Zoho Social Alternatives: 6 Social Media Tools With Real Prices

We started from the reasons reviewers give for leaving Zoho Social: price, no ads manager, a weak analytics overview, some posts that fail to publish, and features that are hard to find. 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 Zoho Social alternative, but we could not check its prices, so it is not on this list.

• You want a free Zoho Social alternative: Buffer is free for up to 3 channels, Metricool has a Free plan at $0 per month, Agorapulse has a free plan, and Infinall AI gives 1,000 credits a month with no card.
• You want the lowest clear paid price for a few accounts: Buffer at $5 or $10 per month per channel.
• You want rupee pricing in India: SocialPilot, from INR 1700 per month billed annually.
• You answer many comments and messages: Agorapulse, which puts messages and organic comments in one inbox.
• You run social for several clients: ContentStudio or SocialPilot Premium, with client approval.
• You need the posts made as well as scheduled, and want to boost posts as ads: Infinall AI.

Zoho Social moves your account to a forever free plan with limited features once the trial ends. Its pricing page also offers a customized package for companies that want a quote. The pricing page does not show clear amounts for the paid plans, so check the Zoho Social pricing page for the price in your currency before you compare.

The alternatives price in different ways, so compare the bill for your own setup:

• Buffer charges per channel.
• Metricool charges per brand.
• Agorapulse charges per user.
• SocialPilot and ContentStudio charge per plan.
• Infinall AI charges a flat plan plus credits. Free gives 1,000 credits every month. Pro is $10 for the first month, then $30 a month or $299 a year (India: Rs 999 for the first month, then Rs 2,899 a month or Rs 33,999 a year), and gives 3,000 credits a month. 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.

Zoho Social is still a strong choice for businesses and agencies that need more than a scheduler. It has publishing automation to recycle posts weekly or monthly, social listening streams you create and manage, a content approval system, and bulk scheduling from CSV or XLS files. Agencies get client invites, agency-branded reports, a custom view for clients and a free login for clients.

It is also well rated: 4.9 on SaaSworthy from 8,307 ratings when we checked. If your team already uses other Zoho apps, or depends on listening and recurring posts, switching may cost more time than it saves. If you mainly need content made, you can keep Zoho Social as the scheduler and make the posts elsewhere.