Buffer alternatives: 6 tools with free plans, recycling or more profiles

Buffer alternatives: the short answer

Six Buffer alternatives are worth pricing: Publer and Metricool for another free plan, and RecurPost, SocialBee, Sendible and SocialPilot for recycling evergreen posts. Stay on Buffer Free while 3 channels and 10 scheduled posts per channel are enough. All prices below are billed monthly, in US dollars, as read on 7 October 2026.

Pick Publer or Metricool for another free plan, RecurPost for recycling on 2 accounts at $9 a month, or SocialBee for 5 profiles on one category schedule at $29 a month.

What Buffer gives free and charges per channel

Buffer Free covers up to 3 channels, with 10 scheduled posts per channel, 100 ideas and 1 user. Essentials is $6 a month per channel and Team is $12 a month per channel, both billed monthly; on yearly billing they are $5 and $10 a month per channel. Essentials has unlimited scheduled posts and 1 user; Team adds unlimited team members and approval workflows.

Each channel on Buffer Free holds 10 scheduled posts, which Buffer says you can refill anytime. Buffer's pricing page lists a queue you can re-arrange or shuffle and names no recycling feature.

Free alternatives: Publer and Metricool

Publer Free covers 3 social accounts (except X), with 10 scheduled posts per account, 25 saved drafts and a 24-hour post history. Publer prices paid plans by accounts and members: Professional is $5 a month for 1 account and $9 for 2, billed monthly, and Business, which lists post recycling, is $10 a month for 1 account. Publer offers a 7-day Professional trial and a 14-day Business trial without a credit card.

Metricool Free covers 1 brand, with 20 scheduled posts a month and 30 days of analytics. Metricool prices by brand: Starter is $25 a month for up to 5 brands and $45 for up to 10, billed monthly, and approvals are on Advanced. For more free options, see best free social media scheduling software.

Recycling alternatives: RecurPost, SocialBee and Sendible

RecurPost lists evergreen content libraries, its way to recycle posts, on every plan. Starter is $9 a month for 2 accounts and Personal is $25 for 5 accounts, billed monthly. RecurPost offers a 14-day trial with no credit card and a 30-day money-back guarantee on new plans.

SocialBee builds recycling around content categories. A content category is a folder of posts, and a weekly posting schedule says which category the next post comes from. An evergreen category shares its posts one by one and starts again at the first after the last. Bootstrap has 10 categories and recycling is on every plan, but SocialBee has no free plan, only a 14-day trial of Pro. SocialBee vs Buffer compares the two.

Sendible Core includes unlimited users, and its repeating posts take a start and end date. SocialBee, RecurPost and Sendible all offer 14-day trials, so a reader can try recycling before paying. SocialBee's pricing page says its trial needs no credit card, and its pricing FAQ says posting stops automatically once the trial expires.

The tools built around a category queue like MeetEdgar's are listed in MeetEdgar alternatives.

One price for several accounts: SocialPilot

SocialPilot Essentials covers 5 accounts and 1 user. Standard is $40 a month, billed monthly, for 10 accounts and 3 users, and adds content approval workflows. SocialPilot's pricing grid lists Repeat Post, which publishes a post repeatedly on a daily, weekly or monthly basis, on all four plans.

For 5 accounts, the monthly prices run from SocialPilot Essentials at $20, through RecurPost Personal at $25 and SocialBee Bootstrap at $29, to Sendible Core at $35 for 6 profiles. All four are billed monthly and offer a 14-day trial; SocialBee's runs on Pro.