloud tier; a 7-day trial instead. | Base subscription plus incremental pricing: each paid plan includes one social account, with additional social accounts and team members billed individually. Every tenth social account or member is free. Annual billing gives two months free. |
| Free plan | No | 3 social accounts (X excluded), 1 workspace, 10 pending scheduled posts per account, 25 saved drafts, 24-hour post history. |
| Free trial | 7 days on Postiz Cloud | No time-limited trial; a permanent free plan serves that purpose |
| Best for | Technical teams, developer-adjacent startups, and agencies who want wide network coverage with API and AI-agent control, and who either value open-source ownership enough to self-host or want a flat cloud price that does not scale per channel. | Freelancers, small agencies, and multi-brand operators who manage many social accounts on a tight budget and need bulk scheduling, recycling, watermarks, and workspace separation more than they need a beautiful editor. |
| Setup time | Fifteen minutes on the cloud version. Self-hosting is a half-day at minimum: Docker deployment plus Postgres, then registering a developer application with each network you intend to publish to, some of which require platform review. | An hour or two for a multi-account setup: connecting accounts is quick, but configuring workspaces, watermarks, signatures, and auto-schedule slots per account is where the time goes. |
| Learning curve | Low for calendar scheduling, moderate to high for the parts that make Postiz worth choosing (API, CLI, MCP, webhooks, self-hosted operations). It assumes a technical operator. | Moderate. The product is broad and the UI is dense; bulk upload, recycling, and spintax all reward a read of the documentation rather than clicking around. |
| Platforms | Web app, Self-hosted Docker deployment, Public REST API, CLI, MCP server | Web app, iOS app, Android app, Browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera, and Safari |
| Compliance | No formal certifications published | GDPR-aligned processes (self-reported) |
| Founded | 2024 | 2015 |
| Headquarters | Distributed; operated as Gitroom | Tirana, Albania |
| Ownership | Independent, founder-owned open-source project (Gitroom) | Bootstrapped, founder-owned |
Strengths and limitations
Postiz
Strengths
- Widest network coverage in the category by a distance, including Discord, Slack, Telegram, Reddit, and several web3 and niche platforms nobody else supports.
- Genuinely open source under AGPL-3.0 with stated feature parity between the hosted and self-hosted builds, so there is a real exit from vendor lock-in.
- Best flat pricing at scale: 30 channels for $49 a month and 100 for $99, with unlimited team members throughout.
- First-class machine interfaces (public API, CLI, MCP server, webhooks, n8n, Make, Zapier) rather than an API bolted on as an afterthought.
Limitations
- No free cloud tier and only a 7-day trial, making it the most expensive way into this category for a small team that will not self-host.
- Self-hosting means registering your own developer apps with each network, which involves platform review processes and rate limits that a vendor would normally absorb.
- AI generation allowances are metered and stingy at the entry tier (20 images and 3 videos a month on Standard).
- A young project from a very small team: expect rougher edges, faster changes, and less operational history than a fifteen-year-old competitor.
Publer
Strengths
- Best cost curve in the category at scale: cheap incremental accounts, $2 to $3 team members, and every tenth account or member free.
- Thirteen networks including Telegram, WordPress, and Google Business Profile, destinations most competitors skip.
- Genuine bulk operations (spreadsheet upload, recycling, recurring posts, spintax) that turn a month of client scheduling into minutes.
- Automatic watermarks and signatures remove per-post brand work that other tools leave manual.
Limitations
- Pricing is genuinely hard to compare: a base fee plus different per-account and per-member rates on each tier means two similar teams can land on very different bills.
- Feature gating between Professional and Business is arbitrary in places (photo versus video watermarks, unbranded versus tracked link-in-bio), which pushes most buyers to the higher tier regardless of need.
- The free plan excludes X, an unusual and rarely advertised restriction.
- Daily posting limits apply on all self-serve plans and are only removed on quoted Enterprise, which is a poor fit for genuinely high-volume publishing.
Pricing compared
Postiz
Cloud subscription tiered on channel count with unlimited posts on every paid plan, or free self-hosting under AGPL-3.0 with the same features. No free cloud tier; a 7-day trial instead.
- Self-hosted$0
- Standard$29
- Team$39
- Pro$49
- Ultimate$99
Postiz has the best cost curve at high channel counts of any cloud tool here: 30 channels for $49 a month, or 100 for $99, against per-channel competitors that would charge several times that. It is simultaneously the worst deal at the low end, since a founder with three channels pays $29 where Buffer charges nothing and Publer charges $13. The self-hosted option resolves this only for people who genuinely want to run infrastructure; for everyone else, treat Postiz as a tool that starts making financial sense somewhere north of ten channels or the moment API and agent control becomes a requirement rather than a nice-to-have.
Publer
Base subscription plus incremental pricing: each paid plan includes one social account, with additional social accounts and team members billed individually. Every tenth social account or member is free. Annual billing gives two months free.
- Free$0
- Professional$5
- Business$10
- EnterpriseCustom
Publer is the cost winner at scale and it is not particularly close. A twenty-account portfolio on Business lands well below the equivalent on per-channel pricing, and $2 to $3 team members make adding collaborators almost free. What you give up is polish and clarity: the tier boundaries are arbitrary enough (photo watermarks here, video watermarks there) that you will probably end up on Business regardless, and the interface asks more of a new user than Buffer's does. Price it out at your actual account and member count, including the every-tenth-free discount, before comparing headline numbers with anything else on this list.
Editorial verdict on each
Postiz
InnovationPostiz is the right answer to two specific questions and the wrong answer to most others. If you need to publish to networks nobody else supports, want the software under your own control, or intend to drive social from code and AI agents rather than a UI, nothing else in this category comes close, and 30 channels for $49 a month makes the economics work at agency scale. If you are a founder with three channels who wants to schedule some posts, a $29 floor with no free plan and a self-hosting path that involves registering your own OAuth apps makes this the hardest tool here to justify. Judge it as infrastructure, not as a scheduler, and the price makes sense.
Read the full Postiz profilePubler
Publer is the pragmatist's choice: the cheapest way to run a lot of social accounts properly, with the bulk-scheduling, recycling, watermarking, and workspace machinery that agency work actually requires and that creator-first tools never build. It is not the nicest product here. The interface is crowded, the Professional versus Business split is arbitrary enough that most people end up on Business anyway, and daily posting caps sit on every self-serve plan. But price a twenty-account portfolio against per-channel competitors and the argument mostly settles itself. Buy it for scale and for the unglamorous automation; buy something else if the writing experience is what you are paying for.
Read the full Publer profilePostiz profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Publer last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.