Buffer vs. The Social Poster comparison

A side-by-side look at channels, publishing features, AI agent access and pricing. We added Postiz as a third column so you can see how it stacks up against both.

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Postiz is an agentic social media scheduler

Provides tools to manage social media, build an audience, generate leads, and grow your business.

Platform Comparison

Buffer

Buffer is one of the most established and widely-used social media management platforms, trusted by over 100,000 active users since its founding in 2010. Designed for individuals, creators, and small businesses, Buffer provides a clean, intuitive interface for planning, publishing, analyzing, and engaging across 11 major social networks including Facebook, Instagram, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, and Google Business Profile.

Buffer offers a comprehensive suite of tools: a visual content calendar with queue management for scheduling, an AI assistant for generating and refining posts across platforms, a unified community dashboard for managing comments and audience engagement, detailed analytics for tracking content performance, and team collaboration features with approval workflows and permission controls. Known for its transparent business practices and user-friendly design, Buffer is an excellent choice for creators and small teams who want a reliable, no-frills approach to social media management with broad platform coverage.

The Social Poster

The Social Poster is a social media automation platform designed to simplify your online presence by putting your social media on autopilot. It offers a centralized dashboard where users can link multiple social media accounts, schedule content, and leverage AI-powered tools for caption generation.

With its Caption-AI feature, The Social Poster helps users create engaging captions quickly, reducing the time and effort needed for content creation. The platform also includes an unlimited content library for storing all your social media assets, along with built-in tools to automate and streamline your creative workflow.

The Social Poster is ideal for small businesses, entrepreneurs, and content creators who want to maintain a consistent social media presence without spending hours manually posting across platforms. Its straightforward interface makes it accessible even for users who are new to social media management tools.

Postiz

Postiz is the agentic social media scheduling platform. It combines AI-powered content creation with multi-channel publishing across 30+ platforms, and it is built so that AI agents such as Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor and OpenClaw can plan, draft and schedule posts through its MCP server, CLI and public API while you approve everything in a visual calendar. Built for creators, teams, and agencies, it offers a visual calendar, an AI copilot for generating posts and images, a Canva-like design editor, and comprehensive analytics, all from a single dashboard.

What sets Postiz apart is that every plan includes AI agent access, not just the top tier. The platform includes advanced automation features like auto-posting, auto-liking, and auto-commenting triggered by milestones, plus a Smart Agent that acts as an AI copilot. It integrates with n8n and Make.com and offers a public API and webhooks for custom workflows. With support for emerging platforms like Bluesky, Mastodon, Nostr, Farcaster, and Moltbook alongside every major social network, Postiz provides the broadest channel coverage of any scheduler on the market.

Pricing & Plans

Buffer

  • Free plan available with up to 3 channels.
  • 14-day free trial on paid plans. Volume discounts available after 10 channels.

Free

$0 /month

Essentials

$5 /month

Team

$10 /month

The Social Poster

  • The Social Poster offers a single monthly plan at a very low price point, making it an entry-level option for social media automation.

Monthly Plan

$3 /month

Postiz

  • 7-day free trial — start for $0 with no commitment.
  • Agent-ready on every plan: MCP server, CLI, skill and public API included, with OAuth sign-in and no API key needed for MCP clients.
  • Full refund if you have not used Postiz within the first month; cancel anytime from the dashboard.
  • Supports 30+ channels including emerging platforms like Bluesky, Mastodon, Nostr, Farcaster, and Moltbook.

Standard

$29 /month

Team

$39 /month

Pro

$49 /month

Ultimate

$99 /month

Channels

Buffer 11/31

  • Supported
    Bluesky
  • Supported
    Facebook Pages
  • Supported
    Google My Business
  • Supported
    Instagram
  • Supported
    LinkedIn
  • Supported
    Mastodon
  • Supported
    Pinterest
  • Supported
    Threads
  • Supported
    TikTok
  • Supported
    X
  • Supported
    YouTube
  • Not supported
    Dev.to
  • Not supported
    Discord
  • Not supported
    Dribbble
  • Not supported
    Farcaster
  • Not supported
    Hashnode
  • Not supported
    Kick
  • Not supported
    Lemmy
  • Not supported
    Listmonk
  • Not supported
    Medium
  • Not supported
    MeWe
  • Not supported
    Moltbook
  • Not supported
    Nostr
  • Not supported
    Reddit
  • Not supported
    Skool
  • Not supported
    Slack
  • Not supported
    Telegram
  • Not supported
    Twitch
  • Not supported
    VK
  • Not supported
    Whop
  • Not supported
    WordPress

