# Postiz

> Postiz is an open-source (AGPL-3.0) social media scheduling and management platform covering more than 30 networks, including X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, Reddit, Discord, Telegram, and Pinterest, available either as a paid cloud service from $29 a month or self-hosted for free on your own infrastructure, with a public API, CLI, and MCP server so AI agents can create and schedule posts.

- Category: Social Media Management (https://saastracker.org/categories/social-media)
- Website: https://postiz.com
- Starting price: $29/mo (Standard cloud), or $0 self-hosted
- Free plan: No
- Free trial: 7 days on Postiz Cloud
- Founded: 2024, HQ: Distributed; operated as Gitroom, Ownership: Independent, founder-owned open-source project (Gitroom)
- Profile last reviewed: 2026-08-22
- Canonical profile: https://saastracker.org/products/postiz

## Overview

Postiz is the open-source answer in a category otherwise made of closed SaaS. Nevo David, who previously built the open-source notification platform Novu, launched it in September 2024 and it has since accumulated tens of thousands of GitHub stars under an AGPL-3.0 licence. The project's own README makes the important commercial claim: there is no functional difference between the hosted version and the self-hosted version, so the paid cloud is a convenience purchase rather than a feature gate.

Two things separate it from the rest of this category. The first is breadth: Postiz publishes to more than 30 networks, roughly triple what Buffer supports, and reaches into places nobody else bothers with (Discord, Slack, Telegram, Reddit, Dribbble, Twitch, Warpcast, Nostr, Lemmy, WordPress) alongside the mainstream set. The second is that it treats machines as first-class users. A public API, a CLI, an MCP server, packaged agent skills, and n8n, Make, and Zapier connectors mean an AI assistant can plan, draft, and queue content while a human reviews the calendar.

The tradeoffs are the ones you would expect from a fast-moving open-source project run by a very small team. Cloud pricing starts at $29 a month with no free tier, only a 7-day trial, which makes it the most expensive entry point on this list for anyone unwilling to run a server. The AI allowances are metered and modest at the bottom tier (20 images and 3 videos a month on Standard). And self-hosting is genuinely self-hosting: Postgres, Redis, Docker, and per-network OAuth app registration are your problem, which is a real afternoon of work and an ongoing maintenance commitment.

## How it works

1. You either sign up for Postiz Cloud or deploy the AGPL-licensed application yourself with Docker on AWS, Azure, GCP, Railway, Hetzner, Coolify, or any other host. The stack is Next.js and NestJS with Prisma against PostgreSQL, so it is a conventional deployment rather than an exotic one.

2. Self-hosters register their own developer applications with each network they want to publish to and supply the OAuth credentials; cloud users skip that entirely, which is the main practical reason to pay. Channel connections then work the same way in both versions.

3. Content is composed once, adapted per network, and placed on a shared visual calendar. Paid cloud plans include unlimited monthly posts, so the meter that matters is channel count: 5, 10, 30, or 100 depending on tier. Customer groups let an agency separate one client's channels and calendar from another's.

4. Automation is the layer Postiz leans on hardest. A built-in AI agent drafts posts and generates images and short videos against a monthly allowance, while the public API, CLI, MCP server, webhooks, and n8n, Make, and Zapier connectors let external systems or AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT create and schedule content programmatically. Analytics then pull per-channel and per-post metrics back from the official platform APIs.

## 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.

## Not the right fit for

- Anyone who needs a free cloud tier; Postiz Cloud offers only a 7-day trial, and the free path requires you to run and maintain the software yourself.
- Non-technical solo operators; the product assumes comfort with API keys, OAuth apps, and, if self-hosting, Docker and Postgres.
- Teams that want a polished, mature UI and fifteen years of stability; Postiz is a young project shipping quickly, and rough edges come with that.
- Buyers who need vendor assurances such as SOC 2 reports, SSO, or contractual data residency; a small open-source company cannot supply what a compliance team will ask for.
- Anyone whose entire strategy is writing on X and LinkedIn; Typefully's editor, thread mechanics, and X analytics are in a different class.

## Features

### Network coverage

Roughly triple the destinations of any closed competitor in this category.

- **More than 30 supported networks**: The documentation cites 34 platforms, covering X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, Pinterest, and Reddit alongside the long tail.
- **Community and chat destinations**: Discord, Slack, and Telegram are treated as publishing targets, so an announcement can hit a community server and a public feed from the same draft.
- **Long-tail and web3 networks**: Dribbble, Twitch, Warpcast, Nostr, Lemmy, and WordPress are supported, destinations that no mainstream scheduler covers.
- **Official platform APIs**: Connections use each network's official API and OAuth flow; self-hosters register their own developer apps and supply credentials themselves.
- **Unlimited posts on paid plans**: Every cloud tier allows unlimited monthly posts, so the only capacity meter that matters is how many channels you connect.

