Planable Alternatives

Agorapulse is a full social media management suite: publishing calendar, a social inbox that gathers comments, DMs and reviews, and reports that tie posts to traffic through Google Analytics, with listening sold as an add-on. Connecting an X (Twitter) profile takes a paid add-on: X Lite at $29 a month per X profile for publishing, X Plus at $69 with inbox and reports. Where Planable sells the inbox and analytics as add-ons, Agorapulse puts the inbox on all four plans and includes unlimited post scheduling across connected profiles, so there is no monthly post cap to plan around. Standard costs $99 per user a month billed monthly, Professional $149 and Advanced $199, each with 10 social profiles; yearly billing brings them to $79, $119 and $149.

The catch for a Planable leaver is the pricing unit. Planable charges per workspace with unlimited users; Agorapulse charges per user. One-step approvals, routed to teammates or clients, start on Professional, and multi-step approval chains are reserved for the Custom plan. A two-person team on Professional pays $298 a month for 10 profiles; five Planable Pro workspaces with analytics cost $365. If you are weighing a move away from Agorapulse later, our page on switching from Agorapulse lists its own limits. Agorapulse wins when a small team handles a lot of engagement for a few brands, and loses when an agency of eight people needs logins for everyone.

Sendible is the agency tool closest to Planable's model: unlimited users on every plan, and pricing built around workspaces and profiles rather than seats. Core costs $35 a month for 1 workspace and 6 social profiles; Plus costs $99 for 3 workspaces and 18 profiles and adds assignment and approval tools; Premium is $199 for 7 workspaces and 42 profiles, Elite $299 for 15 workspaces and 90 profiles, and Enterprise $750 for 50 workspaces and 300 profiles. Yearly billing takes 15% off, and there is no contract on the standard plans.

Read the price against Planable's. Three clients on Planable Pro cost $177 a month, or $219 with the analytics add-on, for 10 pages each. Sendible Plus covers the same three clients for $99 with standard reports included (PDF export, emailed and custom reports start on Premium), but only 18 profiles in total, so six per client. Seven clients cost $413 a month on Planable Pro against $199 on Sendible Premium. From Premium, Sendible's custom approval workflows can force junior team members to get every post approved before it goes out; Plus lets you assign posts to a teammate or client for approval. White label is an extra fee on Elite and Enterprise, from $349 a month for Elite and $800 for Enterprise.

SocialPilot is a scheduling and publishing tool priced per plan, with social accounts and users included. Essentials costs $30 a month billed monthly for one professional working alone; Standard costs $50 for 15 social accounts and 3 users, with team collaboration and manager approval; Premium costs $100 for 25 accounts and 6 users, with client approval, bulk scheduling, advanced analytics and white label reports; Ultimate costs $200 for 50 accounts and unlimited users. Extra accounts cost $4 a month each, and extra users $5 a month. Yearly billing saves 15%.

For a Planable leaver, Premium is the plan to price. At $100 a month it gives client approval for 25 accounts, where Planable Pro would cost $59 per client workspace, before $14 for analytics. With two clients, Planable Pro already costs $118 a month, or $146 with analytics, against $100; each extra client widens the gap. What you give up is Planable's polish: the pixel-perfect previews and the comment threads on each post are Planable's strength, and SocialPilot's approval flow is simpler. Analytics, the inbox and AI credits are included rather than sold per workspace.

Buffer is a simple scheduler priced per channel, where a channel is one connected social account. The free plan connects up to 3 channels with 10 scheduled posts per channel at a time. Essentials costs $6 per channel a month billed monthly, and Team costs $12 per channel a month, adding unlimited users, access levels and content approval workflows. Yearly billing brings this to $5 and $10 per channel a month, billed annually ($60 and $120 per channel a year), which Buffer presents as 2 months free. Past 10 channels, each extra channel costs less.

A Planable leaver with one brand and five channels pays $60 a month on Buffer Team, against $59 for one Planable Pro workspace (which covers 10 pages but caps you at 150 posts a month). With one brand, the bills are almost the same; the difference is that Buffer has no monthly post quota on paid plans (a fair use cap of 5,000 posts per channel applies) and a permanent free plan, while Planable's free tier is 50 posts in total, once. For an agency, the per-channel price drops past 10 channels: 30 channels on Team cost $195 a month billed monthly, close to Vista Social Advanced at $199 for 30 profiles.

Vista Social, covered in our Vista Social review, bundles publishing, an inbox, reports, review monitoring and AI tools. Professional costs $99 a month billed monthly for 15 social profiles and 2 users; Advanced costs $199 for 30 profiles and 3 users and adds multi-stage approvals with your team, outside teams and clients; Scale costs $449 for 70 profiles and 4 users and adds advanced white label. Yearly billing saves 20%: $80, $160 and $360 a month, billed annually and paid upfront ($950, $1,910 and $4,310 a year). Watch the add-ons, detailed on our Vista Social pricing page: each X (Twitter) profile costs $29 a month, and listening for more keywords starts at $75 a month.

Multi-stage approval is the point. On Planable, multi-level approvals (team, then client, then legal) exist only on Enterprise, at a custom price. On Vista Social they come with Advanced at $199 a month. The trade-off is users: 3 on Advanced, where Planable gives unlimited users on every plan, so check how many of your reviewers need a full login rather than an approval link.

Loomly is a calendar-first social media tool with approval workflows and roles on both paid plans. Starter costs $65 a month billed monthly for 12 social accounts, 3 users and unlimited calendars; Beyond costs $332 a month for 60 accounts and unlimited users. On yearly billing, Starter drops to $49 a month ($588 a year) and Beyond to $249 a month ($2,988 a year), a 25% discount charged upfront, and a yearly plan cannot be terminated early.

The calendars are what makes Loomly a fit for Planable users. Planable bills one workspace per brand; Loomly Starter gives unlimited calendars, so three brands with four accounts each fit in one $65 plan, against $117 for three Planable Basic workspaces. Approvals are included on Starter, where Planable keeps Required approval for Pro. The limit is users: Starter has 3, and the next step is Beyond at $332, with nothing in between. Agencies with many reviewers who need full logins should price that jump first; our Loomly alternatives page lists the tools teams move to when they hit it.