The Social Poster 0/31

  • Not supported
    Bluesky
  • Not supported
    Dev.to
  • Not supported
    Discord
  • Not supported
    Dribbble
  • Not supported
    Facebook Pages
  • Not supported
    Farcaster
  • Not supported
    Google My Business
  • Not supported
    Hashnode
  • Not supported
    Instagram
  • Not supported
    Kick
  • Not supported
    Lemmy
  • Not supported
    LinkedIn
  • Not supported
    Listmonk
  • Not supported
    Mastodon
  • Not supported
    Medium
  • Not supported
    MeWe
  • Not supported
    Moltbook
  • Not supported
    Nostr
  • Not supported
    Pinterest
  • Not supported
    Reddit
  • Not supported
    Skool
  • Not supported
    Slack
  • Not supported
    Telegram
  • Not supported
    Threads
  • Not supported
    TikTok
  • Not supported
    Twitch
  • Not supported
    VK
  • Not supported
    Whop
  • Not supported
    WordPress
  • Not supported
    X
  • Not supported
    YouTube

Postiz 31/31

  • Supported
    Bluesky
  • Supported
    Dev.to
  • Supported
    Discord
  • Supported
    Dribbble
  • Supported
    Facebook Pages
  • Supported
    Farcaster
  • Supported
    Google My Business
  • Supported
    Hashnode
  • Supported
    Instagram
  • Supported
    Kick
  • Supported
    Lemmy
  • Supported
    LinkedIn
  • Supported
    Listmonk
  • Supported
    Mastodon
  • Supported
    Medium
  • Supported
    MeWe
  • Supported
    Moltbook
  • Supported
    Nostr
  • Supported
    Pinterest
  • Supported
    Reddit
  • Supported
    Skool
  • Supported
    Slack
  • Supported
    Telegram
  • Supported
    Threads
  • Supported
    TikTok
  • Supported
    Twitch
  • Supported
    VK
  • Supported
    Whop
  • Supported
    WordPress
  • Supported
    X
  • Supported
    YouTube

Publishing Posts

Buffer 5/13

  • Supported
    Add Replies / Comments
  • Supported
    Cross / Bulk Posting
  • Supported
    Drag & Drop Calendar
  • Supported
    Generating posts with AI
  • Supported
    Upload media
  • Not supported
    AI Autocomplete for text
  • Not supported
    Customers seperation
  • Not supported
    Daily slots view
  • Not supported
    Design media
  • Not supported
    Monthly slots view
  • Not supported
    Save as Draft
  • Not supported
    Video Publishing
  • Not supported
    Weekly slots view

The Social Poster 4/13

  • Supported
    AI Autocomplete for text
  • Supported
    Cross / Bulk Posting
  • Supported
    Generating posts with AI
  • Supported
    Upload media
  • Not supported
    Add Replies / Comments
  • Not supported
    Customers seperation
  • Not supported
    Daily slots view
  • Not supported
    Design media
  • Not supported
    Drag & Drop Calendar
  • Not supported
    Monthly slots view
  • Not supported
    Save as Draft
  • Not supported
    Video Publishing
  • Not supported
    Weekly slots view

Postiz 13/13

  • Supported
    Add Replies / Comments
  • Supported
    AI Autocomplete for text
  • Supported
    Cross / Bulk Posting
  • Supported
    Customers seperation
  • Supported
    Daily slots view
  • Supported
    Design media
  • Supported
    Drag & Drop Calendar
  • Supported
    Generating posts with AI
  • Supported
    Monthly slots view
  • Supported
    Save as Draft
  • Supported
    Upload media
  • Supported
    Video Publishing
  • Supported
    Weekly slots view