### Open source and self-hosting

The structural difference from everything else in this category.

- **AGPL-3.0 licence**: The full application is published under AGPL-3.0 on GitHub, so the code can be inspected, modified, and run without a commercial relationship, subject to the licence's copyleft terms.
- **Feature parity with the cloud**: The project states there is no difference between the hosted and self-hosted versions, which is unusual honesty for an open-core-style product.
- **Docker deployment**: Ships as a Docker deployment on a Next.js, NestJS, Prisma, and PostgreSQL stack, deployable to AWS, Azure, GCP, Railway, Hetzner, or Coolify.
- **Bring your own OAuth apps**: Self-hosters register developer applications with each network directly, which means platform API access, review, and rate limits become your responsibility rather than the vendor's.
- **Active public repository**: Tens of thousands of GitHub stars and public issue tracking give a visible read on development pace and known problems, something no closed competitor offers.

### AI and agent control

Postiz treats an AI assistant as a legitimate operator of the account.

- **Built-in AI agent**: Drafts posts, generates images, and produces short videos inside the product, with monthly allowances by plan rather than unlimited generation.
- **AI image and video allowances**: Images run 20, 100, 300, and 500 a month and videos 3, 10, 30, and 60 a month across Standard, Team, Pro, and Ultimate.
- **MCP server and CLI**: An MCP server and a command-line interface let assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT, or a terminal workflow, manage channels and schedule posts directly.
- **Public API**: HTTP API for scheduling posts, managing channels, and retrieving analytics, included on paid plans and available in the self-hosted build.
- **Automation platform connectors**: n8n, Make.com, and Zapier connectors plus webhooks, with the webhook allowance scaling to 10,000 on the Ultimate tier.

### Calendar and collaboration

Standard scheduling machinery, with team seats that do not cost extra.

- **Shared visual calendar**: One calendar across all connected channels, with in-place review and editing of what is queued.
- **Unlimited team members**: Team, Pro, and Ultimate plans put no cap on seats, with Admin and Member roles sharing the same calendar.
- **Customer groups for multiple clients**: Group channels by client or brand so an agency can keep portfolios separate inside one account; available from the Pro tier.
- **RSS automation**: Auto-publish from feeds, available from the Team plan up.

### Measurement

Straightforward reporting drawn from the platforms themselves.

- **Per-channel and per-post analytics**: Metrics pulled from official platform APIs rather than estimated, so numbers match what each network reports natively.
- **Cross-platform comparison**: Performance normalized across networks in one view, the practical benefit of publishing 30-plus destinations from one place.

## Use cases

- **Developer-tools startup announcing releases**: Every release needs to hit X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, a Discord community server, Reddit, and the company blog, and the team currently does it by hand across six tabs. Outcome: Postiz is one of very few tools that can publish to all six destinations, and the release script can push the announcement through the public API so it goes out with the deploy.
- **Privacy-conscious or regulated team**: Policy forbids handing social account tokens to a third-party SaaS vendor, which rules out every closed scheduler in the category. Outcome: Self-hosting the AGPL build on the company's own infrastructure keeps tokens and content in-house at zero licence cost, in exchange for owning the Postgres instance and the OAuth app registrations.
- **Agency with 40 client channels**: Per-channel pricing at other vendors would cost several hundred dollars a month for a portfolio that is not especially high volume. Outcome: The Ultimate plan covers 100 channels for $99 a month with unlimited team members and customer groups, a flat cost that per-channel competitors cannot match at that count.
- **Solo operator running an AI-assisted content workflow**: Wants Claude to turn a weekly research note into a set of posts and queue them without a human retyping anything. Outcome: The MCP server, CLI, and agent skills let the assistant draft and schedule directly into the calendar, with the human reviewing the queue rather than composing it.

