CoSchedule Alternatives: 6 Social Media Tools Compared, With Prices

We started from the reasons people give for leaving CoSchedule: the cost, the mobile app, social accounts that ask to be re-authenticated and a rough onboarding. The written reviews behind those complaints on SaaSworthy are older, from 2020, so treat them as signs to check rather than proof of current problems.

Then we looked at social media tools that do the same core job, planning, scheduling and publishing posts across channels, and checked each one's pricing page and public reviews in October 2026. Every price on this page is copied from the vendor's own pricing page, and every complaint links to the review page it came from. RecurPost comes up often in searches for a CoSchedule alternative, but we could not check its prices, so it is not on this list.

• You want to pay less for a few accounts: Buffer. The free plan covers 3 channels, and paid plans are $5 or $10 per month per channel.
• You want a free plan with analytics: Metricool. It has a Free plan at $0 per month and Starter at $25 per month for up to 5 brands.
• You run social for clients and need sign-off: Pallyy or Planable. Pallyy clients approve from a shared link; Planable lets you try the first 50 posts free.
• You want benchmarking and Link in Bio: Later, from $18.75 USD per month billed yearly.
• You need the posts made as well as scheduled: Infinall AI. It makes the images, videos and captions from your brand, and the calendar is free on both plans.
• You plan blog, email and campaign work next to social: stay with CoSchedule, since none of the tools above is built as a full marketing calendar.

CoSchedule charges by plan, with seats and social profiles included:

• Free: schedule up to 15 posts at a time on 1 profile.
• Starter: $29 a month billed annually or $39 billed monthly, with 1 user seat and 3 social profiles.
• $49 a month billed annually or $59 billed monthly for Professional, with 2 user seats and 5 social profiles. An extra seat is $29 a month.
• Suite: custom plans starting at $69 a month. The pricing page does not show whether that price needs annual billing.

Twitter/X profiles are not counted in any plan and are billed separately, so add that to your total if you post on X.

The alternatives price in different ways, so compare the bill for your own setup. Buffer charges per channel, Metricool per brand, Pallyy per social set (one per client), Planable per workspace and Later per plan. Infinall AI charges a flat plan plus credits: Free gives 1,000 credits every month, and Pro is $10 for the first month, then $30 a month or $299 a year with 3,000 credits a month (in India: Rs 999 first month, then Rs 2,899 a month or Rs 33,999 a year). One credit is one US cent. Pro includes 2 free account connections; after that each account uses 300 credits a month. Planning, scheduling and publishing never use credits.

Prices change, so check each pricing page before you buy.

CoSchedule is still a strong choice if your team plans social posts and the rest of its marketing on one shared calendar. Its paid plans have no limit on the number of posts you schedule or publish, and ReQueue reshares evergreen posts to fill quiet days, so profiles stay active in busy weeks. Professional adds approval before posts publish, white labeling and a separate calendar for each client.

Bigger teams get more on Suite: custom permissions per user, intake forms, an asset library, unlimited sub-calendars and single sign-on. If you need those, most cheaper schedulers above will feel limited. The review complaints are mostly about the mobile app and account connections, so a team that works on desktop may not be affected.