Features

Buffer 5/33

  • Supported
    AI posts generation
  • Supported
    Analytics
  • Supported
    Inbox for socials
  • Supported
    Publishing Posts
  • Supported
    Team management
  • Not supported
    AI Image Generation
  • Not supported
    AI UGC Video Generation (agent-media)
  • Not supported
    AI Video Generation
  • Not supported
    Chat App Posting (WhatsApp, Signal, iMessage)
  • Not supported
    Chrome Extension
  • Not supported
    Claude Code Integration
  • Not supported
    ClawHub Skills Marketplace
  • Not supported
    Cron-Based Scheduled Automation
  • Not supported
    Enterprise / White-label
  • Not supported
    JSON Output for LLM Parsing
  • Not supported
    Kaban Planning Board
  • Not supported
    Make.com Integration
  • Not supported
    Moltbook AI Agent Social Network
  • Not supported
    n8n Integration
  • Not supported
    OpenClaw Integration
  • Not supported
    Plugs
  • Not supported
    Post Delays
  • Not supported
    Postiz CLI
  • Not supported
    Public API
  • Not supported
    Repeated Posts
  • Not supported
    RSS Auto-post
  • Not supported
    Self-hosted option
  • Not supported
    Sets / Posting Sets
  • Not supported
    Short Link Generation
  • Not supported
    Signatures
  • Not supported
    Smart Agent / AI Copilot
  • Not supported
    Webhooks
  • Not supported
    Zapier Integration

The Social Poster 0/33

  • Not supported
    AI Image Generation
  • Not supported
    AI posts generation
  • Not supported
    AI UGC Video Generation (agent-media)
  • Not supported
    AI Video Generation
  • Not supported
    Analytics
  • Not supported
    Chat App Posting (WhatsApp, Signal, iMessage)
  • Not supported
    Chrome Extension
  • Not supported
    Claude Code Integration
  • Not supported
    ClawHub Skills Marketplace
  • Not supported
    Cron-Based Scheduled Automation
  • Not supported
    Enterprise / White-label
  • Not supported
    Inbox for socials
  • Not supported
    JSON Output for LLM Parsing
  • Not supported
    Kaban Planning Board
  • Not supported
    Make.com Integration
  • Not supported
    Moltbook AI Agent Social Network
  • Not supported
    n8n Integration
  • Not supported
    OpenClaw Integration
  • Not supported
    Plugs
  • Not supported
    Post Delays
  • Not supported
    Postiz CLI
  • Not supported
    Public API
  • Not supported
    Publishing Posts
  • Not supported
    Repeated Posts
  • Not supported
    RSS Auto-post
  • Not supported
    Self-hosted option
  • Not supported
    Sets / Posting Sets
  • Not supported
    Short Link Generation
  • Not supported
    Signatures
  • Not supported
    Smart Agent / AI Copilot
  • Not supported
    Team management
  • Not supported
    Webhooks
  • Not supported
    Zapier Integration

Postiz 33/33

  • Supported
    AI Image Generation
  • Supported
    AI posts generation
  • Supported
    AI UGC Video Generation (agent-media)
  • Supported
    AI Video Generation
  • Supported
    Analytics
  • Supported
    Chat App Posting (WhatsApp, Signal, iMessage)
  • Supported
    Chrome Extension
  • Supported
    Claude Code Integration
  • Supported
    ClawHub Skills Marketplace
  • Supported
    Cron-Based Scheduled Automation
  • Supported
    Enterprise / White-label
  • Supported
    Inbox for socials
  • Supported
    JSON Output for LLM Parsing
  • Supported
    Kaban Planning Board
  • Supported
    Make.com Integration
  • Supported
    Moltbook AI Agent Social Network
  • Supported
    n8n Integration
  • Supported
    OpenClaw Integration
  • Supported
    Plugs
  • Supported
    Post Delays
  • Supported
    Postiz CLI
  • Supported
    Public API
  • Supported
    Publishing Posts
  • Supported
    Repeated Posts
  • Supported
    RSS Auto-post
  • Supported
    Self-hosted option
  • Supported
    Sets / Posting Sets
  • Supported
    Short Link Generation
  • Supported
    Signatures
  • Supported
    Smart Agent / AI Copilot
  • Supported
    Team management
  • Supported
    Webhooks
  • Supported
    Zapier Integration

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