## Pricing

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 AGPL-3.0 licence, your own infrastructure. Full feature parity with the cloud, per the project's own documentation; Docker deployment on Next.js, NestJS, Prisma, and PostgreSQL; Deployable to AWS, Azure, GCP, Railway, Hetzner, or Coolify; You register your own OAuth apps with each network. Free in licence terms only; budget server costs, per-network developer app approvals, and ongoing upgrades.
- **Standard**: $29 per month ($278 per year). 5 channels; Unlimited posts; API access; 20 AI images and 3 AI videos per month. The most expensive entry price on this list, and the AI allowance is thin at this tier.
- **Team**: $39 per month ($374 per year). 10 channels; Unlimited team members; RSS automation; 100 AI images and 10 AI videos per month.
- **Pro**: $49 per month ($470 per year). 30 channels; Unlimited team members; Customer groups for managing multiple clients; 300 AI images and 30 AI videos per month. The best value point for an agency: 30 channels for $49 is well under per-channel pricing elsewhere.
- **Ultimate**: $99 per month ($950 per year). 100 channels; Unlimited team members; Up to 10,000 webhooks; 500 AI images and 60 AI videos per month.

Billing notes:

- There is no free cloud plan, only a 7-day trial, which is the biggest commercial difference from Buffer and Publer.
- Yearly billing works out to roughly ten months' cost versus monthly across all four tiers.
- Channel count is the only real meter; posts are unlimited on every paid plan, which suits high-frequency publishers.
- AI image and video generation is metered monthly and the Standard allowance (20 images, 3 videos) will not carry a real content operation.
- Self-hosting is free of licence cost but not free of cost: server, database, monitoring, upgrades, and per-network developer app registration all fall on you.
- AGPL-3.0 is a copyleft licence; a company planning to modify Postiz and offer it as a service should read the terms before committing.

Value assessment: 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.

## 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.
- Unlimited posts on every paid plan, so high-frequency publishing never triggers an upgrade.
- A public repository and issue tracker give unusual visibility into development pace, bugs, and roadmap before you buy.

## 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.
- Minimal compliance and security documentation, no advertised SOC 2 or SSO, which will stall a procurement review at a larger company.
- The writing and editing experience is functional rather than distinguished; creators who care about drafting will prefer Typefully or Hypefury.

## Comparisons

- **Postiz vs 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.
- **Postiz vs Buffer**: Buffer has a free plan, fifteen years of reliability, and a simpler product; Postiz has 30-plus networks, an open-source licence, and flat pricing that beats Buffer badly past about ten channels. A non-technical team with a handful of channels should take Buffer without much thought. A technical team with a long channel list or an API requirement should take Postiz.
- **Postiz vs Typefully**: Opposite philosophies with a shared interest in AI agents: Typefully is a closed, design-led writing tool covering five text-first networks with a free API and $99 a year for one identity; Postiz is an open-source, self-hostable scheduler covering 30-plus networks from $29 a month. Choose Typefully when the draft is the product, Postiz when the channel list and the automation surface are.
- **Postiz vs Hypefury**: Hypefury automates one creator's growth with auto-plugs, auto-DMs, and text-to-visual conversion across five networks, and no longer supports X. Postiz does none of that engagement automation but publishes almost everywhere, including X, and can be driven entirely by API or an AI agent. Hypefury for audience-growth tactics, Postiz for infrastructure.

## Implementation

- 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.
- 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.
- Onboarding: Self-serve signup with a 7-day trial, public documentation, and video walkthroughs; self-hosters get installation and provider-configuration guides rather than a support engineer.
- Migration: The strongest migration story in the category in one direction: because the hosted and self-hosted builds are the same software, a team can move from cloud to its own infrastructure without changing products. Moving between Postiz and closed competitors is the usual manual channel-reconnection exercise.

## Platform, API & security

- Platforms: Web app, Self-hosted Docker deployment, Public REST API, CLI, MCP server
- API: Public HTTP API for scheduling posts, managing channels, and pulling analytics, plus a CLI and an MCP server for AI-agent control, and webhooks scaling to 10,000 on the Ultimate tier. Included in the self-hosted build.
- Compliance: No formal certifications published
- Data residency: Self-hosting allows full control of data location; the cloud service does not publish residency options.
- SSO: Not advertised on published plans.
- Security notes: Self-hosting keeps OAuth tokens and content on infrastructure you control, which is the main security argument for the product. The tradeoff is that patching, database security, and per-network app credentials become your responsibility. The AGPL licence means the code is publicly auditable.

## Support

- Channels: Email support, GitHub issues, Community channels
- Documentation: Public documentation covering cloud plans, the public API, CLI and MCP usage, self-host installation, provider configuration, and production deployment, plus video walkthroughs.
- Community: Open GitHub repository with public issue tracking, plus an active open-source contributor community.

