Buffer alternatives compared by price

Zapier connects apps with automated workflows and was the first big no-code automation tool. It prices by the number of tasks run each month, so every plan is a starting price that scales with volume rather than with seats.

Zapier starts at $19.99 per month, billed annually, from for Professional (USD per month, billed annually, at the smallest task tier), goes up to $69 per month, billed annually, from for Team, has a free plan.

Ahrefs is the SEO toolset built on its own web crawler. Plans are flat monthly subscriptions that include a usage allowance, with extra credits sold on top, and the prices sit far above typical per-seat SaaS.

ahrefs starts at €27 per month, billed monthly, as shown to European visitors for Starter (EUR per month, billed monthly, as shown to European visitors), goes up to €1394 per month for Enterprise.

Mailchimp is the email marketing platform now owned by Intuit. Its plans are priced by contact count rather than seats, so the same tier gets more expensive as a list grows, and every tier was repriced twice between 2022 and 2023.

Mailchimp starts at $13 per month at the smallest contact tier for Essentials (USD per month at the smallest contact tier, billed monthly), goes up to $350 per month at the smallest contact tier for Premium. Latest change: Premium from $299 to $350 (+17%), Jul 2023.

HubSpot starts at $7 per seat per month, new-customer discount (regular $20) for Marketing Hub Starter (USD per seat per month, new-customer discount), goes up to $3600 per month, 5 core seats included, additional seats $75 per month for Marketing Hub Enterprise, has a free plan.

n8n is workflow automation for technical teams, with code steps and AI agent nodes and a self hosted Community edition. Cloud plans are priced by workflow executions rather than tasks, which is why it usually undercuts Zapier on busy workflows.

n8n starts at €20 per month, billed annually, 2,500 executions for Starter (EUR per month, billed annually), goes up to €667 per month, billed annually, 40,000 executions for Business, has a free plan.

Klaviyo starts at $20 per month, 251-500 active profiles for Email (USD per month, 251-500 active profiles), goes up to $35 per month, 251-500 active profiles for Email + SMS, has a free plan.

Customer.io sends triggered messages based on user behavior and stands out in its category by actually publishing prices: Essentials starts at $100 a month, a rare number in a market where Braze, Iterable and mParticle all quote blind.

Customer.io starts at $100 per month, billed monthly, starting at for Essentials (USD per month, starting at), goes up to $1000 per month, billed yearly, starting at for Premium.

Hootsuite is the long-running all-in-one option, covering scheduling, a shared inbox and analytics for teams. Paid plans start at $99 per user a month, roughly twenty times Buffer's per-channel entry price.

Heyday AI starts at $99 per user per month, billed annually for Standard (USD per user per month, billed annually), goes up to $399 per user per month, billed annually for Advanced.

Sprout Social targets larger marketing teams with a polished inbox, reporting and approval workflow, and its prices show it. The newly added Essentials plan at $79 per seat a month is the cheapest way in, with Advanced at $399.

Sprout Social starts at $79 per seat per month, billed annually for Essentials (USD per seat per month, billed annually), goes up to $399 per seat per month, billed annually for Advanced.

Later is the visual-first scheduler, popular with creators and small brands, and prices by social set (one profile per network) rather than per seat. Annual billing takes 25% off, which puts Starter at $18.75 a month.

Later starts at $18.75 per month, billed annually (1 social set) for Starter (USD per month, billed annually), goes up to $82.50 per month, billed annually (6 social sets) for Scale.