## Company

- Founded: 2024
- Founders: Nevo David
- Headquarters: Distributed; operated as Gitroom
- Ownership: Independent, founder-owned open-source project (Gitroom)
- Employees: Very small, not disclosed; effectively a founder-led project with open-source contributors
- Funding: No institutional funding disclosed; the founder has publicly discussed building Postiz as a bootstrapped open-source business with revenue reported in the tens of thousands of dollars per month.

Timeline:

- 2024: Nevo David, previously the founder of the open-source notification platform Novu, launches Postiz in September as an AGPL-3.0 social scheduling tool.
- 2024: The repository goes viral on developer communities, passing tens of thousands of GitHub stars within months and establishing Postiz as the default open-source option in the category.
- 2025: Network coverage expands past 30 platforms, including Discord, Slack, Telegram, Reddit, and several web3 destinations no closed competitor supports.
- 2025: Cloud plans settle into four channel-based tiers from $29 to $99 a month with unlimited posts and unlimited team members on the upper tiers.
- 2026: The product repositions around agentic use: a public API, CLI, MCP server, and packaged skills for Claude and ChatGPT, alongside n8n, Make, and Zapier connectors.
- 2026: Built-in AI generation of post copy, images, and short videos ships with monthly allowances scaling from 20 images and 3 videos to 500 and 60 by tier.

## Integrations

X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, Pinterest, Reddit and roughly two dozen more networks, Discord, Slack, Telegram, Dribbble, Twitch, Warpcast, Nostr, Lemmy, WordPress, Claude and ChatGPT via MCP and agent skills, n8n, Make.com, Zapier, Webhooks and public REST API, CLI

## FAQ

### Is Postiz really free?

The software is free under AGPL-3.0 if you self-host it, and the project states there is no feature difference between the hosted and self-hosted versions. Postiz Cloud has no free plan at all, only a 7-day trial, with paid tiers from $29 a month.

### How much does Postiz Cloud cost?

Standard is $29 a month for 5 channels, Team $39 for 10, Pro $49 for 30, and Ultimate $99 for 100, with yearly billing at $278, $374, $470, and $950 respectively. All paid plans include unlimited posts, and Team and above include unlimited team members.

### Which social networks does Postiz support?

More than 30, with the documentation citing 34 platforms. That covers the mainstream set (X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, Pinterest, Reddit) plus community destinations like Discord, Slack, and Telegram and long-tail platforms such as Dribbble, Twitch, Warpcast, Nostr, and WordPress.

### What does self-hosting Postiz actually involve?

A Docker deployment of a Next.js and NestJS application with PostgreSQL behind it, on any host you like including AWS, Railway, Hetzner, or Coolify. The part people underestimate is registering your own developer application with each social network you want to publish to, some of which require platform review before they grant posting access.

### Does Postiz work with AI agents?

Yes, and it is one of the product's main selling points. Postiz ships a public API, a CLI, an MCP server, and packaged agent skills so assistants like Claude and ChatGPT can create, schedule, and manage posts, alongside n8n, Make, and Zapier connectors and webhooks.

### What licence is Postiz released under?

AGPL-3.0, a strong copyleft licence. You can run, inspect, and modify it freely, but a company planning to offer a modified Postiz as a network service should read the licence obligations carefully before building on it.

### Postiz or Buffer?

Buffer if you have a handful of channels, want a free plan, and are not technical: it is simpler and has a much longer track record. Postiz if you have a long channel list, need API or agent control, or want the option to self-host. The cost crossover is somewhere around ten channels.

### Is Postiz suitable for agencies?

Yes, particularly the Pro and Ultimate tiers: 30 or 100 channels for $49 or $99 a month with unlimited team members and customer groups to separate clients. That is well below what per-channel pricing would cost for the same portfolio.

### Does Postiz include AI content generation?

Yes, with metered monthly allowances: 20 images and 3 videos on Standard, rising to 500 images and 60 videos on Ultimate, plus AI drafting of post copy. The entry-tier allowance is small enough that anyone relying on generated media should price a higher plan.

### Who is behind Postiz?

Nevo David, an open-source founder who previously built the notification platform Novu, launched Postiz in September 2024 under the Gitroom banner. It is bootstrapped, developed publicly on GitHub, and run by a very small team with outside contributors.

## Editorial verdict

Postiz 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.

## SaaSTracker awards

- Innovation (Social Media Management, Summer 2026): "Open-source scheduling built to be driven by agents as much as people, making the social stack self-hostable and programmable."

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Source: SaaSTracker (https://saastracker.org), an independent editorial project. This profile is compiled from public information, carries no peer reviews or paid placement, and was last reviewed 2026-08-22. Awards are judged on published criteria: https://saastracker.org/methodology